SPD currently vacating and boarding up the East Precinct building, site of two weeks of occupation and protest, and multiple nights of tear gas deployments.
The police have just removed themselves to my part of the neighborhood and are waiting for something to happen. Since they had the fire department go around warning nearby businesses that the precinct may burn tonight, it's pretty clear what they're waiting for. I feel like I'm being insanely paranoid, but the words "Reichstag Fire" keep flitting through my head. I hope I'm wrong.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 03:35 (four years ago) link
ST. PAUL [WHITE] MAN ARRESTED FOR BURNING DOWN OF MINNEAPOLIS POLICE PRECINCT
https://www.kimt.com/content/news/St-Paul-man-arrested-for--571111961.html
― nickn, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 05:25 (four years ago) link
Disappointed it's not Tim Kaine's Antifa Son
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 05:29 (four years ago) link
shit Eddie Redmayne burned it down?
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 05:29 (four years ago) link
I’ll be honest with you I usually don’t check what thread I’m posting in
there is only one thread, i'm on the same page. literally
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 05:33 (four years ago) link
same
― our god is a might god (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 05:44 (four years ago) link
Re WaPo, I cancelled my online subscription recently since I looked at my credit card bill and realized how much I was paying for it. It is an excellent resource that tends to have moreinsider-baseball angles wrt the administration than NYT, though NYT has a ton too. I’ve already hit their pay-wall a couple of times, so I may re-subscribe, though I can’t even keep up with all the terrible news in the NYT right now.
LA Times is also good (and a lot cheaper) for a West Coast view. I was going to cancel it during this same attempt to lower my credit bill, but you have to actually call and speak to someone to cancel so I’ve kept it for now.
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 07:10 (four years ago) link
That convinces me to never subscribe to LAT tbh w/u
― Nhex, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 07:44 (four years ago) link
there is a firefox extension that gets you past paywalls if u want
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
Yes plz
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
the NYC police commissioner has tweeted another ridiculous photo meant to draft on right-wing antifa tropes: this time we see "concrete disguised as ice cream" found "at George Floyd protests." no, seriously. as has been widely pointed out in response to his tweet, these are actually very routine construction-site concrete test samples, in coffee cups, complete with the mix written on the side in marker. the New York Post, of course, has reported his "findings" at face value.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
Powerful white people braying dumbass bullshit that conclusively demonstrates how unfit they are to hold their positions in society is so totally the in thing right now
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
I signed up for WaPo just to read articles by a former ilxor who I would name here but I can't remember what she posted as and I don't want to doxx her.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
They really think people would pretend to eat the concrete, then discreetly throw it at cops?
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
Reminds me of the time Limbaugh et al claimed at the Paul Wellstone memorial service that they were giving the audience commands to applaud and cheer on the jumbo screen and it turned out to be the closed captioning
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
no, the nypd does not really think that. they really think the *public* can be made to think that. they are brutal and corrupt, see thread title.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
wait seriously the concrete milkshake thing is back?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/how-conservative-figures-turned-flimsy-rumor-about-concrete-milkshakes-portland-meme
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
iirc they don't care if you know they're lying; the message is the truth is what they say it is
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
the concrete tweet in question FWIW:
Anyone with information please call @NYPDTips @NYPDDetectives NYPD finds concrete disguised as ice cream at George Floyd protests https://t.co/kYRxf7ABER via @nypmetro— Commissioner Shea (@NYPDShea) June 9, 2020
also, i think linked upthread, but here are his previous comments on the nefarious gear (aka bike repair tools) seized from brutally assaulted protesters and the caches of throwing-ready bricks (aka illegal construction waste and/or total plants by the cops). it's all transparently bullshit and this should be a citywide scandal even apart from everything else.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
Instead of being Anti Police...how about Anti Brutality!! Stay safe! Well done #nypd— Brookmilusa (@brookmilusa) June 9, 2020
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
Instead of being anti-gun...how about being anti-violence?
Stay safe! Well done, James Huberty!
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
oy, we're back to concrete milkshakes ehnothing is too stupid
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
my concrete milkshake brings all the cops to the yardand they're like, just beating me hard
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
guilty lol
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
there needs to be an agitprop punk or hip-hop group called Concrete Milkshake ASAP
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
WATCH 🚨 New York police boss Mike O'Meara went off on the media today:"Stop treating us like animals and thugs and start treating us with some respect ... Our legislators abandoned us. The press is vilifying us. It's disgusting." pic.twitter.com/CXOPARKff7— August Takala (@AugustTakala) June 9, 2020
https://www.theransomnote.com/media/articles/this-week-merkle-man-the-gammon-people-and-kim-jong-gaddafi/055688f5-b4e6-4249-aeea-66c1a5a8d664.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
intersting he says it's the press that's embarrassing them...doesn't he mean other cops are embarrassing them? nah probably not
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/how-apples-go-bad
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
'Stop treating us like animals and thugs,' said a glowering O'Meara as he thrust his shoulders at the cameras, mouthing 'you wanna go?' through an accumulation of rage froth.
― ...Like a Soggy Handburger (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
News for Mike O'Meara, respect must be earned and can easily be lost.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
Cops in not understanding the concept of respect shocker.
― ...Like a Soggy Handburger (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
that's really good
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaDFSCxWsAAQ3dU?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
a+
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
I thought this was interesting, and certainly underscored the almost can't-win impossibility of the situation:
https://news.wttw.com/2020/06/05/what-are-we-going-have-left-our-community-aldermen-react-panic-sorrow-unrest
Lightfoot said a crowd of 30-40 people gathered outside a clothing store near 111th Street and Michigan Avenue as a “dude with a sledgehammer” broke into the store to allow it to be looted.“I don’t know about you, but I haven’t seen s--t like this before, not in Chicago,” Lightfoot said.
“I don’t know about you, but I haven’t seen s--t like this before, not in Chicago,” Lightfoot said.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
"Stop treating us like animals and thugs..."
That's rich.
― keen reverberations of twee (collardio gelatinous), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
jesus christ
xpost
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
saw this via TMBS, thought it might be of interest here
My study of northern backlash against the Great Migration has no policy prescription, but it has a smoking gun. Police are the only public investment to increase in metro areas w/ more black migration. Good faith pursuit of racial justice starts by questioning this institution. pic.twitter.com/uQaYdGQnPn— Ellora Derenoncourt (@EDerenoncourt) May 30, 2020
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 23:00 (four years ago) link
good find
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
#BlackLivesMatter protesters in #seattle have taken city hall. Thousands are moving in. pic.twitter.com/1cTRNRZ5fv— Alex Garland (@AGarlandPhoto) June 10, 2020
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 04:23 (four years ago) link
Councilmember Sawant let them in with her key.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 04:24 (four years ago) link
really?!?!
― sleeve, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link
Yes, evidently.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 04:32 (four years ago) link
this is a hard read, though it leaves the door cracked for justice to be donehttps://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/182142.P.pdf
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link
woof, yeah; what you said
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 05:44 (four years ago) link
This is great
https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/everything-could-be-free/
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 13:05 (four years ago) link
‘Cops,’ Long-Running Reality Show That Glorified Police, Is Canceled
― ...Like a Soggy Handburger (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link