Current Affairs George Floyd and Minneapolis Unrest

[Ruairi77]

I hate what you guys are doing to yourselves. Innocent people getting killed and innocent businesses being burnt or looted. In twenty years, when many of these ‘protestors’ have grown up, you will look back upon this period with shame and embarrassment......

Just like when people look back to the civil rights movement in the late 60s with embarrassment.. oh wait. The only thing we’ll be embarrassed about is the Putin stooge in the whitehouse. I’d wager grits will feel the same about the Putin stooge in no.10

 

[Ruairi77]

Just like when people look back to the civil rights movement in the late 60s with embarrassment.. oh wait. The only thing we’ll be embarrassed about is the Putin stooge in the whitehouse. I’d wager grits will feel the same about the Putin stooge in no.10

Brits, not grits

 

[verreauxi]

Racism in police. This is a pretty damning report (quite long):

Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement

The government’s response to known connections of law enforcement officers to violent racist and militant groups has been strikingly insufficient.

www.brennancenter.org

 

[riddick]

Racism in police. This is a pretty damning report (quite long):

Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement

The government’s response to known connections of law enforcement officers to violent racist and militant groups has been strikingly insufficient.

www.brennancenter.org

I mean, the FBI has said that white supremecists have infiltrated law enforcement for decades. Every single president has been reluctant to even mention this but a MASSIVE overhaul needs to happen.

 

[Yank]

Haven't seen it mentioned here... another terrible incident. This one from my city. Daniel Prude was murdered in march, the information was just released this week. Mayor, who is awful, claimed a law made it so she could not release info or speak on it until now. However that is being shown to be false. Looks like she engaged in a cover up. The victims family and lawyers just released all the info after a freedom of information act was granted. Actually seemed like they handled it well. Dropped all the info at once so it's kind of overwhelming, can't be slow played or misconstrued.

More info and footage in link towards the bottom

How Daniel Prude suffocated as Rochester police restrained him

Daniel T. Prude died of asphyxiation after Rochester police officers trying to take him into custody pinned him to the ground while restraining him.

www.democratandchronicle.com

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

 

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Not a looker in them bunch of white people

 

[tsubaki]

Racism in police. This is a pretty damning report (quite long):

Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement

The government’s response to known connections of law enforcement officers to violent racist and militant groups has been strikingly insufficient.

www.brennancenter.org

worth contrasting that with the Met PC here who is currently on trial for being a member of National Action

 

[Ruairi77]

seems there was a lot of far right violence during the protests

 

[Prevenger17]

seems there was a lot of far right violence during the protests

No particular surprise to most of us there. Will be interesting to see how the usual dweebs twist or ignore this development

 

[Ruairi77]

No particular surprise to most of us there. Will be interesting to see how the usual dweebs twist or ignore this development

yea, the democrats and anyone interested in the full story of violence during the protests should be making a big deal of this.
Trumps whole campaign seems to be revolving around violence at protests, turns out his supporters are killing cops with pipe bombs!

 

[Prevenger17]

yea, the democrats and anyone interested in the full story of violence during the protests should be making a big deal of this.
Trumps whole campaign seems to be revolving around violence at protests, turns out his supporters are killing cops with pipe bombs!

It's a delicate line though, because you're effectively pitching this as a team sport if you call out the whole lot of them for this one douchebag's actions. Leave the culture war nonsense to Trump and his dweeb cultists, no amount of facts are going to sway them as we well know

 

[Ruairi77]

It's a delicate line though, because you're effectively pitching this as a team sport if you call out the whole lot of them for this one douchebag's actions. Leave the culture war nonsense to Trump and his dweeb cultists, no amount of facts are going to sway them as we well know

normally I'd agree but they are controlling the narrative of these protests. The sensationalist messaging from Fox, OAN, and talk radio is succeeding in convincing people who weren't sure about Trump that BLM are burning cities down and these quasi militia groups are just doing their constitutional duty.
Sure, you're not moving Trumps base but the messaging is working on moderate republicans who seem to think that the streets of Chicago and NY are running with blood spilled by marxist terrorists!

 

[Huyton Layne]

It's like no one actually listened to Rage Against the Machine.

 

[riddick]

It's like no one actually listened to Rage Against the Machine.

This guy did