Senate "Race" Relations (was "U.S. Society and Black Men")

While then i guess i am wasting my time then. Have a nice day/ night where ever you are.

 

@anakincol
You suggested probable cause was met for Brooks to pose a "significant threat of death or serious bodily harm to the officer or others." A police body cam video has now been released showing the incident over 43 minutes. Brooks was drunk and incoherent. When the officer tried to arrest him at 41 min., Brooks resisted. The surveillance video from Wendy's then shows he grabbed the taser and appears to have turned it on while being chased.

Couldn't there have been another way to stop Brooks and get the taser away from him? We don't pay officers to take shortcuts that cost lives. The officer could have kept his cool and found a way to stop Brooks that used the least amount of force. Instead, he reached for his gun and shot. There is doubt as to probable cause for threat of death and serious bodily harm. Wouldn't the probable cause for threat of death and serious bodily harm be separate from probable cause for public drunkenness?

 

Don't let it hit 'cha on the way out.

 

language

Spoiler

also our legacy:

 

Here's something interesting. A white woman was filmed setting fire to the Wendy's in Atlanta yesterday. She was dressed in all black, similar to how we've seen other provocateurs dressed. There's definitely some kind of forum that these people from all over are involved in, who then get some kind of order by somebody to go out and commit something in real time as a protest is happening. I know I'm playing internet detective here, but these instances just seem far too similar and coordinated, especially concerning how they dress. And for this incident in Atlanta to happen now, after these instances appeared to have died down, seems very narrowly targeted. And it wouldn't have been difficult to see things brewing early in the evening, so there would have been time to get somebody out there. Weird. I wonder what could possibly be uncovered, surely the FBI or ATF has to be looking into it.

https://nypost.com/2020/06/14/atlanta-police-seek-masked-woman-suspected-of-burning-down-wendys/

 

Ben Carson says Americans needs to "grow up" and not be so sensitive to racism
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ben-...antile-confederacy_n_5ee6a241c5b6f434d0dff3de

 

Patrick Hutchinson, the man who became famous for carrying a far-right protester to safety in London, speaks out.

 

Seattle has banned police use of tear gas, rubber bullets.

 

Are there any pushes right now federally to ban tear gas and other chemicals use by the police?

 

Sen. Sanders spoke about it on the Senate floor, but I'm not sure if he (or anyone else) has introduced legislation yet.

 

Doesn’t go far enough. Chemical agents should be banned. Full stop.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/jon..._mrgRR0ATuTdZ0VaiLPXVsp_JBy5YHSBdkX5nSE3v3Wdg

Jon Stewart says the police are essentially a "border patrol" between "two Americas" and are "enforcing segregation." It may not be legal, but it never really ended, he says. Given how so many police mistreat African Americans, I can see why.

Stewart then alluded to the coronavirus pandemic and restrictions imposed because of it, saying that white people lasted only six weeks in quarantine before they stormed a "state building with rifles, shouting: 'Give me liberty! This is causing economic distress! I'm not going to wear a mask, because that's tyranny!'"

"That's six weeks versus 400 years of quarantining a race of people," he added. "The policing is an issue, but it's the least of it. We use the police as surrogates to quarantine these racial and economic inequalities so that we don't have to deal with them."

The comedian explained that if the U.S. does not address the "anguish" of a people who built the country via forced labor, we will continue to hear people say, "I'm tired of everything being about race.'' So, many of MLK's warnings have come to pass.

 

Stewart is absolutely brilliant for seeing the writing on the wall and for bowing out when he did. He saw where things were headed in this country, and knew that he would be right in the middle of all of it.

 

He also is not nearly as well-suited for the times as Trevor Noah. Just as Stewart did, Noah has settled into the job and made it his own.

 

I think Stewart knew that his own popularity would have made him far too much of a center point in all of this. Which he didn't want to be. And by handing it off to a new host, the platform would have remained alive and well, but also not be quite as front and center. Stewart knew exactly what he was doing. But I agree, Trevor Noah is definitely a good replacement.

 

idk I feel like a better replacement would be anyone who hasn't joked about protesters being massacred, and said that tear gas and rubber bullets don't work so lethal rounds have to be used.

 

Trevor "We should be both pro-cops and pro-black" Noah is absolutely not at all good for today, thank you very much.

 

You just have an answer for everything don't you?

 

Should I not?

 

Must be nice.