George Floyd Murder by Cop

[Guitarman]

Leonardo Pic

STOP THAT.

[BerenTebogo]

50 cops in military gear for some high school kids sitting peacefully on a lawn

"Why won't somebody stop the rioting?!"

[BerenTebogo]

I mean I know her shirt says "Mother of Dragons" but if you ask me I don't think she really is

[Rhyis.]

Whoever does dispatch there definitely needs to rethink their life lol

[6souls]

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/02/...roll-shootings

Minneapolis Police Union president Bob Kroll has been in three officer involved shootings and is completely unfazed.

Kroll said that he and the officers on the union’s board were not bothered by the shootings, comparing themselves favorably to other officers.

“There’s been a big influx of PTSD,” Kroll said. “But I’ve been involved in three shootings myself, and not one of them has bothered me. Maybe I’m different.”

“Out of the 10 board members, over half of them have been involved in armed encounters, and several of us multiple. We don’t seem to have problems,” he said. “Certainly getting shot at and shooting people takes a different toll, but if you’re in this job and you’ve seen too much blood and gore and dead people then you’ve signed up for the wrong job.”

[Salodin]

And we won't why cops suck, when half their leadership are psychopaths

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[Draylo]

Yeah, you're gonna have to show your work here ace.

A level-headed individual would not hyperbolize overwhelming majority with what is actually just a few chuckfuckles sparring flaccid dicks with you (before generally losing interest). You and Punk take the dumbest shit to the bank.

Yes that is a harsh comparison and I do not apologize.

What the overwhelming majority actually does is ignore you and your simpleton-ass perspectives and divisive reductionism.

Not sure how my perspectives are of a simpleton or maybe they are, death and violence = bad. Not sure why that is being argued against.

working on some kind of theory of draylo's unconditional love of cops, blue mage, and blue lives matter. has anyone else done this yet

I don't have love of cops, I just know some good ones and that automatically means they aren't ALL bad (also lumping everyone in a group together for the actions of one is always bad.)

[Lokus]

edit: wrong thread

[Cail]

Masked troops — some wearing vests that said “military police” but most simply in camouflage battledress — stood in even rows on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Tuesday. They appeared to be National Guard, but many lacked flags, name tags or other identifying badges.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-live-updates/

https://twitter.com/MarthaRaddatz/st...72382590984195

[Lokus]

Those guys are Air National Guard. The POGest of POGs lol.

[Cail]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...482_story.html

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) on Tuesday apologized for calling black leaders "you people" as fallout from the killing of a black protester by a white bar owner in Omaha this week continued to fuel protesters' anger over racial injustices.

On Monday, armored vehicles flanked the Douglas County courthouse in Omaha as County Attorney Don Kleine announced that he would not be filing charges against a white bar owner, Jacob “Jake” Gardner, who allegedly shot and killed 22-year-old protester James Scurlock on Saturday night during a confrontation in the city’s popular Old Market area. The pair had scuffled, Kleine said, and Gardner had acted in self-defense in what he called a “senseless, but justified” killing.

The county attorney’s decision not to charge Gardner added fuel to ongoing protests in this Midwestern city — and sparked discussion on its own legacy of racism. An estimated 300 protesters surged through Omaha’s streets for the another day Monday, through searing pepper spray and broken glass, with a new chant: “What about James?” More than 80 were arrested.

[Rhyis.]

you know they mean business when they can physical distance in formation

[Corrderio]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-live-updates/

https://twitter.com/IanHoppe/status/1267968991424909312 3 tweet thread with multiple pics

With all the shit going on you think a group of kids would be at the bottom of the priority list.

[Aerin]

With all the shit going on you think a group of kids would be at the bottom of the priority list.

To be fair... some of them aren’t white.

[Aerin]

https://twitter.com/griner/status/1267647744774156290

[Khajit]

Oh here we go, now I'm being called racist because I dislike people dying. Youre actively supporting the rioting/looting if you keep condeming my opinions. You could have simply said its a shame that man died, those looters need to be jailed. Instead you call me racist and throw other things to somehow justify it.

Your president tear gassed a church for the sake of a photo op, is calling for the military to gun down US citizens, white vigilante mobs have started roaming the streets (with possible bonus rooftop snipers) with the blessing of the police, attempts at peaceful protest are actively attacked by the police in defiance of the constitutional rights of every US citizen, you still have fucking concentration camps for racial minorities, the free press is being violently assaulted, white supremacist terrorist organizations are actively pretending to be looters/rioters on the side of the protestors in order to try and start a race/civil war and you want to bitch about black on black violence as if black on black violence doesn't result in arrests and actual convictions when the culprit is known unlike the exact thing that people are protestingrioting/etc about.
All of this started in order to not arrest, prosecute, and convict 4 murderers caught on videotape, but black on black violence is the relevant topic at hand when that's STILL less lethal than the police have been so far during the protests. All of this and the thing you apparently asked yourself is how to find a black man to blame.
You are going through a bullet list of things racists that get offended when people call them racists say.
Get the fuck out of here with your racist bullshit. you aren't fooling anyone except possibly yourself.

[Cail]

Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper had no warning that President Trump was going to lead him and other senior administration officials to St. John’s Church, past where peaceful protesters were gassed, to take a photo, according to NBC News.

After Trump announced at the end of a news briefing in the White House Rose Garden on Monday evening that he was going “to a very, very special place,” Esper believed they were going to observe the vandalized bathroom in Lafayette Square and speak with National Guardsmen, he told the outlet Tuesday night.

“I thought I was going to do two things: to see some damage and to talk to the troops,” he said. Esper added: “I didn’t know where I was going. I wanted to see how much damage actually happened."

Before Trump’s news conference, Esper and Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were en route to the FBI field office in Washington when they were diverted to the White House to give the president an update, a defense official told NBC. Esper and Milley were instead caught by surprise, as Trump guided a crowd of White House staffers and Secret Service to St. John’s, which had some damage in the basement from a fire set during unrest on Sunday, to pose with a Bible.

Esper and several officials posed with Trump for a group picture before walking back to the White House.

The White House didn’t immediately respond to NBC’s or The Washington Post’s requests for comment about Esper’s remarks.

Peaceful protesters outside the White House were dispersed with force Monday by mounted U.S. Park Police, National Guardsmen, the FBI and officers from several other federal agencies shortly before Trump walked through Lafayette Square. Police used chemical spray and rubber bullets on the protesters as well as journalists who were covering the demonstration.

The defense official told NBC that Esper and Milley were unaware of what happened in the square before they walked through it.

“They were not aware that Park Police and law enforcement made the decision to clear the square,” the official said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-live-updates/

[Draylo]

Your president tear gassed a church for the sake of a photo op, is calling for the military to gun down US citizens, white vigilante mobs have started roaming the streets (with possible bonus rooftop snipers) with the blessing of the police, attempts at peaceful protest are actively attacked by the police in defiance of the constitutional rights of every US citizen, you still have fucking concentration camps for racial minorities, the free press is being violently assaulted, white supremacist terrorist organizations are actively pretending to be looters/rioters on the side of the protestors in order to try and start a race/civil war and you want to bitch about black on black violence as if black on black violence doesn't result in arrests and actual convictions when the culprit is known unlike the exact thing that people are protestingrioting/etc about.
All of this started in order to not arrest, prosecute, and convict 4 murderers caught on videotape, but black on black violence is the relevant topic at hand when that's STILL less lethal than the police have been so far during the protests. All of this and the thing you apparently asked yourself is how to find a black man to blame.
You are going through a bullet list of things racists that get offended when people call them racists say.
Get the fuck out of here with your racist bullshit. you aren't fooling anyone except possibly yourself.

I think you are really reading things that aren't there and incredibly reaching. Put the keyboard down and chill.

[Byrthnoth]

I don't think I've ever seen a discussion where Draylo had the consensus opinion. He honestly isn't worth responding to.

[Draylo]

That is exactly what is wrong with this forum, you don't need to have consensus opinion (otherwise known as hivemind) to be engaged. People are all different from all walks of life with different opinions and viewpoints. Not sure why that needs to be explained unless you want an echo chamber. I at least am willing to engage people who have differing opinions and understand their viewpoint.