I see that we have reached the "these days, if you say you're English, they'll arrest you and throw you in jail" level of discourse
Protests following the killing of George Floyd
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Aren't they removing the monuments of these slavers? Not sure what point you are trying to make.
We were originally talking about monuments of slavers, not any of these other situations. Let's chill with the straw men.
They are taking them down. That's positive.
Yes, non-threatening citizens are killed by cops in USA. What I don't think happens, and pretty sure what he was saying is, you don't randomly get picked on by cops. There will be a reason you are pulled over and potentially killed as a consequence, innocent or not. That may be a reason unknown to the innocent victim. There will be outlier cases, as with anything. Countless video evidence? That's a bit exaggerated, no? There's about 1000 people killed by cops in the US each year.
It wasn't supposed to start at minute 8, that happened unknowingly. You did however watch 50 minutes of the video, and from that compare these two to Candance Owens.
What are these people protesting against exactly?
It's mainly a piss-up I think.
I’ve no idea and was about to ask, seriously why are they attacking the police, wtf is going on?
The police as done a great job today keeping both parties apart.
They'll say they're there to protect statues and history etc, but by attacking police (who are actually there to protect statues and history etc), they're proving the point that they just fancied a day out and a scrap.
There's been no football, no euros, sun was shining, they needed to let the aggression out some way.
I'm just surprised Brits are targeting Churchill. I thought he was one of your most beloved leaders?
Same reason they attack police outside football grounds, they are all off their heads on a thuggery rampage
Out of interest what was your take on last weekend's protests and the attacks on the police.....is that the face of No Brexit?
Shitheads!
I feel sorry for uk police the last week, they’ve had it from blm the last week with rioting and battles, the shit this weekend with these thugs, (don’t know what else to call them) All the while being absolutely hammered online as being crap, pointless, racist, accused as being as bad as American police and tarred with same brush.
they’ve handled most things I’ve seen well in my opinion this last week, I think people should cut them some slack.
And I say all this as someone who has never been a great lover of the police.
One last thing while I’m mid rant, midweek I seen a poster say of the police When they handled something well they’re just doing their job,they don’t deserve praise, you don’t praise a fish for swimming or something along those lines. It’s a terrible attitude to have, if that poster had a new kitchen or garden I’d no doubt they’d praise the work if they were happy with it. Every profession deserves praise if they produce good work, aswell as the police.
There’s no respect at all and then people wonder why this shit happens
For me that is the saddest thing about today’s world. There is no middle ground. It’s all about extremes of both left and right. Might as well expunge compromise and conciliation from the dictionaries. They are defunct concepts.
But were they?
What are they protesting?
The price of Stella.
They really love gone with the wind?
Right to protect statues, I guess.
Seems like a fair reason to batter the police, carry on lads.
They came down for a fight. Got drunk then forgot what they came down for.
Fixed that for you.
Oops yes forgot that.The nerve to pretend this is about statues, please.
I absolutely despair at the state of this country.
What kind of knuckle dragging mouth breather sees people trying to fight for equality for black people and thinks “fecking hell we can’t have that, I have to get out and protest against it”.
Yet we’ve had plenty of people telling us the UK doesn’t have a racism issue.
What kind of knuckle dragging mouth breather sees people trying to fight for equality for black people and thinks “fecking hell we can’t have that, I have to get out and protest against it”.
Yet we’ve had plenty of people telling us the UK doesn’t have a racism issue.
Absolute state of that lot.
But both sides!
Literally this, people have spent the last week telling us that the U.K. doesn’t have a problem with racism.
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Of course we have racists, the racists of years ago haven't gone away, they have just got older and bred in that time.
If that's what he meant that is a completely nothing statement. "Innocent people are shot for a reason." Ok, but that's not a real argument.
You should actually look at the evidence of police brutality in this data set (just from the protests).
Secondly, of those people killed by cops, this study says only 83% of them are armed. Not sure what outlier you are talking about.
When I say sound like Candace Owens, I mean they argue the "what" instead of the "why". It's fairly easy to cite raw numbers, but as economists, you would think they would be running regressions on this data.
Are you going to use those thugs to tar or speak for all of the British people?
just as the other side was shut down for accusing the protestors as being rioters and looters?
yes there’s racists, we know that.
I didn’t say all brits are racist did I, however I worded it badly so I will edit accordingly.
Any semi accurate numbers around on the people involved in this today? All a bit depressing, but also a spectacular own goal for those creating rumbles against the previous weekend protests. No-one in their right mind wants to be associated with vermin like these EDL types, and those who do are no loss.
Yep, i'm really looking forward to seeing how those clowns try to justify that view, considering the oxygen thieves we're witnessing in London today.
Just looked like pointless point scoring.
these idiots shouldn’t represent anyone
Does it make any difference though? Clearly one, is one too many based on what we're witnessing today.
have you been stuck in a time-loop for 5 days?
Last week crying about the R Rate, and the Police being attacked. All of that out of the window today then.