OT Black Man In Minnesota Dies After Cop Kneels On His Neck/ Portland Riots

Meth

 

The protests continue, to my surprise. Everyone is unemployed anyway, fuck it!

 

What was she, a human shield? She stood in front of everyone else with a few others in the line of fire.

 

Sure do remember and I agreed 100% with him.

 

Can someone please explain to me how there's a movement to "defund the police"? Is this Russia again? Because I can't for the life of me understand how one can both have the mental capacity to say "defund" yet also think law enforcement isn't a necessity in any civilized society. Where am I? What is happening?

 

I think its a few things. There are certainly anarchists that would just rather have no laws or law enforcement. I think thats a minority (maybe not).
I think what many are saying is police budgets are excessive, and that money could be going towards better social programs to help urban communities, which could in turn make it so less police are needed.
Then there is what some would call police reform, which is re-evaluate what the police departments are doing, make their “reach” less, give them power of less situations.

Its strange to read people’s social media from like a month ago begging for basically a police state and people to not be allowed outside due to covid and literal posts about police should be forcing people to stay inside. To now some of the same people are saying we shouldnt have police.

Its an interesting situation...

 

See sly, this doesn't play for me. Tweets just fine though.

 

I'm on my laptop. Doesn't on my phone either.

 

I'll try although I'm suspicious of your approach

what reform movements are running up against, and reform movements are broad and far reaching, is the entrenched obstinate power of the police, their unions, and the systems. Police have immunity protections nobody else has. And a policemen on trial is afforded legal protections nobody else has. Even bad cops are extremely hard to weed out of lots of police departments

the problem is we have gone down the road of putting the police above the law for too long. They are too protected from scrutiny and too sheltered from oversight. The laws are warped in their favor and so is the system

and police almost never cooperate with even common sense reforms.

It's a fucking impasse, and the pile of black corpses just keeps getting bigger. People are pissed off, and rather than beat their heads against the blue stone wall for years and years, some are thinking it would be easier just to dismantle the walls and start over. To go back to the idea of "serve and protect" and abandon the mindset of "light em up"

for instance, if the Minneapolis police department continues to be unresponsive to the city government, and the police there have been beyond unresponsive, then why should the city keep paying the salaries of the unresponsive police?

I think it's probably too simplistic a solution, but for damn sure, the police seem way too insulated and powerful collectively. And thses protests have shown the brutality of many police departments and the disdain they have for the people they serve

 

by the way, all the 'opposition' and criticism of the police isn't happening in a vacuum.

not only are there dozens of video of police brutality, not to mention trump's fucking photo op...

now, Minnesota cops have admitted to massive vandalism in a tire-slashing orgy they engaged in:

https://www.motherjones.com/anti-ra...lashing-car-tires-at-protests-in-minneapolis/

https://www.startribune.com/officer...parked-during-mpls-protests-unrest/571105692/

the police have done more damage the last couple of weeks than antifa