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Protests following the killing of George Floyd
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fcuking hell. felt abit sick.
She’s an attorney for one of the biggest police unions in the country.
When Elton John got sued for sexual harassment a few years ago, she’s who rep’d the cop in court for the suit.
Trudeau having to do Trump's job for him 
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I want to fecking fight Joseph Murray right fecking now. He is probably 4th generation Scots irish that couldn't name one county in Ireland. What a delusional dick.
They were founded as a Federative Republic after declaring independence from the English crown. He referred to the founding as a positive or negative event. So you either have the United States, or you have the British Colonies. I don't much know which other options there are. Between those, I'll take the Republic.
On a broader note, this isn't a topic where you can just say "America bad". Are we coming at this from the perspective of Europeans? Because they're essentially the instigators of all this. All of the modern Americas is just the continuation of European rule but with political independence. I don't see why there should be a reset of the "atrocity scoreboard" if that's what we're going by.
From what I can see from the images on here and on other media forums we have a large majority of people who are sick and tired of the police treating coloured people in such ways so are peacefully protesting. Then we have people on the streets who lets be honest don't care about George Floyd and they are they to use the tension to break into shops and steal.
For me that gives the movement a bad name and makes it easy for the racist's in Amercia to point the finger and say well look at them .
For me that gives the movement a bad name and makes it easy for the racist's in Amercia to point the finger and say well look at them .
Sorry, but ex military and people who didn't make the cut for military are two different groups of people aren't they?
I agree they are a continuation of European colonialism. But you just don't see what's happening in US in Europe. So there was some individual evolution along the way wasn't there.
Europe for all its fault doesn't come close to the level of systemic murdering of POC.
That too being the case that USA are 'leaders of the free world'. Booyaa
Did I say anything about England? I was born and grew up on an island that was a British colony right up until 1962, so I'm not sure where you'll have ever found me saying the British Empire is any better than the US. They're both awful. That's a cool argument you proposed there but go tell it to someone it actually applies to.
Imagine being so shit at your job that your entire county needs to stay at home.
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A friend of mine protesting in Greenville, SC just text me...
“There are inserts at this Greenville protest. Shit just hit the fan. Riot gear and tear gas is out.
We got out of there. I can’t stomach that. Two shirtless white guys instigated shit and they got jumped. I thought they were dead. Something out of a movie.”
“There are inserts at this Greenville protest. Shit just hit the fan. Riot gear and tear gas is out.
We got out of there. I can’t stomach that. Two shirtless white guys instigated shit and they got jumped. I thought they were dead. Something out of a movie.”
Speaking of, if this scene was in a movie it would be winning awards for cinematography:
It's incredible how well timed some of the set pieces are. Hard to believe this is real life.
It's incredible how well timed some of the set pieces are. Hard to believe this is real life.
Dirty fecking thugs.
Canada is a next door possibility of what could have happened if the American Revolution. Not perfect up there but in the context of this thread they have a better track record so...
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For context, I'm Brazilian who just happens to have lived in the US the past few years. Certainly as a Brazilian I don't actually look to throw blame of our immense shortcomings as a society on the Portuguese. But Brazil, the US and much of the rest of the Americas was left to deal with a fairly unique problem in the 19th and 20th centuries which was a significant portion of the population in bondage and also of a very distinct ethnic make-up. It's been dealt with awfully by both the US and Brazil, albeit in different ways. Condemnation is valid. My partial counter-argument though is that we can't be certain that any society would have dealt with it much better. Certainly none of the European countries had almost 15% of the population on their home soil as foreign slaves.
Then as a former colonized you should understand at least one positive about the founding of the US: it was the template for most subsequent independence movements. I'm sorry that it took so long in the case of your country. Is it Trinidad & Tobago or Jamaica?
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Trinidad. I feel like something got lost along the way in what you gathered from my post. I didn’t mean the US gaining independence was a bad thing. I meant that since then, they’ve committed a ridiculous amount of atrocities, and since they’ve been in charge of their own destiny, there’s been a lot more negatives than positives associated with them.
The atrocities perpetrated there to black people are worse than we’ve seen virtually anywhere else in the world in the last century or so, with the only comparable place really being South Africa. And that’s before we even get into the amount of blood they’ve shed, both directly and indirectly all around the world.
So sure, them gaining their independence was all well and good, I’m not arguing that point, but what they’ve done since then has been awful, by and large.
That's the perfect comparison. I was trying to put my finger on what it reminded me of.
I've watched it 5 times now and keep seeing new things.
I agree. But just like I often find myself saying, it's a shit silver lining isn't it.
Presumably that city was under strict curfew at that moment? Difficult for police in this situation. State ordered curfew is serious shit.
I couldn't hear what he said but jeez, how thin skinned are these cops?!
CNN is reporting that Trump was stuffed into his underground bunker a couple nights ago for a while.
Such a coward.
It would be an awful shame if someone lost the key to the bunker.
Reports that a truck driver tried to drive through protestors.
That's not terrorism surely? I mean, its not like there's a systematic history of such events being classed as terrorism around the globe...
Oh is it different because they're white and not muslim?
I think the truck driver was just being an imbecile. He wanted to get through, but stopped when some guy didn't move out of the way, so fair to say he is not a terrorist.
We had people blocking a busy highway again in Tulsa. They were peacefully removed and around a thousand of them went downtown.
We are just one year short from the 100 year anniversary of the Greenwood/Black Wall Street riots for context, one of the worst single incidents of racial violence in US history. You might have seen it referenced in HBO’s The Watchmen.
We are just one year short from the 100 year anniversary of the Greenwood/Black Wall Street riots for context, one of the worst single incidents of racial violence in US history. You might have seen it referenced in HBO’s The Watchmen.
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It's been reported that the highway had been closed for an hour at this point. The implication being he was up to no good.
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Wow - the Minneapolis police chief was just at the site of George Floyd's murder, spoke to CNN with Floyd's family via the CNN reporter, and said that police officer silence = complicity. That the other officers there were complicit in Floyd's death.
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