Cyclists have always been on the wrong side of history.
Protests following the killing of George Floyd
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True. But I think it's also about A) a leader like Trump actually emboldening them and encouraging their piss poor behaviour and B) maybe I'm not aware, but in the US political system don't the democrats need the support of the republicans to get reforms passed?
It's like in my country bigotry has always existed. But it's coming from the top now and hence has assumed a normalcy it didn't have earlier. That's I imagine the Trump effect in Murica.
I don't know why, but I pictured one of the classic Top Gears with Hammond on a bike riding through London reading that.
An infinite supply of these, if police brutality videos could be monitised the economy would never slow
This is deeper than Trump, these are American values we are watching.
Is there actually a different in most presidents dealing with this?
Obama/Bush/Clinton would probably be more uniting, diplomatic, sympathetic and appealing to the international community, but behind all those does police violence really that much different / less under any president?
Dumbo was right, this goes beyond trump, this is America without her make up.
Obama/Bush/Clinton would probably be more uniting, diplomatic, sympathetic and appealing to the international community, but behind all those does police violence really that much different / less under any president?
Dumbo was right, this goes beyond trump, this is America without her make up.
it's amazing how you think ONE experiment is the absolute truth.
Disregarding of course the fact that all scientific experiments must have enough sample size to be remotely considered.
Also disregarding the fact that there are black people who are completely ignorant of the struggle of their own race like Candace Owen and Ben Carson."
I have to wonder if anyone can still say it's just a few bad apples after the last week. Even if you don't go around stating ACAB surely it's clear there's a problem in the system.
Both above VDOs are very hard to watch.
I have a feeling Trump will use his presidential powers to pardon every cop found guilty of these offences. Because they seem motivated to ‘dominate’ just like he instructed.
It’s the only thing that makes sense. Else why are these cop cnuts behaving like this, seemingly without fear of repercussions?
I have a feeling Trump will use his presidential powers to pardon every cop found guilty of these offences. Because they seem motivated to ‘dominate’ just like he instructed.
It’s the only thing that makes sense. Else why are these cop cnuts behaving like this, seemingly without fear of repercussions?
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PLC BRTLTY is always difficult to WTCH
From another angle...
How long it takes until somebody helps - and not one from the police... And all just watching...
Someone should make a chronological montage of all the recorded crimes committed by cops. Start at death of floyd and include all major political moments too
It's not her father, it's her friend, also a teenage boy.
There's a reddit post from the girl and her friends accounting this incident
A big part of the racism construct is to divide & dominate the oppressed culture/race. Read up on something like colourism - black people have long been taught to see their differences as a reason to be wary of each other, that Candace Owens character is a fine example of how years of miseducation can lead to black people separating themselves from each other to feel better than.
You have a criminal system that has 1000s of black Americans serving lengthy spells in prison for marijuana offences in states where white Americans are now legally earning $s from the stuff - these offences can often be for amounts that would be for personal consumption but these men are now criminals nonetheless.
You admit institutional racism creates an unfair environment for people of colour but then lean heavily on a study based in this ‘unfair environment’ based on ‘preconceptions’.
In the spirit of RaceCafe, your post is an idiot. “this study shows black people are also scared of black people so white people cant be racist” gtfoh.
So the study shows black people have been demonised so much people of all colours would shoot first & ask questions later - I’m failing to see how this is an issue with black violence instead of deeply ingrained racism.
I am afraid is a few good apples
That 75 yo man is in hospital in serious condition now. Police first official statement was that he tripped and fell.
No idea where America goes from here.
These and other threads seem to show that the police all over the country have been told that the brakes are off. This one particularly, not because a 75 year old white man has been assaulted but that even if the officer responsible may have appeared concerned for a moment at the result, he was telling other officers around him to keep moving forward. Would this suggest that the police have been told that they will face no repercussions or is it simply that a few 'bad apples' are allowing whatever thin veneer of decency that normally would hold their brutality in check to slip given the opportunity?
Just like our right wing media. Morons.
It's a sad thing, native americans are disproportionately suspected by the police in the US and I assume that it's also the case in Canada. It's an other group that needs to be defended by the public.
the theory from both adam smith and marx is that the main role of the police is to protect private property (things like great wealth and factories, rather than personal property) from the masses. this is the quote from smith:
but what the police are doing here goes beyond that. there were reports of police concentrating and using force on a large peaceful crowd even as looters burned shops elsewhere.
I think we underestimate the really powerful 'us against the world' mentality that the cops in America probably have right now.
The police brutality has been horrific, and there are so many videos showing so that no one can call this shit anecdotal anymore, but as the tweet implies above, I'm sure they do have a really vicious siege mentality right now. The idea that many would give up or switch sides and that the rioters would prevail was always daft.
The police brutality has been horrific, and there are so many videos showing so that no one can call this shit anecdotal anymore, but as the tweet implies above, I'm sure they do have a really vicious siege mentality right now. The idea that many would give up or switch sides and that the rioters would prevail was always daft.
One president obviously isn't responsible for so many police officers being scum. But at the very least I have seen a shocking amount of attacks on press people I never would've expected in a country like the US and I can't help but think it's connected to the "fake news" propaganda.
I don't think this siege mentality just developed due to the protests. They have always had that mentality, hence why cops have been so well protected by the law for decades. It's taken the largest protest in history to even get them to do these bare minimum accountability acts the last few days.
Where was this Cory during the Primaries?
More of the wrong sort of cyclists
I'm so glad I don't live in America, how on earth people stop themselves reacting to things like that I've no idea. I know it's probably due to fear for their own life, but my god the sheer nerve of some of the police, in knowing they'll get away with it would tip me over the edge I think.
Such hypocrites.
Sorry if posted already, but surely all of these incidents will have to be investigated? This guy wasn't being violent or behaving in a threatening manner.
Supposedly. Freedom of speech. My arse.