George Floyd murder | Clashes between US police and protestors

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People need to see the sickening footage of the horse bolting and the female officer colliding with a traffic light and then listen to the crowd baying and cheering and still throwing missiles. Disgusting.

They are absolute scum there is no doubt but to be fair it looked like it was short lived and the vast majority were well behaved. That said we shouldn't be praising people for being well behaved as that is least that should be expected. Looks like the protest in Manchester was peaceful so fair play to all that attended, regardless of whether it should have taken place with a pandemic ongoing.
 
Commending and defending them in a pandemic without social distancing in my view is downright disgusting, yes I defend the right to protest but just not now. As I said you cannot have it both ways.
How many times do I have to say I wish it wasn't now,most of them are wearing masks so they are aware
 
Every single one of those rioters should be locked up.

Or better still, stick them all on a wee island with their EDL counterparts and they can covid the fuck out of each other until their heart is content. Ferral scumbags.
 
Institutional racism was proven in our police force,the daily mail is racist ,individuals are racists ,we are different from the yanks as we police by consent,thank god,i wonder what we would be like if they were all armed,
If...

If they were armed it might well be very different to America, it could show something more similar to Swedish Policing, who knows?! You can’t base an argument with an “if”.

And I’ll state again, while there are racists and instances and statistics of racism or related to racism, that doesn’t mean that black people or any ethnicity are treated like dirt in this country. They most definitely are not!
 
At the risk of another battering,yesterday hancock was asked about police powers to break up the protests and he said it was down to the police,do they really not have a thought for a second, herd immunity? Up till now they have instructed the police and given them the powers and asked them to use them

Please move it if this is the wrong thread
 
Racism is alive and well in britain,ask raz

Yep, the MSM red tops put it on full display for the "white van man" and all that...
I know it’s terrible what happened but it was in the USA, not the U.K. I’m not naive enough to think racism doesn’t exist over here either. We’ve just had a referendum which was fought with some appallingly racist undertones, sometimes even overtly.

In the nicest possible way, I give as much of a shit about what happens in America as I do Iceland or Fiji. Nobody likes to see innocent people get hurt or people in power abuse their position but these scenes (in the U.K.) are ridiculous considering the lockdown.

Just because it’s America people have decided to continue the movement, we’re in the middle of a global pandemic and because of these protests there’s a very real chance more people will die. Now we’ve got dick heads causing trouble for the sake of it.

I made a flippant remark above so if anybody has taken offence then I apologise but I hold all members of society to the same standards, uniform or not.

And whilst I understand your point, there is very much a correlation in how laws the US and UK extract laws from each other. I'm not saying they are the same, but quite a few are derivative of each other.

Not only that, the relationship between countries are strong at this point.

Perhaps there is hope of international pressure to change from us to them, but we are not the only exerting such pressures on the US. Perhaps Germany and France, etc., also want the US to lead and be the change that ripples through other countries.
 
Institutional racism was proven in our police force,the daily mail is racist ,individuals are racists ,we are different from the yanks as we police by consent,thank god,i wonder what we would be like if they were all armed,
Karen the Met accepting being 'institutionally racist' is not the same as officers being racist. And the police have made huge strides since McPherson.
 
Just my 2 cents, but I really don't believe these mass gatherings should be allowed during the current pandemic. The people attending are a danger not only to themselves, but those they will come into contact with in the near future. Unfortunately Black people are dying at a disproportionate rate, it doesn't take Einstein to work out that todays protest may well add to those numbers.
Agree, but the social distancing / pandemic issue is very separate from the violence one
 
That’s not what I said nor implied but I do keep saying that Britain is the most multiculturally open and safe country in the world and no ethnicity is treated disproportionately badly compared to any other here.

Apart from black men being stopped and arrested in more frequency, all other statistics for the country show that white boys and men from deprived backgrounds have the worst of everything else in this country from education to school truancy to living with domestic violence to unemployment to living in poverty to living in the most deprived areas in the country to living in the worst housing in the country to drug dependency to homelessness to prison sentences...

So being the least racist is ok?

where did you grow up?

I can tell there is no intended offence from your post, you truly believe that and I’m not going to start dissecting it, however, don’t rely on stats on this matter, they’re extremely weak indicators of the truth....

You can’t speak on behalf of someone’s race from on a pedestal, let alone speak on ethnic groups behalf!
 
Karen the Met accepting being 'institutionally racist' is not the same as officers being racist. And the police have made huge strides since McPherson.
Oh for sure I don't tarr all police as racist but there has been problems there,i add all the racists intent towards individuals since they were kids into my thoughts on them protesting,casual racism is in the papers all the time and in the streets towards black and Muslims as well as others,we are a very welcoming country but to pretend that there no racism and therefore no basis to the demonstrations is wide of the mark. IMO
 
Good news! The cops who pushed over that 75 year old man has been arrested.


Bad news...this is a video of the entire police and fire departments cheering them as they leave court.

 
Good news! The cops who pushed over that 75 year old man has been arrested.


Bad news...this is a video of the entire police and fire departments cheering them as they leave court.


That is truly sickening and lays bare that some sections of the police actually enjoy being aggressive ,violent bullies towards the old,women,kids,black and ethnics,welcome to trump land
 
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