Cop Kneels On Black Man's Neck As He Screams, "I Can't Breathe!" Murderer and Inmate Derek Chauven Was Shanked: RIP George Floyd 5 Years 05/25/2020
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Well damn, it has 2 stars and right color lolI don't know WHAT that medal is Sam.
The dude was smart enough to look up the order of precedence to put them in the correct order.
U.S. Marine Corps veteran Todd Winn stood alone, silent, in front of the Utah State Capitol, hours before the first protesters had begun gathering. Winn stood in uniform, with tape across his mouth reading “I can’t breathe.”This is the article I got the pics from
Protests remain peaceful following release of footage of Salt Lake police shooting
Protesters returned to Salt Lake City streets in smaller numbers Friday night as the nation continues the reel over the death of George Floyd, adding to their cries against police brutality after Salt Lake City police released what the mayor called “disturbing” body camera footage of the...www.ksl.com
I know absolutely nothing about the military other than shit I have read in books about the world wars
He held a sign reading, “Justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, countless others” and calling for accountability for police.
Winn treated Friday as a day of silence, his girlfriend, Katie Steck, explained to KSL.
“He has been very angered and appalled by the injustices that have been happening,” she said.
Steck explained Winn is a veteran who was medically discharged from the Marines and sustained traumatic brain injuries after he was injured by roadside bombs when he served in Iraq in 2005.
Steck said because of those injuries, he has chronic fatigue, so standing in the heat of the day for three hours outside the Capitol was a big challenge for him, but he wanted to protest in a different way — in a way that maybe would resonate with some who have been angered by the violent protests or looting.
Steck said he wanted to show there’s a way to protest your country but still be patriotic.
“Seeing a lot of things that have happened, that’s not the kind of America he wants,” Steck said, and not the kind of America he’d sacrificed for. “That’s not what he wants to represent.”
It's possible that he's legit but you still don't get a second Purple Heart for multiple injuries sustained in ONE incident. That would have to occur from a whole separate tour. This could be his old dress uniform before being discharged though.
I'm up in the air on this one.
Appreciate you posting this. I tried yesterday. This is important because erase everyone who said Kap was doing this because he was benched in San Fran.
U.S. Marine Corps veteran Todd Winn stood alone, silent, in front of the Utah State Capitol, hours before the first protesters had begun gathering. Winn stood in uniform, with tape across his mouth reading “I can’t breathe.”
He held a sign reading, “Justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, countless others” and calling for accountability for police.
Winn treated Friday as a day of silence, his girlfriend, Katie Steck, explained to KSL.
“He has been very angered and appalled by the injustices that have been happening,” she said.
Steck explained Winn is a veteran who was medically discharged from the Marines and sustained traumatic brain injuries after he was injured by roadside bombs when he served in Iraq in 2005.
Steck said because of those injuries, he has chronic fatigue, so standing in the heat of the day for three hours outside the Capitol was a big challenge for him, but he wanted to protest in a different way — in a way that maybe would resonate with some who have been angered by the violent protests or looting.
Steck said he wanted to show there’s a way to protest your country but still be patriotic.
“Seeing a lot of things that have happened, that’s not the kind of America he wants,” Steck said, and not the kind of America he’d sacrificed for. “That’s not what he wants to represent.”
It's possible that he's legit but you still don't get a second Purple Heart for multiple injuries sustained in ONE incident. That would have to occur from a whole separate tour. This could be his old dress uniform before being discharged though.
I'm up in the air on this one.
Salute this man
I was out. Was a great day.
I suppose. It just looked damn near white to me. The red stripes are blending in with other medals too.
He’s definitely not a marine with that sloppiness. And too many medals for an E3
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Not until I find out how he got a SECOND Purple Heart. At the moment, all I can do is give him a nod.
I was mistaken. He's a Lance Corporal...same as a Private First Class, both E3. The Corps adds crossed rifles and the Army adds a rocker to the chevron.
Even still...it looks sus.
Man who drew bow and arrow on Salt Lake City protesters is in jail, charged with three felonies
Brandon E. McCormick has said he showed up at <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/05/30/rally-protests-death/" target=_blank>Saturday’s downtown protest</a>, armed with a <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/05/31/man-with-bow-is-expected/" target=_blank>bow and arrow</a>, to protect...
Lol, I’m a Marine. Just didn’t look that close to the pic. Just assumed you had it right
https://twitter.com/Ethelmonster/status/1268958499477864451
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Imagine if you called firefighters and they just beat the shit out of you instead of putting the fire out
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Imagine if firefighters spent their lives telling people how dangerous their job was and then you found out they responded to cats trapped in trees by lobbing molotovs at it
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Going to the post office for some stamps and there's a decent chance they knee cap you instead of helping
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Imagine if someone you cared about might kill themselves and you couldn't be there in time so you told the local police they needed help and they turned up and shot your friend in the he- oh wait
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Imagine a guy telling you he has the most dangerous job in the country and then you see him on video putting weed in people's cars and then beating them so hard they get hospitalized. Oh he also makes 3 times as much as you.
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People are responding to the one about post workers by pointing out the phrase "going postal" and saying postal workers are "known" for snapping and killing people. Let's think about that for a second because it draws a very shocking contrast to the police.
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A quick peak says that Going Postal was a phrase derived from 30 years of incidents in which upwards of 40 people were killed by postal workers, including coworkers and managers. Up to 2011 it says that there were two workplace shootings a year.
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There are thousands upon thousands of postal workplaces and workers. A tiny, tiny minority of postal workers perform workplace shootings - to be clear still too many but we are discussing relative rates at this point - killing about 12 people a year. Going Postal.
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Apart from this, and apart from the phrase Going Postal, postal workers aren't really known for violence. In fact it is the contrast between the perception of their work and these acts that catches people's attention.
https://twitter.com/Ethelmonster
Police in America have killed over 30 people in the last month. Easily more. What's "Going Police?" Why has a social service that kills 40+ people over 3 decades become out go to for snapping and killing but not the profession that does that in days?
Found some rough numbers: Postal workers employed in the us: 600,000 People killed by postal workers yearly: 12 - 20 Police employed in the us: 680,000 People killed by police yearly: 1100-3000
There's also a cliche about firefighters being pyromaniacs: if you write a book or any kind of script and it turns out the killer/firestarter was the fireman you get laughed at and told to write something original. It's called "firefighter arson".
Totally get your point but as the kid of a firefighter I gotta say their culture is similarly toxic/racist and we're lucky they don't get guns too. My mom sorted through my dad's email when he died and discovered a newsletter of racist "jokes" sent to hundreds of firefighters.
white supremacy pervades culture and every profession but we havent normalized firefighting as being a profession where victimizing the population is standard
How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts
Half a decade after a spate of officer-involved deaths inspired widespread protest, many police unions are digging in to defend members.
Lt. Bob Kroll, the president of the Minneapolis Police Union, discussing the release of body camera footage in the shooting death of Thurman Blevins in 2018. Credit...Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune, via Associated Press
By Noam Scheiber, Farah Stockman and J. David Goodman
- June 6, 2020
They aggressively protect the rights of members accused of misconduct, often in arbitration hearings that they have battled to keep behind closed doors. And they have also been remarkably effective at fending off broader change, using their political clout and influence to derail efforts to increase accountability.
While rates of union membership have dropped by half nationally since the early 1980s, to 10 percent, higher membership rates among police unions give them resources they can spend on campaigns and litigation to block reform. A single New York City police union has spent more than $1 million on state and local races since 2014.
In St. Louis, when Kim Gardner was elected the top prosecutor four years ago, she set out to rein in the city’s high rate of police violence. But after she proposed a unit within the prosecutor’s office that would independently investigate misconduct, she ran into the powerful local police union.
The union pressured lawmakers to set aside the proposal, which many supported but then never brought to a vote. Around the same time, a lawyer for the union waged a legal fight to limit the ability of the prosecutor’s office to investigate police misconduct. The following year, a leader of the union said Ms. Gardner should be removed “by force or by choice.”
Politicians tempted to cross police unions have long feared being labeled soft on crime by the unions, or more serious consequences.
When Steve Fletcher, a Minneapolis city councilman and frequent Police Department critic, sought to divert money away from hiring officers and toward a newly created office of violence prevention, he said, the police stopped responding as quickly to 911 calls placed by his constituents. “It operates a little bit like a protection racket,” Mr. Fletcher said of the union.
A spokesman for the Minneapolis Police Department said he was unable to comment.
A few days after prosecutors in Minneapolis charged an officer with murder in the death of George Floyd, the president of the city’s police union denounced political leaders, accusing them of selling out his members and firing four officers without due process.
“It is despicable behavior,” the union president, Lt. Bob Kroll, wrote in a letter to union members obtained by a local reporter. He also referred to protesters as a “terrorist movement.”
Mr. Kroll, who is himself the subject of at least 29 complaints, has also chided the Obama administration for its “oppression of police,” and praised President Trump as someone who “put the handcuffs on the criminals instead of us.”
In other instances, unions have not resisted reforms outright, but have made them difficult to put in place. Federal intervention is often one of the few reliable ways of reforming police departments. But in Cleveland, the union helped slow the adoption of reforms mandated by a federal consent decree, according to Jonathan Smith, a former U.S. Justice Department official who oversaw the government’s investigation of policing practices there.
Mr. Smith said union officials had signaled to rank-and-file officers that the changes should not be taken seriously, such as a requirement that they report and investigate instances in which they pointed a gun. “I heard this in lots of departments,” Mr. Smith said. “‘Wait it out. Do the minimum you have to do.’” He said he believed that the reforms have since taken hold.
Steve Loomis, the Cleveland police union president at the time of the consent decree, said he and his colleagues saw some of the mandated rules as counterproductive.
“Every time a kid points a gun, he has to do a use-of-force investigation,” Mr. Loomis said of his younger colleagues. “Now guys aren’t pointing their guns when they should be pointing their guns.”
Robert Bruno, a professor of labor relations at the University of Illinois, posited that many police officers see themselves as authority figures who equate compromise with weakness. Other experts said it was rational for police unions, which are often regarded with suspicion by others in the labor movement and see themselves as distinct from it, to protect their members so relentlessly.
“A major role for police unions is basically as an insurance policy,” said Dale Belman, a labor relations professor at Michigan State University who has consulted for police unions. “The feeling of a lot of officers is that it’s very easy to sacrifice them. Something goes wrong and boom.”
This has only become more true in an era of ubiquitous cellphone cameras and social media. And the feeling of being under siege has only strengthened demands from union members that they be protected.
In Baltimore, where the city and the Justice Department reached a consent decree in 2017 to overhaul police conduct, the union has described a police department in chaos, with severe staff shortages and low morale. Those who remain said they feel unsupported by their commanders.
“They’re ready to throw police officers under
the bus to appease the media and don’t support us even when our actions are appropriate,” said one officer surveyed in a report released last year by a group helping the department implement reforms.
It remains to be seen how the unions will respond to reform initiatives by cities and states since Mr. Floyd’s death, including a new ban on chokeholds in Minneapolis. But in recent days, unions have continued to show solidarity with officers accused of abusive behavior.
The president of a police union in Buffalo said the union stood “100 percent” behind two officers who were suspended on Thursday after appearing to push an older man who fell and suffered head injuries. The union president said the officers “were simply following orders.”
All 57 officers on the Emergency Response Team, a special squad formed to respond to riots, had resigned from their posts on the team in support of the suspended officers, according to The Buffalo News.
Unions can be so effective at defending their members that cops with a pattern of abuse can be left untouched, with fatal consequences. In Chicago, after the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by officer Jason Van Dyke, it emerged that Mr. Van Dyke had been the subject of multiple complaints already. But a “code of silence” about misconduct was effectively “baked into” the labor agreements between police unions and the city, according to a report conducted by task force.
New York City’s police unions have been among the most vocal opponents of reforms in Albany, including calls to reform the state’s tight restrictions on the disciplinary records of officers. Amid growing momentum in recent days for making those records public, the city’s police unions joined statewide police groups on Friday in urging the Legislature to keep the law in place.
“No rational policy discussion can take place against a backdrop of burning police vehicles and looted store fronts,” read a memo of opposition from the police groups.
The city’s patrol officers’ union, with roughly 24,000 active members, and another representing sergeants have been sharp critics of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who took office in 2014 riding a wave of discontent over stop-and-frisk policing.
The mayor promised reform, but after the fatal shooting of two uniformed officers in Brooklyn by a man who invoked the police killing of Eric Garner, Mr. de Blasio faced an all-but-declared revolt by rank-and-file officers.
The head of the patrol officers’ union, Patrick J. Lynch, said at the time that the mayor had “blood on the hands.” Many officers turned their backs on Mr. de Blasio at the slain officers’ funerals. And, days later, many more engaged in what amounted to a de facto work slowdown. Arrests plummeted as did tickets for minor infractions.
Mr. Lynch has stood by officers even when there is ample evidence of misconduct, defending the officers who killed Amadou Diallo in 1999 and another who, in 2008, shoved a bicyclist to the ground during a protest ride. The union provided lawyers for the officers involved in both cases.
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Kim Gardner, a reform-minded prosecutor in St. Louis, said police union objections have blocked her proposal for a unit that would investigate police misconduct independently of the department.Credit...Christopher Smith for The New York Times
When liberal politicians do try to advance reform proposals, union officials have resorted to highly provocative rhetoric and hard-boiled campaign tactics to lash out at them. This past week, the head of the sergeants’ union in New York posted a police report on Twitter revealing personal information about the daughter of Mr. de Blasio, who had been arrested during a protest.
In St. Louis, the business manager of a local police union, Jeff Roorda, penned an unflattering poem about Ms. Gardner, the local prosecutor, in a union newsletter that read: “You’re a disaster, Misses Kim/ Your heart is dark and vile/You’d rather charge a policeman/ Than all the murders you could file.” The union has also run social media ads against an alderwoman who has also advocated reform, Megan Green, referring to her as a “Communist Cop-Hater” and superimposing her head on the body of Mao Zedong.
Mr. Roorda declined to comment.
At times, the strident leadership appears to beget still more strident leadership. In 2017, Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police elected a new president who denounced a federal Justice Department investigation prompted by the shooting of Mr. McDonald as “politically motivated” and pledged to fight the “anti-police movement.” That president was ousted this year by a candidate who had derided the ensuing consent decree as “nonsense” and criticized his predecessor for failing to stand up to City Hall.
While statistics compiled by the group Campaign Zero show that police killings and shootings in Chicago have fallen following a set of reforms enacted after a federal investigation, advocates worry that the union will undermine them in contract negotiations. Police unions have traditionally used their bargaining agreements to create obstacles to disciplining officers. One paper by researchers at the University of Chicago found that incidents of violent misconduct in Florida sheriff’s offices increased by about 40 percent after deputies gained collective bargaining rights.
“By continuing to elect people who stand for those values, it more deeply entrenches the break between the community and the police,” said Karen Sheley, director of the Police Practices Project for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. “It makes it far more difficult for reform efforts to go forward.”
As critics of the police get louder and more mainstream, union members have elected more aggressive leaders. In Minneapolis in 2015, Mr. Kroll defeated the union’s longtime president by a nearly two-to-one margin after the city installed a police chief intent on reform.
“I believe Bob Kroll was elected out of fear,” said Janeé Harteau, the police chief at the time, adding that Mr. Kroll’s message to officers was: “We are the only ones that support you. Your community doesn’t support you. Your police chief is trying to get you fired.”
Mr. Kroll did not return a call seeking comment. John Elder, the Police Department spokesman, said the current police chief and Mr. Kroll have a strong relationship.
Ms. Harteau said that the department introduced new rules requiring officers to protect the “sanctity of life” and intervene if they saw a colleague improperly using force, but that the union under Mr. Kroll undermined the changes by protecting officers who violated the policies. Data on police shootings and killings in the city appear to show little change despite the reforms.
“I struggle to know if they have gotten more extreme, or if the world has changed and they haven’t,” Mr. Fletcher, the city councilman, said of the union. “Either way, they are profoundly misaligned with the moment.”
Policing in Minneapolis
I was on Facebook earlier today and looking at one of my homie's live feed he was sharing. Let me just say they were going H.A.A.M up in that joint. 
Ole boy was pulling a Drew Brees like shit.
Protesters gather outside MD Crab House
By: Keyarah Watson
Posted at 1:39 PM, Jun 06, 2020
and last updated 4:44 PM, Jun 06, 2020
MIDDLE RIVER, md. — Today, protesters gathered outside of Vince's Crab House in Middle River.
Users on Facebook uncovered racially insensitive comments made by the owner Vince Meyer and others affiliated with the establishment.
In the comments, Meyer allegedly used the N-word and told another user "u would be a good slave if u had a better tan."
He responded to the backlash in a Facebook video saying "I can't apologize because nobody's going to accept it, I think."
Ole boy was pulling a Drew Brees like shit.
Protesters gather outside MD Crab House
By: Keyarah Watson
Posted at 1:39 PM, Jun 06, 2020
and last updated 4:44 PM, Jun 06, 2020
MIDDLE RIVER, md. — Today, protesters gathered outside of Vince's Crab House in Middle River.
Users on Facebook uncovered racially insensitive comments made by the owner Vince Meyer and others affiliated with the establishment.
In the comments, Meyer allegedly used the N-word and told another user "u would be a good slave if u had a better tan."
He responded to the backlash in a Facebook video saying "I can't apologize because nobody's going to accept it, I think."
I was on Facebook earlier today and looking at one of my homie's live feed he was sharing. Let me just say they were going H.A.A.M up in that joint.
Ole boy was pulling a Drew Brees like shit.
Protesters gather outside MD Crab House
By: Keyarah Watson
Posted at 1:39 PM, Jun 06, 2020
and last updated 4:44 PM, Jun 06, 2020
MIDDLE RIVER, md. — Today, protesters gathered outside of Vince's Crab House in Middle River.
Users on Facebook uncovered racially insensitive comments made by the owner Vince Meyer and others affiliated with the establishment.
In the comments, Meyer allegedly used the N-word and told another user "u would be a good slave if u had a better tan."
He responded to the backlash in a Facebook video saying "I can't apologize because nobody's going to accept it, I think."
The day that all of us realize this is the day that we can actually take control. Not a fucking crab cake in the world worth sacrificing your dignity over.
Next stop should be those asian nail shops, chinese restaraunts and those shops where asians own the weaves....
The day that all of us realize this is the day that we can actually take control. Not a fucking crab cake in the world worth sacrificing your dignity over.
every one should be put on notice...
Russia urges the U.S. to ‘observe democratic standards’ and respect Americans’ right to protest
The Russian Foreign Ministry said, “it’s time for the U.S. to drop the mentor’s tone and look in the mirror.”
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Russia urges the U.S. to ‘observe democratic standards’ and respect Americans’ right to protest
Published: June 4, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. ET
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The Russian Foreign Ministry said, “it’s time for the U.S. to drop the mentor’s tone and look in the mirror”
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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MOSCOW — The Russian Foreign Ministry urged the U.S. authorities to respect Americans’ right for peaceful protest amid the wave of demonstrations sparked by George Floyd’s death.
The ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, says Moscow has taken note of the use of tear gas to disperse rallies and massive arrests of protesters in the U.S. She also pointed out numerous journalists, including Russian reporters, were hurt while covering the protests.
Moscow long has bristled at Washington’s criticism of its human rights record amid Russia-U.S. tensions. Zakharova sought to turn the tables on the U.S. by pointing to the authorities forceful response to protests.
She says “it’s time for the U.S. to drop the mentor’s tone and look in the mirror,” challenging the U.S. authorities to “start respecting peoples’ rights and observing democratic standards at home.”
If his car were parked a few blocks down,he'd have just sat in it crying...
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