The 2020 George Floyd/BLM/Police Brutality Protests Discussion Thread

Salt Lake City police shot a juvenile (probably a teen) last night who was having a psychological episode. Apparently, the juvenile fled when police showed up and one officer shot him as he was running away. There was no indication the suspect had a weapon and his back was to police. He's suspected to survive, but is currently in the hospital in serious condition.

https://kutv.com/news/local/developing-news-shooting-in-salt-lake-city

What's it with cops shooting people in the back? Are you really a threat if your back is to someone?

And since this happened on the west side of the city, my guess is the suspect was either white or Hispanic.
 
Joey D
Are you really a threat if your back is to someone?
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I don't think it's so much about being a threat as much as they don't want the person getting away. Because it makes them look bad or they get embarrassed or whatever other stupid excuse they can come up with.
 
Joey D
What's it with cops shooting people in the back? Are you really a threat if your back is to someone?
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If the suspect has his back to you, you can't tell if he is drawing a weapon from an inside front pocket.

That's the claimed logic.
 
Liquid
If the suspect has his back to you, you can't tell if he is drawing a weapon from an inside front pocket.

That's the claimed logic.
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Because we all know criminals love to do that cool move from The Matrix where Neo turns around, overcoat flies in the wind and he gets some shots off.
 
Without issuing any kind of a warning, it sounds like a precrime-based approach to execute a fleeing suspect.
 
New Hampshire State Representative (Republican) James Spillane under investigation for promoting violence & looting against BLM supporters.
The New Hampshire Department of Justice is investigating Rep. James Spillane over a Facebook post in which the Deerfield lawmaker advocated for burning and looting houses displaying Black Lives Matter signs.

“Public Service Announcement,” Spillane wrote in the post from earlier this week. “If you see a BLM sign on a lawn, it’s the same as having a porch light on at Halloween. You are free to burn and loot that house.” As of Thursday afternoon, the post appears to have been deleted from Spillane’s page.
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https://www.concordmonitor.com/AG-I...-Homes-With-Black-Lives-Matter-Signs-36086041

And here I was told by multiple members rioting & looting is a Democrat-endorsed pastime.
 
Sorry for being late tonight. Day 101. Rochester PD is having a cop riot against a peaceful protest.

Warning: Foul language

 
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DesertPenguin
Sorry for being late tonight. Day 101. Rochester PD is having a cop riot against a peaceful protest.

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Wow, foul language, dirty word graffiti, this video is so offensive, and not a warning in sight.

Someone should report this!
 
McLaren
New Hampshire State Representative (Republican) James Spillane under investigation for promoting violence & looting against BLM supporters.

https://www.concordmonitor.com/AG-I...-Homes-With-Black-Lives-Matter-Signs-36086041

And here I was told by multiple members rioting & looting is a Democrat-endorsed pastime.
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I wasn't aware that a porch light being on meant you could burn down a house on Halloween. Then again, I never went trick-or-treating, so maybe I missed this memo.
 
ROAD_DOGG33J
Yeah definitely not too peaceful

Trashing restaurants, shouting ****ing pigs, and yelling at people that they are cowards if they remain silent
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How much more of this do you think people are going to take? Lucky there wasn't someone carrying a weapon seated in that restaurant. I wish BLM would go protest in Chicago,in Baltimore were black people are getting killed every day. Little kids getting killed. Sad!
 
killerjimbag
What the one in June? Does BLM help pay for funerals for the children murdered in Chicago or any other city? Don't think so.
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BLM isn't a formal organisation with funds and treasurers. It's a group of people who all believe the same thing. They didn't pay for George's funeral. People like Floyd Mayweather chipped in with money. Why should they pay for the funerals of children murdered in Chicago that they didn't kill? You're not making any sense at all.
 
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UKMikey
BLM isn't a formal organisation with funds and treasurers. It's a group of people who all believe the same thing. They didn't pay for George's funeral. People like Floyd Mayweather chipped in with money. Why should they pay for the funerals of children murdered in Chicago that they didn't kill? You're not making any sense at all.
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Right. BLM isn't a formal organization.

Are you serious?https://blacklivesmatter.ca/donate/ Did you actually post that?Children getting killed by other black thugs. I get your point. Yes people in the inner city can afford funeral costs.Oh I forgot about this. Perhaps the black people of Chicago get what BLM really is.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/nypost....t-off-protesters-and-shut-down-blm-rally/amp/
 
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killerjimbag
Right. BLM isn't a formal organization.

Are you serious?https://blacklivesmatter.ca/donate/ Did you actually post that?Children getting killed by other black thugs. I get your point. Yes people in the inner city can afford funeral costs.Oh I forgot about this. Perhaps the black people of Chicago get what BLM really is.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/nypost....t-off-protesters-and-shut-down-blm-rally/amp/
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You're talking about an movement which can't decide whether it's Marxist or not because only one of the three founders said so and the others disagreed. Just because one organiser makes excuses for looting doesn't mean the organisation as a whole does, or even the Chicago chapter.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/life...0200903-xh75kbw5nfdk5joudlsgb2viwq-story.html

Chicago Tribune
Black Lives Matter Chicago organizer Ariel Atkins went viral in early August for calling the looting of downtown stores a form of “reparations.” The statements were made in the wake of the Aug. 9 shooting of 20-year-old Latrell Allen by police in Englewood. Atkins showed support for the looters, cited anger as the reason for their actions and claimed that history has not been changed through peaceful protests.

But, as an organization, Tendaji said BLM Chicago does not condone looting.
“There was definitely some misspeak, some things missaid in the press recently from one of our folks that may have sounded like support for or condoning looting,” Tendaji said. “Organizationally, we certainly don’t have anything to do with — or condone — illegal activity that, you know, really frightens and, quite frankly, pisses off a lot of Black folks.”
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Also, your figures showed that white people kill people in Chicago as well. But you're just fixated on black thugs. I wonder why that is.
 
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Ian Cheong is a right-wing nut job who once based all his evidence on the Charlottesville driver back to something said on 4chan.
It's been pointed out numerous times rioters & protesters are not the same, & there's been repeated instances, purposely ignored by right-wing followers of protesters condemning & physically blocking rioting.
As Joey as said, BLM's organization & movement are not the same. Several BLM supporters have called for folks to not donate any money to the organization after it has been discovered the money is going to politicians, not the community.
 
UKMikey
You're talking about an movement which can't decide whether it's Marxist or not because only one of the three founders said so and the others disagreed. Just because one organiser makes excuses for looting doesn't mean the organisation as a whole does, or even the Chicago chapter.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/life...0200903-xh75kbw5nfdk5joudlsgb2viwq-story.html



Also, your figures showed that white people kill people in Chicago as well. But you're just fixated on black thugs. I wonder why that is.
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Here you tell me whom is killing whom. Its a long weekend. Watch the numbers.

https://heyjackass.com/
 

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