The Shooting Gallery: Police Violence MEGATHREAD

[Barrister]

So someone named Shaun King, who does seem somehow affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement, has apparently been outed as, you guessed it, a white man pretending to be black.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/19/did-black-lives-matter-organiser-shaun-king-mislead-oprah-winfrey-by-pretending-to-be-biracial/

[garbon]

White people, tearing black folk down in a million different ways.

[Valmy]

White people, tearing black folk down in a million different ways.

Back to the BLM stuff: Anyway don't get me wrong if BLM leads some big anti-police violence march here I would probably join them but damn. I mean dismantling the military-industrial complex seems just a little out of the scope of the cause here.

[grumbler]

White people, tearing black folk down in a million different ways.

Back to the BLM stuff: Anyway don't get me wrong if BLM leads some big anti-police violence march here I would probably join them but damn. I mean dismantling the military-industrial complex seems just a little out of the scope of the cause here.

So long as all those tens of thousands of political prisoners get released, I could care less about dismantling the military-industrial complex and ending gentrification.

[garbon]

Not sure about that but you are clearly selective in your outrage. For example, your profile picture features an ISIS murderess. Even if ironic, this seems bad taste - more than if, say, Derspiess had Zimmermann's pic in his profile, for example.

Maybe he had a bad experience with a bean pie?

[DGuller]

Can someone explain Marti's joke to me? 

[grumbler]

Can someone explain Marti's joke to me? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhHMTgN9i4o

Edit:  On second thought, I don't think he was aware that it was a joke.

[garbon]

So someone named Shaun King, who does seem somehow affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement, has apparently been outed as, you guessed it, a white man pretending to be black.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/19/did-black-lives-matter-organiser-shaun-king-mislead-oprah-winfrey-by-pretending-to-be-biracial/

As a side note....Breitbart?

[Eddie Teach]

Raz seems to think highly of the site. 

[DGuller]

Can someone explain Marti's joke to me? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhHMTgN9i4o

Edit:  On second thought, I don't think he was aware that it was a joke.

Thanks.

[jimmy olsen]

Cop accidently shoots himself, blames the black driver he pulled over. Thankfully the jury found the driver innocent.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/08/cop_shot_himself_and_blamed_a_black_driver_police_officer_kelly_stewart.html

[Kleves]

Thankfully the jury found the driver innocent.

Actually, Tim, the jury appears to found him guilty of stealing the officer's gun by force or through the threat of force. I wonder if the driver - convicted of a serious felony and heading to prison for at least a decade - would agree that he was found innocent. 

[jimmy olsen]

Thankfully the jury found the driver innocent.

Actually, Tim, the jury appears to found him guilty of stealing the officer's gun by force or through the threat of force. I wonder if the driver - convicted of a serious felony and heading to prison for at least a decade - would agree that he was found innocent.

He was found innocent of shooting the police officer, which is what I was refrencing. The rest is immaterial.

[grumbler]

Thankfully the jury found the driver innocent.

Actually, Tim, the jury appears to found him guilty of stealing the officer's gun by force or through the threat of force. I wonder if the driver - convicted of a serious felony and heading to prison for at least a decade - would agree that he was found innocent.

I think that it is obvious that there is far more to this story than the superficial treatment by Slate implies.  Like the fact that Slate ignores the fact that Riley was, in fact, an ex-felon, and the fact that it only parenthetically mentions that Riley was found guilty of theft.  I rather suspect that the "unexpectedly severe 10 years in prison" was not unexpected at all.

[DGuller]

Yeah, I imagine that courts don't look to kindly on people that steal guns from cops.  Actually, that whole aspect sounds like something worth exploring further, rather than serving as an aside.