Notice NBPA explores next step toward potentially boycotting games

Wasn’t interested in Bubble NBA once the Blazers were out anyway. It’s a fake season.

Should have just canceled it and tried to start over after Biden is elected in November and Covid and racial issues disappear for a while.

 

That comes in with training both for doctors and police, and better procedures too. Too many times police do what their taught to do or follow the guidelines given, they’re just bad guidelines.
I havent really dug into the statistics for doctors that much and this is obviously a thread about police.
So Im tying it back into a very tangible thing to me is more training, and better thought out guidelines and processes for working with the public.

 

dead people don't complain much

 

Their families complain plenty though.

 

hmm i think power of influence could do more damage.

but they are a party. Not in the political sense but they are a group of people doing the same thing.

there is no difference to me when a white person says and does nothing to another white person who is using racial slurs or harming an innocent person vs a cop not turning in thier own.
Its individual responsibility and if we truly want change then we ALL need to change. Not just some.
My opinions i like to think of as fairly open minded and swayable with valid and tangible evidence against it, but on this im pretty steadfast.

If we dont ALL change for the better there will be all out civil war because the right extremist will not allow forced change on them when its not equally instilled on all.
I know im now speaking beyond police and protestors but that will be the end result if we don't hold all accountable regardless of what group or activity or career someone may have.

 

not ignore it. Call them out? I never said get physical. But hell yeah shame them. Publicly and any way possible within the law?

 

that too, but i would do it with my camera on aNd depending on how bad it got, might be inclined to follow them to their car (the bigot) get their plates and post it aNd the episode. Hell. Maybe even follow them home and post their address.
Shits gotta stop aNd those types need to be shunned from society or shit will never change.

yes. Legally aNd constitutionally able to live here. But constantly being shamed.
Videos like this scenario, handed over to a media outlets, go viral and reporters will sit outside thier house looking to dig for more.


To me there isnt one answer. Its a multitude of ways that racism can be fought.
What im saying is racism will never cease as long as being condemned for bad behavior, or behavior disobedient to the law, isn't dealt with equally, just the same as everything else.
racist folk will use that as a pillar to form and pass down thier superior ideologies.

so just as much as the racial slur guy needs to be held accountable, so does the cop for firing 7 times...

but so does the victim for not following orders and not being compliant, forcing the officers to make a choice based on fear for thier life, once he reached in the vehicle.
This cannot be dismissed or it is feeding fuel to the fire of racism.

 

There's a big difference. You have no authority over that "white person." Police forces have authority over police.

I'm not white, I'm a big believer in systemic racism and I don't believe white people "have a responsibility for all other white people." That would be ridiculous. Like anything else, it's a good idea to model good behavior for friends and family and to have these discussions where you can but, aside from parents with children, white people don't have authority over other white people so it's an invalid comparison to police forces with their police officers.

 

I can even agree with this idea but the problem comes when they are on their knees with their hands behind their head and they still get beaten. Need i post the Rodney King beating? Should i post the multitudes of videos of groups of cops beating up a black man and eventually killing him? How about Video after video of Black men seemingly running for their lives while white officers open fire on them shooting them in the back because they were "In Fear For Their Lives"?
Black people simply don't feel comfortable in the presence of law enforcement any longer. In my humble opinion rightfully so.

 

There is a reason i stay out of the OT section.

 

Applicable here

 

Only once....

 

barfo?

 

The only idea in the media is defunding, without specifics. Defunding just means to transfer funds to local unarmed agencies to enforce the least dangerous part of policing. Let's get creative.

In addition to the obvious (hold the legal system to the same behavior standards high bar to which they hold us...also, make police unholster 2% as often as now):

Prosecutors won't prosecute police, and when they rarely do, it's a pretense to stall a year while the controlled media stops reporting the case, to make the public cool off.

Here's my idea. When a policeman kills someone, the Public Defender should become his Prosecutor. Anyone would be more motivated than the Prosecutor...just trying to find someone better to do the job.

The larger picture includes changing the selection process for lawyers, many of whom have a fascist robotic mindset, seeing human nature as the enemy. "The law is the law. I am way too overpaid to waste time on why it's the law. (snicker)" Bigger picture, state legislators...then Federal legislators...top of the pyramid, the FBI...Get this done by Tuesday.