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Woman records boyfriend after getting shot by the Police on Facebook
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It's crazy you came so close to dying over nothing.
If there was a job that probably most people would celebrate being replaced by robots it's law enforcement. Even if cars were built in with cameras to record these incidents there needs to be a fundamental change in how police or held responsible for their most reckless actions.
Damn
Heartbreaking. Things really do need to change. Feels so bad.Bits N Pieces
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I've read about this most of the day but that's the first time I've seen the video. Kind of speechless.
America, what's wrong with you?
America, what's wrong with you?
GoldenEye 007
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Deep racism in major critical institutions. Just never really liked black or brown people. There has been progress, but it is quite slow.
I wish it was that easy for other places. All the guys, and ladies, I worked with were top notch. You didn't have this mess. We talked about enforcement issues that were systemic in other areas and how we keep it from happening where we worked.
I'm retired now.
This, coupled with a love of violence and an abundance of guns.
Lots of European countries have deep seated racism too but don't experience even a fraction of events like this. Something about our firearm happy, paranoid populace allows shit like this to happen regularly.
A job well done, America.
Soft-ass cookie-cutter gutless motherfuckers, moist as dudes given firearms and badges.
NullPointer
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Thank God for live streaming.
Shows our country has a broken soul. A deranged sense of priorities, responsibilities, and so very little accountability. So much fear, and so much abuse.
This is so fucking heartbreaking. And infuriating.
Shows our country has a broken soul. A deranged sense of priorities, responsibilities, and so very little accountability. So much fear, and so much abuse.
This is so fucking heartbreaking. And infuriating.
Gordon Shumway
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Wow.
This is dated July 31st, 2015. So sad that this is basically like racist gravestone bingo.
entremet
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The Second Amendment's Second-Class Citizens
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...g-philando-castile-2nd-amendment-guns/490301/
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...g-philando-castile-2nd-amendment-guns/490301/
I always half joke that if we really want gun reform in America, every single black person in the country needs to purchase a firearm. The prospect of 36 million legally armed black people will light a fire under the asses of the NRA and no-compromise Republicans in office so fast.
This story just destroys me. A legally licensed firearm carrier, does the responsible thing and tells the officer that he's armed, and he's killed for it. And a busted tail light. I literally feel like there is nothing I'm allowed to do legally that won't end in me getting killed. I think I must have been out of my mind when I married a white woman. I should just keep a noose in my back pocket and save the mobs the trouble...
Zantetsuken
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It's not just America. We're not liked anywhere.
The NRA is, at its core, a racist organization, so this is disgusting but not surprising.
Captin Quacker
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freethoughtbubble
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Fuck that guy and fuck his system.
Bits N Pieces
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I remember watching a BBC Scotland programme a while back about American cops coming to Scotland to learn how the police here deal with confrontations, it was a great watch but I can only find this clip from it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v8qa5Wk_f7U
The admittance from the American cops that "he would have been shot, he would be dead" when viewing a training exercise is startling and the look on their faces when they see how our police deal with a guy with a machete is a look of shock and bewilderment.
The real tragedy happening in America isn't that these young men are being slayen (although it is and it is horrendous and what looks to me like acts of criminality by the police) but it's the fact that it keeps happening, all the time and no one seems to be able to do anything about it. So so sad.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v8qa5Wk_f7U
The admittance from the American cops that "he would have been shot, he would be dead" when viewing a training exercise is startling and the look on their faces when they see how our police deal with a guy with a machete is a look of shock and bewilderment.
The real tragedy happening in America isn't that these young men are being slayen (although it is and it is horrendous and what looks to me like acts of criminality by the police) but it's the fact that it keeps happening, all the time and no one seems to be able to do anything about it. So so sad.
why does due process apply to the police, but the citizens they kill?
Byakuya769
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Should not have watched this before having to be social...
When the realization hit that she wasn't just recording malfeasance but her boyfriend's last moments... just chilling.
When the realization hit that she wasn't just recording malfeasance but her boyfriend's last moments... just chilling.
GuitarAtomik
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I feel like I heard somewhere that the Black Panthers legally open carrying in the 70's ended up leading to stricter gun control laws.
GoldenEye 007
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This Minnesota governor.... what a terrible speaker, my god.
Edit: Apologies if it is due to some potential speech issue. Just never heard him speak before, obviously.
Edit: Apologies if it is due to some potential speech issue. Just never heard him speak before, obviously.
This is true, it's the source of California having aggressive gun control laws.
Secret Fawful
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Apologies if it's been posted in here already.
Time posted an article about Philando's impact on kids in the school he worked at. He was a role model for hundreds of kids.
Time posted an article about Philando's impact on kids in the school he worked at. He was a role model for hundreds of kids.
That is so fucking horrifying. I live in Los Angeles, and the tension between police and blacks is still pretty thick. I always freeze up when I have to interact with a cop, or if one pulls me over for whatever reason.
My best friend, he's white and Persian (but looks white), was telling me about this one time him and his friend were driving on the freeway (his friend was black, my white friend was driving), and they got pulled over. When the officer got out of the car, he approached the black passenger and demanded that HE get out of the car, then proceeded to slam him against the car and cuff him, demanding answers to questions. My friend was like, "What the hell, dude, he wasn't even driving the car!" at which point he was told to shut the fuck up by the officer, and he continued to harass his friend. Fucking unbelievable, but it happens regularly.
My mom also has plenty of stories about how the cops used to harass her when she was younger, and she worked at Warner Bros. studios before I was born. Granted, that was in the 70's, but sadly, not much has changed when it comes to how we're perceived by non-blacks. We're always treated like wild animals that have been caged for too long and can pop off at any moment.
Most black kids in America have been grilled time and time again by their parents about how they should behave and act when around white people. It sounds awful, because it is, but it's true. I had more than a few sit downs growing up, where my mother would drill into me how important it was to "not give them a reason" to think less of you. I grew up trying to be the most perfect black guy I could be. I did everything I could to show non-blacks that we were nothing like the people they saw on TV, or read about in the newspaper. I had no idea at the time that it really doesn't matter how polite I am. How intelligent I am, how "well spoken" I am. To a lot of them, I'm just an uppity nigger with a chip on his shoulder.
Even then, I still continue to be the best person that I can be. Not because I'm afraid of white people, but because it feels good to not be a douche canoe to others, and ideally, I'd hope the same courtesy would be returned to me. Unfortunately, this country has a real fucking hard time seeing black people as equal humans. Centuries of dehumanization and demonizing has done a fucking wonder on our PR, so to speak. Even other countries are afraid of us because of what they've seen and heard in the media or news reports that choose to highlight the worst of us more often than the best of us.
I'm a short, light skinned black/Samoan guy that most people don't realize is black. The shit I've heard some of the nicest people in the world say about black people in my presence is disheartening. The look on their faces when I tell them, "Well, I'm black too, you know," is fucking priceless. And it wasn't just white people saying those things about black people to me, thinking I wasn't black. It was people of all ethnicities and backgrounds going on and on about how horrible, filthy, disgusting, and deplorable black people were, and how they were a hopeless race of people that no good ever comes out of.
Generally, they'd stammer a "Well, you're not like them" rebuttal when I'd out myself as a black guy. I was "one of the good ones." The sad thing is that, when I was younger, I used to wear that like a badge of honor. "I'm one of the good ones! The other blacks are bad!" I bought into the same institutional and systemic racism that leads to tragedies like this. The type of institutional racism that has black men and women that have managed to ascend higher than their peers to tell them to "pull their damn pants up." I'm not sure what you'd call it, but it's a shame that such a divide between our people has been allowed to propagate. I'm thankful that, as I got older, I realized how insulting and disrespectful being called "One of the good ones" really is. It's even sadder that, even to this day, it's still said to me by non-black friends, or family of friends. It's sad and frustrating that no matter what level of good blacks do in this country, we will always be judged by the actions of a few, and treated with the highest levels of fear and distrust.
This man was innocent, and he was murdered. That's the most terrifying thing about this. Even if he was a criminal, he didn't deserve to be executed for a busted tail light.
This shit just makes me tired, and I don't even know how to keep moving forward with my head high. That seems to just make it an easier target.
That governor looks like a deer in headlights.
This is a horrible tragedy, but I couldn't help but crack up at the expressions on the faces of the man and woman behind him. I don't know what the governor is saying, but their expressions are like, "Get the fuck outta here, you don't ever have to worry about this shit in your life."
univariate
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That dude is on his right.
Another powerful post.
Regarding your last line, that really was the top reason for why people got lynched. For being (or looking) successful.
When I was 18, I took a road trip to another city with a friend of mine. We were driving back and doing about 10 over the speed limit to switch lanes when a FHP (highway patrol) car swerves out of the interstate median and pulls us over. He yelled at us to not move a muscle. We waited there for 15 minutes and then an undercover pulled up behind the other officer. At that point they got out of the vehicles and pointed a gun at each of us, saying don't move, asking if we have weapons in the vehicle, license and registration slowly, can they search the trunk, etc. I didn't want to die that day so I let one search the trunk while the other had us at gunpoint. After they were done fucking around, the dude gave me a $275 fine for speeding. That was the first ticket or fine of any kind I had ever received, so they did all of that after running my information and finding it to be pristine.
I also had incidents where dogs were brought out and we were forced to line up for the dogs to bark at us. I don't smoke or anything. But tbh all of this was in central/north Florida and I moved the heck out of that area as soon as I was able. Since then I have had actually zero problems with law enforcement (thank God) but I think it's partially a regional thing, which is unfortunate for people who don't have the luxury of getting out before it's too late.
I also had incidents where dogs were brought out and we were forced to line up for the dogs to bark at us. I don't smoke or anything. But tbh all of this was in central/north Florida and I moved the heck out of that area as soon as I was able. Since then I have had actually zero problems with law enforcement (thank God) but I think it's partially a regional thing, which is unfortunate for people who don't have the luxury of getting out before it's too late.
Yeah people are ridiculous.
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Except thats not what this is. He's straight up saying that the guy was killed because of his color. Doesnt matter what the officer is, this is the governor calling out the racism.
Alpha Centauri
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With the governor saying its race-related I have conflicting emotions. It's the most infuriating thing that racks my mind. I want justice, but I notice justice only comes when the cop isn't white. It's like 70% good but it feels even more fucked up...
Hard to explain because its the result I want, but it certainly doesn't feel good.
Hard to explain because its the result I want, but it certainly doesn't feel good.
It's a... Pyrrhic victory I suppose. A racist cop kills a black guy and only gets punished because he isn't white either. GG.
He's saying the cop was (partially) at fault. It's the initial sign of the state not throwing full support behind him.
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