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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 8, 2020, 3:03 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOLwsQSLM0Q
Months of peaceful protests have not changed police attitudes in
the slightest, which is pretty much what I predicted. Firearms
are needed to bring change.
#Post#: 731--------------------------------------------------
Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 11, 2020, 3:58 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/mother-shares-video-armed-police-214209582.html
--- Quote ---
> Mother shares video of armed police surrounding black son
after they assumed he was attacker when teen called 911
> ...
> The 11-minute video started as two police officers pointed
handguns at Ms Collins’ son, but within a minute one of their
colleagues, who was holding what appeared to be a semi-automatic
rifle, arrived and pointed it at him while he held his hands in
the air.
>
> Bystanders could be seen shouting at the officers, and they
attempted to get the police to drop their weapons by telling
them that the teenagers had done nothing wrong and were the ones
who had been attacked.
>
> While the bystanders attempted to explain to the police that
the teenagers had defended themselves, one of officers shouted:
“Get away from me!” and “back up!”
>
> Two minutes into the video, one of the teenagers could be seen
on his knees being handcuffed by an officer, while his colleague
pointed a handgun at the back of his head.
>
> “Just keep your hands up. It’ll be over soon,” one bystander
shouted as a second teenager was arrested, while another said:
“They don’t care because (they’re) black,” repeatedly, as the
authorities arrested the teenagers.
--- End Quote ---
More evidence that the BLM protests so far are nowhere near
sending a strong enough message.
#Post#: 758--------------------------------------------------
Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: guest5
Date: August 12, 2020, 8:15 pm
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Americans' confidence in police falls to historic low, Gallup
poll shows
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> Americans' confidence in the police fell to the lowest level
recorded by Gallup in the nearly 30 years it has been tracking
such data, driven in part by a growing racial divide on the
issue.
>
> About 48% of Americans said they have a "great deal" or "quite
a lot" of confidence in police, down from 53% the previous year
and an all-time high of 64% in 2004, according to a Gallup poll
released Wednesday.
>
> The poll was done in the weeks after George Floyd was killed
by a white Minneapolis police officer sparking a protest
movement against police brutality and systemic racism across the
country. Gallup began tracking the question in 1993, the year
after the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles.
>
> "Pretty much since the beginning we’ve always seen a gap in
confidence in police between Black and white Americans," said
Jeff Jones, Gallup senior editor.
>
> The racial divide on the question, which has been growing for
years, reached its largest point in 2020: 56% of white adults
say they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in
the police, while just 19% of Black adults say the same.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/12/631671/Americans-confidence-in-police-falls-to-historic-low
Considering Americans are giving up their US citizenship at
record pace I think it's safe to say many American's confidence
in the U.S. on most issues is at a historic low. Do these
rightists ever stop to consider what happens to a nation state
when the entire population becomes completely demoralized? Of
course not. This is how you know most rightists and
false-leftists should never have been considered statesmen to
begin with, much less ever having been allowed any where near a
government position.
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 15, 2020, 3:18 pm
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HTML https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-georgia-trooper-charged-with-murder-after-20200814-i33p23pha5bsppjeezg6r4oxia-story.html
--- Quote ---
> Georgia state trooper charged with murder of Black man over
‘busted tail light’
> ...
> Jacob Gordon Thompson, 27, chased down Julian Edward Roosevelt
Lewis, 60, in rural Screven County, before unloading one round,
according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
>
> Lewis was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
Riding in a Nissan Sentra, he had led Thompson on a brief chase,
according to the GBI.
>
> “Mr. Lewis never got out of the vehicle and the investigation
will show that, mere seconds after the crash, he was shot to
death, shot in the face and killed,” said Francys Johnson, a
lawyer for the family, according to The Associated Press.
--- End Quote ---
As I find myself having to say over and over again recently,
months of peaceful protests have changed nothing. If you want
change, use of firearms is required. Just lugging the firearms
around like NFAC does while never using them is not going to
work either.
#Post#: 818--------------------------------------------------
Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 17, 2020, 1:16 am
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Even the ones used for official PR are no better than the rest:
HTML https://news.yahoo.com/cop-hero-one-viral-video-154111081.html
--- Quote ---
> Bobby White
> ...
> The video — posted online by the Police Department afterward
and seen by millions of viewers — was a moment of hope in an age
where recordings of police brutality were the ones going viral.
White became a celebrity, the “Basketball Cop” of Gainesville,
Florida.
> ...
> Chanae Jackson, a real estate agent who was born in
Gainesville, has a different understanding of policing in the
city. Her son had a troubling encounter with law enforcement in
2018, and she became a vocal critic of the department. This May,
someone sent her a different video of White: A cellphone
recording of him slamming a Black teenager into the hood of his
patrol car.
> ...
> Jackson had just received the call she said she had feared
since moving back to Gainesville, where she grew up. Her
18-year-old son, Keyon Young, was on the other line, and
officers from the sheriff’s department had pulled his car over
for allegedly speeding and told him to get out.
>
> Dashcam footage released by the sheriff’s department showed
what happened next. Two white officers rush toward Young’s
Volvo. One pulls open the door and shouts, “Exit the vehicle or
you’re going to jail.” Both officers then lunge into the car.
There’s a brief struggle and one officer steps back to point his
weapon at Young’s head.
> ...
> A judge later cleared Young of the speeding charge.
> ...
> As the criticism mounted, White dug in. He posted an article
from the far-right website Breitbart News decrying “those
smearing every police officer,” and another item about recent
crime in Chicago, saying there was too little focus on
“Black-on-Black” crime.
--- End Quote ---
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 17, 2020, 11:48 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNnHGPZCxNc
#Post#: 846--------------------------------------------------
Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 19, 2020, 2:00 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsGlxnjPLW8
#Post#: 895--------------------------------------------------
Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 23, 2020, 11:16 pm
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HTML https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-cair-arizona-demand-criminal-probe-firing-of-officers-involved-in-2017-killing-of-black-muslim-man/
HTML https://www.cair.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/screenshot-www.facebook.com-2020.08.21-12_48_21.png
--- Quote ---
> (PHOENIX, AZ, 8/21/2020) – The Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR) and its Arizona chapter (CAIR-Arizona) today
demanded a transparent and independent criminal investigation
and the firing of officers involved in the 2017 killing of
Muhammad Muhaymin Jr., a Black Muslim man.
>
> Newly-revealed body camera video shows 43-year-old Muhaymin
pinned down by Phoenix police officers, with one officer putting
his knee on Muhaymin’s neck in a manner similar to the killing
of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn.
>
> In the video, Muhaymin can be heard saying “I can’t breathe”
many times. “Please, Allah,” Muhaymin says in the video. “Allah?
He’s not going to help you right now,” one of the officers
responds. An officer off camera is heard saying: “I don’t feel a
pulse.” Another officer responds, “Oh, he’s dead,” before
turning off his camera.
>
> None of the officers involved in Muhaymin’s death have ever
been arrested or charged. All are still employed by the Phoenix
Police Department.
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#Post#: 898--------------------------------------------------
Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 24, 2020, 2:08 pm
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HTML https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/23/white-kenosha-wisconsin-cop-shoots-unarmed-black-man-seven-times/<br
/>(video included at link)
Why was the victim unarmed in times like these?
And what about the guy recording the video? If you can record a
video, you have a clear line of sight, which means you can shoot
back at the shooter.
And again, what good is the NFAC with all their firearms which
are never actually used?
#Post#: 901--------------------------------------------------
Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: guest5
Date: August 24, 2020, 6:32 pm
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As you have pointed out many times, and which I hope is clear to
all leftists by now, protest signs and riots will not end the
murder of people of color by "whites" and rightist types, nor
will changes in policing policies.
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