George Floyd (III): Defending Child Shooters Edition

[Tymon]

Not just poverty, generational poverty. Those who fell into poverty are much more likely to come back out of it than people born into it who know nothing else.

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/MPRnews/status/1314606549764112386

[Karbuncle]

Obviously.

Wish it was this obvious to everyone, eh?

[6souls]

[Qalbert]

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-deta...-level-charges

On the same night that NYPD officers stood by while protesters attacked civilians and a journalist during a Borough Park protest against COVID-19 restrictions, the police department arrested four Black Lives Matter activists in Bedford-Stuyvesant for low-level offenses and detained them for two nights before they were released.

Activists said that the arrests started when they tried to observe and film police officers, and spiraled out of control from there.

As dinner was wrapping up and most had left, the remaining activists got word there was a large police presence that had gathered nearby on Gates Avenue. Police confirmed they were trying to “secure the perimeter” of a nearby building, responding to reports of someone with a firearm.

Some of the activists started to film the officers on the scene, who then confronted them. Video shows one high-ranking NYPD officer slapping a phone out of an activist’s hand.

...

Janie Williams, a criminal defense attorney who was advocating for them before they were assigned a court-appointed lawyer at arraignment, said they spent over 20 hours in the precinct, before being transferred to Brooklyn Central Booking, which is virtually unheard of. In New York, defendants are supposed to be arraigned within 24 hours of being arrested for a crime.

Williams pointed out that three of the four protesters faced low-level charges and that the NYPD could have issued tickets and released them, instead of detaining them for more than a day. When Williams went to the 79th Precinct to serve papers invoking their rights to an attorney, she said she watched as police officers inside threw them into the trash.

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That same night, a violent demonstration was occuring in Borough Park, where a crowd of ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters, egged on by right wing provocateur Heshy Tischler, attacked journalists and people perceived as dissenters in the crowd. During two nights of unrest, the NYPD issued no arrests or summonses, though the mayor has subsequently promised an arrest of those who attacked reporter Jacob Kornbluh.

The NYPD didn’t return a request for comment on how they handled the Borough Park protesters compared to Black Lives Matter demonstrations.

[zandterman]

https://news.yahoo.com/one-dead-shoo...wer&soc_trk=fb
https://twitter.com/9NEWS/status/1315118088594108416
https://www.9news.com/article/news/c...7-a6fbe0730e0e

Shooting at Denver protest/counter-protest. Right wing immediately claims Antifa. Denver PD says "no Antifa ties". Right wing doesn't "Back the Blue", since the narrative doesn't go in their favor?

[Tymon]

Another corn fed fatass dead lol

Probably had covid that guard should get tested asap

[6souls]

https://news.yahoo.com/one-dead-shoo...wer&soc_trk=fb
https://twitter.com/9NEWS/status/1315118088594108416
https://www.9news.com/article/news/c...7-a6fbe0730e0e

Shooting at Denver protest/counter-protest. Right wing immediately claims Antifa. Denver PD says "no Antifa ties". Right wing doesn't "Back the Blue", since the narrative doesn't go in their favor?

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1315072198361653248
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1315270353099292673

[Qalbert]

https://www.ajc.com/news/police-kill...NIO37BKONOCGI/

Americans have seen it time and again in recent months on the nightly news: Protesters in the streets confronted by local police officers carrying assault rifles, some atop armored vehicles, looking more like soldiers than public servants.

Much of that equipment has trickled down to police departments from a controversial Defense Department initiative known as the 1033 program, a 30-year-old federal initiative that provides a way for the military to dispose of surplus equipment by sending it to local police.

A new AJC analysis of a decade of records across 651 Georgia police departments and sheriff’s offices found departments that took more than $1,000 in 1033 money, on average, fatally shot about four times as many people as those that didn’t. The newspaper’s analysis used the military’s database and paired it with a database of fatal police shootings from across the state, controlling for statistical variables like community income, rural-urban differences, racial makeup, and violent crime rates.

The results paint a troubling picture: The more equipment a department receives, the more people are shot and killed, even after accounting for violent crime, race, income, drug use and population.

Only 7% of Georgia’s law enforcement agencies received surplus military gear at any time over the 10 years, but those agencies accounted for 17% of the 261 people shot and killed by police.

The statistical correlation doesn’t prove that 1033 gear in a police department causes more fatal police shootings, or that those shootings were unjustified, only that there is a strong relationship between the two.

[Yabby]

[Lucavi]

So support the boys in blue, until the boys in blue say something that doesn't support your narrative, and then all of a sudden, you call bullshit on the boys in blue.

White people confuse me.

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/...19499894513666

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/R_T_Rybak/status...35252513271809

[NynJa]

Man those places must be really far from Minneapolis.

[6souls]

Man those places must be really far from Minneapolis.

Some are. All of them are quite a distance away from where the unrest took place. Brainerd is about half way between Minneapolis & Canada.

Edit: There was someone from Staples which is closer to Brainerd than Minneapolis.

https://search.justice.gov/search?qu...ustice-usao-mn

[Krandor]

Except for Brainerd (which is like 2 hours away) they're all less then 30 minutes away.

Totally not Minneapolis

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/JonHutson/status...27306210045952

[Jaybar]

Except for Brainerd (which is like 2 hours away) they're all less then 30 minutes away.

Totally not Minneapolis

Depends on how accessible it is - are these highway connected suburbs or outlying neighborhoods of Mpls.? Sounds like a bunch of people that don't care to shit on their neighbor's front door to me (rather than actual citizens of Mpls.) Kinda like when that larper from Antioch IL murdered a dude in Kenosha WI (only about 30 min away).

[Krandor]

I'm being sarcastic, other then Brainerd I'd imagine most everyone would consider those as part of the metropolitan area.

[NynJa]

I had a longer post, but I decided to just go with a short snarky one.

Wayzata is 12 miles away. I'm certain that there are plenty of people here whos everyday work commute is longer than that. Andover is 21 miles.