Rolling 2016 Thread on Race

one would guess that several people in the Slager jury believe that Slager was genuinely in fear for his life as he shot down this man who was running away from him, because black people are terrifying and must be put in their place

Serious question: what is the general policy/law on this? Are police legally allowed or expected to shoot fleeing (and assumed armed) suspects?

Pretty sure the policy is they do whatever the fuck they like

apparently the jury was 11-1 Dan but it doesn't say in which direction

hmm

Serious question: what is the general policy/law on this? Are police legally allowed or expected to shoot fleeing (and assumed armed) suspects?

Yes, if they are black.

Not only is this what history tells us, but this is also what recent current events tells us. It's an aberration for it to be otherwise.

yeah summary execution is cool if the person running away is black. doesnt really matter the crime!

Other sad shit, no murder though:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/king-democratic-staffer-exposes-soft-bigotry-senate-dems-article-1.2893049

Guess I'll post this here since a search turned up no results. Shaun King is spearheading an Injustice Boycott that starts Monday.

I'm in

Kinda feeling like that needs its own thread, seeing as how it's intended to be an ongoing endeavor with regular updates on plans of action.

Christ, I'd somehow missed this entirely: a local 24-year-old trying to get on the ballot to run for city clerk was arrested...for petitioning while black. So congratulations to my police department on helping to raise the profile of this guy (who seems pretty righteous) and securing my vote.

I kind of can't stop laughing at that though

...one of the officers, a white woman, saw Reid and another man with clipboards and wondered what they were doing. He said she stopped them and asked for their names and birth dates. The other man was a white 23-year-old, according to a Monday release by the city.

The men gave their names but Reid, who said he hopes to run for Evanston city clerk, refused to give his birth date, Dugan said.

"She asked several times. He refused several times," Dugan said. Finally, the officer told Reid she would arrest him if he did not give his birth date. He still refused and she put him under arrest after calling for assistance from another officer...

Keystone Kafka

Do we yet have an ongoing "what to do/social activism in the age of Trump" thread or something, because i'd follow that

Fight hard as fuck iirc

Give a wrong time, stop a traffic line.

Do we yet have an ongoing "what to do/social activism in the age of Trump" thread or something, because i'd follow that

― Nhex

yeah i'm really disappointed at the lack of organization so far. i guess i should organize things myself? but i have severe social anxiety and no clue about how to actually do this stuff.

like, how do we as patients put pressure on the ama to repudiate their endorsement of tom price? that seems like a pretty big thing and pretty important. just calling members of congress isn't going to cut it.

New thread: Social Activism in the Age of Trump: What To Do and What We Are Doing

http://projects.heraldtribune.com/bias/sentencing

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-masked-white-men-harass-indigenous-people-north-dakota-article-1.2904957

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/807295020105547776

https://twitter.com/afamhistfail/status/807302833418731520

https://theawl.com/our-racist-dogs-dc83ca711b42#.9qyo16r3u

12 grafs retelling the plot of 'White Dog' is maybe not the ideal lede

one of the great sam fuller's last films, and -- iirc, i saw it in like 1987 -- a *very* sam fuller movie, meaning intermittently o_0 in amazing ways that literally no one else wd dare

sam's fuller brand of anti-racism was so goddamn weird, god bless him

Good Morricone soundtrack too!

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/12/what-on-earth-was-the-los-angeles-times-thinking

Well, as we are discovering day by day, every single historical issue about which we thought we expressed shame–genocide against Native Americans, slavery, Jim Crow, Japanese internment–are all now being actively defended by Trump supporters. And because the mantra of the media is that Both Sides Must Be Represented, these absolutely revolting viewpoints are being mainstreamed. This is deeply disturbing and as I have been saying, we are simply going to have to fight this at every juncture.

candidate for 2017 thread?

In the vein of the rap thread, it should be "Rolling 2017 thread on Pepes"

No it shouldn't.

remember "crack babies"? well

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/health/rise-in-infant-drug-dependence-in-us-is-felt-most-in-rural-areas.html