Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

i fear a coordinated, larger assault during one of these protests also. it's going to happen at least once before the election. i've thought about it every time i've gone marching or been in a crowd with political leanings

I've been worried about that ever since Charlottesville.

we have nobody to fan the flames so gotta stay alive as long as we can. sadly I feel that protesters should have escape routes planned at the protest when possible. sad that it's come to not being able to trust police to actually protect you from armed assailants but.....we just can't.

s/fan/douse

Beth: "They are a cancer to our society."

similar to Michael Flynn: "This is Islamism, it is a vicious cancer inside the body of 1.7 billion people on this planet and it has to be excised."

there's banal fascism and there's extremely fucking overt fascism

Avoiding the news today, but has anyone made the extremely obvious but infuriating point that the RNC just gave a national platform to a pair of assholes whose only claim to fame is pointing guns at BLM protestors?

Beth was just on TV and said nothing about the kid killing two people.

is he getting a speaking slot at the RNC or is he too young?

for non-sports knowers the Bucks and magic are in discussions to sit out their game tonite

...game is being sat out by the bucks at least

Raptors and Celtics are discussing the same thing.

Apparently the Bucks still haven't come to the court. Magic were warming up, but then they all returned to their locker room about 4 minutes before the scheduled tip-off.

two more games tonight with Oklahoma City/Houston and Lakers/Portland; i imagine what Lebron chooses tonight to do or not do could potentially shut down the playoffs.

All of today's games have officially been postponed.

that is great.

"Sports are the reward of a functioning society."

-- @janesports

It would seem the Bucks understand that better than many elected officials, if not most of them. https://t.co/3EIGlNXj0i

— Charlotte Clymer 🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) August 26, 2020

Brewers players are meeting in 10 minutes to discuss the status of their game against the Reds tonight.

— Adam McCalvy (@AdamMcCalvy) August 26, 2020

It's hilarious to see all the MAGA chuds (who allegedly already quit watching the NBA at least three times now over their BLM support) flipping the fuck out about their sports going away.

because underneath their bluster, they're weak, powerless fucks who for the last 4 years, have been used to getting their way.

i want to bottle their tears and then wash my asshole with them

they didn't move to Canada either time Obama won, and they create teary-eyed videos when they get fired for posting vids of themselves uttering racial epithets, they're professional victims minus the paycheck.

half expect if the NFL players actually pulled off a coup and held out their season in similar fashion, they'd be picketing outside the empty stadiums for two weeks and be screaming for an executive order that football needs to be played.

they didn't move to Canada Hungary either time Obama won

FTFY

brewers will not play tonight, which i find kind of stunning!

wow, yeah.

yeah, very surprised to see an MLB team do that (but good for them)

They haven’t really shown up the first 25 games why start now

Sorry I know this isn’t the thread for sports grousing but they just got swept by the fucking Pirates

BuzzFeed finds the teenage Kenosha murder suspect in the front row of a Trump 2020 rally. https://t.co/64dSSk00Oc pic.twitter.com/5kEs4Ck0R4

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 26, 2020

lol frogbs

Oh no Minneapolis please chill

how do you just say the words "I just killed somebody" without feeling any of the gravity of those words.

frogs that is a quality roast

Well this couldn't be any more on the goddamn nose

Kenosha shooting suspect is a former member of a youth police cadet program, Illinois police say

abolish the police

this is what the future looks like to you guys?

https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-st-paul-buildings-are-damaged-looted-after-george-floyd-protests-riots/569930671/?refresh=true

that's what july 13 looks like to me

No, that's the present you dummy.

lol, xp

I feel horrible for those mom and pop places that were hit and hope their insurance and gov't aid cover all of their losses. And for all of the people in those neighborhoods that depended on the services/goods/employment of places that were hit. That said, it feels like the reporters should've been more specific/selective when mapping building and property damage. Barnes and Noble getting tagged up shouldn't really be in the same conversation.

The future looks like a place where riots and destruction wouldn't need to happen to get the attention of a state apparatus that wantonly murders portions of its populace through both active and passive means. 735 people have been murdered by police this year, and 180000 have died of a virus, and you're worried about the smooth flow of capitalism? Go fuck yourself.

My friend:

Let me give an OMG to information learned from an editorial meeting this afternoon that the Internet is creating a narrative that the Kenosha shooter as some kind of hero who was pursued by thugs for no reason. DO NOT BELIEVE THIS. I WAS THERE. He shot those two guys in front of me, one who is dead and the other who lost an arm because it was shred by his firing. He was being pursued by a crowd because he shot someone in the head one block away and was running in the direction of the police. He shot the other two because he tripped and fell. I give up. The Internet + hate + profiteering is destroying factual certainty. I am so disgusted.
** I know people want me to make this shareable but Post reporters, particularly me since I was alone there the first two days, are being trolled hard right now on Twitter by people who say we weren't there and our reporting is fabricated, etc. It would be an insult to even respond. The homicide detectives interviewed me and three other journalists who were there, so it's on record. UGH.

The conservative social media narrative quickly went from him being attacked by a brandished pistol and skateboard to hoards of Molotov cocktails.

So it's refreshing to hear an actual eyewitness account of the cowardice.

If you look at accounts the night of, all those assholes with guns were already spreading rumors of pipe bombs and other apparent bullshit. So it's come full circle.

Sorry for Daily Beast,but according to the criminal complaint, the thing thrown at Rittenhouse was a plastic fucking bag: https://www.thedailybeast.com/teen-vigilante-kyle-rittenhouse-killed-unarmed-kenosha-protester-who-threw-plastic-bag-at-him-court-docs-say

Also, Wisconsin does not have Stand Your Ground, just Castle Doctrine (which doesn't apply here).

Yesterday I kept seeing a recurring conservative comment meme that one of the dead men was a sex offender or something.

considering they only released the identity of them yesterday, either they are very fast on the uptake or outright lying

there is a girl on my FB who is absolutely lionizing this guy and it's disgusting

and yes part of it is that 'he shot a registered sex offender' though looking at the details it looks like a charge from 2002 or so, when the guy was 18?

I've been hesitant to say that fascism has arrived in the USA, but it seems like your brownshirts are now active & that's the key to fascism as far as I'm concerned.

xpost Castle Doctrine, or Mars Cheese Castle Doctrine?

I mean it's not legal to execute sex offenders no matter when the charges are from, so idk what that candy-corn brain is going on about