Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

"NYPD are currently covering their badges in the name of covid19 while violently suppressing riots"

Thing is, it doesn't matter when it was posted, because it still means "NYPD are currently covering their badges in the name of covid19 while abusing and murdering black people".

i guess the question is if that's still the case in the current state of circumstances and that's absolutely worth asking because if it is the case holy fuck

i don't know how many of these stupid Soros’s bricks conspiracy theories I've seen but they are all stupid as fuck

That's why I was underscoring that point, I swear I saw photos on Twitter of NYPD with these bands on their badges during the protests.

i don't know how many of these stupid Soros’s bricks conspiracy theories I've seen but they are all stupid as fuck

A particular favorite of mine is that Antifa uses Soros money to pay for the bricks, which are manufactured by Warren Buffett but somehow the proceeds go to Bill Gates' vaccines.

popehat & friends should retweet those pics, then

xp

Sources say former officer Derek Chauvin, recorded on video kneeling on Floyd's neck as he begged for air on May 25, will now be charged with second-degree murder. Other three officers will be charged w/aiding and abetting second-degree murder. #GeorgeFloyd

— Ryan Faircloth (@RyanFaircloth) June 3, 2020

Anyone else ever consider that "Soros" is spelled the same way both forwards and backwards, just like "Satan?"

I've seen shitloads of photos with US police covering their badges. They do it over here, too. When they made up the excuse doesn't matter, the fact is that "we do it out of respect" is a terrible lie covering up abuse. I mean, that's also the reason it's been retweeted so much, it's such a fucking bad lie it's absurd.

Karl, I'm as against misinformation as you are, but this seems a really weird thing to get mad at. Calling out the NYPD for publicly stating their intention to cover up their badge numbers is totally legit in and of itself. It's not like he made this up whole cloth, he's tweeting the NYPD themselves!

honestly not mad (tone is hard to tell on the internet - but i'm just sitting here making little fart noises with my cheeks), just surprised others don't agree. oh well, it happens

"And for the first time ever, there is plurality support for Black Lives Matter among whites. The protests have been an amazing successful educational experience for white America. These results are updated daily."

— Markos Moulitsas

https://civiqs.com/results/black_lives_matter

there's a name I haven't etc

popehat is a somewhat-libertarian lawyer who mainly tackles free-speech issues (i think he's called ken white off of twitter)

Naomi Kritzer otmfm throughout that blog post linked about 30 posts above, including this about the white supremacist arsonists that came to Minneapolis:

So why aren’t the cops catching more of them? I think it’s because they don’t want to.

Got called "stupid" today by a white Christian QAnon follower who believes George Floyd is alive and hiding in a luxurious hotel.

Wearing that as a badge of honor.

Xpost they totally don't want to

Antifa, why are they so bad and hated

Antifa is an organization in the same way that "people who hate the Dave Mathews Band" is an organization

— somecommandante gizmo (@somegizmo) June 3, 2020

Lol otm

A particular favorite of mine is that Antifa uses Soros money to pay for the bricks, which are manufactured by Warren Buffett but somehow the proceeds go to Bill Gates' vaccines.

Turned on my TV this morning to find some woman, a representative of Republicans Overseas, claiming Antifa is being financed by Soros. I would hope people would complain to Ofcom about conspiracy theories being peddled on British television except it was on Channel 5, so there was probably like me and two other people watching.

xxp lol

Got called "stupid" today by a white Christian QAnon follower who believes George Floyd is alive and hiding in a luxurious hotel.

I've got people claiming he was a "Notorious Porn Star".

A particular favorite of mine is that Antifa uses Soros money to pay for the bricks,

I read this as "A particular favorite of mine is that Antifa uses Soros money to pay for the drinks..."

Was the woman Sarah Elliott?

SOROS BUY US NEGRONIS

Satan backwards is NATAS and yep, I am now craving about a dozen of those lovely Portuguese custard tarts.

SOROS BUY US NEGRONIS, PANAMA, excellent palindrome.

I agree with Karl, I assumed this was tweeted by the NYPD this week as a deliberate "fuck you there will be no accountability" statement and it has a different color as something posted a month ago.

I'm all for Soros paying for drinks, that's one conspiracy I can get behind.

lolol @dmb

SOTO BUY US NEGRONIS

iirc antifa hasn't even dumped its shit in the chicago river (yet)

antifa knows better than to poop on the bus.

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/derek-chauvin-to-be-charged-with-2nd-degree-murder-3-other-officers-charged?fbclid=IwAR0KxMK4gtp_fXrOuipLMHZ8E35pgFdqB12ZMVyteSu40xGAOUgmkHADgXk

sicsignal activated

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Pretty sure DMB haters are far more organized

After pissandshitgate, how can you blame them

Dave Matthews = literally Hitler confirmed.

You shit on your fans, they're gonna throw hands

Mysterious pile of bricks found by the the stage

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is moving toward severing its longtime relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department because the death of #GeorgeFloyd has "severely undermined community trust ... and sense of safety." https://t.co/SZfME5Hr74

— Star Tribune (@StarTribune) June 3, 2020

The dominoes fall.. awesome

I agree with Karl, I assumed this was tweeted by the NYPD this week as a deliberate "fuck you there will be no accountability" statement and it has a different color as something posted a month ago.

Oh I don't disagree at all about how tweeting it this week would be an extra layer of callousness and "fuck you" energy, but I still don't see the issue with calling out the PD for every and any fucking way they try to avoid culpability and accountability.

SOROS BUY US NEGRONIS

The left-wing conspiracy is so vast, it has black people willingly selling themselves back into slavery

I am getting sick of bad info myself. I'm a fan of "good looking out", but things go from "hey this is something I heard, can someone verify" into a "HEY GUYS, THIS IS A THING THAT IS DEFINITELY HAPPENING, WATCH OUT".

like the piles of bricks, which in most cases are tied to construction. not that I trust the police at all but don't wanna flood people with too many land mines to watch out for and have them miss the obvious one in front of them.

xxxpost

There was a pretty decent Buzzfeed article I saw where they debunked 10 or so of the "mystery pile of bricks" photos from Twitter. For the most part they were all eventually tied back to construction projects or, in one case, piles of bricks that a private business had put for "security" before the protests started (which they subsequently removed, realizing they weren't a good idea).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUdbH83N4Kw

^ Verified by a friend of a cousin of a barber of my next-door-neighbor's dog.