George Floyd murder | Clashes between US police and protestors

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idahoblues said:
A mere flesh wound. I remember being in England during the big riots in the early 80's, I remember the LA riots in the early 90's , the London riots in 2011, people have to let off steam but at the end of the day have to go back to work. Hopefully something positive will come out of all this but not end of days stuff
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Do you cause trouble everywhere you go? :-)
 
BlueSkinz said:
Who with? Antifa? Blacks in America are waking up to the fact they're getting used for votes so who? American pickers have probably found more guns in one shed than what the US military own.
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I said the same thing about the Black vote and some soft arsed neolib Wall St 'tough nut' from San Francisco, on here, said 'if he were Black, he'd have kicked my arse for saying it1'!

Oh, how I chortled...
 
basokla said:
Just curious. Was your upbringing diverse? Mine was and I honestly don’t even notice skin colour, race, etc.
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It was reasonably but then I live in a very white part of the world - south west.

I'm thinking about media perceptions and things like that - talented black footballers being singled out for physicality and things like that.

I just think there's a systematic bias that's there and ingrained. I've seen Asian friends been given grief and the 'jokes' in a footy changing room about the black lads - they're symptoms of it not being an equal society
 
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Here's some more good cops not stopping their colleague from pepper spraying a reporter who is already face down on the ground.


 
Miles Davis beaten by police and arrested while having a cigarette during a set break outside the club he was performing at.
“Remembering Miles Davis, and remembering the long history of black men being brutalized simply for being. For those don’t know the history, on August 25, 1959–eight days after the release of his “Kind of Blue album—Miles was performing at Birdland, recording an Armed Forces Day broadcast for Voice of America. In between sets he had escorted a friend out and put her in a cab and was relaxing in front on the club having a smoke. A police officer approached him and asked him to move on. Miles pointed to the marquee, explaining to the officer that he was performing inside and that it was his name on the marquee. Still the officer persisted, not caring who he was or what he was doing. While Miles was trying to explain to the police officer that he was making a mistake when a detective, drawn by the crowd that was starting gather, blindsided him and hit him in the head a few times with a billy club, drawing blood. He was then arrested and taken into custody, and after going to the hospital to get his head stitched up was charged with felonious assault on an officer.”



Dumb arse cop beating up the world's greatest trumpet player.
 
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