Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

Did the obama administration ever attempt serious police reform? Why not?

― treeship., Sunday, May 31, 2020 3:44 AM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink]

federalism?

he had a beer with that guy and henry louis gates

Did the obama administration ever attempt serious police reform?

The Obama Justice Dept. investigated civil rights abuses in many city police departments and obtained consent decrees from many of them to pursue specific reforms and take steps to reach measurable milestones. They were pretty active on that front, but there are, oh, tens of thousands of police departments and sheriff's departments in the USA.

We've got wrecked cars set up to block neighborhood streets with slashed tires. @WedgeLIVE @annapoetic my neighbors don't know where they're from. pic.twitter.com/F8WwVLzryW

— Kenneapolis (@kenny_fennell) May 30, 2020

'I notified on duty @MinneapolisFire personnel nearby and they said they've seen this all over the city. I don't know what it means if anything but I worry it's a war tactic.'

xp: obama also inaugurated a 'task force' on police brutality and race by executive order, but only a fraction of police forces put its recommendations into place and following the 2016 elections it seemed dead in the water

Cornel West and Killer Mike speeches both v strong I thought. I'm glad CNN gave the former free reign for a few minutes.

Cornell still a force of nature

Incredible

Obama wasn't really worried about the extra judicial killing of civilians by military drones, why would a militarised police force be any different?

Sleeve linked this on FB last night and it’s fascinating in re the drives behind the b00g4100 thing. God speed to my twin cities crushing the fuck out of these pieces of shit.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/

#BlackLivesMatter protest today in Peckham, South East London - led by young, mainly black people. Upcoming protests also happening tomorrow and 7 June on central London pic.twitter.com/YVUKwJLnBS

— Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff (@CharlieBCuff) May 30, 2020

Yesterday there were a couple in Toronto and Berlin as well.

And a vigil for George Floyd in Iran:

https://i.redd.it/i0weomgbhv151.png

i think the real jump off is going to be when brass starts explicitly thanking patriot prayer and b1g iGL°0 types for “having their 6” in the press

Yesterday there were a couple in Toronto and Berlin as well.

Things moving so fast but hasn't there been an incident with police killing a civilian in Toronto too a couple of days ago?

What happened isn't exactly clear:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/regis-paquet-balcony-toronto-1.5588318

Perhaps our fellow Toronto ILXors know more.

so what's the mileage limit on bringing baking soda-filled bottles to throw at a police van in the US? just trying to brush up on my rights here. 'Upstate' getting shivery aura from NYC officials/media,,,,

Louisiana cop fired for saying it's unfortunate COVID hasn't killed more black people.

Trump's fucking scumbag security adviser is claiming the violence is coming from out of state antifa.

even as weak-ass Stephanopoulous pushed back and said "uhhh, Governors are blaming out of state white supremacists", he denied it and said "no, it's antifa" and directed people to focus their efforts on eradicating antifa.

fuck this administration.

no way admin isn’t openly praising white militias by October

uh, they have? 'good people' in C'ville

I think it’s going to get scarily explicit

hope I’m wrong

maybe the hell's angels can provide security at the RNC

it's already scarily explicit

yes in Minneapolis we saw typical "Antifa" vehicles like huge F150s with no plates or the Jaguar with no plates that fired into Jamaican restaurant

"Trump's fucking scumbag security adviser is claiming the violence is coming from out of state antifa."

well this is being said by mayors in Oakland, SF, Minneapolis, etc, as well; in fact I thought I read that some large proportion of arrested protestors the other night (maybe even 100%) in Minneapolis were not from the city.

xpost ah that's interesting

that was a false rumour started by the Governor, debunked upthread

(xp)

even if Antifa were involved, when Trump was asked "what about Governors stating that white supremacists were also involved", his security adviser basically said "nope, it was just Antifa"

which true, misinfo is spreading like wildfire, but it showed a refusal to accept that anybody but Antifa was involved.

fucking terrifying:

Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling “light em up” #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForGeorge #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/bW48imyt55

— Tanya Kerssen (@tkerssen) May 31, 2020

I've watched enough videos of looting to think that there is substantive anecdotal evidence that indeterminate groups of white people see these protests as an opportunity. However, right now the emphasis should be on the actions of a militarized police force violently attacking citizens throughout the country

Twitter “leftists” that aren’t from MN need to stop telling us that the boog nazi outsiders that are right here in front of our faces don’t exist.

shouldn't matter if they're citizens tbh xp

yes, absolutely

I have no doubt there are bad actors exploiting things as violently as possible

but the USA has always let such creatures off the chain. It was going on in Newark when I was a kindergartner in the late '60s.

you had nazis in your kindergarten class engaged in COINTELPRO?

I went to Grade K with Tony Soprano, essentially

Curfew in my county at 10 pm. Some protesters got tear gassed downtown last right.

I assume everyone say the footage of notorious white douche Youtube bro Jake Paul (brother of notorious white douche Youtube bro Logan Paul) looting a mall in AZ.

i hate the fucking Pauls so much

fighting with the cops in my family in facebook comments sucks ass! even though it's the least i can do, and i'll never complain about it again

i've been working on the more sympathetic white people I know that are falling for the "two wrongs don't make a right" narrative to see how it's bullshit and ask them that at least if they don't agree with it, could they maybe stfu about it, cos it's not helpful at all.

my mom would be one of those people falling for the narrative, not sure i convinced her

Tell them to stop virtue signalling about fucking Target, they'll get their damn insurance back George Floyds insurance doesn't cover shit

Wait, so Antifa will now be officially deemed a 'terrorist organization'? Fucking terrifying stuff.

we're all terrorists now

It's cool that Bernie + 9 other Dems passed up the chance to even marginally limit warrantless surveillance like a week ago.

another thing Trump nor federal government has any legal authority to do. he's just putting a target on their backs like the dog whistler he is.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-says-he-will-designate-antifa-terrorist-organization-gop-points-n1220321

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