Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

(This is an absolute good but I feel like 5 months ago this wouldn’t have been on the table)

"YOU ABOUT TO LOSE YOUR JOB"

“You about to lose your job!” #DefundThePolice #nycprotests #nycbudgetjustice pic.twitter.com/YakieTl9AK

— Samantha Lee Robles (@Samanthaleenyc) June 8, 2020

Raymond that appears to be from 2018?

yeah there was a Lynching bill that passed the Senate unanimously in 2018, but it expired because the House didn't pass it by the time Congress ended, and that's what the article is talking about. the current bill is a revised version of the 2018 bill, which is why Kamala Harris was incredulous that Rand Paul was objecting to it now.

ah thanks

lol that imarkkeyz took off as expected

Ty for that xp

xp to raymond

thanks for asking, everyone is safe and sound at home now. wasn't just my partner, was also one of my downstairs neighbors. i'm really glad to live where i am now. we have a really supportive building, both above and below us, and we all coordinate and help each other out. invaluable

as an addendum, she told me that the most frightening part of the whole night was actually as the protest was dispersing. a crazy old white guy started yelling at everyone, yelling the usual old crazy white guy shit. so far, sadly normal, and there were good protest organizers that calmed everyone down and de-escalated. but then he suddenly opened his trunk and reached in and everyone thought he was reaching for guns, so everyone started fucking booking it. turned out it was not guns, thank god. in response, a police officer slooooooooowly walked over to the old guy, smiled, walked him off, etc

I feel like we've been extremely lucky that no right wing nutjobs have opened fire at any of these protests so far. It's a possibility that really scares me.

I'm glad nothing like that happened, but it sounds like a very frightening situation

I feel like we've been extremely lucky that no right wing nutjobs have opened fire at any of these protests so far. It's a possibility that really scares me.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, June 7, 2020 10:18 PM (three minutes ago)

One did (well, some white guy did) hours ago, in Seattle, after driving a car into a crowd of protestors. He shot a man in the arm who was trying to get his gun. He then brandished his gun, walked up to the police line unmolested by the cops who had used pepper spray and explosives against protestors the night before, and was taken into custody.

someone did that at the 4th pct protests for jamar clark a few years back in mpls, he's in prison for 15 years now

source unknown:

"I’m pretty sure we are watching the police collectively having the experience of being pulled over for a crime they didn’t personally commit because they “fit the description” and are actively resisting, while the entire world is yelling repeatedly “stop resisting!” and they really don’t like it."

Ilxors in Seattle, are you hearing the explosions from 11th and Pine right now? I'm about a half mile away and it sounds like a war zone.

tweets have been frightening too - please stay safe seattle ilxors

I feel like we've been extremely lucky that no right wing nutjobs have opened fire at any of these protests so far. It's a possibility that really scares me.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, June 7, 2020 10:18 PM (three minutes ago)

Also, there was that guy with the crossbow last week.

Hey fuck the fucking pigs btw

I hope SPD collectively choke to death on their own vomit, Nazi pig scum

I know not everyone on this board thinks all cops should die and to you I say: get fucked

Wifebeaters, sadists, and cowards, all of them.

idk sounds contentious

is this about anything specific

not that i don’t think cops should get fucked but i’m wondering if something happened to inspire this outburst

“something happened” i guess i mean on the streets recently, not the entire history of racist policing etc.

Idk Silby didn't seem to need a specific 'something' to go off in the past. Which is fine imo.

i know i’m just worried about the cops hurting people, as always

get fucked

not during a pandemic

Every time one of you posts ACAB I briefly think I'm on a Genesis thread.

But yeah, it is amazing that no lunatic has opened fire. I have seen a couple of videos of old white people ranting and raving while surrounded by peaceful protestors. They mostly just fume and froth until the police lead them away, but it could easily go the other way. Then again, the closest I've seen (recorded) of kooks threatening violence have been, for example, the SLC crazy with the bow and arrow, or that guy with the chainsaw. The guys with the bigs guns seem to (no surprise) prefer posing symbolically, so as threatening as they are at least they apparently have the discipline not to shoot. Or at least the discipline to pretend to be disciplined.

There was the guy with the quadruple knives in his hand who tried to run over those protesters on the sidewalk.

he seems fun
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-wolverine-blm-george-floyd-protesters-overpass-suv-surrenders-20200604-vgxcvb2to5eyrkq7avclryxoci-story.html

What to make of the fact that there are so many legally bought and wielded assault weapons on display, but that the people getting arrested are the ones threatening people with arrows, chainsaws and wolverine claws?

almost like 'good guys with guns' are scared shitless of, and/or totally in cahoots with, the 'bad guys with guns'

while we're celebrating the relative lack of violent rightwing protestors, let's not forget that the fascist scum formerly known as "cops" have killed at least 11 people since this started, injured and terrorized countless others, illegal arrested hundreds, etc etc

a primer
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/06/08/the-short-fraught-history-of-the-thin-blue-line-american-flag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZPeD2miyF8

not familiar with AGNB, but will def start following now. Just letting people speak for themselves and be heard is so rare.

If I mysteriously disappear, this will be why pic.twitter.com/DAV8GgZfC5

— iancanwrite (@iancanwrite) June 7, 2020

is this about anything specific

May have something to do with SPD spending most of last night bombing the shit out of 11th and Pine with tear gas and flashbangs to a degree that's shocking even after a week of constant brutality. I was hearing explosions from midnight through 2:30 in the morning. People half a mile away had tear gas coming into their houses.

wow fuck that

yeah the cops were totally out of control in Seattle and PDX last night

defund them all

guess that tear gas ban in seattle is off to a great start

yep.

anyway I made a cool new website yesterday

http://isjennydurkanstillthemayor.com

not familiar with AGNB, but will def start following now. Just letting people speak for themselves and be heard is so rare.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, June 8, 2020 10:23 AM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

LA had this guy (dressed up as Natl Gd and stood with them for a while at city hall), who a friend said is also involved in cosplay conventions.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/gregory-wong-la-protest

not familiar with AGNB, but will def start following now. Just letting people speak for themselves and be heard is so rare.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, June 8, 2020 11:23 AM (fifty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he also does the same at flat earther conventions/don jr book signings etc. they're great for a completely different reason than that video though. the tallegeda speedway one is truly appalling

yeah this was totally different from what he normally does

Person who drove into crowd and shot protester was the leader of local KKK

oh worm?

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