George Floyd death

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scudsucker said:
What I see is well trained cops defusing the situation.

Those cops may or may not care about BLM but they do care about doing their jobs properly. Their job is to disburse the crowd as peacefully as possible. If kneeling helps prevent a riot, then get down on your knee.
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Watch the video in the article link.
 
TysonRoux said:
Hopeful that Minneapolis policing will change? Meet the police union's chief ...

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Donald Trump shakes hands with Bob Kroll, head of the Minneapolis police union, during a campaign rally.

Bob Kroll, who described George Floyd as a ‘violent criminal’, has a history of resisting any reform of a department with a history of racial abuse


Amid the worst civil unrest in the US in half a century, there have been notably few Americans willing to speak up on behalf of the man who lit the fuse: Derek Chauvin, the now former police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

The video of Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes seems too clear cut and painful to try to make excuses.

Step forward Bob Kroll, leader of the Minneapolis police union. Kroll wrote to his members this week describing Floyd as a “violent criminal”, because he did prison time, in an apparent attempt to imply Chauvin’s treatment of the unarmed man being arrested on suspicion of a non-violent minor crime was legitimate. The union chief also described those protesting over Floyd’s death as terrorists, and the dismissal of Chauvin and three other officers facing charges as depriving them of their rights.


A former Minneapolis police chief, Janeé Harteau, who battled Kroll in attempting to reform a department with a long history of racial abuse, quickly hit back, saying he was unfit to be a police officer and calling on him to resign from the force.

“A disgrace to the badge! This is the battle that myself and others have been fighting against. Bob Kroll turn in your badge!” she wrote on Twitter.

That will not have bothered Kroll. By Harteau’s own admission, the union chief is in many ways more powerful than the police chief in Minneapolis – as is the case in many other cities across the US.
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How does the head of a union change how policing is done...? Are we now looking for the thinnest connection to Trump to blame him for this? So it's not the fault of the Democrat mayor who chooses the police chief, in the Democrat city, with a Democrat governor, in a Democrat state.

Instead its the Republican union boss who shook hands with Trump...?
 
scudsucker said:
No, I am not.
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Then I don't understand, either they participate in the #TakeTheKnee campaign or they don't. It is a campaign hosted by Stand Up To Racism,

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Just to add to the people taking the knee in the UK, it is a campaign by Stand Up To Racism as per their latest article,

At 6pm on Wednesday 3 June, tens of thousands joined Stand up to Racism’s call for people to “take the knee” on their doorsteps to say Black Lives Matter and demand justice for George Floyd.

Over 25 thousand tweets used the hashtag #taketheknee, with many posting pictures of their households and workplaces with home made signs. #TakeTheKnee trended number one on Twitter, and following its success #TakeTheKnee is now going to be a weekly event every Wednesday 6pm.

Those taking part yesterday included The Fire Brigade service, with many watches joining together to take the knee outside their fire station. Singers Paloma Faith and Bronnie also tweeted to show their support for the action.

The day of action also saw local Stand Up To Racism groups hold strictly socially distanced protests to express solidarity with the movement for justice for George Floyd, and to raise the call for an independent public inquiry into the disproportionate BAME deaths due to Covid-19.

The action to take the knee is inspired by American quarterback Colin Kaepernick bending to one knee during the National Anthem in 2016 to draw attention to racial injustice and police brutality, and expresses solidarity with the movement in Minneapolis, across the US and around the world, with thousands protesting their anger at institutionalised racism and police brutality here in Britain.

Campaigners hope that the thousands joining in with yesterday’s protest are inspired to join urgent campaigns to address institutional racism, including in Britain the disproportionate impactof Covid-19, and the fact that BAME communities are 54 per cent more likely to be fined under coronavirus rules.

Police brutality is also a pressing concern in the UK as the recent tasering by police of Desmond Ziggy Mombeyarara in Greater Manchester shows.

An independent public inquiry into the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on BAME communities is a central demand of many, and Diane Abbott MP has submitted an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons to that effect. Concerns have also been raised about the premature easing of the lockdown leading to a second wave of coronavirus infections, which could further disproportionately impact on BAME communities.

Click here to JOIN Stand Up To Racism – more than ever we need a strong, united and fighting anti racist movement to end the hostile environment and take on institutional racism.
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See the hashtag live on Twitter -> https://twitter.com/search?q=#TakeTheKnee&src=typed_query

I would say sincerity is a requirement when taking the knee. Yes, the protest is called take the knee, but the protesters are clearly heard calling on bending the knee. This shouldn't become a doctrine.

You know, to take the knee and to bend the knee are two separate acts.
 
scudsucker said:
the Peterloo Massacre which has shaped the choices and decisions made by UK police in action against civilians for many years.
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Maybe a little pedantic, but the Peterloo massacre wasn't a police action, it was a military action, involving a cavalry charge.
 
Trumps driveway got re-coated

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D.C. Mayor Bowser has 'Black Lives Matter' painted on street leading to White House
The act was intended to honor protesters who had peacefully assembled earlier this week.

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District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday had "Black Lives Matter" painted on the street that leads to the White House where protesters have been demonstrating following George Floyd’s death in police custody.

"There are people who are craving to be heard and to be seen, and to have their humanity recognized, and we had the opportunity to send that message loud and clear on a very important street in our city," Bowser said at a press conference. "And it is that message, and that message is to the American people, that Black Lives Matter black humanity matters, and we as a city raise that up as part of our values as a city,"


The mayor said that the people who painted it were from the D.C. Public Works department.

"There was a dispute this week about whose street this is," John Falcicchio, chief of staff for Bowser, a Democrat, said earlier in a tweet. "Mayor Bowser wanted to make it abundantly clear that this is DC's street and to honor demonstrators who (were) peacefully protesting on Monday evening."


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