George Floyd Murder by Cop

[Kanriel]

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...fficer-a-major

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown on Friday said was told that the 75-year-old man who was pushed down by police in a viral video was a “major instigator” and an “agitator.”

“According to what was reported to me, that individual was a key and major instigator of people engaging in those activities,” Brown told WBEN in a radio interview.

[Aerin]

Seattle police saying protestors were throwing improvised explosives. Their photo proof, while still somewhat dangerous, isn’t exactly the same thing...

https://twitter.com/SeattlePD/status...74731717087233

[Gredival]

What is that even?

[Cantih]

Votive candle.

[Lokus]

It's a mazel tov candle.

[Kanriel]

https://www.statter911.com/2020/06/0...m-at-gunpoint/

23-year-old Providence Firefighter Terrell Paci says he became the victim of racial profiling earlier this week.

Paci told NBC 10 News he was sitting in a friend’s car outside of the Messer Street Fire Department, where he works, when two officers allegedly came up to him and drew their guns.

Fellow firefighters like Chris Bernal are now speaking out on his behalf. “Why is a young black male in uniform at his job a threat to a police officer? And when they noticed… why didn’t they fall back and correct the situation there?”

[Psion]

Seattle police saying protestors were throwing improvised explosives. Their photo proof, while still somewhat dangerous, isn’t exactly the same thing...

https://twitter.com/SeattlePD/status...74731717087233

everyone knows that the undead are weak to fire - and white candles are used for purification rituals!

[Cail]

Pittsburgh paper accused of barring black reporters from covering protests, censoring stories

Photojournalist Michael Santiago was part of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette team that in 2019 won the paper a Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s highest accolade, for its breaking news coverage of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre. The Pulitzer judges praised the staff’s reporting as “immersive, compassionate coverage … that captured the anguish and resilience of a community thrust into grief.”

Only now, Santiago says the paper has barred him and at least one other reporter from covering anti-racism protests in Pittsburgh because they are seen as biased for being black. Journalists are also accusing the newspaper of removing and censoring at least two articles published online Friday that reported on protests over George Floyd’s death and police abuses, as well as of penalizing reporters who supported their black colleagues.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “has chosen to silence two of it most prominent Black journalist during one of the most important civil rights stories that is happening across our country!” Santiago tweeted Saturday. He referred The Washington Post to the head of Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh for comment.

[Cail]

https://twitter.com/msrbklyn/status/1269457955897913344

Yikes bro

[Cail]

Also, I wish there was a thread/link I could post from all the protests today. Massive amounts of people from what I saw in Philly and DC. Idk about the others

[Tyche]

https://www.statter911.com/2020/06/0...m-at-gunpoint/

A moderate sized metropolitan near where I live holds an annual fight night between the city's firefighters and police officers for charity. This should happen here.

[Vaspinne]

Stone Cold is the best



And this duo would dominate the 2024 ballot

[Guyverarmor]

Because stone cold said so !

[chazzyphizzle]

A moderate sized metropolitan near where I live holds an annual fight night between the city's firefighters and police officers for charity. This should happen here.

ive never been to guns and hoses because i dont want to run the risk of seeing a cop win a fight

[archibaldcrane]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...087284737?s=19

Good thread about relative frequency of police killings by state.

[archibaldcrane]

Very interesting that the southern states have a much lower discrepancy between all police killings and police killings of black people than other states.

[Zealot]

If they're dead they can't be used for legal slave labor.

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[archibaldcrane]

If they're dead they can't be used for legal slave labor.

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Probably more likely that black people in the south are much more likely to be policed by black officers than black people elsewhere.

[Zealot]

That's also true, Georgia especially has a lot of black representation on Atlanta's PD.

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[Kaslo]

Or maybe if you can be overtly racist in public you don't have to resort to power to express that racism.