Minneapolis Police Choke Handcuffed Man to Death

Well, I have compassion on all sides, this destruction had little do with payback, with the exception of the precinct. But I most certainly am not saying it was justified or the right thing to do. It was looting, taking opportunity. Greed! So shall looters be arrested? Even goodwill was hit, Give em a pass, they were angry. It is ok. Sorry you lost your home, sorry you loss your non profit, sorry we won’t have a low income development and housing available. No sorry, we are left to clean up this destruction and crimes done to people who had nothing to do with it. Celebrate the list if you want. It is fine with me. I won’t be. You can view it as victory if you want, go tell the mom and pop shop that. They deserved it for the actions of a few people.

 

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Is it ever ok? A man died...

Are we going to turn our heads and look the other way? Just continue on about our business? No...

I think we should stop and ask "Why did that man die and what's being done about it?".

They killed him!

 

Lol of course a bumper sticker is your best memory of Obama

Fact: The designer of that sign, Shepard Ferry, admitted his regret for supporting Obama.

 

I have to answer this one. I can't make NAZI comparisons without backing it up.


A "HOLOCAUST IN SLOW MOTION?" AMERICA'S MASS INCARCERATION AND THE ROLE OF DISCRETION MARK OSLER AND JUDGE MARK W. BENNETT

It primarily seeks the imprisonment of millions rather than death.3 The drug war and a holocaust, though, do share one crucial commonality. Both occur when thousands who work within the system are complicit in something they should know is wrong. Both represent a failure of the moral compass, not only of society as a whole, but of those who exercise their discretion to build and maintain the mechanism of injustice. We write this not only as a societal critique, but also as a confession. As a former federal prosecutor and a sitting federal judge, respectively, we have been among those pulling the levers that operate this cruel machine of mass incarceration. Those complicit when a social function becomes unjust often explain their involvement by describing their limited role-they were simply "following the orders" of others.

More A "Holocaust in Slow Motion?": America's Mass Incarceration and the Role of Discretion

 

maybe, maybe, but then they have a massive image problem because the picture we get from this side of the ocean is consistently like this. then maybe they are happy to shoot dead everyone at the first chance. not much better

 

In your mind does that devalue the meaning that President Obama had for millions of people all over the world?

Is there no meaning to an African American in the office of president?

I'm sure it's not totally lost on you to see where I'm going with this, but I don't think that because the image (I could easily find another inspirational image of President Obama) was a bumper sticker that it means any less. And the artist's position does not represent my position, or the grand majority.

Positive leadership is of paramount importance.

 

This is the description to their website:

Latest US news, world news, sports, business, opinion, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

...and that quote is, in fact, in the article 6-eyed linked. It's puzzling as to where you are confused.

 

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Ok... Well that doesn't help.

Are you suggesting The Guardian is an untrustworthy news source?

Or is lashing out emotionally and attacking 6-eyed enough to prop yourself up as having a superior approach to discourse?

 

This isn't the first time you've failed to recognize irony and used it as some sort of ”gotcha”. It's not an effective tactic.

 

I closed the window and haven't found any other sources yet to report it but I saw an article ( I believe it was Washington Times) talking about the autopsy done on George Floyd which suggests he did not die from asphyxiation rather from a combination of of underlying conditions, strain from the incident and intoxication.

I'm not sure if it's a preliminary or final autopsy but I suspect it won't go over well if/when picked up by other news outlets.

 

Medical examiner: No 'traumatic asphyxiation or strangulation' in George Floyd death, but 'effects of ... being restrained by police' contributed to his death

 

This reminds me of how Private William Santiago died in A Few Good Men.
Totally different scenario and hardly germane to the topic but it popped in my head and here it is.

 

Trump supporters would dub that fake news...........

 

BTW, what did Joe Biden have to say about all this? Did anyone even notice?

 

The family will want to have their own autopsy performed

Former New York City chief medical examiner Michael Baden will conduct an independent autopsy on George Floyd following his death after being pinned by a Minneapolis police officer.

The family does not trust anything coming from the Minneapolis Police Department. How can they?”

 

St. Paul mayor imposes curfew

 

This is going to be a long one. I stayed up all night watching this. It looked the the damn good party but I remember coming out of some big concerts with 1000s of unruly people, Metallica other metal bands. Not me but people getting together and flipping cars over. Started getting scary. Last night must have been 50 times that intense.

That must of sucked for the people who wanted no part of it and were stuck there.

 

Obama really was an amazing president..

you should get down on your hands and knees every day and thank god we had the right man in charge
when this country needed him the most