Today's shooting in America thread

Trevor Morley's Tache said:
I stand by my original comment. The majority of the people are fine, but the majority of the people being fine never seems to stop this kind of thing happening.
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I doesn't stop it happening anywhere in the world but the yanks get the bad press there's good and bad the world over, to say the entire countries F*cked because of the actions of a few is only ok if it's the states.
 
i kne albert davy said:
I doesn't stop it happening anywhere in the world but the yanks get the bad press there's good and bad the world over, to say the entire countries F*cked because of the actions of a few is only ok if it's the states.
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The US get the bad press because they deserve it.

For a country that professes to be one of the greatest democracies in the world they have some of the worst examples of human rights abuse on the planet.
 
I wonder if most cops in America are suffering from PTSD

Or they're just very angry stressed and wound up like lots of people these days
 
A northern California man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly plotting a mass shooting attack against Jews.

Ross Anthony Farca, 23, of the town of Concord was caught by local police in collaboration with the FBI, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Saturday.

The arrest was reportedly the result of a tip from someone who saw threatening messages posted by Farca on a gaming website.

Farca has an obsession with Nazism and embraces a violently anti-Semitic ideology. A search of his home following the arrest revealed that he possessed books on Nazism and the Hitler Youth, as well as an assault rifle and ammunition.

He was apparently planning a copycat attack similar to the shootings at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh 1 in October and the Chabad of Poway synagogue in California in late April. He also regarded the man who killed 51 Muslim worshipers at a mosque and Islamic center in Christchurch, New Zealand, as a hero.

Detectives were also able to obtain an emergency Gun Violence Restraining Order against Farca to prevent him from legally purchasing any more firearms, the Chronicle said.

Farca reportedly intended to wear a Nazi uniform while carrying out his planned attack.
 
The number of ppl shot dead by police in 2018 in US was 998
The number of ppl shot dead by police in 2017/8 in UK was 4.
 
Ethnic minority men are 3 times more likely to be fatally shot by US police than white men.
2.2 per 100k per year vs. 0.7 per 100k per year
 
159 murders in Washington dc in 2018
135 murders in London 2018
DC has a population of c. 700,000, London not far off 10 times that
 
KS55 said:
The number of ppl shot dead by police in 2018 in US was 998
The number of ppl shot dead by police in 2017/8 in UK was 4.
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393 million firearms in US less than 2 million in UK in civilian hands US police routinely armed British police not so explains that, with so many firearms in circulation with criminals prepared to use them is it any wonder US police are trigger happy.
 
Banned Tosspot said:
Same shit was happening under other presidents.

Change the tune
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Change the tune?

Why? Because you think it's okay for the POTUS to suggest a little bit of violence against someone who has been arrested (innocent until PROVEN guilty in a Court of Law) is perfectly acceptable?

There are indeed lots of incidents of police brutality carried out across many different presidential terms, but the only other presidents I can think of who actually suggested violence and police brutality were LBJ and Richard M Nixon. That was a totally different era, and one in which should be resigned to the history books for many reasons.​

Unfortunately, Trump doesn't do history, and his rhetoric has been cited as a contributory factor in the causes of Pittsburgh, Charlottesville, Christchurch and other right wing terror/racist/anti-sematic incidents. The video of him addressing those police officers, and telling them to treat prisoners with contempt flies in the face of what it is to be a law abiding, law upholding human being.
 
KS55 said:
159 murders in Washington dc in 2018
135 murders in London 2018
DC has a population of c. 700,000, London not far off 10 times that
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Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Change the tune?

Why? Because you think it's okay for the POTUS to suggest a little bit of violence against someone who has been arrested (innocent until PROVEN guilty in a Court of Law) is perfectly acceptable?

There are indeed lots of incidents of police brutality carried out across many different presidential terms, but the only other presidents I can think of who actually suggested violence and police brutality were LBJ and Richard M Nixon. That was a totally different era, and one in which should be resigned to the history books for many reasons.​

Unfortunately, Trump doesn't do history, and his rhetoric has been cited as a contributory factor in the causes of Pittsburgh, Charlottesville, Christchurch and other right wing terror/racist/anti-sematic incidents. The video of him addressing those police officers, and telling them to treat prisoners with contempt flies in the face of what it is to be a law abiding, law upholding human being.
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Same old shit.
 
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