Lil Wayne lol
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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Lil Wayne lol
lol the same wayne that said racism doesnt exist?
the same wayne that said the cops saved his life?
man foh
This.
Cacs struggling in these times as the coons aren't doing their jobs. Shit is like interviewing Pastor Troy for military insights after a terror attack
Defunding. What does that mean exactly?
Cutting the budget? Or dismantling the department completely?
They are gonna use either state or county cops to take over while they FIRE the entire police dept and build a new one from scratch.
Wow. Thanks.
But what about the reform of the temporary cops? Every level of policing needs at least 3 things by my count:
Abolished qualified immunity
Outside prosecutors for cases against police
Loss of law enforcement license if fired from a department
That's a pretty good starting point IMO. The unions will scream bloody murder of course.
Trump knows that terrorizing black people is about soothing white anxieties
It’s a kind of security theater
A fence, seen from Lafayette Square, encircles the White House. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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By
Paul Butler
Paul Butler is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. A former trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice, he is the author of "Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice."
June 8, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Looking back, the days before the spectacle in Lafayette Square — the days before the coronavirus pandemic, especially — seem impossibly sunny, idyllic even, a dream in primary colors. You could walk on the street without a mask or a curfew, and there were jobs you could go to and restaurants where you could eat. Crime was near record lows, and the economy was booming. Children went to school.
But the 45th commander in chief of the United States knew better: “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,” President Trump proclaimed in his inaugural address. If you were one of the white people he was talking to, maybe you didn’t know whether to be afraid — What carnage? How did I miss it? — or relieved. In any event, the new president planned to stop it “right here” and “right now.” Trump was at once the oncologist who diagnosed the cancer and the surgeon who cut it out.
Those of us who carry the scars of American history in our DNA, though, we knew. Trump meant that he was coming for black and brown people, and he was going to make a performance of it. We were responsible for the “crime and gangs and drugs that have … robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.” We were not the people who “will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement.” We were, instead, their targets.
This part was not so new. For U.S. presidents, toughness has almost always meant that you get tough on black people, as if centuries of slavery and segregation were insufficient. What Trump brought to that familiar formulation was a sense of false bravado, the bullying of a billionaire who took out ads calling for black teenagers to be put to death and who referred to majority-black nations as “shithole countries.” The rap group Public Enemy named its second album “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” and damned if Trump, as the leader of that nation, wasn’t going to pretend like he was the man for the job.
How politicians use fear of cities like Baltimore to stoke white resentment
But the blustery weak bully behind the curtain got exposed last week. “When the looting starts, the shooting starts” is what he said, and it seemed like just another one of his threats, except with an unusually overt nod to white supremacy. Like the “American carnage” that “stops right now,” the threat both warned of danger and promised retribution. Except that when the looting started — even though it was dwarfed by peaceful protest and didn’t happen near the White House, in any case — what Trump actually did was run. Protesters breached a barrier near the White House, and the Secret Service rushed the president to a secure bunker. It seems like a reasonable precaution for the most powerful person in the world, but when word got out, Trump sought to reassure his audience. He tweeted that he “couldn’t have felt more safe.”
The president wanted the world to know his security detail handled protesters who “got too frisky or out of line” by coming “down on them, hard — didn’t know what hit them.” There was the glory — “We put the young ones on the front line, sir, they love it, and … good practice” — and the blood: If the invaders had gotten any closer, they “would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons.”
What came next was straight-up violent. One of my students had asked, with the future lawyer’s uneasy mix of wokeness and professional ambition, if she should go to the protest in Lafayette Square. She’d be fine, I told her, as long as she followed the rules and left before the curfew. Rubber bullets, flash grenades, charging horses and tear gas told me how naive I was, as though I’d slept through the previous three years. The uniforms — the Secret Service, U.S. Park Police, U.S. Military Police and D.C. National Guard, among others — fired away, before the curfew, to clear the park so the president could bravely walk through it, on his way to the outside of a church, to hold up a Bible. The president’s men extinguished any possible source of fear so that he could act out the part of a man who is not, and never will be, afraid.
Changing hearts and minds won't stop police violence
Security theater, according to Bruce Schneier, who coined the term, consists of “measures that make us feel safer without improving security.” When we feel threatened, we’re happy to take the most unlikely precautions to assure ourselves that we’re safe, even if those precautions are useless. As the president must have learned during his time in professional wrestling, you don’t have to believe something is real to find comfort in it. But I still want to know why he — and those who ally themselves with him — seems to need this comfort so badly. I am concerned that the answer might be because of me. Because of white anxiety about African American men.
Black men are the monsters of the American nightmare, and not just for Trump. People fear many things that they, as individuals, can do little to control — from the cratering economy to climate change — which makes it all the more pressing for our leaders to show us that they can keep us safe. The obligation to assuage and comfort white men has long been central to race relations in this country.
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case that made Jim Crow “separate but equal” segregation constitutional, one justice wrote, “Sixty millions of whites are in no danger from the presence here of eight millions of blacks. The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.” The author of that statement was John Marshall Harlan, the lone dissenter in the case. Even in arguing against segregation, he felt compelled to ensure white people of their safety.
This country punishes black people — people who never really threatened it except insofar as we came to represent the very idea of threat — not to reprove us for what we’ve done, but to assuage anxieties about what we might do. It punishes us so that white people can act as if they were never afraid in the first place, so that they can claim, as Trump did, that they were never hiding in the bunker, just inspecting it.
For the past 50 years, every man who has been elected president has taken steps during his campaign to send a message to voters that he will be tough on black men. Richard M. Nixon said, “It’s all about law and order and the damn Negro-Puerto Rican groups out there.” Ronald Reagan complained about crimes by “strapping young bucks.” Jimmy Carter spoke out against forced integration, saying, “What I say is the government ought not take as a major purpose the intrusion of alien groups into a neighborhood, simply to establish that intrusion.” George H.W. Bush ran a campaign commercial featuring a black man they called Willie Horton (he called himself “William”), who raped a white woman while on furlough from prison in Massachusetts.
Doland Trump is just following Ronald Reagans footsteps on race
Bill Clinton left the campaign trail to oversee the execution of Ricky Ray Rector, a black man who was so intellectually disabled that when the prison guard came to take him to the death chamber, Rector set aside the pecan pie he had ordered for his last meal because he was “saving it for later.” George W. Bush solicited the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police, promising he would stop the Justice Department from “constantly second guessing local law enforcement decisions.” During his first presidential campaign, even Barack Obama mocked “gangbangers,” saying they are so lazy they ask, “Why I gotta do it? Why can’t Pookie do it?” Obama went on, during his presidency, to champion more progressive polices than his predecessors but the bar was quite low.
The fear of black men is embedded in U.S. politics and law, especially in what is known, aspirationally, as “criminal justice.” If Trump is the inheritor of this tradition, he has also been, as usual, the most explicit recent manifestation of it. On the campaign trail in 2016, he said: “We have a situation where we have our inner cities — African Americans and Hispanics are living in hell because it’s so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.” You don’t need a dog’s ears to hear whom he was speaking to there, who was supposed to have felt threatened. And whom he was threatening in return. It turned out to be a winning message for Trump, and his victory set the stage for the American carnage in Lafayette Square.
Minneapolis Police Use Force Against Black People at 7 Times the Rate of Whites (Published 2020)
When the officers use kicks, chokeholds, punches, takedowns, Mace spray, Tasers and the like, the person subject to that force is black about 60 percent of the time.
Black people in Minneapolis as a share of ...
Population
19%
Police officers
9%
Subjects of police
use of force
58%
Minneapolis Police Use Force Against Black People at 7 Times the Rate of Whites
By Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Lazaro GamioJune 3, 2020
Video of George Floyd’s last conscious moments horrified the nation, spurring protests that have led to curfews and National Guard interventions in many large cities.
But for the black community in Minneapolis — where Mr. Floyd died after an officer pressed a knee into his neck for 8 minutes 46 seconds — seeing the police use some measure of force is disturbingly common.
About 20 percent of Minneapolis’s population of 430,000 is black. But when the police get physical — with kicks, neck holds, punches, shoves, takedowns, Mace, Tasers or other forms of muscle — nearly 60 percent of the time the person subject to that force is black. And that is according to the city’s own figures.
Police shootings and use of force against black people in Minneapolis since 2015
Community leaders say the frequency with which the police use force against black residents helps explain a fury in the city that goes beyond Mr. Floyd’s death, which the medical examiner ruled a homicide.
Since 2015, the Minneapolis police have documented using force about 11,500 times. For at least 6,650 acts of force, the subject of that force was black.
By comparison, the police have used force about 2,750 times against white people, who make up about 60 percent of the population.
All of that means that the police in Minneapolis used force against black people at a rate at least seven times that of white people during the past five years.
Those figures reflect the total number of acts of force used by the Minneapolis police since 2015. So if an officer slapped, punched and body-pinned one person during the same scuffle, that may be counted as three separate acts of force. There have been about 5,000 total episodes since 2015 in which the police used at least one act of force on someone.
The disparities in the use of force in Minneapolis parallel large racial gaps in vital measures in the city, like income, education and unemployment, said David Schultz, a professor at Hamline University in St. Paul who has studied local police tactics for two decades.
“It just mirrors the disparities of so many other things in which Minneapolis comes in very badly,” Mr. Schultz said.
When he taught a course years ago on potential liability officers face in the line of duty, Mr. Schultz said, he would describe Minneapolis as “a living laboratory on everything you shouldn’t do when it comes to police use of force.”
Police-reported uses of force in Minneapolis by year
Mr. Schultz credits the current police chief, Medaria Arradondo, for seeking improvements but said that in a lot of respects the department still operates like it did decades ago.
“We have a pattern that goes back at least a generation,” Mr. Schultz said.
The protests in Minneapolis have also been fueled by memories of several black men killed by police officers who either never faced charges or were acquitted. They include Jamar Clark, 24, shot in Minneapolis in 2015 after, prosecutors said, he tried to grab an officer’s gun; Thurman Blevins, 31, shot in Minneapolis in 2018 as he yelled, “Please don’t shoot me,” while he ran through an alley; and Philando Castile, 32, whose girlfriend live-streamed the aftermath of his 2016 shooting in a Minneapolis suburb.
The officer seen in the video pressing a knee into Mr. Floyd’s neck, Derek Chauvin, was fired from the force and charged with manslaughter and third-degree murder. Minneapolis police officials did not respond to questions about the type of force he used.
The city’s use-of-force policy covers chokeholds, which apply direct pressure to the front of the neck, but those are considered deadly force to be used only in the most extreme circumstances. Neck restraints are also part of the policy, but those are explicitly defined only as putting direct pressure on the side of the neck — and not the trachea.
“Unconscious neck restraints,” in which an officer is trying to render someone unconscious, have been used 44 times in the past five years — 27 of those on black people.
For years, experts say, many police departments around the country have sought to move away from neck restraints and chokeholds that might constrict the airway as being just too risky.
Types of force used by Minneapolis police
TYPE OF FORCE
SHARE USED ON BLACK PEOPLE
TOTAL
Gunpoint display
68%
171
Chemical irritants
66%
1,748
Neck restraints
66%
258
Improvised weapon
64%
115
Dogs
61%
77
Body-weight pin
60%
3,630
Taser
60%
785
Takedowns, joint locks
59%
1,820
Restraint techniques
59%
127
Hitting
58%
2,159
Other methods
56%
110
Note: Cases for which force type or race were not listed are not shown.
Dave Bicking, a former member of the Minneapolis civilian police review authority, said the tactic used on Mr. Floyd was not a neck restraint under city policy because it resulted in pressure to the front of Mr. Floyd’s neck.
If anything, he said, it was an unlawful type of body-weight pin, a category that is the most frequently deployed type of force in the city: Since 2015, body-weight pinning has been used about 2,200 times against black people, more than twice the number of times it was used against whites.
Mr. Bicking, a board member of Communities United Against Police Brutality, a Minnesota-based group, said that since 2012 more than 2,600 civilian complaints have been filed against Minneapolis police officers.
Other investigations have led to some officers’ being terminated or disciplined — like Mohamed Noor, the officer who killed an Australian woman in 2017 and was later fired and convicted of third-degree murder.
But, Mr. Bicking said, in only a dozen cases involving 15 officers has any discipline resulted from a civilian complaint alleging misconduct. The worst punishment, he said, was 40 hours of unpaid suspension.
“That’s a week’s unpaid vacation,” said Mr. Bicking, who contends that the city has abjectly failed to discipline wayward officers, which he said contributed to last week’s tragedy. He noted that the former officer now charged with Mr. Floyd’s murder had faced at least 17 complaints.
“If discipline had been consistent and appropriate, Derek Chauvin would have either been a much better officer, or would have been off the force,” he said. “If discipline had been done the way it should be done, there is virtually no chance George Floyd would be dead now.”
The city’s use-of-force numbers almost certainly understate the true number of times force is used on the streets, Mr. Bicking said. But he added that even the official reported data go a long way to explain the anger in Minneapolis.
“This has been years and years in the making,” he said. “George Floyd was just the spark.”
Fears that the Minneapolis police may have an uncontrollable problem appeared to prod state officials into action Tuesday. The governor, Tim Walz, a Democrat, said the State Department of Human Rights launched an investigation into whether the police department “engaged in systemic discriminatory practices towards people of color” over the past decade. One possible outcome: a court-enforced decree requiring major changes in how the force operates.
Announcing the inquiry, Governor Walz pledged to “use every tool at our disposal to deconstruct generations of systemic racism in our state.”
While some activists believe the Minneapolis department is one of the worst-behaving urban forces in the country, comparative national numbers on use of force are hard to come by.
According to Philip M. Stinson, a criminologist at Bowling Green State University, some of the most thorough U.S. data comes from a study by the Justice Department published in November 2015: The study found that 3.5 percent of black people said they had been subject to nonfatal force — or the threat of such force — during their most recent contact with the police, compared with 1.4 percent of white people.
Minneapolis police officials did not respond to questions about their data and use-of-force rates. In other places, studies have shown disparate treatment of black people, such as in searches during traffic stops. Some law enforcement officials have reasoned that since high-crime areas are often disproportionately populated by black residents, it is no surprise that black residents would be subject to more police encounters. (The same studies have also shown that black drivers, when searched, possessed contraband no more often than white drivers.)
The Minneapolis data shows that most use of force happens in areas where more black people live. Although crime rates are higher in those areas, black people are also subject to police force more often than white people in some mostly white and wealthy neighborhoods, though the total number of episodes in those areas is small.
Mr. Stinson, who is also a former police officer, said he believes that at some point during the arrest of Mr. Floyd, the restraint applied to him became “intentional premeditated murder.”
“In my experience, applying pressure to somebody’s neck in that fashion is always understood to be the application of deadly force,” Mr. Stinson said.
But equally revealing in the video, he said, was that other officers failed to intercede, despite knowing they were being filmed. He said that suggests the same thing that the use-of-force data also suggest: That police in the city “routinely beat the hell out of black men.”
“Whatever that officer was doing was condoned by his colleagues,” Mr. Stinson said. “They didn’t seem surprised by it at all. It was business as usual.”
Reebok and a host of brands cut ties with CrossFit after CEO’s ‘FLOYD-19’ comment
Sportswear brand Reebok has announced that it will be ending its association with CrossFit following remarks by the American fitness brand’s founder and chief executive on Twitter.
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Reebok and a host of brands cut ties with CrossFit after CEO’s ‘FLOYD-19’ comment
By Shawn Lim-08 June 2020 05:29am
CrossFit came under fire from its close-knit community after staying silent and not taking a stand against racism.
Sportswear brand Reebok has announced that it will be ending its association with CrossFit following remarks by the American fitness brand’s founder and chief executive on Twitter.
Reebok has a 10-year exclusive deal as title sponsor of the CrossFit Games and is the sole licensee of CrossFit apparel and shoes. That deal is set to expire sometime after this year’s Games and contract renewal negotiations had been ongoing.
However, those talks are now over after CrossFit founder Greg Glassman replied to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation on Twitter after the global health research centre’s director called racism a public health issue. Glassman tweeted ‘It’s FLOYD-19’ in reference to the coronavirus pandemic and the killing of George Floyd by police.
“Our partnership with CrossFit HQ comes to an end later this year,“ Reebok said in a statement sent to The Morning Chalk Up.
“Recently, we have been in discussions regarding a new agreement, however, in light of recent events, we have made the decision to end our partnership with CrossFit HQ.
“We will fulfil our remaining contractual obligations in 2020. We owe this to the CrossFit Games competitors, fans and the community. What doesn’t change is our commitment and dedication to CrossFitters and the passionate CrossFit community.
“We’re so thankful for the strong bonds we’ve created with coaches, box owners and athletes around the world over the past 10 years.”
A host of other brands that have previously sponsored the CrossFit Games, like Rogue and FitAid, have also come out to denounce Glassman’s comments and have either ended or are considering ending their sponsorship.
CrossFit gyms, which run on an affiliate model, have also slammed Glassman’s comments and many have taken to social media to announce they are either giving up or not renewing their affiliation. Past and present CrossFit athletes, like two-time CrossFit Games champion Katrin Davidsdottir and three-time CrossFit Games champion Rich Froning, have also criticised Glassman for his remarks. Meanwhile, Noah Olsen, who finished second in the 2019 CrossFit Games, announced on Instagram that he is declining his invite to this year’s Games.
CrossFit came under fire from its close-knit community after staying silent and not taking a stand against racism for almost two weeks after Floyd’s death. CrossFit had previously announced its support for the LGBTQ community and fired an employee for saying ‘celebrating Pride is a sin’.
It is also a big supporter of police officers, military personnel and other first responders, and has ’Hero’ workouts named after fallen war heroes.
Instead, the fitness brand posted videos of workouts while protests against police brutality and conversations around racism were ongoing in the United States. In the meantime, Glassman tweeted and called an affiliate owner ‘delusional’ after she had emailed him to urge CrossFit to speak up.
After the affiliate owner Alyssa Royse of Rocket Community Fitness, formerly Rocket CrossFit, posted the email on her website, CrossFit broke its silence and posted on Facebook and sought feedback on what it could do for people of colour in its community, but without addressing recent events.
Glassman has also since apologised for his comments. In a series of tweets on CrossFit’s Twitter, he said: ”I, CrossFit HQ, and the CrossFit community will not stand for racism. I made a mistake with the words I chose yesterday. My heart is deeply saddened by the pain it has caused. It was a mistake, not racist but a mistake.
”Floyd is a hero in the black community and not just a victim. I should have been sensitive to that and wasn’t. I apologize for that. I was trying to stick it to the @IHME_UW for their invalidated models resulting in needless, economy-wrecking, life-wrecking lockdown, and when I saw they were announcing modelling a solution to our racial crisis, I was incredulous, angry, and overly emotional. Involving George Floyd’s name in that effort was wrong.
”It’s our hope that his murder catalyzes real change resulting in a level playing field for our black brothers and sisters. Please hear me when I say, we stand by our community to fight for justice. I care about you, our community, and I am here for you.”
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CrossFit had previously deleted its Facebook and Instagram accounts, which had 3.1 million and 2.8 million followers respectively, citing privacy concerns. When it did return to social media, however, one of its first actions was to repost a post downplaying the coronavirus epidemic. This prompted angry calls to delete the post by multiple Chinese affiliates and CrossFit-affiliated competitions like the Asian CrossFit Championship Sanctional. CrossFit did delete the post, but did not apologise.
Meanwhile, L’Oreal has been called out for hypocrisy after it jumped on the Black Lives Matter movement despite its history of silencing voices on racism.
That’s what I was thinking. I’m with defunding. I’m not sure about the abolishing shit.
a lot of department budgets have to justify that amount. In nyc the had tnt for drugs in the 90s and when that was done they just made a new name for it “gang unit” to keep the money coming even though the crack epidemic is gone.
But abolishment might look like this
@Camille
I swear i feel I'm right and this was ALL organized
They used Kaepernick LAST TIME to confuse things
And tried again
Drew Brees was sent to do that sh*t and then fortunately pressure bust pipes
It was just all to damn convenient and organized
look at how they STILL trying to see if they can ride this bullsh*t out.
Its just way to orchestrated for me...
These folks demons
And trying to give the worst of themselves some type of lifeline to continue to be racist and ignorant any sliver of an excuse to be evil
Just wow
And Brees will now ALWAYS be the face of that
TARNISHING HIS LEGACY FOREVER
But one silver lining?
He died so Kaepernick could be avenged.
Drew lit that fire back... when we all needed it.
I'm good with that.
Thanks Drew
I swear i feel I'm right and this was ALL organized
They used Kaepernick LAST TIME to confuse things
And tried again
Drew Brees was sent to do that sh*t and then fortunately pressure bust pipes
It was just all to damn convenient and organized
look at how they STILL trying to see if they can ride this bullsh*t out.
Its just way to orchestrated for me...
These folks demons
And trying to give the worst of themselves some type of lifeline to continue to be racist and ignorant any sliver of an excuse to be evil
Just wow
And Brees will now ALWAYS be the face of that
TARNISHING HIS LEGACY FOREVER
But one silver lining?
He died so Kaepernick could be avenged.
Drew lit that fire back... when we all needed it.
I'm good with that.
Thanks Drew
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These marches have some cacs rattled; They have deployed every available coon.
This is,why I don't fuck with this dude...Black Supremacy...really
this british guy broke down the problems of policing in america from the beginning
i agree 1,000,000%
i agree 1,000,000%
Props on this post....
I call it Bernie Sanders-ism...."I marched for civil rights..."
Well damn...
2 of his cases were handled by the same cop that completely botched that drug raid of the home that ended up getting 2 people killed and no drugs found.
They were likely gonna be dropped and he'd have had some coin coming his way for his problem. The DA is going to try to get it left to his daughter...
2 of his cases were handled by the same cop that completely botched that drug raid of the home that ended up getting 2 people killed and no drugs found.
They were likely gonna be dropped and he'd have had some coin coming his way for his problem. The DA is going to try to get it left to his daughter...
Maybe he is one of those doctors that tests out their skills on themselves...like tattoo artists.
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