National Protest and 'disband the cops' discussion (please review page 1)

[Locksteady]

1. To be clear, Black Men received the right to vote in 1869 with the ratification of the 15th Amendment. Black Women received their right to vote along with white women in 1919 with the 19th Amendment. This isn't to say the path was unencumbered with obstacles in many states which were held hog tied by pretty racist state governments.

To be clear, and to reiterate the thrust of my previous point, that comprised a huge subsection of the populace.

2. The FBI Crime data bears out. Minority Race officers are more likely than white officers to be involved in an officer-involved-shooting.

What point in my post is this supposed to rebut?

The best part: this was our Diversity, Equality, and Inclusive folks.

In an informal setting, I presume? POTUS was quite clear on removing training of this sort on the grounds of divisiveness.

Yes, they want to lecture on the morality that resistance to anti-racism is bad and anyone who espouses such ideology is a bad person. But when I state "I believe that man was made in the image of God and due to my "deeply held religious beliefs that form my morals", (key language from Title VII of the '64 Civil Rights Act) I believe that judging a person because of their skin color is morally wrong." I get crickets.

I think you are indeed engaging in a battle that is functionally religious.

As I mentioned, our DEI wants to lecture employees, both white and black, about race.

As long as they don't break POTUS' cease and desist order by trying to mandate it, it shouldn't be bothering you unless you let it. (not to let that stop you from engaging with them; it makes for great stories here!)

That white cops are killing black people at very high rates and the black lives matter. Human life has intrinsic value and if black lives do matter, why isn't there a national movement to kick the gangs in the teeth...like OPERATION LEGEND.

You sort of answered your own question there. The difference is that it has taken mass civil unrest and repeated laymen's video evidence to get local and national leaders to begin even seriously looking at the issue of police brutality - much less launch a sustained federal-level operation to address it.

I don't personally care what people do or what social pressure they try to exert. My problem is that the liberals do not respond well to "If you want me to kneel or hold up the power fist, you're going to have to MAKE ME. Yep, you're going to have to throw me off a building, put me into an orange jump suit and do what you gotta do but I will not. So now what?"

Unless they're breaking a law in the process of not responding well, I'm not sure exactly what you would be caring about that isn't social pressure?

(They called you shipmate. I knew it!)

I'm not sure about that anymore. I think we have hamlets of patriots but American society overall, I dunno. I'm waiting to see some evidence.

Of course; the caveat is that behaving as you wish is rarely considered patriotic by those who don't approve of what you are doing (or not doing).

 

[Brill]

In an informal setting, I presume? POTUS was quite clear on removing training of this sort on the grounds of divisiveness.

This was soon after the death of George Floyd when our executives rushed to voice support for BLM and before the EO. Oddly, our DEI folks purged ALL refs to CRT, DeAngelo's and Kendi's writings almost as if they feared legal repercussion or something.

I think you are indeed engaging in a battle that is functionally religious.

As long as they don't break POTUS' cease and desist order by trying to mandate it, it shouldn't be bothering you unless you let it. (not to let that stop you from engaging with them; it makes for great stories here!)

There is a massive culture war going on inside the USG but the liberal ideologues are winning. A writer can post something unoffensive but it can be taken offensively just to file a complaint, which will trigger removal. Liberals are very much aware and use this to their advantage. The only thing that bothers me is that our social media reads just like Strozk/Page texts but without the overt conservative refs. The latest "innovation" is our version of a social credit score. Shockingly mine is zero because I purged all my stuff. I wrote up some really detailed AARs with maps, ambush points, intel reports, etc that set the stage of various events so employees could actually see what our military folks go through. Initially they were very well received until I came out anti-BLM, anti-antiracist, and anti-COVID panic.

You sort of answered your own question there. The difference is that it has taken mass civil unrest and repeated laymen's video evidence to get local and national leaders to begin even seriously looking at the issue of police brutality - much less launch a sustained federal-level operation to address it.

Imagine if there was a very well funded group community-centric group that could fill the power vacuum after a local gang was dismantled. Which group benefited from the mass social unrest? Wasn't the people who lived in those burned out areas in Kenosha or St. Paul, MN.

 

[Locksteady]

This was soon after the death of George Floyd when our executives rushed to voice support for BLM and before the EO. Oddly, our DEI folks purged ALL refs to CRT, DeAngelo's and Kendi's writings almost as if they feared legal repercussion or something.

That is very odd, especially considering that there was next to no warning distributed even days before OMB pushed it out.

There is a massive culture war going on inside the USG but the liberal ideologues are winning. A writer can post something unoffensive but it can be taken offensively just to file a complaint, which will trigger removal. Liberals are very much aware and use this to their advantage. The only thing that bothers me is that our social media reads just like Strozk/Page texts but without the overt conservative refs. The latest "innovation" is our version of a social credit score. Shockingly mine is zero because I purged all my stuff.

Now this is interesting. Is it optional, or do all employees have to have a social media presence on that platform? I could so easily see this being abused, a la Black Mirror.

I wrote up some really detailed AARs with maps, ambush points, intel reports, etc that set the stage of various events so employees could actually see what our military folks go through. Initially they were very well received until I came out anti-BLM, anti-antiracist, and anti-COVID panic.

The order you did that in was smart, if at least to give them a moment's pause before trying something stupid.

Imagine if there was a very well funded group community-centric group that could fill the power vacuum after a local gang was dismantled. Which group benefited from the mass social unrest? Wasn't the people who lived in those burned out areas in Kenosha or St. Paul, MN.

I'm open to hearing more about your thoughts on this, assuming it doesn't veer us too far from the topic.

 

[BlackSmokeRisinG]

This country has a pretty shitty history of killing black people when they try to do community projects

In 1969, charismatic Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton was killed in a hail of gunfire. 50 years later, the fight against police brutality continues

Or banning weapons when black people start carrying arms.

The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons

You are insinuating that the reason BLM does not provide aid to poor minority communities is because they are afraid of being assassinated?

What does the NRA or factions thereof supporting a gun control bill in CA during the 1970s have to do with BLM today, or any of the other "rights" movements that scream injustice yet provide nothing at all in the way of actual progress?

 

[ThunderHorse]

Update on the McCloskey Case: Ain't that some shit!

St. Louis judge disqualifies Gardner, her office from prosecuting gun-waving case

A judge on Thursday cited improper fundraising emails by Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner's campaign in disqualifying Gardner and her office from a gun case against Mark McCloskey, who with his wife pointed firearms at protesters outside their Central West End home in June.

Circuit Judge Thomas Clark II's order said two fundraising emails that Gardner's reelection campaign sent in response to political attacks before and after she charged Mark and Patricia McCloskey with felony gun crimes in July raised the appearance that she "initiated a criminal prosecution for political purposes."

"Like a needle pulling thread, she links the defendant and his conduct to her critics," Clark wrote. "These emails are tailored to use the June 28 incident to solicit money by positioning her against defendant and her more vocal critics."

The judge's order deals a political blow to Gardner, whose office has waged numerous legal challenges to defend her practices and reform-minded agenda during her first term.

I didn't know this, what disgusting creature. These charges should not have been brought at all.

 

[Dame]

Update on the McCloskey Case: Ain't that some shit!

St. Louis judge disqualifies Gardner, her office from prosecuting gun-waving case



I didn't know this, what disgusting creature. These charges should not have been brought at all.

Yeah, heard about this when she did it. I wish there were some way to actually show folks like this what it is they are doing simply won't fly before they do it.

Oh wait, that's called law school. Nevermind.

 

[Brill]

Yeah, heard about this when she did it. I wish there were some way to actually show folks like this what it is they are doing simply won't fly before they do it.

They believe in the Woo Woo.

 

[Blizzard]

Y'all knew this was coming, right? It was just a matter of time...
(and I checked, it's not April Fools Day, just regular fools day)

San Francisco district to rename school named after Abraham Lincoln

A San Francisco district is planning to rename a school named after Abraham Lincoln because the former president did not demonstrate that 'black lives mattered to him'.

The president, who is often held up as an American hero for abolishing slavery, is just one of 44 historical figures soon to have their names scratched off schools within the San Francisco Unified School District.

 

[AWP]

Y'all knew this was coming, right? It was just a matter of time...
(and I checked, it's not April Fools Day, just regular fools day)

San Francisco district to rename school named after Abraham Lincoln

This makes no sense. He suspended the Constitution, I thought that would make him bulletproof with Democrats.

Ooh, bad choice of words.

 

[Brill]

This makes no sense. He suspended the Constitution, I thought that would make him bulletproof with Democrats.

Ooh, bad choice of words.

He had a quill pen but no phone.

 

[Blizzard]

This was proposed for Minneapolis as well but the City Council declined as it's still too oppressive:
Seattle Announces Reverse Purge Where One Night A Year Laws Will Be Enforced

 

[ThunderHorse]

So folks, Portlandia. Tom Cotton was correct and so was the POTUS. That place is a hellhole. The people are getting exactly what they deserve though. They are the ones who voted for these politicians. They love drugs. Clearly love people in all black squatting and intimidating their neighbors.

New Autonomous Zone, by the way. The Police raided this house, and as stated in the article the snake of a DA dropped all charges and released the terrorists back into the wild.

Portland lets Antifa win big — again

Some neighbors near Portland 'Red House' say situation still tense

Probably general crime here, but Portland's violent crime and homicide rate is skyrocketing, I wonder why?

16-year-old dies after being shot during rolling gun battle in SE Portland

Man killed in North Lombard shooting is Portland's 50th homicide victim of 2020

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Probably general crime here, but Portland's violent crime and homicide rate is skyrocketing,

I’ll see your Portland, and raise you Minneapolis…

Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves

Carjackings in Minneapolis up 537% last month: report

 

[ThunderHorse]

I’ll see your Portland, and raise you Minneapolis…

Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves

Carjackings in Minneapolis up 537% last month: report

I thought they wanted Wild West where there wasn't even a town Marshall? Thousands of shipped on protestors and looters destroyed the city, and now the people are reaping what was sewn by outsiders and politicians that dare not serve their electorate. Clearly all of them lack balls and lady balls.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Generally, I don't think this has anything to do with race. But the Oregon Legislature was entering a special session this week. Many Oregonians were not pleased that the legislature would be closed to them and they protested. They were barred entry due to COVID-19 protocols. But a couple thousand people weren't taking shit and they got in. Many news outlets are calling them "right wing". Most of these people's politics wouldn't match up with conservatives from the South btw. A better description would probably be "Rural Oregonians" flood State Capital to protest COVID-19 restricts.

Oregon State Police declare unlawful assembly after right-wing group tries to storm Capitol

 

[Gunz]

I’ll see your Portland, and raise you Minneapolis…

Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves

Carjackings in Minneapolis up 537% last month: report

From the first article:

"Most of the violence has happened since Floyd’s killing on Memorial Day, and some experts attribute it in part to the lingering anger over the slaying and the effects of the coronavirus..."

Such bullshit. The thugs are not killing each other over George Floyd or COVID or job loss...They’re killing each other for the same stupid reasons they’ve been killing each other for decades. Somebody owes somebody money and won’t pay up; somebody’s got dope and cash; somebody shows up wearing blue at a party where everybody’s wearing red; somebody wants another dude’s wheel rims; somebody’s tapping some other dude’s bitch; somebody wants to pull a lick and get street cred at the same time so caps somebody; somebody from A street trespasses on B street; somebody disrespected somebody else and on and on...and nobody wants to admit the truth that black lives don’t matter to black thugs in the hood where street law is the only law that matters and gangs rule through intimidation and murder and the good decent people are scared shitless to talk to the cops for fear of retaliation.

 

[BloodStripe]

That was my point: the entire DC metro area was in fear and the media profited off that fear. Remember the shock when they were arrested in that truck parking area on I-70 in a large blue sedan while news helicopters followed white box trucks around the beltway?

Separately, at least nobody is advocating defunding police now.

Burning cities down that cause actual lose to buildings good. Bombing cities that cause no structural damage and give warning to evacuate bad. Glad to know where the line is drawn.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

This should be received well....

Justice Department declines to charge officers in Tamir Rice case

 

[Cookie_]

This should be received well....

Justice Department declines to charge officers in Tamir Rice case

Jesus, the reasoning for why they determined they couldn't prosecute is going to cause riots alone.

In this case, the Justice Department said poor-quality surveillance video recorded in the area where the shooting took place prevented prosecutors from being able to conclusively determine whether Rice was or was not reaching for his toy gun just prior to being shot. The two officers who were investigated told authorities soon after the shooting that Rice was reaching for his toy weapon prior to being shot and was given multiple commands to show his hands.

The bolded is fucking bullshit, plain and simple. Those cops rolled up and shot that kid like they were the LSPD from GTA V and the kid had a 5 star wanted level.

 

[Kraut783]

As a local cop...I hate seeing this kind of bullshit that happened above.

Spike Lee is releasing a movie called American Skin...watch the trailer...I get what he is doing...but do you think it's going to encourage some shootings on cops? Probably.....