The Shooting Gallery: Police Violence MEGATHREAD

Started by Syt, August 11, 2014, 04:09:04 AM

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garbon

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Syt

Reminds me of the recent video of a lady woman person at a drive-through who was told the burger she wanted was out or something throwing a hissy fit and using the n-word. She was then told to leave at which point she cried and apologized and whined that she only wanted a burger so much.  :rolleyes:
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Tamas

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The Brain

When he reaches drinking age and learns about BDSM it's gonna blow his fragile little mind.
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Josquius

#5224
I found this an interesting take on how things are developing in the UK:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/12/johnsons-culture-war-trap-seems-designed-for-corbyn-not-starmer

I've witnessed this a lot on my occasional forays into facebook looking at local groups, always a good place to keep track of what the troll farms are churning out. They're trying to turn this into a wedge issue where the left want to destroy all statues, are defacing war memorials (really fascinating what happened with the centopath, I hope CCTV was good enough to catch the responsible party) and hate St. Churchill.

Starmer with his moderate response of recognising the problems but condemning violence just isn't being drawn into it.

Incidentally



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Oexmelin

Que le grand cric me croque !

Josquius

Got to say. Things were looking iffy for a bit there. Seemed the BLM people had jumped the shark and turned the public against them with the horrible idea of crowd sourcing a statue list.
The far right have really saved things though. Apparently today they were out in force expecting a ruck, but failing to find and BLM protestors started attacking random people in the park instead.
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jimmy olsen

#5227
https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1272177941519257600
QuoteAlbuquerque, NM: pre-protest so not assigning a number, but a reminder of how insanely violent cops have been for years

[CW: death]

A call was made about a homeless guy at a bus stop. An entire police squad shows up and wastes him.
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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Razgovory

Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 14, 2020, 08:58:36 PM

https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1272177941519257600
QuoteAlbuquerque, NM: pre-protest so not assigning a number, but a reminder of how insanely violent cops have been for years

[CW: death]

A call was made about a homeless guy at a bus stop. An entire police squad shows up and wastes him.




Holy shit.
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Eddie Teach

That happened last August, who has been held accountable?
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Maladict

Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 14, 2020, 08:58:36 PM
https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1272177941519257600
QuoteAlbuquerque, NM: pre-protest so not assigning a number, but a reminder of how insanely violent cops have been for years

[CW: death]

A call was made about a homeless guy at a bus stop. An entire police squad shows up and wastes him.

wtf. I'm surprised anyone still calls the police for anything, if these guys would then show up.

The Brain

Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 14, 2020, 08:58:36 PM
https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1272177941519257600
QuoteAlbuquerque, NM: pre-protest so not assigning a number, but a reminder of how insanely violent cops have been for years

[CW: death]

A call was made about a homeless guy at a bus stop. An entire police squad shows up and wastes him.

Is that real? What was the official explanation given?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Zoupa

Wow. Well I'm never going back to the US. You guys have a real problem.

jimmy olsen

It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

The Minsky Moment

Quote from: Zoupa on June 15, 2020, 02:41:23 AM
Wow. Well I'm never going back to the US. You guys have a real problem.

We may shoot our own people but we bomb people in other countries.  You are screwed either way.
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