George Floyd and Minneapolis Police UoF - Rioting

[ABNAK]

Even if they're using "less lethal" this is a great way to get people to start shooting back.

Yep, and if I was on the subsequent jury I'd announce NOT GUILTY as soon as I walked into the jury room.

That city needs to be taken over by the Feds and completely restructured. Almost like a modern-day Reconstruction.

I have never, and I mean never, seen such a doubling down on stupidity and general asshole-ness.

[Diamondback]

That city needs to be taken over by the Feds and completely restructured. Almost like a modern-day Reconstruction.

Could be said of ALL deep-Blue cities and states. Problem is, you can't teach those who are unwilling to learn, and the reforms of Reconstruction only lasted as long as there were bayonets ready to enforce them...

[OH58D]

Interesting video of Minneapolis PD doing a residential street sweep, and shooting non-lethal projectiles at people on their own front porch. In my case, it would be a cup of Sunday Morning coffee at my own house sitting on the porch. Looks to be some amped up officers this morning:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266921821653385225

[Uni-Vibe]

George Floyd funeral will be in Houston. Might be a mess.

[marco.g]

When this whole thing started my one question to myself was how will the state/police rebuild the lost trust and fix their relationship with citizens. (Like that Seattle cop who got fired).

Now - I’m not so sure it’s even possible.

[jpmuscle]

When this whole thing started my one question to myself was how will the state/police rebuild the lost trust and fix their relationship with citizens. (Like that Seattle cop who got fired).

Now - I’m not so sure it’s even possible.

Seems like a moot point when a substantial segment of the population is incapable of living within a contemporary western society.


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[marco.g]

Seems like a moot point when a substantial segment of the population is incapable of living within a contemporary western society.


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Basically.

Stay frosty everyone

[jsbhike]

Okay, those two words I have an issue with. This is 2020, not 1865 or 1965. Thanks to Affirmative Action (basically "reverse discrimination", if there is such a thing) and the perpetual whiners, blacks have quite a few advantages these days that whites don't. Sorry, I'm not going to excuse the environment of your shitty upbringing for your perceived grievances. Get over it. You're not a slave, I'm not a slave owner. You were never made to sit in the back of the bus or use a separate restroom.....the folks that were are in their 70's and 80's and aren't out there in the streets showing their ass. Wanna protest what happened? Go for it, because in this case you're spot on and it's your Constitutional right to do so. But don't expect me to "understand" your never-ending ghetto victim mentality. Birds of a feather and all that.

Let me reiterate: that POS cop should go to prison. His buddies there on scene should, at a minimum, be fired if not also prosecuted as accessories. What happened was WRONG. That said, what is happening across the country now is also WRONG, and I'll not buy any bullshit "woe is me" stories to make excuses for it. (not saying you, 26 Inf, are suggesting so)

26 Inf really had a good point with that.

They (and I assume most of us here) are under represented in that we aren't associates of someone connected.

The oppressed part. While not on the same level as nations where genocides have occured in the last 100+ years or current 3rd world crap, there is certainly evidence that there is intent. The last few month are particularly indicative of that.

I have mentioned before, groups tend to ignore, accept, or support abuse from one of their own while being outraged by the same behavior from someone outside their circle. An easy one is black outrage over white on black slavery in the New World, particularly the last 5 years of it. Never mentioned is the black on black slavery in Africa before, during, and after, up to the present day or that there was black on black slavery in the New World with colonial slave owner #1 being a black man. Happens with any group. Allegedly someone can claim to be pro 2nd Amendment, but if they are Republican and a member of their party commits an anti 2nd Amendment action it is crickets or excuses while they would go apeshit screaming foul over a democrat(not their team) committing the exact same offense.

[Uni-Vibe]

Indeed. History is complex.

When the pale-faces made the Cherokee march a thousand miles to Oklahoma in the "Trail of Tears," it was certainly a genocidal death-march.

But some of the Cherokee owned black slaves, and took them along with them.

Who was the victim, and who the oppressor?

[Evel Baldgui]

Interesting video of Minneapolis PD doing a residential street sweep, and shooting non-lethal projectiles at people on their own front porch. Looks to be some amped up officers this morning:
video]https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266921821653385225[/video]

"amped up" ??? Looks more like FEAR driven. Also, neighborhood doesn't appear to be a center of unrest, go where the riots are, not soccer mom town. Sorry this is bullshit.