Wtf?!?
Andrea Jenkins, vice president of Minneapolis City Council, says George Floyd and Officer Chauvin worked at restaurant near Third Precinct. "They were coworkers for a very long time." pic.twitter.com/Xv90wfLtDu— Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) May 29, 2020
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 29 May 2020 05:33 (three years ago) link
yeah, but she was quoted elsewhere saying she didn't know that they actually knew each other, as they had different jobs, and one primarily worked outside, and one inside. less "interesting" a detail in that context.
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 May 2020 05:37 (three years ago) link
Seems like a pretty big coincidence, but I guess it could be nothing
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 29 May 2020 05:38 (three years ago) link
Then they crashed the second truck into it. pic.twitter.com/Z6ov1chhMm— Nick Woltman (@nickwoltman) May 29, 2020
: o
― j., Friday, 29 May 2020 07:56 (three years ago) link
(a postal service truck)
― j., Friday, 29 May 2020 07:57 (three years ago) link
CNN arrested live on air
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/05/29/minneapolis-protests-omar-jimenez-arrested-newday-vpx.cnn
― anvil, Friday, 29 May 2020 11:11 (three years ago) link
What the hell?
― emil.y, Friday, 29 May 2020 11:28 (three years ago) link
Is it overly cynical of me to think that they only arrested the white crew after a pause b/c they figured it might make them look less racist?
― emil.y, Friday, 29 May 2020 11:35 (three years ago) link
nope, sounds right to me
― Nhex, Friday, 29 May 2020 11:38 (three years ago) link
Amazing that these cops can see all that has unfolded and do the thing that plays into the narrative on live TV
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 May 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
Trump tweeted the T word. didn't take him long.
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, May 29, 2020 1:31 AM (seven hours ago)
This particular part of the dog whistle eluded me: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/where-does-phrase-when-looting-starts-shooting-starts-come-n1217676
The phrase was used by Miami's police chief, Walter Headley, in 1967, when he addressed his department's "crackdown on ... slum hoodlums,"Headley, who was chief of police in Miami for 20 years, said that law enforcement was going after “young hoodlums, from 15 to 21, who have taken advantage of the civil rights campaign. ... We don't mind being accused of police brutality."Miami hadn't faced "racial disturbances and looting," Headley added, because he let word filter down that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."
Headley, who was chief of police in Miami for 20 years, said that law enforcement was going after “young hoodlums, from 15 to 21, who have taken advantage of the civil rights campaign. ... We don't mind being accused of police brutality."
Miami hadn't faced "racial disturbances and looting," Headley added, because he let word filter down that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."
― dip to dup (rob), Friday, 29 May 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link
trump's tweet is beyond disturbing
― treeship., Friday, 29 May 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
the american president advocating the massacre of american civilians
― treeship., Friday, 29 May 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
Good people on both sides.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 May 2020 13:16 (three years ago) link
He doesn't consider looters people.
Or anybody people.
Least of all minorities.
Scum
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 May 2020 13:17 (three years ago) link
i'm really glad twitter put a content warning on that tweet. at the same time, there is something really bleak about seeing the white house in the same category as infowars or whatever. also, it feels like we are fucked when we are looking to a massive tech company to protect us from our own government's information warfare.
― treeship., Friday, 29 May 2020 13:22 (three years ago) link
just dark, dark shit
― treeship., Friday, 29 May 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
Is Donald Trump a fascist?
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 May 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link
he's a plague
― treeship., Friday, 29 May 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
watching a police station burn is a moment of perfect truth and clarity— michael (@Sisyphusa) May 29, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 May 2020 13:35 (three years ago) link
so the rumor is that Derek Chauvin (murder cop) fled to Windermere, FL. 20-30 mins from me.
It seems that it's been confirmed that he owns the place but I'm a bit unnerved at people already scheduling protests there (as they're already doing on Reddit), when it's not clear if the person residing there is actually Chauvin and not a random renter.
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 May 2020 13:35 (three years ago) link
What an idiot, he's just making it worse
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 29 May 2020 13:37 (three years ago) link
When the protesters are white vs when the protesters are black pic.twitter.com/sZ0NLiaq0S— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 29, 2020
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 29 May 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
It took 145 years but it looks like the Confederacy finally won the Civil War— DJP (@djperry1973) May 29, 2020
― (so serious) (DJP), Friday, 29 May 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link
if twitter took its own rules seriously he would have been banned long before he took office and the world might be very slightly less terrible
― no (Left), Friday, 29 May 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link
Twitter should beat him with billy clubs
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 May 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
Too bad the US is so sprawling. More centralized countries like France make it easier to effect change through protests and rioting by going for the jugular, i.e. Paris (DC doesn't quite count because it's not an international metropolis on top of its stated function as the seat of government).
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 May 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
Comedian Chris Rock praises New York Governor Cuomo, says Coronavirus press briefings ‘bring him joy’ pic.twitter.com/ce71whGVEm— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 29, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 May 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
in the end it was the american people who were increasingly frustrating and isolated
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
all this shit is horrifying to wake up to.
I keep going back to this passage from a Ta-Nehisi Coates-piece written during the Baltimore-riots following the killing of Freddie Gray in 2015:
"When nonviolence is preached as an attempt to evade the repercussions of political brutality, it betrays itself. When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. When nonviolence is preached by the representatives of the state, while the state doles out heaps of violence to its citizens, it reveals itself to be a con. And none of this can mean that rioting or violence is "correct" or "wise," any more than a forest fire can be "correct" or "wise." Wisdom isn't the point tonight. Disrespect is. In this case, disrespect for the hollow law and failed order that so regularly disrespects the community."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviolence-as-compliance/391640/
― Mule, Friday, 29 May 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
The owner of Gandhi Mahal, a (very delicious) local restaurant in South Minneapolis that was damaged in the fires last night: "Let my building burn, justice needs to be served." pic.twitter.com/hM1qt4tGEx— Molly Hensley-Clancy (@mollyhc) May 29, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
I wonder if the President of the United States encouraging the military to murder citizens is a violation of Twitter rules
― frogbs, Friday, 29 May 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
"when the looting starts, the shooting starts"
not just the military - he's also encouraging (knowingly or not) private citizens to take matters into their own hands as well.
i understand the origins of the phrase (walter headley, 1967, regarding a police department). but that was 1967, and i would assume a bunch of second amendment activists living in rural MN figure trump's talking to them.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 29 May 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
Confirmed, Chauvin owns the property in Windermere, but isn't actually here:
https://www.orangeobserver.com/article/minnesota-cop-derek-chauvin-owns-property-near-windermere
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
xxp
Twitter blocked his tweet, so presumably the answer is yes
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
Not surprised he's not at that property, I mean the cops aren't going to go all in on protecting one of their own by letting him stay somewhere that easy to find.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
Xpost they didn't block his tweet, they hid it with a disclaimer as powerful as your school librarian telling you to stop putting gum under your chair
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
xp they didn't block the tweet. they did put a public service notice up ("this dude is a fucking liar", iirc), and prevented people from replying or "liking" it. they didn't block the tweet, or prevent people from retweeting it with a comment
― Karl Malone, Friday, 29 May 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
Aka the Deep State is getting bolder by the minute.
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 May 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
Watched some of Wiseman's 'Law and Order' recently and it is phenomenally disturbing and still very topical. There's a clip on youtube (and the full film on ilplex) if you wanna hunt for it.
https://www.screenslate.com/features/413
The Police Tapes (1977), which follows cops from a South Bronx precinct going about a routine that they explicitly describe as colonial, was a precursor to Cops (1989–present), which would take a much more exploitative stance and make the poor and insane into objects of entertainment. An even older precursor is Frederick Wiseman’s Law and Order (1969), in which the prolific documentarist followed the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department for six weeks.After opening credits over slide-projected mugshots, we see a perturbed white woman on the precinct’s phone, saying she was “thrown bodily in a paddy wagon by a negro policeman” and giving us an immediate glimpse of the town’s inhabitants’ assumptions about the way the law works. She’s never been picked up before, and for her this means she’s simply been mistaken for a “criminal”—as if catching criminals weren't by definition the process of snatching people off the street and calling them criminals. We then get a cop’s perspective, who’s asked why he joined the force. His response of a half-minute’s blank-stared silence suggests that maybe he wasn’t looking for anything beyond a pay-check.In classic liberal newsgathering style, Wiseman is neither pro- nor anti-cop. He's said that “it’s extremely important for the filmmaker to try at least to remain open to the material, otherwise you’re making propaganda.” In Law and Order, this material is brutal enough to leave no doubt about the fluid ethics of policework. An astonishing scene shows a detective strangling a prostitution suspect until she can’t breathe, all the while repeating “Stop resisting.” It illustrates at least two things: 1. That for cops, the word ‘resist’ refers not only to intentional resistance but also to the resistance caused by mere inertia. No one can fully “stop resisting” unless they cease to be a physical body in space. 2. That this detective is not at all ashamed of violence. Wiseman wondered in an interview, “if that cop didn’t think that what he was doing was okay, why on earth would he do that when it was being recorded?” The presence of the camera doesn’t guarantee objectivity, but at least it gives a truthful impression of how people want to be seen.
After opening credits over slide-projected mugshots, we see a perturbed white woman on the precinct’s phone, saying she was “thrown bodily in a paddy wagon by a negro policeman” and giving us an immediate glimpse of the town’s inhabitants’ assumptions about the way the law works. She’s never been picked up before, and for her this means she’s simply been mistaken for a “criminal”—as if catching criminals weren't by definition the process of snatching people off the street and calling them criminals. We then get a cop’s perspective, who’s asked why he joined the force. His response of a half-minute’s blank-stared silence suggests that maybe he wasn’t looking for anything beyond a pay-check.
In classic liberal newsgathering style, Wiseman is neither pro- nor anti-cop. He's said that “it’s extremely important for the filmmaker to try at least to remain open to the material, otherwise you’re making propaganda.” In Law and Order, this material is brutal enough to leave no doubt about the fluid ethics of policework. An astonishing scene shows a detective strangling a prostitution suspect until she can’t breathe, all the while repeating “Stop resisting.” It illustrates at least two things: 1. That for cops, the word ‘resist’ refers not only to intentional resistance but also to the resistance caused by mere inertia. No one can fully “stop resisting” unless they cease to be a physical body in space. 2. That this detective is not at all ashamed of violence. Wiseman wondered in an interview, “if that cop didn’t think that what he was doing was okay, why on earth would he do that when it was being recorded?” The presence of the camera doesn’t guarantee objectivity, but at least it gives a truthful impression of how people want to be seen.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 29 May 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
The white house twitter account retweeting the ayotollah in Iran and asking twitter why they didnt censor him is chef's kiss. yeah censor him too. idgaf just get rid of incitement and hate speech pls.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 29 May 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
"if you awnt to ban Trump, you might as well ban Twitter from the internet"
"cool, I'm down"
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 May 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
Police are at the US Bank now. I asked him what are his orders. And he told me it’s anarchy so basically I could kick rocks. pic.twitter.com/9o2RRVGNPt— D.A. Bullock (@BullyCreative) May 29, 2020
― j., Friday, 29 May 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
My friend’s house is pretty close to the 3rd precinct - he just told me he lost power at 3am and the air is so chokingly plasticky he’s gonna evacuate
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 29 May 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
officer chauvin in custody
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 29 May 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
Chauvin of chauvinism fame iirc.
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 May 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
is the BCA like the minnesota version of the FBI?
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 May 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
see, mob justice works
― frogbs, Friday, 29 May 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
Now arrest the President
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 May 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link