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

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.:puzzled::idea:
Good look

Maybe he got hit on one tour then went back and caught the ied, now that I know some dudes who got it like that

fuck a purp tho I don’t want that shit, means you got hit
 
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Sounds like this could be at the end of a Police Academy movie :lol:
 
So much truth in this article!!!!

Saturday, June 6, 2020
Police Brutality: Are There Any Solutions?

On May 25 George Floyd died in Minneapolis. Three police officers held down the handcuffed Black man while one police officer, Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes. Chauvin didn't care that Floyd said he couldn't breathe.

On March 13, Breonna Taylor, a Black female Louisville EMT was murdered by police executing a no-knock warrant in her home. They claimed to be looking for someone who was already in police custody or for drugs. No drugs were found. And the post office said that no suspicious packages were delivered to Taylor's apartment.

According to her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, the police did not identify themselves as police officers, were in plainclothes and opened fire first. Walker shot back. Walker was arrested and charged with assault and attempted murder.

The charges against Walker were reluctantly dropped after Walker's 911 calls were released. The officers involved have not been arrested or charged. They had no body cameras. Strangely enough, none of the usual right wing "Stand your ground a (wo)man's home is her/his castle!" people have shown up so far to loudly praise Kenneth Walker and hold him up as an example of a lawful gun owner trying to defend his woman against government assault. Also oddly enough, none of the "Black men ain't s***" " feminists have applauded Kenneth Walker as a Black man who tried to protect Black women. I'm sure it's just an oversight by both groups. Yeah, that must be it.

Earlier this year in March (?) Sacramento Sheriff Deputies claimed that a Black man (not identified) had a warrant for his arrest. They surrounded him with weapons drawn. The man put his hands on his head. Apparently still hungry for violence the deputies launched a flying kick into the man's spine, grabbed him by the neck and wrestled him to the ground. As it turned out though, the man had no warrant for his arrest. He didn't have a criminal record.

The police still charged him with resisting arrest. On May 30, a group of mostly Black Atlanta police officers decided that two Black college students leaving a protest weren't leaving fast enough. The cops didn't care that the students were stuck in traffic.

They broke the couple's car windows, beat them and tased them.

On March 23, in Missouri a 68 year old Black Missouri grandmother named Marvia Gray and her son Derek Gray tried to return a TV to Sam's Club. Police officers accused them of stealing the television and swarmed them to beat and arrest them. The elderly woman and her son both suffered severe injuries, including concussion, shattered teeth and damaged rotator cuff. Well.

One might think that these victims of police violence were unlucky enough to be Black. Police have always had a very low threshold for using violence against Black people. Surely police wouldn't use such brutality against white people, particularly white women, white children, or frail elderly white people.

Well while it's true that police have traditionally gone out of their way to employ violence against Blacks, it's also true that a lot of the supposed taboos against using state violence against fellow whites have started falling away or were never that strong in the first place.

During the protests we've seen Seattle police mace a nine year old white girl, New York City police violently shove Dounya Zayer to the ground, giving her seizures and concussion, National Guard and Minneapolis police shoot at a white woman sitting on her own porch, and Buffalo police shove 75 year old Martin Gugino to the ground so violently that he cracked his head open and bled. Gugino is in the hospital in serious condition. Police didn't even bother to give him assistance. They lied on their report, saying Gugino tripped and fell. That's like saying JFK had a sudden brain hemorrhage and died, leaving out the tiny details about the bullets. The two officers who pushed Gugino were suspended.

In response all fifty seven officers who were part of that unit resigned from the unit. Think about that. Police officers, men and women, decided it was more important to stick together than see two of their own mildly punished.



Police have routinely used violence against journalists trying to document events. Rubber bullets, tear gas, night sticks, tasers and more are all in use. Against everyone. This is not a problem limited by geography or city size.

So although the primary issue is that police are racist and violent against Black people, the underlying problem is that police have no fear of bad consequences for their actions. I don't care for some of the employees at my local post office. They can be rude, condescending, dismissive and sarcastic. And that's on a good day.

But post office employees have no arrest powers. They're not armed. They can't physically abuse or kill me as part of their job description. Politicians don't routinely kiss their a$$ or cower in fear of their union. Much the opposite actually. So when a post office employee is in a bad mood usually the worst that will happen is a snarky remark or eyeroll. With police officers, someone can die.

So what are the solutions to these problems?

Usually people talk about anti-bias and de-escalation training. Those things are important, don't get me wrong but I think we're going to need some stronger stuff. I've written before about how many of the same types of people salivating about kicking or beating unarmed protesters stood down and were quiet as church mice when Cliven Bundy and friends pointed guns at them and invited them to come get some.

This is a street thing. Rights only matter to the extent that you can enforce them and that someone believes that you can hurt them at least as much if not more than they can hurt you.

Unfortunately many people on the left and Black people in particular don't like hearing that. Many people have raised non-violence to the HIGHEST moral imperative. It's not. Securing your rights and your safety are more important goals than non-violence.

The Right has always understood that. That is why although many right wing whites are mocking the deaths of George Floyd and others, they bring guns to protests about shut down orders and promise to kill any police officer ever tasked with violating their sacrosanct (for white people only) Second Amendment rights.

They aren't trying to hear about "Blue Lives Matter". Police are cool as long as they're messing with Black people but try to take a white man's gun and it's suddenly "From my cold hands, you jack booted thug!!"

I think that people are going to have to show police that either police cut back the BS or more police start winding up six feet under. Obviously, many police are bullies. As long as they are correct in believing they can kill or brutalize without immediately receiving similar treatment, they will continue to do so. Black people will need to start embracing the Second Amendment and the concept of self-defense.

As a rule police do not understand the language of love, peace, forgiveness, or patience. And if citizens are not willing to kill and die to prevent police abuse, police will not stop. I wish it weren't that way. But in my opinion it is. Revolutions have started over just this issue.

So that is one part of a solution. What are some others?

Have stricter standards for hiring. Reduce interactions with police. In certain situations or areas, do not allow police to make arrests for non-violent crimes.

End the use of no-knock warrants. Take brutality or wrongful arrest settlements out of police pension funds. Defund police as much as possible. Smash police unions. Make it easier to fire police accused of deviant behavior. Start charging police officers who don't interfere with brutality or murder with the same crime as the officers who did it. Eliminate qualified immunity.

Get rid of military equipment. Get rid of the military mindset. Instead of having police receive training from an oppressive state like Israel, ensure that police are sent for special training to countries where police officers do not kill hundreds of people every year.

Fire any police officer who has turned off his or her body camera when he or she wasn't in the bathroom. Vote for prosecutors who will promise to prosecute officers who brutalize or murder.

Support content creators who do not produce cop shows that are deep French kisses to the police establishment. Those shows are propaganda. And they're effective.

But I really don't have much hope that much of that will occur.

Currently too many Black politicians and their constituents believe that guns are irredeemably bad and/or that there is more moral value in suffering and even dying nobly than there is in resisting. And politicians in general don't like confronting police unions.

A sizable portion of our population gets off on Black subordination, death and humiliation. Even police who have figured out the correct words to say in public often drop their masks in private or when they believe they are anonymous. Therefore, as I said no police officer is ever too worried about consequences for bad behavior. And that must change.

Everyone in society must understand that there are limits. And if you violate those limits you're either going to get hurt, imprisoned or killed. No exceptions. Police have become overly militarized. They think they're above the law. They think they can and should use massive violence any time they feel like it.

It's important to point out, that just as with the civil rights movements of the sixties, police brutality is a bipartisan problem. It occurs in cities run by Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals. It's not something that's going to go away because of who is elected President. And the changes that have occurred over the past few weeks have taken place not because of elections but because of street protests.

Lastly police and their enablers should remember that they only have power because society gave it to them. The consent of the governed can (and in this case should) be taken back.

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
-Frederick Douglass
 
BGOL icon Colin Powell on CNN right now, he will vote for Biden
Countdown to the orange tweet attacks in 5, 4, 3,....

Trending on twitter is Romney, Bush etc not supporting Trump. They didn't in 2016 either. I don't see why this is news.
None of these republicans voted for him. Including Lindsey Graham.

Colin Powell Says He’ll Vote for Hillary Clinton
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/us/politics/colin-powell-hillary-clinton.html

Colin L. Powell, the Republican former secretary of state, said on Tuesday that he planned to vote for Hillary Clinton for president as he condemned her rival, Donald J. Trump, at an event on Long Island.
 
One of the officers charged in George Floyd's killing was hired despite having a criminal record and slew of traffic violations

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  • Before he was hired as a Minneapolis police officer, Thomas Lane collected a laundry list of criminal charges and traffic citations, according to records obtained by Insider.
  • Lane was fired on May 26, one day after George Floyd was killed in police custody. Lane has since been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
  • Lane, 37, was only a week into his full-time career with the department when his training officer was filmed kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes as he begged for help.
  • Lane’s lawyer said he expressed concern about his training officer’s handling of Floyd’s arrest.


Before he was hired as a Minneapolis police officer, Thomas Lane worked a variety of jobs in the service industry and had a laundry list of criminal charges and traffic citations, according to records obtained by Insider.

Lane, who started as a police cadet in 2019, was only on his fourth shift as a full-time officer on May 25 when Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, his attorney said.

Lane, 37, is one of the three other officers who were there when Floyd was killed. He now faces charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. He was still on probation with the department when he was fired on May 26.

In court on Thursday, attorneys for Lane and his colleague J. Alexander Kueng – who was also a rookie with the department – attempted to humanize their clients, putting a majority of the blame on Chauvin, who was their training officer.

Charging papers indicated that during Floyd’s arrest, Lane twice asked whether they should roll Floyd onto his side but was told no.


Earl Grey, Lane’s attorney, argued during a bail hearing on Thursday that his client had very little choice but to obey his senior officer. “What was [Lane] supposed to do … go up to Mr. Chauvin and grab him and throw him off?” Grey said in court, according to the Star Tribune.

The newspaper reported: “Lane previously worked as a juvenile counselor at a few ‘juvenile places’ in the Twin Cities and once received a community service award from Mayor Jacob Frey and Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo for volunteering with children, Grey told the court.”
Lane entered civil service relatively late in his career

Public records show that Lane bounced among a variety of industries before becoming a full-time police officer in his mid-30s.

Lane, who left high school before graduating, held at least 10 jobs from 2000 to 2017, according to a personnel file released by the Minneapolis Police Department.

In addition to pursuing a GED and then a college degree, Lane spent these years working as a laborer, a telemarketer, a server, a bartender, a security guard, and a sales associate.


In 2017 and 2018, he worked as a juvenile correctional officer and assistant probation officer, according to his résumé, which was included in the file.

State court records show that from 2001 to 2018, he also racked up more than a dozen criminal charges and traffic citations. They show that he was convicted of seven total charges.

While the online court database doesn’t include the incident reports behind the criminal complaints, it does indicate the nature of the charges and their results.

Four of the charges were related to traffic violations, including speeding and obstructing traffic. Two were parking-metre violations.

In several instances, Lane also faced criminal charges.

In October 2001, when Lane was 18, he was charged with two counts of obstructing legal process, damaging property, unlawful assembly, and disorderly conduct. He was convicted of one count of obstructing legal process and one charge of damaging property.

Almost six years later, in March 2007, Lane faced misdemeanour charges of hosting a noisy party or gathering and disorderly conduct. He was found guilty of the noisy-gathering charge.

In Lane’s application to be a police cadet, sections that included his criminal and traffic history, as well as whether he had been fired from any jobs, were redacted.

Lane is being held on an unconditional bail of $US1 million or $US750,000 with conditions.

Grey declined to be interviewed by Insider.

 
He had no choice; He had a player go on twitter and say he wouldn't play another snap last week.


I'm 40 and criticize the youth for some of the dumb shit but they are also the main ones putting real fire on these cacs.
Real talk....one thing that will get these cacs talking and forced to look at is if all the black athletes take their ball and go home......

Esp in these smaller towns. The college game is the pro team in those places
 
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