Did you even watch it? He said this wouldnt have happened if the driver/passenger was white. Nothing about the officer.He's saying the cop was (partially) at fault. It's the initial sign of the state not throwing full support behind him.
Did you even watch it? He said this wouldnt have happened if the driver/passenger was white. Nothing about the officer.He's saying the cop was (partially) at fault. It's the initial sign of the state not throwing full support behind him.
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.
Ugh this is so stupid and diminishing of what the governor said. He said nothing of the cops. He spoke specifically about white priviledge. Idk why or how people are focusing on what color the cop is.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.
Did you even watch it? He said this wouldnt have happened if the driver/passenger was white. Nothing about the officer.
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.
Ugh this is so stupid and diminishing of what the governor said.
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.
It means that a white man in a high position is speaking out about white priviledge. He specifically said he doesnt know if what the cop did was justified or not, but the root of the issue is that the man was black.What do you think that means? All other events being equal, if the passengers were white the offer would not have killed him.
That's saying that the officer's fear of black people contributed to the shooting. That the officer is at fault.
Yeah, this exactly is where I'm at.
It means that a white man in a high position is speaking out about white priviledge. He specifically said he doesnt know if what the cop did was justified or not, but the root of the issue is that the man was black.
There's no fault being blamed here.
Watch as now the police label him a traitor and turn their backs on him.
I was a passenger in a car when my friend got pulled over in what they thought was a stolen car. It was his car. Cop pulled his gun on us, told us to put our hands on the roof so we raised our hands. When he pulled my friend out of the drivers seat to cuff him my hands started to come down. When he noticed he leaned inside the car and pointed the gun right at my face screaming to show my hands or he was going to blow my head off. I raised my hands again. Thank god im not dead.
That Senator who said police was his ISIS caught flak back then but he wasn't wrong. If you're black in the United States, it's not unreasonable to feel the police are a more pressing danger to your continued existence than jihadi assholes.ISIS are all thinking "why trouble ourselves killing Americans, the cops are doing it for us".
Similar thing happened to me. Pulled into my driveway. Cops pulls behind me, telling me to put my hands up. I immediately throw my hands up and my friend asks "what the hell is going on?". I had no idea. I look in my rearview mirror and see the officer has her gun pointed directly at me (using her car door as a shield). She asks me to throw my keys out. I chucked them as far as I could throw them. What seems like ages, she finally walks up to me and asks why I was running. I never even saw the police lights until I pulled into my driveway so I knew that was bullshit. Eventually she admits she entered in the license plate incorrectly. I'm white, so I have no doubt that it would probably would have gone differently if I was black
That Senator who said police was his ISIS caught flak back then but he wasn't wrong. If you're black in the United States, it's not unreasonable to feel the police are a more pressing danger to your continued existence than jihadi assholes.
Probably a little crack sprinkled on you and an assaulting a police officer charge. No biggie
Probably a little crack sprinkled on you and an assaulting a police officer charge. No biggie
There is a special place in hell for these folks.He wrote a manifesto dedicated to his hate toward blacks and people still denied that happened was a "race issue".
Similar thing happened to me. Pulled into my driveway. Cops pulls behind me, telling me to put my hands up. I immediately throw my hands up and my friend asks "what the hell is going on?". I had no idea. I look in my rearview mirror and see the officer has her gun pointed directly at me (using her car door as a shield). She asks me to throw my keys out. I chucked them as far as I could throw them. What seems like ages, she finally walks up to me and asks why I was running. I never even saw the police lights until I pulled into my driveway so I knew that was bullshit. Eventually she admits she entered in the license plate incorrectly. I'm white, so I have no doubt that it would probably would have gone differently if I was black
So you're saying you never looked in your rear view once on your trip? To see someone like a cop behind you? You don't need lights to see someone trailing you.
So two shootings in two days, both are card carrying members of the NRA (at least I thought I had read that Alton was a concealed/carry owner in Baton Rouge?), yet the NRA isn't out protecting their rights.
This is a tragedy but also murder.
I'm sure the cop will be convicted.
This is a tragedy but also murder.
I'm sure the cop will be convicted.
This is why:Simply owning a gun doesn't make you a "card carrying member" of the NRA.
And why are we asking the NRA to behave better anyway?
It lets you undermine their legitimacy.Christopher Hayes ‏@chrislhayes 29m29 minutes ago Manhattan, NY
If the NRA won't advocate for family of #PhilandoCastille, then it's an organization of paranoid white grievance and not gun rights.
This is why:
It lets you undermine their legitimacy.
its worth noting that he always looks like that. He's actually a pretty good governer, but smooth he ain't. For example, here's him at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Vikings stadium.That governor looks like a deer in headlights.
Rather not watch the video, so can someone summarize what happened in the video?
Rather not watch the video, so can someone summarize what happened in the video?
This is shocking to you? Really? Are you American?
Second Asian cop to get convicted? Still looking for the white onesIn Minneaapolis at work. Coworkers are upset that an Asian American is being called out by the governor. Up to this point, I've felt that Governor Dayton was the Democratic idiot rich son who didn't deserve the office (i.e. Minnesota George W).
Institutional racism isn't white vs black. Those bad actors within the police force are a rainbow of ignorance.
So two shootings in two days, both are card carrying members of the NRA (at least I thought I had read that Alton was a concealed/carry owner in Baton Rouge?), yet the NRA isn't out protecting their rights.
I'm pretty sure that isn't correct in Alton's case.
If you got more to say when people protest or even riot but little to say in response to this shit right here then you are fucking coward and apart of the problem.
Good. Let them identify themselves.exactly kinda what Jessie Williams was saying, but that just pissed them off more
Second Asian cop to get convicted? Still looking for the white ones
Wow, even the governor said its race related.
He's not white iirc right? So that's a real possibility.
Your co-workers are a bunch of arseholes.In Minneaapolis at work. Coworkers are upset that an Asian American is being called out by the governor. Up to this point, I've felt that Governor Dayton was the Democratic idiot rich son who didn't deserve the office (i.e. Minnesota George W).
Today I can't help but admire his courage. It is NOT because this cop is a minority that he will eventually feel the full weight of the law, but because of what he did. People, a man was shot dead in front of his lover for no good reason. Her daughter watched him bleed out as his aggressor was called "sir." And again the victim is black. The race of the cop is irrelevant. Even if the cop was black himself, I would count punishment against him as a justice served.
Institutional racism isn't white vs black. The "institution" in this case is a rainbow of ignorance,
Who are you trying to fool? Normally the NRA can't stop itself from tripping over its own collective feet when gun owners, NRA members or not, are in trouble. I don't think anyone's asking the NRA to behave 'better'. We're calling them out for not behaving 'the same' as when white gun owners are in the crosshairs.Simply owning a gun doesn't make you a "card carrying member" of the NRA.
And why are we asking the NRA to behave better anyway?
So two shootings in two days, both are card carrying members of the NRA (at least I thought I had read that Alton was a concealed/carry owner in Baton Rouge?), yet the NRA isn't out protecting their rights.