George Floyd murder | Clashes between US police and protestors

[idahoblues]

Silly question bug is the "in the sticks" phrase just a Mass thing?

Lived there for nearly 10 years. Loved it and loved the people, even the over-zealous nazi looking police. Lol.

Aptly enough I was the beneficiary of police racism once. In my first summer there and with more money than sense I leased a sporty car. Brought my friend to an Irish bar near South Station, Boston that weekend. Ended up drinking myself and being hammered. Stupidly offered to get us 10 or so miles to a friends house. Crashed, right in front of a parked cop car on my first turn. Totalled the car. White cop after chatting with my other Irish friends asked all about my Irish heritage and told me how I was all set. Black cop said I was going to pay for such an obviously idiotic and dangerous crime. Next thing at least 20 white cops come out of an Irish bar across the road ( must have heard the huge crash). White cop has a word and then the all circle the black cop. He gets back into the squad car, I'm in the back. He is furious. Tells me I'm getting off with everything because I'm white. That only hours ago they dealt with black guys my age and no mercy was shown. I apologised and said I knew it was unfair and that I deserved the same as them but... later I got a $50 fine for speeding in a 30 zone.

I'd be ok with that

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I like Colin!

I like Colin 2

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I post rarely, this whole thread and the situation in the good ole U S of A has peaked my interest.
Surely they can see that a properly vetted and trained police force is the way forward ?
How they have let thugs and murderers have a badge and so much power is beyond me.
Some of these idiots are tooled up to the eyeballs and are a bunch of bell ends.

As we have heard from the President, FOR HIM it is about DOMINATION, NOT DE-ESCALATION.

Don’t forget, in a gun-soaked society, every police-public interaction is potentially 1 second from death...on both sides of the confrontation. I’m not commenting on whether guns are good or bad, because they have been a fact of life in America since the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment, but we appear to have more people “flashing” more weapons on more occasions, and being more brazen in their exhortations. That’s the bad side of life on the streets...again, on both sides.

What we saw tonight from Trump was, again, total pandering to his base...photo op in front of a church while holding up a Bible that looked like it was virtually brand new and a “law and order” tirade for the rednecks who think black people on the streets should not only be arrested and/or shot, but lynched for good measure!

 

[BosnianBlue]

live from washington. they don't give a fuck about curfew

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

I'd be ok with that

Are there cars in your part of Idaho or do you just own a souped-up covered wagon? :)

 

[TonyM]

Are there cars in your part of Idaho or do you just own a souped-up covered wagon? :)

Thought they traveled on grizzlies.

 

[idahoblues]

Are there cars in your part of Idaho or do you just own a souped-up covered wagon? :)

No cars, only pickup trucks

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Thought they traveled on grizzlies.

I knew it! @idahoblues is Brick Tamland!

 

[SWP's back]

I'm not called Colin bud.

Ha sorry. I though PB had lost his log in and created PB2.

 

[SWP's back]

I think he has quite a way to go to catch tricky Dicky Nixon.

Trump’s wrongs for which he was impeached were about 10x what Nixon did. Nixon didn’t have Fox or twitter and the GoP used to have a set of morals.