Black Lives Matter thread - part 2
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This one ends up here by virtue of the connection to the GF incident referenced in the article and my unwillingness to make a new thread for it.
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Los Angeles Sheriff, Accused of Cover-Up, Opens Investigation Into Reporter
The sheriff said he was investigating the leak of a video that was reported on by The Los Angeles Times.
Ex-Michigan governor pleads the fifth, will not answer questions about Flint's contaminated water
Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder invoked his right against self-incrimination Thursday and declined to answer questions at a civil trial...
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1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest
A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping,…
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Reminds me of the 16th St Church arrests and convictions late in life (and a little of the old nazi guards). If there's good evidence then lock her up.1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest
A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping,…
Critical race theory is the whitest thing
OPINION: The backlash against diversity, Critical Race Theory and “wokeness” is not anti-Black. It’s even whiter than that.
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BREAKING: Attorney General Merrick Garland announces that the Justice Department has charged four current and former Louisville Metro Police Department officers with federal crimes related to death of Breonna Taylor.
A Missouri judge has ruled that the St. Louis lawyer and his wife who waved guns at protesters in 2020 can't get their weapons back or a refund of the fines they paid. Mark and Patricia McCloskey pleaded guilty in the case but were later pardoned.
A tale of two insurrections: Comparing the data from the Jan. 6 riot to the George Floyd protests
When theGrio compared data from the Jan. 6 insurrection to the 2020 George Floyd protests, we discovered some not-so-shocking disparities.
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In 2021, Knoxiville cops killed a 17-yo boy. The deputies now say the boy's 15-yo sister recently refused to serve them at the deli where she worked. The department complained about the girl on its FB page, and appears to have gotten her fired.
Video Shows Cops Tase BLM Co-Founder’s Cousin Before He Died
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has described her family’s shock after watching the LAPD take down her cousin in the middle of the street.
I do not recommend watching the video.
pigsVideo Shows Cops Tase BLM Co-Founder’s Cousin Before He Died
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has described her family’s shock after watching the LAPD take down her cousin in the middle of the street.www.thedailybeast.com
I do not recommend watching the video.
I don’t know what the police could have done differently here other than lighten up on the taser. Dude was completely uncooperative.Video Shows Cops Tase BLM Co-Founder’s Cousin Before He Died
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has described her family’s shock after watching the LAPD take down her cousin in the middle of the street.
I do not recommend watching the video.
I didn’t realize that you could kill somebody with a taser.
And if you don’t want me to watch the video, don’t tell me not to watch it. I never stood a chance.
I get it, but the problem is police aren't (apparently) well-trained to de-escalate - so many are authoritarian-minded that if you push back, they increase their intensity EVERY TIME, seemingly never trying to de-escalate.
Reality is the police do know. It's not like this is some sort of secret in the LEO community:
The Taser Cases: Explore 1,005 fatalities documented by @Reuters
Reuters identified more than a thousand deaths across the US that followed a police altercation involving Tasers. Explore the cases in this interactive graphic.
Fair.And if you don’t want me to watch the video, don’t tell me not to watch it. I never stood a chance.
Still don't recommend it...
Recently. I got a call from a young female officer. There is some vacant property I control as the personal representative of an estate and it's near downtown. It's impossible to keep homeless encampments off it. Because of an overhanging tax lien, the estate cannot afford the thousands of dollars it would take to patrol it and evict when necessary. Anyway, this young officer is part of a new department which deals with homeless and mentally ill (there's considerable overlap). In this case, she asked if she could go and girdle the trees with purple paint, which is a sign to homeless that the property is posted and they will be evicted by the police. I was impressed by her. It sounded a helluva lot better than one former mayor we had who cleaned out an encampment under an overpass with fire hoses...I get it, but the problem is police aren't (apparently) well-trained to de-escalate - so many are authoritarian-minded that if you push back, they increase their intensity EVERY TIME, seemingly never trying to de-escalate.
Reality is the police do know. It's not like this is some sort of secret in the LEO community:
The Taser Cases: Explore 1,005 fatalities documented by @Reuters
Reuters identified more than a thousand deaths across the US that followed a police altercation involving Tasers. Explore the cases in this interactive graphic.www.reuters.com
Fair.
Still don't recommend it...
I know I'm not a cop, and I'm aware that's it's so easy to second-guess what amount to life-and-death situations after the fact, but I don't understand why these cops have to seemingly always resort to force rather than trying to deescalate.
Why not try to calmly talk to the guy, explain what's happening, check his mental faculties, etc. before deciding he's resisting. But no, they instead reach for deadly weapons (even tasers are deadly, just less so than firearms) because they can literally get away with murder and remain employed.
End qualified immunity now - there's no reason cops should be above the law.
Why not try to calmly talk to the guy, explain what's happening, check his mental faculties, etc. before deciding he's resisting. But no, they instead reach for deadly weapons (even tasers are deadly, just less so than firearms) because they can literally get away with murder and remain employed.
End qualified immunity now - there's no reason cops should be above the law.
I'm no cop either, but I am used to dealing with hysterical people. Sometimes you can't talk them down. The guy in the video seemed like he wasn't willing to listen to reason. If I can't get a patient to listen to reason, I tell them we should try our procedure on a different day when the patient feels better. This usually works for me, but of course a cop can't just dismiss the guy and say we're going to arrest you when it's more convenient.
I'm all for deescalating. I don't know if cops are just not trained that way or what. All these situations where people die are because cops use more and more force until the suspect either submits or he dies.
That's like the Darby guy who got convicted here. He entered the room, with two senior officers there, trying to talk down a guy with a gun pointed at his own head. Darby blew away the threatened suicide 11 seconds after entering the room. Darby had been on the force 18 months...
I am not sure this belongs here.
It is just an example of a bad academic making a fallacious argument. (Cultural anthropologist from UVa on the faculty at Duke)
Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football
"This ordinary violence has always riddled the sport and it affects all players. But Black players are disproportionately affected."
I mean, nobody is being forced to play in the NFL.
And, if the NFL were to enact a cap by percentage of NFL players that are black and adopt a quota for white, hispanic, and Asian/Pacific Islander players, I think the NAACP would take issue with that policy.
It is just an example of a bad academic making a fallacious argument. (Cultural anthropologist from UVa on the faculty at Duke)
Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football
"This ordinary violence has always riddled the sport and it affects all players. But Black players are disproportionately affected."
I mean, nobody is being forced to play in the NFL.
And, if the NFL were to enact a cap by percentage of NFL players that are black and adopt a quota for white, hispanic, and Asian/Pacific Islander players, I think the NAACP would take issue with that policy.
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