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Police shootings, vigilante shootings, and Black Lives Matter

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  • #1202
    Carfacemandog
    Registered Users Posts: 2,042 ✭✭✭Carfacemandog


    Potatoeman wrote: »
    The BLM, Antifa and Chaz groups all hate cops though. To an over the top level. Some of the signs and things screamed at them were crazy. It’s not surprising that the cops don’t mingle with them.
    As Foxtrol pointed out, so do the 'Blue Lives Matter' crowd if those police try to enforce the law on them - and they've been very vocal and explicit about this since it has began happening in recent weeks.

    The press tend to report news, and with how American police have acted down the years without much of any consequence, its no surprise that this reflects poorly on them. Also, beating the ****e out of journalists over the summer really didn't do any favours either.

    All of this points to America needing to seriously rlconsider abolishing its police force in the way Northern Ireland did 20 years ago.


  • #1203
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,817 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    If you don't protest your voice won't be heard and nothing gets done. Go through the other channels has not worked for people of colour and therefore protest, which is a democratic right, is the only thing they have left to have their voice heard. The timing coinciding with covid19 is unfortunate but for something so serious you can't let the government off because of a pandemic. They didn't care that it was a pandemic when they murdered people of colour.

    Protest is how this business owner netted the resignation of 2 police officers - including the Chief of Police in Tiburon, CA.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76zAL72c_HE


    Basically: cops sees 3 black people in a store late at night, no forced entry, they don't take the word of the owner that he is the owner, and it almost leads to his arrest after a series of accusations and demands that he prove his own innocence. The chief of police eventually arrives on the scene, and takes part in this behavior, in fact escalating the tensions. It isn't until a presumably white bystander, with no further questions, or ascertaining the identity of the bystander, the bystander is believed immediately when he shouts the man is in fact the store owner.

    edit: link to store's side of the video https://scoop.upworthy.com/black-entrepreneur-forced-to-prove-he-owns-his-store-by-incompetent-white-cops


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