#BLM

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  • BustySaintClaire-10

    Cereal box is ... racist!

    https://www.zerohedge.com/politi…

    Evidence that the next Planet of the Apes sequel will be a documentary.

    • Who looks at a pic of a monkey and thinks "that looks like a black person"?Doris_McSquirter
    • (other than a racist)Doris_McSquirter
    • Well seeing as media depicted black people as monkeys for a long time, and racist trolls still use images of monkeys to describe black people, I'd say it's wellben_
    • within the lexicon... She isn't wrong. Also your last line man... wow, you're a piece of shit.ben_
    • - by Tyler Durden
      zerohedge.com
      say no more.
      pango
    • Two QBN trolls having a conversation, it's like watching AI become sentientyuekit
    • sentient is generous.Fax_Benson
  • pango2

    "Affluent white communities already live in a world where they choose to fund youth, health, housing, etc. more than they fund police. These communities have lower crime rates not because they have more police, but because they have more resources to support healthy society in a way that reduces crime.

    When a teenager or preteen does something harmful in a suburb (I say teen because this is often where lifelong carceral cycles begin for Black and Brown communities), White communities bend over backwards to find alternatives to incarceration for their loved ones to "protect their future," like community service or rehab or restorative measures. Why don't we treat Black and Brown people the same way? Why doesn't the criminal system care about Black teens' futures? Why doesn't the news use Black people's graduation or family photos in stories the way they do when they cover White people (eg. Brock Turner) who commit harmful crimes? Affluent White suburbs also design their own lives so that they walk through the world without having much interruption or interaction with police at all, aside from community events and speeding tickets (and many of these communities try to reduce those, too!)

    Just starting THERE would be a dramatically and radically different world than what we are experiencing now"

    Unfortunately, their slogan is way simplified.
    it's like they don't have a marketing team or something.

    • Word saladGnash
    • salad wordspango
    • Why? Pango. Do the research. Did families get chances and ghost them. Causing for resources to be expelled until tired?deathboy
    • Be an interesting study to see if given same stuff would outcomes be the same.deathboy
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  • drgs0

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is…

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is…
    https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/…

    An old story about Isaac Woodard, a black decorated WWII veteran, discharged from service with honour in 1946.

    ""On February 12, 1946, Woodard was on a Greyhound Lines bus traveling from Camp Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, where he had been discharged, en route to rejoin his family in North Carolina. When the bus reached a rest stop just outside Augusta, Woodard asked the bus driver if there was time for him to use a restroom. The driver grudgingly acceded to the request after an argument. Woodard returned to his seat from the rest stop without incident, and the bus departed.[2]

    The bus stopped in Batesburg (now Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina), near Aiken. Though Woodard had caused no disruption (other than the earlier argument), the driver contacted the local police (including Chief Lynwood Shull), who forcibly removed Woodard from the bus. After demanding to see his discharge papers, a number of Batesburg policemen, including Shull, took Woodard to a nearby alleyway, where they beat him repeatedly with nightsticks. They then took Woodard to the town jail and arrested him for disorderly conduct, accusing him of drinking beer in the back of the bus with other soldiers.

    During the course of the night in jail, Shull beat and blinded Woodard, who later stated in court that he was beaten for saying "Yes" instead of "Yes, sir".[4] He also suffered partial amnesia as a result of his injuries. Woodard further testified that he was punched in the eyes by police several times on the way to the jail, and later repeatedly jabbed in his eyes with a billy club.[5] Newspaper accounts[6] indicate that Woodard's eyes had been "gouged out"; historical documents indicate that each globe was ruptured irreparably in the socket.[7]

    The following morning, the Batesburg police sent Woodard before the local judge, who found him guilty and fined him fifty dollars.""

    Rest of the story, tl;dr -- 7 months later, president Truman directed to open an investigation, Shull and his officers were indicted, during the trial Shull did not dispute the eye poking, but the prosecutor stated that if the police chief was to be convicted, South Carolina would announce its independence from the States. The jury unanimously found him innocent, met with a lengthy applause by all who were gathered.

    A black soldier who fought against Nazism and came home to racially segregated buses and toilets and had his eyes poked out.
    Why? Because "home of the brave and land of the free".

    Burn the whole continent with napalm, and sow it with 1 meter thick layer of salt, so that no life ever grows out again.

  • drgs0

    Anyway, I think the stories about police being over-funded and liberals calling to lower police salaries will end up as a bad idea. It will only squeeze out the capable and the less corrupt officers.

    I would double or triple their salaries, and raise their responsibility and accountability by tenfold. Everyone will be wearing cameras with live public broadcast + policemen's ethnic make up should mirror that of criminals, not the general population (ie. hire more black officers) + fire everyone who is somehow associated with the old reform.

    • Mate, this is a case of "who watches the watchers" you either disband and start over or repurposegrafician
  • grafician0

    "#BREAKING: Fulton County District Attorney announces that the officer who shot #RayshardBrooks has been charged with felony murder"

  • grafician0

    "NYPD Investigating Suicide Of Black Man Found Hanging From Tree In Manhattan Park"

    https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-…

    What's this, 6-7th already in a few weeks?

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  • grafician5

    https://www.instagram.com/kadirn…

    He also made that George cover I posted...
    https://www.instagram.com/p/CBa6…

    Simply beautiful!

  • pango9

    • aren't a vast majority of police encounters positive? reform sure. defund? insanity.inteliboy
    • even on a future space utopia like star trek we need starfleeternexbcn
    • Defund the police doesn't necessarily mean getting rid of the police but realocating their budget to more efficient projects like education.deadsperm
    • It's right there in the image FFS.deadsperm
    • I've seen people asking to remove police entirely, and I'm referring to those opinions, I mean I don't care if you are hippie and believe people will generallyernexbcn
    • ...behave without law enforcement, we are not prepared for that yeternexbcn
    • This is the same bullshit whining as ALM.
      Most people are not asking to get rid of the police but rethink the way it functions. Money talks.
      deadsperm
    • @ernexbcn
      That is not how I read this post.
      Pango should have made it a gif to make sure there was some tea left in the kettle.
      deadsperm
    • wut?!
      ok fine. yes my bad.
      pango
    • Fuck you, pango !
      You're always starting trouble on QBN.
      deadsperm
    • Defund the police, have a wave of residential lootings and murdering, remind yourself US and A is a third world country, endow the police tenfolddrgs
    • Robocop is the solution.
      https://www.zerobala…
      deadsperm
    • How about no police, just give everyone a gun.shapesalad
    • I do believe if we had police on every corner we would have a more civilized society.
      #nosarcasm
      deadsperm
    • drgs fantasies seem based more on pornhub though. I'm taking about petty shit like double parking and j walking.deadsperm
    • You would have a civilized society if you had a more homogeneous, economically equated society. American social structure belongs in the 19th centurydrgs
    • @drgs
      You KNOW this is not what you are about.
      Don't make me pull out the records.
      deadsperm
    • Let's pull out everythingdrgs
    • Let me get the measuring tape.deadsperm
    • Just give everyone one of these
      https://www.youtube.…
      yuekit
    • It will be the wild wild westMondoMorphic
    • ^ Because some of the money goes to education, health care, housing and etc?pango
    • Money going to police is municipal money. Education is provincial, healthcare is federal. Police budget has no effect on those thingsGnash
    • It will take years, maybe a whole generation, to see the effects in education. US has to become more socialistdrgs
    • If only. The money will go somewhere else corrupt.NBQ00
    • @gnash wait same for US?
      @drgs well then better start now.
      @NBQ welp if you do, you're damned. if you don't you're damned. why don't we just kill our self.
      pango
  • utopian1

    An Ohio wedding photographer says a couple tried to tear up their contract because she supports Black Lives Matter

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/ohio-…

    • "as well as someone that does not believe that ALL lives matter."
      smh
      omahadesigns
    • I wonder how much money is in Nigerian social grievances followed by go fund me accountsdeathboy
    • A couple images and posts on robo accounts getting emotion high a d offering vindication through fundingdeathboy
    • I'd imagine time like these are far more lucrative for the real poor folk vs world standards doing a true hustledeathboy
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  • yuekit0

    Inside The Dangerous Online Fever Swamps Of American Police

    Cops have a far-right media ecosystem of their own, where they post racist memes, spread disinformation and call for violence against 'Antifa'

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/p…

  • yuekit1

    Example of a forum for "verified members of the force"

    https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/…

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  • lowimpakt0

    oh looky here.

    Man rescued by UK Black Lives Matter protester is ex-police officer

    https://www.theguardian.com/worl…

    • and even this ex-police officer agrees with BLMpango
  • omahadesigns-1

    • "as well as someone that does not believe that ALL lives matter."
      smh
      omahadesigns
    • Cherrypicking cunttank02
    • < Jesus. fucking. Christ. What an ignorant cunt.Morning_star
    • Is any of that privilege incorrect. Us under privilege streets ahead of other countries. It's almost sad to think about the equality of itdeathboy
  • sarahfailin16

    “This is what I wore to work today. On my way to get a burrito before work, I was detained by the police.

    I noticed the police car in the public lot behind Centre Street. As I was walking away from my car, the cruiser followed me. I walked down Centre Street and was about to cross over to the burrito place and the officer got out of the car.

    "Hey my man," he said.

    He unsnapped the holster of his gun.

    I took my hands out of my pockets.

    "Yes?" I said.

    "Where you coming from?"

    "Home."

    Where's home?"

    "Dedham."

    How'd you get here?"

    "I drove."

    He was next to me now. Two other police cars pulled up. I was standing in from of the bank across the street from the burrito place. I was going to get lunch before I taught my 1:30 class. There were cops all around me.

    I said nothing. I looked at the officer who addressed me. He was white, stocky, bearded.

    "You weren't over there, were you?" He pointed down Centre Street toward Hyde Square.

    "No. I came from Dedham."

    "What's your address?"

    I told him.

    "We had someone matching your description just try to break into a woman's house."

    A second police officer stood next to me; white, tall, bearded. Two police cruisers passed and would continue to circle the block for the 35 minutes I was standing across the street from the burrito place.

    "You fit the description," the officer said. "Black male, knit hat, puffy coat. Do you have identification."

    "It's in my wallet. May I reach into my pocket and get my wallet?"

    "Yeah."

    I handed him my license. I told him it did not have my current address. He walked over to a police car. The other cop, taller, wearing sunglasses, told me that I fit the description of someone who broke into a woman's house. Right down to the knit cap.

    Barbara Sullivan made a knit cap for me. She knitted it in pinks and browns and blues and oranges and lime green. No one has a hat like this. It doesn't fit any description that anyone would have. I looked at the second cop. I clasped my hands in front of me to stop them from shaking.

    "For the record," I said to the second cop, "I'm not a criminal. I'm a college professor." I was wearing my faculty ID around my neck, clearly visible with my photo.

    "You fit the description so we just have to check it out." The first cop returned and handed me my license.

    "We have the victim and we need her to take a look at you to see if you are the person."

    It was at this moment that I knew that I was probably going to die. I am not being dramatic when I say this. I was not going to get into a police car. I was not going to present myself to some victim. I was not going let someone tell the cops that I was not guilty when I already told them that I had nothing to do with any robbery. I was not going to let them take me anywhere because if they did, the chance I was going to be accused of something I did not do rose exponentially. I knew this in my heart. I was not going anywhere with these cops and I was not going to let some white woman decide whether or not I was a criminal, especially after I told them that I was not a criminal. This meant that I was going to resist arrest. This meant that I was not going to let the police put their hands on me.

    If you are wondering why people don't go with the police, I hope this explains it for you.

    Something weird happens when you are on the street being detained by the police. People look at you like you are a criminal. The police are detaining you so clearly you must have done something, otherwise they wouldn't have you. No one made eye contact with me. I was hoping that someone I knew would walk down the street or come out of one of the shops or get off the 39 bus or come out of JP Licks and say to these cops, "That's Steve Locke. What the FUCK are you detaining him for?"

    The cops decided that they would bring the victim to come view me on the street. The asked me to wait. I said nothing. I stood still.

    "Thanks for cooperating," the second cop said. "This is probably nothing, but it's our job and you do fit the description. 5' 11", black male. One-hundred-and-sixty pounds, but you're a little more than that. Knit hat."

    A little more than 160. Thanks for that, I thought.

    An older white woman walked behind me and up to the second cop. She turned and looked at me and then back at him. "You guys sure are busy today."

    I noticed a black woman further down the block. She was small and concerned. She was watching what was going on. I focused on her red coat. I slowed my breathing. I looked at her from time to time.

    I thought: Don't leave, sister. Please don't leave.

    The first cop said, "Where do you teach?"

    "Massachusetts College of Art and Design." I tugged at the lanyard that had my ID.

    "How long you been teaching there?"

    "Thirteen years."

    We stood in silence for about 10 more minutes.

    An unmarked police car pulled up. The first cop went over to talk to the driver. The driver kept looking at me as the cop spoke to him. I looked directly at the driver. He got out of the car.

    "I'm Detective Cardoza. I appreciate your cooperation."

    I said nothing.

    "I'm sure these officers told you what is going on?"

    "They did."

    "Where are you coming from?"

    "From my home in Dedham."

    "How did you get here?"

    "I drove."

    "Where is your car?"

    "It's in the lot behind Bukhara." I pointed up Centre Street.

    "Okay," the detective said. "We're going to let you go. Do you have a car key you can show me?"

    "Yes," I said. "I'm going to reach into my pocket and pull out my car key."

    "Okay."

    I showed him the key to my car.

    The cops thanked me for my cooperation. I nodded and turned to go.

    "Sorry for screwing up your lunch break," the second cop said.

    I walked back toward my car, away from the burrito place. I saw the woman in red.

    "Thank you," I said to her. "Thank you for staying."

    "Are you ok?" She said. Her small beautiful face was lined with concern.

    "Not really. I'm really shook up. And I have to get to work."

    "I knew something was wrong. I was watching the whole thing. The way they are treating us now, you have to watch them. "

    "I'm so grateful you were there. I kept thinking to myself, 'Don't leave, sister.' May I give you a hug?"

    "Yes," she said. She held me as I shook. "Are you sure you are ok?"

    "No I'm not. I'm going to have a good cry in my car. I have to go teach."

    "You're at MassArt. My friend is at MassArt."

    "What's your name?" She told me. I realized we were Facebook friends. I told her this.

    "I'll check in with you on Facebook," she said.

    I put my head down and walked to my car.

    My colleague was in our shared office and she was able to calm me down. I had about 45 minutes until my class began and I had to teach. I forgot the lesson I had planned. I forget the schedule. I couldn't think about how to do my job. I thought about the fact my word counted for nothing, they didn't believe that I wasn't a criminal. They had to find out. My word was not enough for them. My ID was not enough for them. My handmade one-of-a-kind knit hat was an object of suspicion. My Ralph Lauren quilted blazer was only a "puffy coat." That white woman could just walk up to a cop and talk about me like I was an object for regard. I wanted to go back and spit in their faces. The cops were probably deeply satisfied with how they handled the interaction, how they didn't escalate the situation, how they were respectful and polite.

    I imagined sitting in the back of a police car while a white woman decides if I am a criminal or not. If I looked guilty being detained by the cops imagine how vile I become sitting in a cruiser? I knew I could not let that happen to me. I knew if that were to happen, I would be dead.

    Nothing I am, nothing I do, nothing I have means anything because I fit the description.

    I had to confess to my students that I was a bit out of it today and I asked them to bear with me. I had to teach.

    After class I was supposed to go to the openings for First Friday. I went home.”

    -Steve Locke
    https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/…

    • could have just post the linkpango
    • +1,000,000monospaced
    • There is plenty of room here in the side notes for deathboy and his racist rants, I means opinions.utopian
    • Sounds like the cops were nothing but courteous/profession... - are they not supposed to check out someone who matches a description?rland
    • Ha. Typical response to ppl you don't know in a position that attracts power hungry thugs... And sometimes decent ppl... Be cool don't projectdeathboy
    • I get pulled over before rolling down window both hands plain site on the wheel. Announce any move for registration and go slow. Not a race thingdeathboy
    • Deathboy cunttank02
    • An acknowledgement of the types of ppl attracts to law enforcement and shit they deal with daily. Again gold wheels on a whip does make those types aggressivedeathboy
    • Even if I'm white. It profiling or experience amongst some cops. Others just dumb as fuck as typical politicians and other public servantsdeathboy
    • Best thing to do is avoid and if can't comply. You don't see much shit out of total compliancedeathboy
    • And the thing about this click bait is I never think wether a white black Hispanic officer might be judging me based on racedeathboy
    • More about how I may be perceived by them. I know myself but if I look a certain way I would love me to clarify. I think gd wheels on fast car says more than skdeathboy
    • Color towards profiling. Maybe the guy is a bit racist and fearful of skin colors. So be it.deathboy
    • Or maybe equally feeling same shit despite race undermines objectives and self importance. Talk about equalitydeathboy
    • what a cuntpango
    • That's a mean thing to say about Steve u don't know pangodeathboy
    • Only images be u can be responding to post without a rationale argument right? Seems common sensedeathboy
    • Think about it pango. Is there any different narrative? Person fears incorrect authority?deathboy
    • Deathboy is grade a meat sausage... all the shit of the floor. I bet when you get pulled over you don't expect to die (if you ever get pulled).necromation
    • some idiot should come up and say.. -can we discuss race without history -neverscared
    • You're ignoring the man's experience. He felt guilty until proven innocent and knew that he could end up dead if things escalated.monoboy
    • Which appears to be the standard experience if you're black and also male. You get treated differently. This needs to stop.monoboy
    • I was approached a NYPD cruiser in the street once, tapped on the officers window. They both jumped, and carefully wound down the window.monoboy
    • *once not wasmonoboy
    • I was lost and only wanted directions. (You ask a Policeman in the UK).monoboy
    • Their reaction and that of others on the 'sidewalk' made me realise that I'd just made a mistake.monoboy
    • The prevalence of guns makes American society highly aggressive, suspicious and unpleasant. The racism must make it pretty unbearable, if you're black.monoboy
    • Or white for that matter.monoboy
    • Well deathboy gained his prick status elsewhere but to be fair, he's spot on in this thread.shaft
    • What a cuntpango
    • No he’s not. He’s missed the whole point and is a deplorable CUNT in response.monospaced
    • What about Spaceboy ?i_was
    • Read the second comment.i_was
    • Far too much detailed precision in recollection of dialogue in tense situations, so obviously scripted, doesn't even qualify as creative non-fictionBustySaintClaire
    • Why? Just why????mapleT
    • So, it’s too well written to be believable? I guess that makes sense if you’re a total fucking idiot and worship trump speak. Quality communication is a threatmonospaced
    • seems busty is a dumbas and can´t recollect detailed experiences.neverscared
    • ass!neverscared
    • Another cuntpango
    • Haha cunts for ignoring his feelings while ignoring mine...lol. education has fully faileddeathboy
    • Seriously I understand what he says more than him. What he is saying is my gold wheels and pimp whip is his skin.deathboy
    • But it's not entirely true. Depends on neighborhoods and crime. If he is in a high area of crime related by black people he should look to get awaydeathboy
    • Or focus on fixing the community instead of bling cops for thinking he fits an actual profiledeathboy
    • Like blackjack reading situations you lean towards certain probability. It's very human. And only systematic if that is the usual outcomes.deathboy
    • Than the real problem isn't with cops at all. Which is the elephant in the room no o e including blacks want to talk aboutdeathboy
    • I don't think cops go up to white ppl and all like hey we same skin color it's cool. Even white people are profiled based on a litany of descriptions and contexdeathboy
    • To officers abilities. I've also been ran through a ton of field tests being pulled over simply because I seemed nervous. Apologized afterwards and was like wedeathboy
    • Also been entrapped to provide details I didn't need to out of fear which increased my tax. Although I also know there are good cops and they have given me somedeathboy
    • Good tips with dealing with da's and the system. Also behaviors and what and how to challenge. Which have been helpfuldeathboy
    • Shit I even have more stories dealing with cops. I do t think it's race at all unless there is reason to profile. More the nature of the beast and who it attracdeathboy
    • Fuckin saints who want to be a cop not out power but to help protect. Wo t catch me dealing with the shit they dodeathboy
    • still a cuntpango
    • well now, Mr Steve Locke should definitely move to Europe. This kind of sick totalitarian shit would never happen here, maybe except Sovietlandrzu-rzu
    • Pango when u have nothing good to say probably better to not say anything. Your response says more than u knowdeathboy
    • cool
      you cunt.
      pango