I don't mean this with disrespect because a man lost his life but I think things are going to get really bad here in just a few short hours.
I've heard rumors of a 7pm curfew. And closing arguments in the Chauvin trial sound like they may start next Monday. Things are going to be bad for a while.
I don't mean this with disrespect because a man lost his life but I think things are going to get really bad here in just a few short hours.
I've heard rumors of a 7pm curfew. And closing arguments in the Chauvin trial sound like they may start next Monday. Things are going to be bad for a while.
Things have been bad and I don’t be protest, looters and curfews.
I've heard rumors of a 7pm curfew. And closing arguments in the Chauvin trial sound like they may start next Monday. Things are going to be bad for a while.
Things have been bad and I don’t be protest, looters and curfews.
I agree. I wasn't intending to say anything other than that.
I've heard rumors of a 7pm curfew. And closing arguments in the Chauvin trial sound like they may start next Monday. Things are going to be bad for a while.
Things have been bad and I don’t be protest, looters and curfews.
I agree wholeheartedly. A persons life is way more important than buildings and businesses.
Things have been bad and I don’t be protest, looters and curfews.
I agree. I wasn't intending to say anything other than that.
It’s not you. I keep hearing about how the city is really headed for trouble and I keep wanting to shout that the city is already in trouble. Nothing should matter more than the life of our citizens. The looting and burning of stuff is peanuts compared to the loss of life. For the record, I hate the looting and burning. It financially impacts business owners and neighborhoods. I had to pick my mom up and drive her to another city because she wasn’t sure if her local Cub in Shingle Creek was even open today. She’s lucky she has someone who can do it and I know others don’t. But the city should mourn his life. The city should see his death as being as bad as a burning building. I just had to say something here and now in this post.
I agree. I wasn't intending to say anything other than that.
It’s not you. I keep hearing about how the city is really headed for trouble and I keep wanting to shout that the city is already in trouble. Nothing should matter more than the life of our citizens. The looting and burning of stuff is peanuts compared to the loss of life. For the record, I hate the looting and burning. It financially impacts business owners and neighborhoods. I had to pick my mom up and drive her to another city because she wasn’t sure if her local Cub in Shingle Creek was even open today. She’s lucky she has someone who can do it and I know others don’t. But the city should mourn his life. The city should see his death as being as bad as a burning building. I just had to say something here and now in this post.
I have seen a pharmacy was looted in Minneapolis and had to move their vaccine appointments to another location today.
I agree. I wasn't intending to say anything other than that.
It’s not you. I keep hearing about how the city is really headed for trouble and I keep wanting to shout that the city is already in trouble. Nothing should matter more than the life of our citizens. The looting and burning of stuff is peanuts compared to the loss of life. For the record, I hate the looting and burning. It financially impacts business owners and neighborhoods. I had to pick my mom up and drive her to another city because she wasn’t sure if her local Cub in Shingle Creek was even open today. She’s lucky she has someone who can do it and I know others don’t. But the city should mourn his life. The city should see his death as being as bad as a burning building. I just had to say something here and now in this post.
I totally agree. All of it is bad but obviously a man's life matters far, far more than property damage.
Right? Like even assuming that's true... Wouldn't they feel different in your hand? Don't you hold them fairly differently?
This is an actual question, so if anyone knows, please chime in.
The taser is carried on the opposite side of the body to prevent mix-ups.
Yes, I know this, but my question was assuming that you do mix them up and reach for the wrong one. That seems like something you should be able to tell immediately.
My very good police officer friend told me that if you mix up your taser and your gun under stress, you have no business being a police officer, full stop. They aren't even close to the same. I've held both, and even as an untrained ignorant person, I can tell the difference. I am RAGING angry at the justification police are allowed to say out loud for murdering a person.
They just showed the video. The officer yelled Taser but used the handgun. So they’re saying it was an accident because the officer meant to use their taser. OMFG
This is just horrifying. And I really don’t understand how you “mix up” your handgun and taser.
We have recently been informed diabetes causes racial slurs to happen so perhaps it causes people to forget left and right.
what the fuck with this? How hard is it not not maybe kill someone?
and fuck the warrants. Did Tamir Rice? Elijah McClain? John Crawford III? The police, the system, the nation, will NEVER allow for a perfect victim. They will always move the goalpost from warrants to resisted arrest to looked older to looked dangerous to looked inside a house under construction.
Unless the warrant was for a mass killing or sexual assault, shove the warrants up everyone’s ass. They are likely a sham and a different product of racism and they are a red herring that tries to reinforce “respectability” to make people believe “if he’d just... then” but that is the lie at the heart of it all.
I know we have talked about this ad nauseum, but why even tase for trying to get back in the car. What is the worse case scenario? He gets away? So? Who fucking cares.
I know we have talked about this ad nauseum, but why even tase for trying to get back in the car. What is the worse case scenario? He gets away? So? Who fucking cares.
I just... it all comes back to guns. If we did not have the fucked up gunny nation we have created, then police would not have reason to think / “think” everyone might be armed and getting a weapon. Notwithstanding that gun ownership as-is, both legal and illegal, are other products of racism.
(I recognize the threat of guns are also a red herring as knives or wallets or Skittles will suffice, but they are all linked to the “threat” of guns)
I know we have talked about this ad nauseum, but why even tase for trying to get back in the car. What is the worse case scenario? He gets away? So? Who fucking cares.
I just... it all comes back to guns. If we did not have the fucked up gunny nation we have created, then police would not have reason to think / “think” everyone might be armed and getting a weapon. Notwithstanding that gun ownership as-is, both legal and illegal, are other products of racism.
(I recognize the threat of guns are also a red herring as knives or wallets or Skittles will suffice, but they are all linked to the “threat” of guns)
I also think it comes back to the disrespect thing. Being a cop is all about intimidation and lord help you if you show any level of disrespect. Or what they perceive to be disrespect. Then all bets are off apparently. Again this is not new. It is the tail as old as time.
I know we have talked about this ad nauseum, but why even tase for trying to get back in the car. What is the worse case scenario? He gets away? So? Who fucking cares.
That’s what I told H. We need to reframe how law enforcement interacts with the public. So he gets in the car, the cops get in their car and follow and call for back up or a fucking helicopter to follow him or whatever. I don’t care. You don’t pull your weapon out. This isn’t a life or death situation. The main goal needs to be for everyone to end the interaction alive. Focus on that. Once we know everyone is going to live we can focus on enforcing non-bullshit laws. Unless his warrant was for murder there is no reason to pull a weapon. Somehow white people manage to get arrested without being killed most of the time. Let’s try whatever we do with them with black people.
I just... it all comes back to guns. If we did not have the fucked up gunny nation we have created, then police would not have reason to think / “think” everyone might be armed and getting a weapon. Notwithstanding that gun ownership as-is, both legal and illegal, are other products of racism.
(I recognize the threat of guns are also a red herring as knives or wallets or Skittles will suffice, but they are all linked to the “threat” of guns)
I also think it comes back to the disrespect thing. Being a cop is all about intimidation and lord help you if you show any level of disrespect. Or what they perceive to be disrespect. Then all bets are off apparently. Again this is not new. It is the tail as old as time.
fuck
I was about to answer you, but I see you answered yourself with what I was going to say. Cops get on these power trips and it gets magnified 100x when they feel a Black person or other POC isn't being respectful to them, isn't being deferential to them, doesn't "know their place", etc. So they escalate and escalate in this power struggle because they have to "win". It's fucked up and the militarization of police has only exacerbated this issue by 1) playing into the god complex they have and 2) giving them more dangerous weapons to use when they feel this way.
I saw the video. It's all so horrifying. It was completely outrageous and unnecessary to tase him in the first place, let alone her getting confused which is which.
I just... it all comes back to guns. If we did not have the fucked up gunny nation we have created, then police would not have reason to think / “think” everyone might be armed and getting a weapon. Notwithstanding that gun ownership as-is, both legal and illegal, are other products of racism.
(I recognize the threat of guns are also a red herring as knives or wallets or Skittles will suffice, but they are all linked to the “threat” of guns)
I also think it comes back to the disrespect thing. Being a cop is all about intimidation and lord help you if you show any level of disrespect. Or what they perceive to be disrespect. Then all bets are off apparently. Again this is not new. It is the tail as old as time.
fuck
Very true.
why does this profession feel it is entitled to more respect? How did it get so much buy-in for that singular narrative? Teachers, firefighters, miners, construction— all dangerous. How did police become the penultimate of deserved respect?
What other job allows you to start fucking people up as a matter of course?
ETA: and don’t so many jobs put people in contact with people who may be “resistant” or downright abusive? Bars, nurses, retail? It doesn’t make sense to prop up the narrative of dangerous encounters
The Brooklyn Center police department is flying a blue line flag right now per verified account of a Star Tribune reporter. So much for even trying to give an appearance of de-escalating.