Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

Don't be naive. What if it's a false false false flag? Eh?

False flag to distract from Roger Stone's AMA tonight about men's style on *nfowars.

the zeitgeist is feeling like the late '60s this week; blood after blood

Next up, Weather Underground

Video of one of the shooters supposedly. Not a sniper, on the ground. https://twitter.com/CainRaisin/status/751285500846026752

Good Grief, the press conference...

false flaggers can assimilate any new piece of information into their theories, it's like a superpower

If that's the video that was aired on the news, a cop is killed in it, FYI. Heads up for people who don't want to see that.

didn't see anyone get killed but that is some pretty precise looking shooting

Shit, I thought I put a graphic tag before that link. Sorry about that. My observation about the shooter being on the ground was just that, not trying to suggest it's false flag evidence.

Apparently suspects are still on the loose?

1 still in garage 'negotiating' with police while shooting at them, 1 woman who was nearby under arrest, 2 people who fled the scene with camo bags were pulled over and arrested

According the the Police Chief, they've got a suspect cornered in a parking garage whom they've been exchanging fire with, and who claims that they've got bombs all over downtown and war is declared on cops etc.

XP The camo bag people have been released.

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/751268398890229760

what the fuck is happening with this country

http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2016/07/07/18347709/a-man-was-arrested-for-pulling-a-gun-on-black-lives-matter-protestors-in-portland-thursday-night

Here's the dude who pulled a gun and got arrested. Naturally, he runs a blog called Laughing at Liberals and is not helping anyone's confirmation bias.

i've heard about that dude. he targets young pdx trans women and posts videos of them on youtube encouraging likeminded assholes to mock them irl. special place in hell.

Apparently he was spotted at the Orlando memorial by Embers, too.

Vigil, rather. Not necessarily memorial.

fuck a john walsh

John Walsh is a good reminder that the other side is just flat wrong.

Here's Periscope vid of the guy pulling a gun.

https://twitter.com/itsmikebivins/status/751248080121442304

The portland event is still going on, btw. Cops have apparently threatened chemical weapons now.

https://twitter.com/itsmikebivins

We are so fucked. I'm feeling sick.

What if this ends up being some supremacist group trying to give Helter Skelter a head start? How is that going to go down...

Ugh...

Wow, I picked a hell of a time to stop paying attention to the news last night. This fucking country.

Just FYI, y'all who are excoriating John Walsh upthread, that Twitter account belongs to the non-Eagles-affiliated Joe Walsh. I'm glad at least to realize that John Walsh hasn't turned into a racist scumbag.

when a white guy shot up Dallas police HQ last year

i dont know all the details about the sniper, but it was just waiting to happen. i dont want to see people die, but when police dont take this kind of thing seriously, it creates the right environment for this kind of thing to happen. erykah badu on facebook was suggesting its a setup, but i dont buy it. when people can arm themselves, its only natural that someone would eventually organise themselves in this way. and IMO, someone enacting revenge killings in this way is more organised, and knows his targets better than people rioting aimlessly, etc.

i dont want to watch the snuff videos of the men being killed, but i saw a brief bit of one on the news (thank god they stopped it before the actual shooting), and that was enough. police have an unchecked combination of fear, hatred, and abuse of power.

I can't help but be sadly amused and disgusted by Dallas police attempting to blame the first black guy they could plausibly blame. They apparently even told him they had video of him shooting.

http://gawker.com/dallas-police-just-released-the-man-they-wrongly-identi-1783329739

Cops always tell suspects that they have evidence that they did it. I was in a traffic stop once where a cop told me that he had sent a bong (found in the car - not mine) back to the crime lab and my fingerprints were all over it. I had only been sitting on the curb for ten minutes. I guess it gets some people to confess quicker. I was pretty insulted.

i feel physically ill from the last few days

xp yeah, that's how a lot of innocent people end up in prison

so they're now thinking it was just one shooter, killed by a bomb the cops deliberately detonated?

Who is thinking that?

Latest headline at the DallasNews site says "Bomb squad's robot killed Dallas sniper who targeted white officers to avenge police shootings."

was going by this cnn update

Death by robot? That's a new one.

death by drone. thats pretty scary.

"Dallas shooting: suspect stated he wanted to 'kill white officers'"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/08/dallas-police-shooting-gunman-kill-white-officers

"Speaking from Warsaw, Poland, Obama said: “I believe I speak for every single American when I say we are horrified over these events and we stand united with the people and the police department in Dallas,” he said. “According to police there are multiple suspects, we will learn more about their twisted motivations but let’s be clear: there is no possible justification for these kind of attacks or any violence against law enforcement."

if the sniper(s) really wanted to be thorough, they would have gone for the actual officers responsible.

I'm just wondering-- is anyone confirming that it was a single sniper?

I don't think so. One shooter confirmed and confirmed dead, three or more uncooperative suspects in custody.

And I guess two civilians injured, as well? Still, the shooter(s) must've been very well-trained.

I don't think so. One shooter confirmed and confirmed dead, three or more uncooperative suspects in custody.
--some anal dread (Old Lunch)

I thought two of those suspects were released.

is anyone confirming that it was a single sniper?

no, that came from my misreading of a quote in the cnn article

I'm particularly disgusted by the news media's need to take a horrific incident and distill it into the single most terrible little soundbite description possible and then run that into the ground. in Orlando it was "the worst mass shooting in American history" which is true and awful no doubt but it felt like CNN repeated that precise verbiage 5000 times in the days following the tragedy. now today you can already see "deadliest day for officers since 9/11" and we're off and running. you'll see and hear that dozens of times before the weekend is through.

And the same people who always say that we shouldn't politicize shootings are already sharing this piece of bullshit all over social media.

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13621001_1739943566264450_832445238699636983_n.jpg?oh=561c75ce7eb87d46014686e1a712ac13&oe=58377E54

barf.

yeah, I watched Obama's address yesterday evening where he very pointedly asked for people not to immediately jump to political rhetoric and literally within 15 minutes two people were screaming at each other on CNN.

TBF, we need to figure out who to blame and be angry at ASAP, and only CNN can show us the way.

Unrelated to Dallas, Nashville cop suspended for saying on Facebook that he would have shot Philando Castile 5 times: https://www.nashville.gov/News-Media/News-Article/ID/5449/Officer-Anthony-Venable-Decommissioned-Under-Investigation-for-Facebook-Post.aspx

Also, I cannot BELIEVE something like this was published at Redstate and that the comments are for the most part pretty reasonable: http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/07/08/uncomfortable-reason-came-dallas-yesterday/