George Floyd murder | Clashes between US police and protestors

[idahoblues]

What kind of question is that??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks

I think he's more foul than the other guy

 

[JRockBlues]

Somebody more skilled with video editing than me should do one of those cops behaving badly compilations and entitle it Corruption Of Protect & Serve.

 

[Blue Feather]

I really don't understand why they have to kill people when they have other things such as Tasers etc. Can they invent or do they have a human tranquiliser if worst comes to the worst rather than go all the way and take someone's life? I appreciate that its not an easy job, especially out there but there must be other ways

 

[domalino]

Just saw the Police and National Guard shot someone dead in Louisville.

 

[Fame Monster]

Here's a UN report on the issue.

It can sometimes be difficult to unpick the racial element from socio-economic elements. But the amount that black people are arrested for and are more harshly punished for drug offences is a key indicator, because those offences are carried out equally by all races.

That's always the difficulty with racial comparisons.

Black Americans are 3 times more likely to be killed by US police than white Americans but the poverty rate for black Americans is also 3 times higher than white Americans:

• Among racial and ethnic groups, African Americans had the highest poverty rate, 27.4 percent, followed by Hispanics at 26.6 percent and whites at 9.9 percent.

That doesn't mean that poor = criminal but it's difficult to clearly see from statistics whether there is a link between police brutality and race, and if there is, just how bad it is.

Obviously, if there isn't a link, then I still think black Americans (and others) should be asking/protesting as to why their poverty rate is so much higher than other ethnic groups.

 

[Magicpole]

In America it seems to go like this.

Police brutalise and kill black people unlawfully. Many get away with it. Then they murder another man even though he knows he's being filmed. Think about that. Think about a mindset that you think even killing a man in camera you will get away with it.

Then we see that community retaliate and then the focus is shifted to looting to salve the conscience of white America. We blame people for being angry that their people who you are killing get angry.

This is institutional racism right there.

Here's an idea America, stop treating people inhumanely and unfairly, stop brutalising and killing them. Stop discrimination based on ethnicity. That stops the rioting. Don't do anything to change the situation, let it continue, but then accept it's you who are the problem.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

 

[cjn]

It's a no brainer how things get better.

Get rid of the source of the incitement. Get rid of the man who supported armed attacks on state legislatures yet is encouraging the police to shoot dead protestors against racially motivated murder. Get rid of the man who said there were some fine people amongst the fascists and racists in Charlottesville yet has labelled those that oppose them as terrorists.

It's quite fucking simple. Get rid of Trump. Anything else will be better. What Biden agreed with in 1994 is totally irrelevant and a distraction.

In the real world, where decisions have consequences, people understand this. That's why Biden is up by eight points or so, and in my opinion, will win this November. It's usually only the people who are privileged enough not to be affected on way or another by the outcome who argue that both parties are the same, it's a choice between lesser evils, or whatever else nonsense flavor of the month there is. The rest of us realize what's at stake because we aren't complete idiots.

 

[Bigga]

They had their hands up, tasered the guy, first and then set the dog on him!

What's that fuck cop doing with the dog, cos he looked like he was struggling?!

POS, the lot of them!

 

[bobmcfc]

This is not policing