Not a riot
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Good starting point is don't get belligerent with cops. There are two sides to this equation. Letting your anger, righteous or not, put you in the position where this could happen is the first mistake. Cops are on edge not because they are all racist but because experience tells them that certain belligerent behaviors are likely to escalate and they have to keep control of the situation.
That is just one side of the story but one that is all too infrequently told. There cannot be any excuse for kneeling on a man's neck to keep him down.
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“ The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation. Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease. The combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by the police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death.”
A bit of a twist ending in the formal charges.
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@89th said in Not a riot:
“ The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation. Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease. The combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by the police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death.”
A bit of a twist ending in the formal charges.
Link?
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@George-K said in Not a riot:
@Jolly said in Not a riot:
From the man who set race relations back twenty years...
From the man who was in the White House when Ferguson and Baltimore burned.
Not knowing much about this, where do you guys thinks race relations are right now in the US.
If assume at the end of President Bush, it was at a baseline of zero.
Jolly mentions at the end of President Obama, it would be a minus 20Where does the US stand now? Still -20? Better? Worse?
I have never been affected by it, and don't really know anybody who as, so am somewhat ignorant about how this affects people.
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@taiwan_girl said in Not a riot:
@George-K said in Not a riot:
@Jolly said in Not a riot:
From the man who set race relations back twenty years...
From the man who was in the White House when Ferguson and Baltimore burned.
Not knowing much about this, where do you guys thinks race relations are right now in the US.
If assume at the end of President Bush, it was at a baseline of zero.
Jolly mentions at the end of President Obama, it would be a minus 20Where does the US stand now? Still -20? Better? Worse?
I have never been affected by it, and don't really know anybody who as, so am somewhat ignorant about how this affects people.
Everything's great here. We're just getting a little tired of all the winning that being going on. It's been freaking non-stop. Win, win, win.
If anything bad has happened, it's basically Obama's fault.
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Shameless, but hilarious:
https://twitter.com/khaliya/status/1266512743990996994?s=20
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@taiwan_girl said in Not a riot:
@George-K said in Not a riot:
@Jolly said in Not a riot:
From the man who set race relations back twenty years...
From the man who was in the White House when Ferguson and Baltimore burned.
Not knowing much about this, where do you guys thinks race relations are right now in the US.
If assume at the end of President Bush, it was at a baseline of zero.
Jolly mentions at the end of President Obama, it would be a minus 20Where does the US stand now? Still -20? Better? Worse?
I have never been affected by it, and don't really know anybody who as, so am somewhat ignorant about how this affects people.
It's never absolutely wonderful. Never will be. But it's not bad, even in the Deep South. Sure there are some pretty racist people out there, but I think you can find that everywhere.
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The rioters destroy their own neighborhoods, rob their local businesses, create a lawless environment for everyone, and then will wonder why businesses close, leave the neighborhood, and never come back.
There will be future Economic Development initiatives in the neighborhood to bring back business and jobs, to repair or rebuild entire city blocks, using taxpayer funding to incent the programs. This destruction/rebuild sequence gets mighty expensive.
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Racism is gone.
There is no more racism in this country.
There are, of course, people who make judgments based on race, but the number is so low it is not worth counting.
The media coverage of racism in this country is about exactly what it was 30 or 40 years ago and it will never, ever change.
The virtuous politician's talk about racism in this country is about exactly what it was 30 or 40 years ago and it will never, ever change.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Not a riot:
The Mayor of Minneapolis gets it. It's the fault of white supremacists (and maybe THE RUSSIANS!):
Actually, my nephew the cop is friends with a cop in Minnesooota...He said his friend told him there were outside people helping to instigate the rioting and they were using cellphones to organise waves of mayhem.
Wonder who's paying them?...
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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