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Adivina wrote:We are the most bipolar acting community, bunch of manics with the mood swings on here.
Kaemon wrote:A ton of misinformation here from Brinstar to Zanchief.
Kaemon wrote:Why is it when someone has a difference of opinion on something, they're called retarded or some other type of name calling.
Everyone thinks it's racially motivated. It might be, it might not be. We'll never know. A ton of misinformation here from Brinstar to Zanchief.
But Jay is correct about one thing. It is about head counts. It is about black on black crime. Learn to live with each other and lower your own crime and a cop that patrols in that vicinity doesn't have to go out on patrol that today is the day he won't come home to his family. A cop's first duty is to himself, to protect himself, to make sure he comes back home.
There were witnesses that corroborated the officers description of the events that took place.
An autopsy proved he wasn't shot in the back like so many witnesses said they saw...guess what happens to the rest of the testimony if in fact it were true? It gets thrown out.
There was more than one black person on the grand jury.
Calling a state of emergency a week before and getting the national guard in soon was the right call. If none of that happened and a whole city burned, we would be criticizing the Governor for not taking the appropriate action. Do I need to pull up videos of cities celebrating that look exactly like the riots we've seen. Rioting can come from both angles, protesting to celebrating.
Where's the talk about what happened here?
Oh that's right, black on black, and that's a white cop.
though some of the eyewitness accounts ended up being discredited, i'm gonna start by quoting my first post because guess what this is all still 100% truebrinstar wrote:mayor: white
police chief: white
city council: five white, one black
school board: seven white
police force: 50 white officers, 3 black officers
rest of town population: 70% black
white cop shoots unarmed black kid to death in front of witnesses, yet FPD doesn't bother interviewing anyone. community gets mad and holds rallies, FPD flips into military mode complete with snipers and grenades and tanks. two well-known reporters are arrested in a mcdonald's for no reason. one cop filmed screaming "come on you fucking animals, bring it".
lol if anyone still thinks a) we don't live in a police state or b) racism is dead and gone or c) it's safe to be anything other than white/male in this country
just gonna throw that in there too, for those of you so transparently eager to buy into the character assassination campaign that began before his body was even coldbrinstar wrote:oh, and before anyone tries calling the victim "violent" or a "thug" (which is usually just code for "nigger") - he had no criminal record, got decent grades, had a high school diploma, and was supposed to start college on monday.
also quoting this because with one minor correction (a customer at the c-store called in the incident, not the owner or the clerk or any other employee) it's still 100% true and applicablebrinstar wrote:first of all it literally does not matter at all whether he robbed the store. it's completely and utterly irrelevant to the incident in the street. to say otherwise is to provide cover for what may (or may not) have been police homicide via use of unnecessary force.
besides, even if his actions at the c-store weren't completely irrelevant (which they fucking are), the store owner said the kid paid for the cigars he could afford and left the rest on the counter - and no one at the store ever reported a robbery/theft/etc at all
as for whether he charged toward the cop truck, i can't say - but either way you gotta admit it's a pretty strong case for outfitting cops with go-pro cameras or whatever, right? because if he did charge, cop can be like "dude look at the tape, i did what i had to do". and if he was really just standing there with his arms up, the grand jury can be like "nope sorry sergeant dickface you're going to jail for a while, better lube up that bunghole". in both outcomes the community calms the fuck down and stops lighting shit on fire
at any rate i don't give a flying fuck what happened at the c-store, and neither should you. whether it was really a robbery or just a simple business transaction, nobody deserves to be gunned down in the street like that. to say otherwise is to slander the victim as somehow deserving of what he got, and the reality is that no one deserves that. this is america, we have due process, we have the right to a trial by a jury of our peers.
it makes me sad how little you understand God. how you could feel anything but sorrow for everyone involved is beyond me.Narrock wrote:Thank God for this outcome.
gaazy i love you man but this is fuckin bullshit, and i'll tell you why. we talk all the time about how WV has been hollowed out into a wasteland of blacklung, destroyed bodies, and opiate addiction, and we agree that the whole area is rotting mainly because no one outside the area gives a shit. do you not see that communities like ferguson share so much in common with the WV communities whose suffering you (rightly) agonize over? i'm sure investors look at rural WV and think "pfff nothing but a bunch of poor-ass uneducated pillheads 'round those parts, why the hell would i start a business there? only value that shithole has is to cut the tops off their mountains and store all our most hazardous chemicals there." what do you think is gonna happen once that continues over multiple generations?Gaazy wrote:Fuck the motherfuckers. Let it burn. Immediately pull out ALL cops, firefighters, and medical personnel. Put up a perimeter and shoot anyone leaving to spread the chaos. Let them burn their shit to ash, fuck em. Then refuse them relief money.
What galls me is these are the communities that complain that they dont have jobs because no one will bring new businesses to the area. Who in the right godamn fucking mind would bring a business to them? Invest money in an area for them to thank you by looting your store and set it on fire? Rofl. Fuck em
okay that sign is pretty silly, i'll give you that. i'm guessing the point is that it's wrong for one culture to violently enforce socioeconomic oppression on another culture no matter where on the globe it happens to take place, but i don't really see a direct connection (it's not like there are razorwire fences or naval blockades surrounding ferguson)Ganzo wrote:jewbaiting
not a criminal. not a criminal. not a criminal. not a fucking criminal. jesus fucking christ man, learn how the law works - in america, you are not a criminal until you are convicted of a crime; MB died with a clean record. was he a suspect? absolutely. even though he paid for the merchandise (confirmed), he maybe shoved that guy in the store i guess? so even though i'm 100% sure you've done worse in a mosh pit, he was a suspect for that. he was also a suspect for jaywalking. he was also a suspect for attempting to grab DW's gun, and for punching DW in his bitch face. though (like tugg/spazz) i don't really believe his testimony, the fact remains that since MB was never charged and convicted of anything at all, it's incorrect to refer to him as a criminal. furthermore i honestly believe you use that word to make it easier to casually dismiss the notion that maybe, just MAYBE, he didn't deserve to die.Harrison wrote:So, rioters in Providence and Boston last night (both within 40 minutes of me equidistant) blocked access to hospitals, highways, and were attempting to break into police departments/substations.
Criminal assaults cop
Criminal is shot
People protest
People riot
People burn down businesses and residences of completely innocent bystanders
People in completely irrelevant cities get hospitals, prisons, and highways shut down endangering potentially thousands. (Night before a heavy, heavy storm coming to New England.)
Makes perfect sense.
ahh i love this stubborn old deflection. yes, black people are mostly killed by other black people, and it's also true that white people are mostly killed by other white people. but whether intentional or not, this particular argument obfuscates why this incident and others like it are a big deal: power. law enforcement is a largely unaccountable weapon in the hands of those in power who, surprise surprise, prefer to remain in power. it's all right there in the terminology - law enforcement. who makes laws? people in power. how are they enforced? force. physical force, economic force, forceful deprivation of personal freedom, whatever the case may be. when a civilian black person murders another civilian black person, yes it's tragic, yes it's senseless, yes it's corrosive to both that specific subculture and our overall culture, but there is not an imbalance of institutional power in the equation. when a cop murders a civilian black person, however, power is involved. that officer is acting on the authority of whatever level of government is responsible for hiring him or her, and public employees are not only supposed to be accountable to the populace but are also supposed to be held to a higher standard. yet we've seen with this case, as with countless others, that it is almost impossible to indict a cop. cops have the support of cop unions, the support of DAs and other politicians who want to appear "tough on crime", the support of overly militaristic cheerleader fanbois like harrison all over the place, and - most insidious of all - they've got the full blessing of the ruling socioeconomic class, who would be most appreciative if you be a good little piggy and do your best to keep everything exactly the way it is (and if you work admirably toward that task we MIGHT not take your pension away). that's why the "whut about black on black crime" argument is irrelevant - random_black_guy01 doesn't have an entire system protecting him from the repercussions of shooting random_black_guy02, while Officer_Whitey00 totally does.Jay wrote:Where's the outrage at black people who kill other black people?
sure, some of the early details from eyewitness accounts ended up getting debunked for the most part, but as i demonstrated above, most of my early posts remained accurate. thus i casually but not vehemently reject the accusation of misinformation. and as for racial motivation, just read DW's testimony. it practically calls MB a supernigger, saying his face looked like a demon and that he was a five-year-old hanging on to hulk hogan or that he was about to bulk up to run through the shots or whatever. sure he was trying to justify his actions, like anyone would, but it's pretty obvious that his perceptions were deeply rooted in a visceral and almost supernatural fear of black men. this is not a recipe for level-headed interactions with members of a community that is 70% black.Kaemon wrote:Everyone thinks it's racially motivated. It might be, it might not be. We'll never know. A ton of misinformation here from Brinstar to Zanchief.
Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote:It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.
leah wrote:i am forever grateful to my gym teacher for drilling that skill into me during drivers' ed
leah wrote:isn't the only difference the length? i feel like it would take too long to smoke something that long, ha.
Gypsiyee wrote:I'll go ahead and repeat.. "Their community" is the poor community. The black on black crime you're talking about doesn't happen in middle class suburbia. There's just as much violence in impoverished white areas. This isn't a matter of black people being less civilized. People keep trying to frame it that way, but they overlook the economic aspect entirely.
the thing with outrage in what I will henceforth refer to as poor on poor crime because it's more accurate imo is that nobody cares when they kill each other off because on the whole society doesn't view them as important members of the community. Dog eat dog: the poor can fight the poor, and no one outside that inner circle cares. Likewise, the rich can fight the rich, and the middle class and poor don't care unless it's good for reality tv. No one is going to bat an eye when it doesn't affect anyone outside the circle because it's infighting. When it's an outside influence infiltrating and wreaking havoc, especially when it's someome abusing a position of power, that's when people notice. That's basic human nature. That's why no one hears about 2 active duty members beating the shit out of each other in a bar brawl, but you find out one threw a puppy off a cliff and everyone loses their minds. Equal vs. Equal isn't viewed the same as someone with a power advantage over their victim.
leah wrote:i am forever grateful to my gym teacher for drilling that skill into me during drivers' ed
leah wrote:isn't the only difference the length? i feel like it would take too long to smoke something that long, ha.
leah wrote:i am forever grateful to my gym teacher for drilling that skill into me during drivers' ed
leah wrote:isn't the only difference the length? i feel like it would take too long to smoke something that long, ha.
While black people aren't prone to be less civilized because of skin color, if this is strictly a poor person thing, then where are the trailer park riots?
Gypsiyee wrote:Interestingly, too, Jay.. after I posted last night, I stumbled across something from Slate that addresses your exact question:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... rwise.html
but to answer this question:While black people aren't prone to be less civilized because of skin color, if this is strictly a poor person thing, then where are the trailer park riots?
Kind of the point, really. There aren't trailer park riots because you don't see the same level of abuse in the trailer park. All other things equal, a white poor person is superior to a black poor person. All other things equal, that gun doesn't get pulled on the unarmed white guy in a wife beater in the trailer park. It does get pulled on the unarmed black guy in the saggy pants in the projects. That's the entire issue.
if the situation were reversed, if we were talking about a predominantly white trailer park community with a predominately black police force with a history of some seriously fucked up shit in a case filled with holes and inconsistencies--including outright lies and manipulations of evidence--with an officer who previously served on a police force that had racial tensions between officers and residents so bad the department was disbanded, there would be equal outrage. But we won't see that happen. Not the reverse. Not in America. Not in our lifetime.
Narrock wrote:Yup, I ... was just trolling.
Narrock wrote:I wikipedia'd everything first.
Adivina wrote:We are the most bipolar acting community, bunch of manics with the mood swings on here.
I read somewhere that on average 300 more whites are shot from cops than blacks are
jay walking and rillos yea thats a good one to blast shots over as well
ALso like that you give me 2 good examples of shit things cops do and tell me that fuck the police is silly, man your fuckin retarded.
ALso like that you give me 2 good examples of shit things doctors do and tell me that fuck big pharmaceutical is silly, man your fuckin retarded.
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