Easy: You are black and he is white.
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
christ, do these cops get any training at all?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
“Why did you pull me over? I was just pulled into the gas station.”“Your safety belt violation, sir.”“Seatbelt… I just pulled it off right there at the corner at the gas station!”
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 26 September 2014 09:00 (nine years ago) link
arrested:
http://boingboing.net/2014/09/25/south-carolina-cop-who-shot-bl.html
would not have happened w/o dashboard video
― sleeve, Friday, 26 September 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
dude in that last video is the most polite assault victim i've ever heard; how the hell do you maintain the patience to call the man who just shot you sir and apologize to him
I don't know if I can articulate why this post enrages me so much. How many times black people must tell stories about their survival strategies for existing in America before you start listening and understanding what they mean?
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Friday, 26 September 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
d, if you're not reading that post with a sense of headshaking wonder, shock and sadness at what the police state demands out of black american men then you are misreading the intention
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 September 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
"american police state" / "black men" rather
I dunno forks, your post also struck me as tone deaf
― 龜, Friday, 26 September 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
And maybe your response shouldn't be "become a better reader"
― 龜, Friday, 26 September 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
my response was "you misunderstood my intention"
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 September 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
And my response is you miswrote your intention
― 龜, Friday, 26 September 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
I had no trouble understanding forks' intent. He knew why the black victim of police assault was so polite, but was at a loss to fathom how he managed it.
― Aimless, Friday, 26 September 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
i can certainly see how that can read differently than it was intended and, if taken as "gosh that guy sure is subservient why wouldn't he be more angry" as opposed to "the degree of restraint he shows under literal fire is fucking superhuman" is good grounds for enragement
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 September 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/30/ernest-satterwhite-just-craven_n_5907544.html
Even when the prosecutor seeks a felony indictment...
― 龜, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
this thread is like pure undiluted rage-a-hol
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
yup
― sleeve, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
TS: pure undiluted rage-a-hol vs a reminder that a capricious, unpredictable death sentence lurks for you and every member of your family as long as you stay in this country
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
worst poll ever
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
I know which side I'm on and which side dan's on and mine is by far the easier side to live on.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
I'm not disputing that
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/michael-dunn-guilty_n_5913926.html
Some good news - Michael Dunn, who killed Jordan Davis at a gas station for playing loud music, was convicted of first degree murder
― 龜, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
v gratifying
not a cop tho
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
Well, shit
― 龜, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2014/10/03/weekley-trial-aiyana-stanley-jones/16636179
A Detroit police officer accused in the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones walked into a Detroit courtroom Friday facing a felony and misdemeanor charge.Officer Joseph Weekley walked out of the courtroom with just the misdemeanor charge after Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against him. Weekley still is charged with careless discharge of a firearm causing death in the May 2010 shooting, which happened as police executed a search warrant for a murder suspect.
Officer Joseph Weekley walked out of the courtroom with just the misdemeanor charge after Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against him. Weekley still is charged with careless discharge of a firearm causing death in the May 2010 shooting, which happened as police executed a search warrant for a murder suspect.
― Andy K, Sunday, 5 October 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
http://gawker.com/nypd-thugs-caught-on-video-pistol-whipping-teen-with-ha-1643271317
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/family-sues-hammond-police-over-traffic-stop-violence
In cell phone video captured by a terrified 14-year-old sitting in the back seat of Mahone’s car, you can hear Mahone on the line with a 911 operator saying that she fears for her life and that moments earlier officers had pulled their guns on the couple.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
http://abc11.com/340724
The parents of a Wake County high school student are outraged that police pepper-sprayed him inside their home after a neighbor mistook him for an intruder.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 13:17 (nine years ago) link
The video of that is absolutely horrifying xp
― 龜, Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
Some posts about this in the Michael Brown thread:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/09/crowds-in-streets-of-st-louis-after-fatal-shooting-by-off-duty-police-officer/
Meanwhile...
http://brooklynpaper.com/stories/37/41/dtg-police-beats-teen-2014-10-10-bk_37_41.html
A police officer apparently knocked out a Clinton Hill teen with one blow after stopping him for smoking a cigarette, hitting him so hard he now has neurological problems, according to the boy’s family.
― Andy K, Thursday, 9 October 2014 11:44 (nine years ago) link
This is interesting in light of all the bad news from this thread: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/10/08/foxhall-police-encounter-caught-on-video-and-the-interaction-is-fascinating/
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 October 2014 12:59 (nine years ago) link
Oof.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 9 October 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
Yeah. I mean, good on the woman, but if she was black she would have been on the ground, tazed and beaten after about 10 words.
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 October 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link
I was thinking she'd be dead, but yeah, somewhere within that range.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 October 2014 13:34 (nine years ago) link
Also the class connotations, the sense in which the rich white lawyer is saying "He's okay because he works for me, this man isn't the KIND of person you're looking for because I buy/control his labor." And at the end, where the white person muses “It was very interesting, in the sense of getting a picture of how black cops treat black people" Stop. Just stop.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 9 October 2014 13:44 (nine years ago) link
More on the Hammond, Indiana incident. The more you read about it the angrier you get. I grew up down the street from Hammond and I am so disappointed.
The offense the driver committed was driving without a seatbelt. I thought they couldn't pull you over for that? Then they accuse the dad of reaching for a weapon.
Two kids in the back seat had glass all over them.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/pair-alleging-excessive-force-police-traffic-stop-state/story?id=26024762
― Opus Gai (I M Losted), Thursday, 9 October 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
Where is the sanity? Relations with the police will go into the toilet because of this. Next we will hear the driver was on PCP.
― Opus Gai (I M Losted), Thursday, 9 October 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
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thanks for this sensitive context provision, really enlightening material
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
That means a lot. We're all striving for the lofty heights of your self-regard.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
strive for the lofty heights of not being an idiot instead.
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
idk in terms of imaginative wallowing in lurid hyperbolic violence against black people its not quite as bad as this so he is learning, slowly
The Death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
this guy
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
I guess that's what I get for ignoring the 'do not feed' sign.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
maybe you don't belong in the zoo
― Vomits of a Missionary (bernard snowy), Thursday, 9 October 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
It's what you get for casually referencing the destruction of non-white people. The lurid speculation about what violence might be done to someone is...it brings images to mind that are very very real for some people, even if they seem like just a recitation of facts to others.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 9 October 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
Yes, it does bring images to mind that are very very real to some people, including me. My observation was far from casual however it might have read to you. These issues make me deeply angry and deeply sad, partially for personal reasons I'd rather not disclose when a troll with a penchant for ad hominem attacks is trying to control the direction of the conversation.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 October 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
does anyone not feel sad and angry about the sort of things documented here? at best it adds nothing to the conversation, nor is it particularly realistic, for while there is evidently no limit to what police are capable of doing, in the most likely scenario if that person was not i) white ii) upper middle class iii) middle aged iv) an attorney, the police would just have just intimidated them into going away with the spoken or unspoken threat of arrest
power works in far more insidious ways than just shooting people, that clip is so striking precisely because the extraordinary power and confidence displayed by that woman is the conferred upon her by various systems of inequity and is usually used to perpetuate rather than mitigate them
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Thursday, 9 October 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
does anyone not feel sad and angry about the sort of things documented here?
lol let's peruse some comments sections shall we
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
"here"
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
ANYWAY, here's another, from my neck of the woods. Similar in circumstance to the Hammond one above -- car pulled over for a minor infraction, woman driving, child in back, male passenger asked to identify himself -- but with a lot less violent result.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2014/10/06/Video-of-Sandusky-traffic-stop-goes-viral-after-man-records-his-arrest.html
It's worth noting in the story: "According to a Sandusky police report, Officer Denny saw a vehicle, driving without headlights . . . The video shows that officer pulled over the vehicle at 7:07 p.m." Assuming this was taken the date it was uploaded to YouTube, sunset in Sandusky that day was at 7:16pm. And based on the visible weather in the video, while it might be polite to have your headlights on already, there's no legal requirement to do so.
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
shakey you are really lamentably dense
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link