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Violent standoff between Cops and Protesters in Baltimore

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IKizzLE said:
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"That is... That is a disgusting act."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dmqGg6Ccvw

sorry if a bit of humour is inappropriate, I always loved Randy Moss
 
Man some (alot) of you guys piss me off. Can I come burn down your properties in the name of protest? Cuz you know, you and your personal property are the problem.
 
empanada said:
You should read up on a guy named Martin Luther King....he accomplished a lot.
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He also had a few things to say about people who declare that the "message is ruined" or that it needs to wait for a "more convenient season." I don't think he'd really be on your side.
 
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Clergy and protesters are marching across the area to quell the violence.

https://twitter.com/kateamaraWBAL/status/592840251430850560
In case you didn't hear: THE CLERGY are now ESCORTING THE POLICE to stop the violence. An amazing moment. Amazing
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https://twitter.com/kateamaraWBAL/status/592839718892613632
"the police are going to follow the clergy back up" it's now the clergy protecting the police in Baltimore
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empanada said:
You should read up on a guy named Martin Luther King....he accomplished a lot.
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Learn something. From my previous post:

Let me help you understand what others saying, using the words of Dr. King, since you hold him in high regard.

Now I wanted to say something about the fact that we have lived over these last two or three summers with agony and we have seen our cities going up in flames. And I would be the first to say that I am still committed to militant, powerful, massive, non­-violence as the most potent weapon in grappling with the problem from a direct action point of view. I'm absolutely convinced that a riot merely intensifies the fears of the white community while relieving the guilt. And I feel that we must always work with an effective, powerful weapon and method that brings about tangible results. But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.
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And so we must still face the fact that our nation's summers of riots are caused by our nations winters of delay. As long as justice is postponed we always stand on the verge of these darker nights of social disruption. The question now, is whether America is prepared to do something massively, affirmatively and forthrightly about the great problem we face in the area of race and the problem which can bring the curtain of doom down on American civilization if it is not solved. And I would like to talk for the next few minutes about some of the things that must be done if we are to solve this problem.
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He delivered this speech a month before he died. Five years after "I Have a Dream". A year before, in his book, the Trumpet of Conscience?

I am aware that there are many who wince at a distinction between property and persons—who hold both sacrosanct. My views are not so rigid. A life is sacred. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on; it is not man.

The focus on property in the 1967 riots is not accidental. It has a message; it is saying something.

If hostility to whites were ever going to dominate a Negro’s attitude and reach murderous proportions, surely it would be during a riot. But this rare opportunity for bloodletting was sublimated into arson, or turned into a kind of stormy carnival of free-merchandise distribution. Why did the rioters avoid personal attacks? The explanation cannot be fear of retribution, because the physical risks incurred in the attacks on property were no less than for personal assaults. The military forces were treating acts of petty larceny as equal to murder. Far more rioters took chances with their own lives, in their attacks on property, than threatened the life of anyone else. Why were they so violent with property then? Because property represents the white power structure, which they were attacking and trying to destroy. A curious proof of the symbolic aspect of the looting for some who took part in it is the fact that, after the riots, police received hundreds of calls from Negroes trying to return merchandise they had taken. Those people wanted the experience of taking, of redressing the power imbalance that property represents. Possession, afterward, was secondary.

A deeper level of hostility came out in arson, which was far more dangerous than the looting. But it, too, was a demonstration and a warning. It was designed to express the depth of anger in the community.
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Which is to say that King was no a proponent of violence, but he at least understood why it was happening.
 
esms said:
This is what people don't talk about often that gets me riled. Police brutality is literally being subsidized by the citizens of whatever city or town you reside in. Those settlements are taxpayer money that could be going to much better use.
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Not even mentioning the biggest issue of them all - none of these officers were criminally convicted.
 
empanada said:
You should read up on a guy named Martin Luther King....he accomplished a lot.
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Yep and was attacked by dogs, high pressure water hoses, sent to jail multiple times and was threatened by the government. Oh, and he was killed in the end.

Maybe you should take your own advice.
 
Control and suppress. Dismiss angry and disenfranchised youths as "thugs." Deify the police.

Yep, that's not going to help.
 
While people are gonna talk about the 'thugs' I think we've forgotten that its going on two weeks since a dude got his neck broke and there's still no answers. If there was a solid answer given a few days in, none of this would have happened.
 
DrForester said:
I'm behind. What happened in Chicago?
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the usual, a cowardly cop thought he was playing Gears of War and blind fired into a crowd of people because he was scared. Shot a lady in the back of the head, had no defense, and got off because prosecution said the death was an accident instead of murder, because you know, benefit of the doubt.
dangerdays15 said:
Man some (alot) of you guys piss me off. Can I come burn down your properties in the name of protest? Cuz you know, you and your personal property are the problem.
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Fuck you too.
 
How do you hold a press conference and simply come out and call all these people thugs and not even mention once what is the real root of the problem?

Go ahead and tell them they need to stop. But the real cowards are the mayor and her lackies propping the police up.
 
johnny956 said:
Based on what's happening in the St. Louis area...progress. Police chief stepping down. Judge stepping down. Completely changing how the fine system works in the municipal courts...just to name a few
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Ferguson was ahella lot more peaceful than this.

I guess I will hold my reservations till after the dust settles and see how the community is affected.
 
ag-my001 said:
Previous mayor resigned after a gift card scandal.
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this would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

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I don't think getting on a podium and delivering fighting words was really the most appropriate response.

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PopeReal said:
How do you hold a press conference and simply come out and call all these people thugs and not even mention once what is the real root of the problem?

Go ahead and tell them they need to stop. But the real cowards are the mayor and her lackies propping the police up.
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she didn't even tell or ask them to stop! she just implied they were going to make them stop!

I mean, shit
 
Kendrick Lamar
I can truly tell you that there’s nothing but turmoil goin’ on so I wanted to ask you what you think is the future for me and my generation today?
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2Pac
I think that niggas is tired of grabbin' shit out the stores and next time it’s a riot there’s gonna be, like, uh, bloodshed for real. I don’t think America know that. I think American think we was just playing and it’s gonna be some more playing but it ain’t gonna be no playing. It’s gonna be murder, you know what I’m saying, it’s gonna be like Nat Turner, 1831, up in this muthafucka. You know what I’m saying, it’s gonna happen
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