George Floyd death

[cerebus]

It was posted by someone else days ago, but sollies brain can't handle that different people can post things.

Oh I didn't see

 

[Tokolotshe]

I never posted that incident before

It was posted by someone else days ago, but sollies brain can't handle that different people can post things.

At least I have one. It took you long enough with no comeback.

 

[EADC]

Oh I didn't see

Hard to keep up thread moves quickly.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

White people don't "get" the victim card

Gee, could have fooled me...

 

[Emjay]

Gee, could have fooled me...

Curious.

Where have white people played the victim?

 

[OrbitalDawn]

We are the victims say the guys dishing out beatings

Very useful to note how they react at the slightest hint of accountability. They've gotten used to being above the law and like it that way.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Fears of violence as far-Right thugs plan to 'defend' London statues

Police fear far-Right thugs could descend on the capital this weekend to take on anti-racism protesters. Football hooligans are planning counter-protests to 'defend' memorials.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I will just sit here with my . When the authorities demonstrably fail to protect key parts of Britain's heritage by left-wing loons, then you are asking for conflict from the extremist fringe of the other side.

This thread is instructive:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1270711803597615111

Since when do they need that as an excuse?

Curious.

Where have white people played the victim?

Raptor et al.'s near endless diaper-filling in this thread, for example.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

They both are very violent. You won't understand the levels of violence in these areas as this is not a public issue, so media does not push it. When policing is stretched or reduced, crime spikes. You would think these issues would be front and center for organisations like BLM, but they are not. Instead, they push these racial narratives that drive more hate, which perpetuates these cycles even more.

How many seconds can it take to Google this and see that yes, indeed, there are an insane amount of media coverage of Chicago's crime problem? Why do you push such obvious falsehoods? It's really weird.

And if anything, Chicago shows how the model of policing doesn't necessarily work to reduce crime. Bizarre that you think it shows the opposite.

Also:

Nearly 60 percent of guns recovered in Chicago come from out-of-state dealers, with more than 20 percent traced back to Indiana, according to a newly released report on the city’s violence.

The 2017 Gun Trace Report released Sunday also showed that nearly a quarter of the guns recovered in Chicago were sold by just ten federally licensed firearms dealers (seven in Illinois and three in northwest Indiana).

 

[TysonRoux]

Rednecks selling NASCAR season tickets real cheap.
NASCAR driver to race with Black Lives Matter themed car
NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace announced he plans to race a car with a paint scheme dedicated to the Black Lives Matter

More rednecks will be selling their season tickets.

NASCAR bans Confederate flags at events and properties

NASCAR will no longer allow the Confederate flag to be displayed at events and properties, according to a statement this afternoon.

“The presence of the confederate flag at NASCAR events runs contrary to our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all fans, our competitors and our industry. Bringing people together around a love for racing and the community that it creates is what makes our fans and sport special. The display of the confederate flag will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties," the statement said.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Thread is nearly up to 450 now, including just wanton violence.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1270574117234884609

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Recall that incident where cops, using an illegal warrant, barged into an EMT's house and killed her?

This is the incident report. Note how it's basically empty and contains obvious falsehoods, like saying it wasn't forced entry when they used a battering ram to break the door down.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1270790723114283008

 

[TysonRoux]

Trump refuses to rename military bases named after confederate generals

'I don't believe there's systemic racism in the US,' Larry Kudlow, a tope White House aide, told reporters

Trump refuses to rename military bases named after confederate generals

'I don't believe there's systemic racism in the US,' Larry Kudlow, a tope White House aide, told reporters

www.independent.co.uk

Donald Trump rejected calls to rename US military bases named after confederate generals in the midst of ongoing social unrest after the death of George Floyd while in police custody.


"The United States of America trained and deployed our HEROES on these Hallowed Grounds, and won two World Wars. Therefore, my Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations," the president tweeted a day after some military leaders said they were open to the idea.


"It has been suggested that we should rename as many as 10 of our Legendary Military Bases, such as Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Benning in Georgia, etc.," Mr Trump wrote. "These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage, and a......history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom."


Mr Trump, who has been accused of taking a far-right stance in the wake of Mr Floyd's death under the knee of a white police officer, did not mention some black Americans' feelings that such base names conjure hurtful memories of slavery in America.


He summoned the day's press pool at the White House for a late-afternoon event on race relations that was not on his public schedule, but refused to answer questions about his opposition to renaming the bases.

His top press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said her boss "fervently" is against new names for the bases, saying it would be an "insult" to fallen troops to rename the bases.


One reason is because "the last piece" of US soil many fallen American military troops sa before dying in battle was at bases named after confederate generals.

Newsdeck: U.S.-Polish Fort Trump project crumbles

Poland's grand proposal in 2018 to name a military base in honor of Donald Trump, in return for the U.S. president placing a permanent presence there, has crumbled amid disputes over how to fund the deployment and where to garrison the soldiers, sources say.

www.dailymaverick.co.za

U.S.-Polish Fort Trump project crumbles

By Reuters• 10 June 2020

Poland's grand proposal in 2018 to name a military base in honor of Donald Trump, in return for the U.S. president placing a permanent presence there, has crumbled amid disputes over how to fund the deployment and where to garrison the soldiers, sources say.

Fort Trump appears to have fallen.


A U.S. official familiar with the matter said the idea had been doomed from the start: “There is no Fort Trump.”


On June 12 last year, Trump agreed, with Polish President Andrzej Duda beside him at the White House, to send 1,000 more troops to his NATO ally, bolstering its defenses against Russia to the east and cementing bilateral ties.



Many officials called the project “Fort Trump”, although the name was never official, and the idea of building a new base for the troops was soon dropped.


A year on, government officials in Washington and Warsaw say they still cannot agree where the troops should be stationed, and how much of the multi-billion-dollar deployment Warsaw should fund.


Poland wants to put them close to its eastern border with Russia’s ally Belarus, but on past form this is certain to antagonize Russia, and Washington would prefer to deploy them further west, the officials said.


Warsaw initially talked of contributing $2 billion, already a challenge now that the coronavirus has dented its economy, but the United States wants it to pay more, the officials added.


Then there is the legal status of U.S. troops permanently stationed in Poland for the first time; currently, around 4,500 troops are regularly rotated through.


Washington wants enhanced legal immunity, for example in situations where U.S. troops are accused of crimes on Polish soil, but Poland is balking.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

With a straight face, presumably, Trump's press secretary said Trump worked really hard on this statement:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1270789816314183680

He cites military bases named after Confederate generals, then says they're part of a history of "Winning, Victory and Freedom", then rambles on about World War 2 (?!).

The Confederacy, famous for winning and fighting for freedom, and for fighting in WW2.

 

[RanzB]

New York lawmakers vote to repeal 50-a, making police disciplinary records public

The bill passed along party lines in the Senate, 40-22, with all Republicans voting against the measure. The Assembly approved the measure 101-43 Tuesday evening, also along party lines.

The party of accountability, responsibility and transparency actively votes against and fights against accountability, responsibility and transparency.

Shocking.

 

[vigras rojara]

With a straight face, presumably, Trump's press secretary said Trump worked really hard on this statement:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1270789816314183680

He cites military bases named after Confederate generals, then says they're part of a history of "Winning, Victory and Freedom", then rambles on about World War 2 (?!).

The Confederacy, famous for winning and fighting for freedom, and for fighting in WW2.

"Fort Bonespur" could be a cool new name.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

New York lawmakers vote to repeal 50-a, making police disciplinary records public




The party of accountability, responsibility and transparency actively votes against and fights against accountability, responsibility and transparency.

Shocking.

Republicans making it clear where they stand.

In Tennessee they voted to keep a bust in the capitol and public holiday honouring Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general, war criminal, slave trader and first Grand Wizard of the KKK.

 

[TysonRoux]

Oh cry me a river. What do you want Trump to do more than he has already done to push the conservative/right wing agenda in the US? Crackdown on immigration? Check. Push conservative judges in Supreme Courts and other lifetime tenures? Check. Slash taxes for the wealthy? Check. Attempt to disband Obamacare? Check. Push for religion in schools? Check.

Didn't go his way with this one.

US court blocks Trump’s effort to deport teenage immigrant

Case challenges Trump administration’s expulsion of hundreds of immigrant children at border citing the coronavirus.

www.aljazeera.com

US court blocks Trump's effort to deport teenage immigrant

Case challenges Trump administration's expulsion of hundreds of immigrant children at border citing the coronavirus.

A federal judge in the United States has temporarily stopped President Donald Trump's administration from expelling a teenager to Honduras under a policy enacted during the coronavirus pandemic that did not give the teen the chance under federal law to stay in the US.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the 16-year-old had been scheduled to be expelled on Wednesday, six days after he entered the US to reunite with his father. The ACLU says the boy fled because gang members threatened him after he saw one of them kill someone in his neighbourhood.

US District Judge Emmet Sullivan late on Tuesday issued an order preventing the government from expelling the teenager, who was not identified by name in court papers, through the end of the day on Wednesday as litigation is pending.


The case is the first known challenge of the Trump administration's expulsion of hundreds of immigrant children at the border under an emergency declaration citing the coronavirus. Trump's administration says under federal law on public health emergencies it must close the border to asylum seekers - including children - to prevent the spread of the virus.


Under federal law, border agents would typically take the teen and other youth from outside Canada and Mexico to the US Department of Health and Human Services, which places unaccompanied immigrant children with sponsors, usually family members. Instead, according to the ACLU, agents held the 16-year-old in a detention centre, then a hotel, without giving him the chance to request asylum. The boy is in good health and has shown no signs of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to the group.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1270734260647886849

 

[The Voice]

Didn't go his way with this one.

US court blocks Trump’s effort to deport teenage immigrant

Case challenges Trump administration’s expulsion of hundreds of immigrant children at border citing the coronavirus.

www.aljazeera.com

US court blocks Trump's effort to deport teenage immigrant

Case challenges Trump administration's expulsion of hundreds of immigrant children at border citing the coronavirus.

A federal judge in the United States has temporarily stopped President Donald Trump's administration from expelling a teenager to Honduras under a policy enacted during the coronavirus pandemic that did not give the teen the chance under federal law to stay in the US.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the 16-year-old had been scheduled to be expelled on Wednesday, six days after he entered the US to reunite with his father. The ACLU says the boy fled because gang members threatened him after he saw one of them kill someone in his neighbourhood.

US District Judge Emmet Sullivan late on Tuesday issued an order preventing the government from expelling the teenager, who was not identified by name in court papers, through the end of the day on Wednesday as litigation is pending.


The case is the first known challenge of the Trump administration's expulsion of hundreds of immigrant children at the border under an emergency declaration citing the coronavirus. Trump's administration says under federal law on public health emergencies it must close the border to asylum seekers - including children - to prevent the spread of the virus.


Under federal law, border agents would typically take the teen and other youth from outside Canada and Mexico to the US Department of Health and Human Services, which places unaccompanied immigrant children with sponsors, usually family members. Instead, according to the ACLU, agents held the 16-year-old in a detention centre, then a hotel, without giving him the chance to request asylum. The boy is in good health and has shown no signs of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to the group.

"100's of children..."

Is this more CNN clickbait, or is there actually some truth to it?

 

[cerebus]

Curious.

Where have white people played the victim?

Bwahaha u wot? Fox News is nothing but a procession of white victimhood whining.