Running racism in America thread

How long before the head cheese tweets about Bologna?

 

George Carlin was a man ahead of his time. I denounce myself for not thinking of this and posting it myself.

 

Sitting in the backseat while black

 

Agreed. That is why this all puts Republicans in such a bind. If they play to the anti-union bias in their base, they piss off the police officers who also make up a big part of their support.

 

Its not that hard, I’ll go back to my Judeo-Christian past,

“Treat others as to how you would like to be treated”

Would you want to be kneeled on for 8mims for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill?

Would want to be hunted down like an animal by 3 men for jogging?

Would you want to be threatened by someone who wants to call the cops based solely on your skin color?

America is so spoiled, instead of simply accepting “that was so wrong; it’s racism” and “let’s find out what changes are needed and make them” and then getting back to working the 12 hrs that day;

instead there’s all this energy into the minutiae “well something must have happened”.

It’s not that hard to understand. What’s hard is owning up to it.

 

Let's just say for argument's sake that the Minneapolis PD guys go to trial (which I honestly don't think they will......I think they'll plead out, but that's a different story.) and they get found not guilty.
Can you even fathom the carnage that will take place if this happens?

 

Thankfully, if that were to happen (NO PLEASE), it’s after Nov 2020 and after a new President is inaugurated.

 

I was afraid this would happen when I made my original post. In no way am I trying to downplay what the police did. It was murder. Hopefully they get what the deserve. A much needed movement has resulted.
All I’m saying is at some point I’d like to know the events that led up to it. Not to downplay it at all, just to know how it all came about to put those 5 people in that spot at that time in history.
Kind of like finding out where and when lee Harvey was before Dallas in 1963.

 

As part of the rally that I went to yesterday, they did the 8 minutes and 46 seconds of silence and many (including me) took a knee. That’s a long fucking time.

 

I do not mean the elements of provocation. I mean to find the minuscule things that make police angry, so we can train them better.

 

I would also like to know about the events that led up to it — the details of the 18 previous complaints against Derek Chauvin that were apparently not taken seriously enough to drum him out of law enforcement, and why 16 of those complaints were whitewashed. I would also like to know the details of the five complaints against former officer Tuo Thao that were not made public like the one that resulted in an excessive-force lawsuit and a $25,000 settlement.

I would also like to know more details about Floyd and Chauvin’s simultaneous employment at a downtown Minneapolis nightclub, specifically about interactions which may have fueled this confrontation.

Those details are an important part of the roadmap to now.