Post by InBetweenDays on Jun 20, 2017 9:55:20 GMT -5
It is hard to express my anger and sadness with this. The Seattle Police Department has been under a consent decree for the past 5 years after a DOJ investigation found a pattern or practice of excessive force that violates the U.S. Constitution and federal law. In April the federal monitor reported that the SPD had made a dramatic turn around and was well on their way to reform. Obviously fucking not!
So this guy gets the benefit of the doubt and 45 minutes of "calm" officers. How can you even argue there isn't something wrong??
I was JUST thinking about this. They went to his office to serve a search warrant for MURDER. Dude (white doctor) comes out with a gun. The end result? He's peacefully taken into custody.
Because that's how Seattle rolls! I'm so glad we didn't move there a few years ago. My anxiety would be through the roof, with all the holier than though, "At least we're not as racist as the South, or conservatives" style shit. Nah, you folks up north are just as scary, if not more, because you're in deep denial about your microaggressive and benevolent racist ways.
This. All day every day on here people love to talk about the racist South but then fail to realize (in other words acknowledge) they live in the racist North. But then it's understandable because well they are white and racism occurs in someone else's backyard. Lol for days...
Lol that the disaster that is the US right now is state specific. That's intellectually absurd.
I've always wondered how people can convince themselves that they live in an area that is welcoming to brown people, yet there are no brown people. Lol. Do they think black people just haven't heard of the PNW? Our cars stop somewhere just east or south of there? We can't afford the flight in?
It's like when my coworkers try to convince me to move to their lily-white neighborhoods and send my kid to school with no other black children. I'm good, thanks.
Lol that the disaster that is the US right now is state specific. That's intellectually absurd.
Yeah, but remember all those years these boards tried to claim Canada as being post-racial and oh so enlightened? Lol, nope. When there are White people, especially those entitled by the reach of the British Empire, heavy racism is likely present.
I have never claimed Canada to be post racial, that is also absolutely absurd. I almost disclaimed my statement to that effect, but thought it unnecessary, however, I won't pretend that there aren't some very glaring and fundamental differences between the two countries.