Oh, and he was born and raised in the city of Minneapolis. As a married family man, he only lived a mile from the city line.
― santa clause four (suzy), Monday, 1 June 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
literally any cop who thinks like that now is either dead, fired, or retired
― sleeve, Monday, 1 June 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
Fuck you, sleeve.
I'm fucking out for a while, removing bookmark
thanks for your one millionth personal bragging session, great input
― sleeve, Monday, 1 June 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
xpost That clip of the (probably not FBI) guy getting IDd by the police is also apparently a year or two old.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 June 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
louisville police chief fired
― mookieproof, Monday, 1 June 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
Is it true that in some US states you can become a cop after only 6 months of training? In here you have to go through 3 year police school to become one, with psychological screening etc. Not saying that Finnish cops are that great, there's plenty of racism and fascist tendencies among them, something that I've come across personally in demonstrations throughout the years... But it would seem that a longer, more rigorous training would at least weed out some of the worst cases before they can become cops?
― Tuomas, Monday, 1 June 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
My uncle was a million times the person you are and I included his story to underline how the job can poison good people to death, especially the ones who wish to serve the entire public. If that comes off as bragging, that’s a you problem.
― santa clause four (suzy), Monday, 1 June 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
Reports of looting all over the north side and north suburbs of Chicago this afternoon. According to what I've read on Twitter so far, they are pretty much all really well coordinated and over very quickly, often the same make and model cars being described at the scenes.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 1 June 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
avg police training is 5 mos I think
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 1 June 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
suzy, that's how I interpreted your post too, thanks. sleeve, fuck you.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 June 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
uhhhh https://t.co/CpEDqBcIX9 pic.twitter.com/dboAwMeAZ1— Josh Fruhlinger (@jfruh) June 1, 2020
― calzino, Monday, 1 June 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
I know it is a rare honor, but I say this with all sincerity, fuck you sleeve.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
so any thoughts on the new independent autopsy?
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
My only thought about the autopsy is worry considering it directly contradicts the bullshit "official" county medical examiners report, which apparently said some vile nonsense to the effect of "he wasn't strangulated/asphyxiated it was heart problems" or some similar nonsense. The last time Michael Baden was hired during the Eric Garner killing his findings agreed with those of the NYC Medical Examiner's office (that Garner was choked to death in a homicide)... and that still didn't convince the grand jury to indict the cop that killed him!! He kept his job for 5 more years until the DOJ finally brought criminal charges against him just last year! And apparently Minnesota's 3rd degree murder statute makes it harder to prove culpability beyond reasonable doubt?
― Sabre of Paradise (trevor phillips), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
it should help to counter the ridiculous narrative floated by the Hennepin county medical examiner that hinted at mysterious other causes, including non-existent drugs for which no evidence was offered. the problem is that false narratives get adopted and believed by people who want them to be true, so the examiner's report has already done much of its damage.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
The previous coroner report still placed blame on the cop though, it was just less direct (restraint plus co-morbidities) whereas this one places direct blame on the cop and might support a murder 2 charge instead
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
Actually I got that wrong, the DOJ didn't do anything, it was only until a NYPD disciplinary hearing held just last year that the cop who killed Garner was finally fired. At least Chauvin is already out of a job in this situation... hopefully he'll be behind bars forever at the end of all this. And yea I was hoping and wondering if the independent autopsy's findings would support a higher criminal charge than just 3rd degree and manslaughter anyway.
― Sabre of Paradise (trevor phillips), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
Yes, the way that was written up by Hennepin dude was designed to lead a reader in a particular direction. Besides which, George Floyd may not have known about any of his own medical conditions - what 46-year-old man with work in the hospitality industry would be in the doctor’s office checking that out?
― santa clause four (suzy), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
Things are apparently getting active in the inner western burbs again. Area that was hit yesterday getting shut down now, local businesses closer to me closing early. Even our vet. I expect another curfew.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 June 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
I shouldn't pile on here, but that's just who I am right now. Sleeve, pull that again and get banned. Take a long, hard look in the mirror.
― Skateboard R Deluxe Throwback Edition (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
new info
pic.twitter.com/faQy2EAEjW— Rochelle Olson (@rochelleolson) June 1, 2020
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 1 June 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
xpost - yeah, I'm hearing that all the grocery stores around us have been closed.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:41 (four years ago) link
Ahh note "neck compression", which, while not asphyxiation, is not something the Prosecutors included in the charging statement, despite it being present in the report. They just let it fall under the "restrained by the police" umbrella.
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
i was not expecting malaria to be a danger at stalingrad
― mookieproof, Monday, 1 June 2020 21:49 (four years ago) link
the only ppl who care about what any autopsy says are ppl whose "thoughts on the matter" s/b ignored anyway
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
Supposed to be 90 tomorrow, that should help things.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 June 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
A national guard officer just walked through the Sunset/Laurel protest with this sign, to massive applause. pic.twitter.com/wrSXDGWlxZ— Julia Wick (@sherlyholmes) June 1, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 1 June 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
Those good cops photo-ops are starting to get on my nerves.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 1 June 2020 23:43 (four years ago) link
Also, insane how that cop's attire is barely distinguishable from my mental picture of regular US soldiers.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 1 June 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link
National Guard are not cops.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 1 June 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 1 June 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
hopefully my idiocy will bring levity in these hard times
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 00:00 (four years ago) link
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― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
huge fuckin line of police vans drove across the bridge and down the street outside of my apartment just now. the insecurity is almost adorable
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 01:02 (four years ago) link
twenty minutes later he said he "misspoke" even though in this clip he goes out of his way to say that he understands his words are offensive and that he means it. fire that ass https://t.co/P3bDQbGWLF— Hayes Davenport (@hayesdavenport) June 2, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 01:31 (four years ago) link
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/06/01/why-so-many-police-are-handling-the-protests-wrong
Thomson encountered this when he tried to make change in Camden. The police department was so dysfunctional that the city took the unprecedented step of disbanding the force and reconstituting a whole new agency from scratch. “When I had the opportunity to build a new police department, I was able to do in three days what would normally take me three years to do, because of work rules, because of the bureaucracy of collective bargaining agreements—there are a lot of impediments to reform,” Thomson said.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 01:32 (four years ago) link
looters and protesters retroactively killed Floyd!
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 01:32 (four years ago) link
"Their minds, I meant to say it was on their minds."
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 01:34 (four years ago) link
haha i went to check on whether that was one of those deepfakes because it was so utterly nonsensical
― j., Tuesday, 2 June 2020 01:34 (four years ago) link
The police department was so dysfunctional that the city took the unprecedented step of disbanding the force and reconstituting a whole new agency from scratch.
here is where right-wingers rediscover union power
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 01:36 (four years ago) link
A black family tried to get the attention of the police to protect a neighborhood store in Van Nuys and were immediately handcuffed. pic.twitter.com/5iZRXUvbMP— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) June 2, 2020
Moments before they were handcuffed after trying to get the attention of the police, the woman described why it was important for her and her family to protect the store and their neighborhood. pic.twitter.com/BOFknyzUW1— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) June 2, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 02:04 (four years ago) link
i am doing a small fundraiser here if people want to donate:
Hey, let me drunkenly animate your photos in about 25 to 60 days!
5 of 8 left
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 02:20 (four years ago) link
you guys I just looked up ACAB and learned that it does not, as I had thought, mean "assigned cop at birth"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
lol
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 02:33 (four years ago) link
the closest protests to me that I know of were the west side highway ones, but those were further south than I am now (plus I'm too zonked out on ativan right now to do anything but sleep)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 02:50 (four years ago) link
Wish I were zonked out on Ativan. Sleep well.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 02:52 (four years ago) link
dying @ assigned cop at birth
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 02:53 (four years ago) link
(you really don't, it's prescribed but I almost never take it because all it really does is nuke a day out of existence, when arguably the "right" thing to do would be to not nuke a day out of existence here)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 02:54 (four years ago) link
xp like two-thirds of my friends have made the assigned cop at birth joke
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 02:55 (four years ago) link