Running racism in America thread

NO WAY!

 

Imma guess from flyover land with no sources that shit be bad and lines that are not to be crossed and chains of command to follow are being reaffirmed.

 

I'm not sure which question you're answering here, with your question. Because I was thinking the police doing anything about all the looting and destruction might not have helped anything, and, in fact, may have made an incendiary situation worse. I don't THINK so, and I hope that would not have been the case. But it certainly seems like it could have been, and that that might have contributed to police departments' general lack of response to the real trouble-makers.

I remember the same hands-off approach happening during the Rodney King riots, as well.

 

He knows that the pen is mightier than the sword under our rule of law. Unfortunately the people have to suffer at start and let a lawsuit disclose the lies.

 

That this is a "new thing" - in SF no less - I find troubling. And explains so much.

San Francisco To Place Ban On Hiring Officers With History Of Misconduct

 

"I've been hearing a little bit of chatter in the Internet about voting versus protest, politics and participation versus civil disobedience and direct action," he recounted. "This is not an 'either or' — this is a 'both and' — to bring about real change we both have to highlight a problem and make people in power uncomfortable."

- Obama

 

“Yes, sir, I shot him in the head.”

“Why?”

“Well, sir, he wasn’t armed, but I didn’t want to roll the dice on whether he one day would be.”

 

I wonder if there's also on the part of some officers/departments a sentiment of, "You don't like the police; well, take a look at the alternative from whom we're (usually) protecting you." Making it a one side or the other issue (support the police 100% always or oppose them always) may be in the perceived self-interest of some police officers as well as some of their opponents.

 

In my local grocery store yesterday and I go up to the deli counter to grabbed some pre sliced meat.

Old lady behind counter is talking to old man in front of counter and I hear a “tisk, tisk” tone to, “I hear they are going to do another demonstration today. When are they going to stop all of this?”

And I interject...

“When they stopped getting killed in the streets.”

That pretty much sums it up for me.

 

terrible editorial judgment here by the Times.

You can't run this as a standalone on the Op Ed page. (I didn't see the print edition)

Opinion | Tom Cotton: Send In the Troops

You have to play it against a piece that says "No Military In American Streets Ever" and run them in the same box.

Senator’s ‘Send In the Troops’ Op-Ed in The Times Draws Online Ire

Even then, not on the anniversary of this.

Opinion | Tiananmen’s Other Children

what the fuck