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Vehicle plows into counter protesters in Charlottesville

Not common practice but the Roof thing wasn't a common arrest. In his fervor he apparently hadn't eaten in days, or had only eaten some chips as stories differ, and they held him in a conference room for interrogation by the Feds so they couldn't use prison food.

http://www.snopes.com/2015/06/22/dylann-roof-burger-king/

Would a black suspect have been similarly fed? Probably only if there was a similar high profile crime where they wanted to make sure they didn't endanger their case by being accused of violating his civil rights.

My point is that not even a white guy gets a stop at Burger asking after a massacre as put forth in the inaccurate story.

I understand that he was not taken to Burger King, but the fact that he was eating Burger King after having killed 9 people is kind of revolting. Do we have similar case involving minorities ? I'm not really convinced about the "regular food prison" was not available. I mean, Burger King is also "another building".

I can't imagine french cops buying me McDonald in any kind of situation. Not being beaten is actually the goal when you enter in a police station as a suspect.
 

Betty

Banned
I suspect this will be a historic moment. A turning point in history.

If you think this will be like the Birmingham Church Explosion by the KKK that killed several little black girls and galvanised the entire country against the KKK, sapping their power and userbase almost overnight, I think you'll be disappointed.

It'll take much worse to get the bigots and nazi's to defect or give up their ideals now.

But, I do think this is a big moment all the same and will, hopefully, have major ramifications.
 
This is horrifying, i can't understand how this climate of hate was allowed to happen, or was it always present?

Incredibly sad events.
 

Zakalwe

Banned
This is horrifying, i can't understand how this climate of hate was allowed to happen, or was it always present?

Incredibly sad events.

It's always been there, just not galvanised like it is now (at least not for a few decades).

They're getting fucking feral with the power.
 

Betty

Banned
I think I missed this. Quick explanation pretty please??

Comic spoilers, i think it's in reference to this.

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Movie cap is thankfully still anti-Nazi.
 

HeySeuss

Member
I understand that he was not taken to Burger King, but the fact that he was eating Burger King after having killed 9 people is kind of revolting. Do we have similar case involving minorities ? I'm not really convinced about the "regular food prison" was not available. I mean, Burger King is also "another building".

I can't imagine french cops buying me McDonald in any kind of situation. Not being beaten is actually the goal when you enter in a police station as a suspect.

Jails and police stations are not in the same building. Police stations aren't holding facilities and therefore don't typically keep food on hand for arrestees outside of a vending machine. Murder interrogations can last upwards of 24 hours before they actually go to jail. In those cases, anything over 8 hours is where you have to provide them something to eat.

Failing to do so is an easy way to lose a case due to human rights violation which a good defense attorneys could use to say that a confession was compelled because the suspect was so hungry that they said whatever the police wanted them to say so that they could get something to eat.

So no, getting fast food isn't unusual in a long interrogation because they don't keep food on hand for those things. It's much easier to run thru a drive thru and grab a burger for someone. I've done it several times. It's not uncommon.
 

Audioboxer

Member
Wasn't 4chan responsible for that?

Yes. They looked up the car plates and then descended on the son of the father the car was registered to. As the son appears to be anti-Trump this was like Christmas for them. Even although before this was done a snapchat picture was released of a slightly chubby middle aged man being arrested. Don't let that get in the way of a false narrative while you go after a young teenager.

An example of why no one should play internet detectives as it can ruin and change lives for the worse. I get people wanting to know why Ohio plates were on the attackers car where this attack took place but everyone knew the police had a suspect and it would just be a bit of time until information is released. IIRC they have done this previously with other terrorist attacks and outed and named the wrong people.
 

kamineko

Does his best thinking in the flying car
I eagerly anticipate more hypocrisy and cowardice from the so-called "Christian right" in response
 

Zakalwe

Banned
I eagerly anticipate more hypocrisy and cowardice from the so-called "Christian right" in response

It's all over social media, the common thread seems to be:

"With radical racist groups like Antifa and BLM, what the fuck did you expect?! This is just people pushing back!"
 
I understand that he was not taken to Burger King, but the fact that he was eating Burger King after having killed 9 people is kind of revolting. Do we have similar case involving minorities ? I'm not really convinced about the "regular food prison" was not available. I mean, Burger King is also "another building".

I can't imagine french cops buying me McDonald in any kind of situation. Not being beaten is actually the goal when you enter in a police station as a suspect.

That's fair. I was just responding to someone who repeatedly used the "taken to Burger King" fake story.
 

Xando

Member
The worst thing is that nothing is gonna happen. If this was a muslim attack the feds would be making some visits to some known islamists but we all know those nazi militias will be doing their thing tomorrow and the media will have moved on by monday after Trump tweets some dumb shit
 

bplewis24

Neo Member
This is horrifying, i can't understand how this climate of hate was allowed to happen, or was it always present?

Incredibly sad events.

It's been present forever, but it's bubbled up in waves/cycles. It's a result of the other "original sin" of America, which is not enforcing the values on the South during Reconstruction that lead to the Civil War in the first place.

The southern confederate traitors were all allowed their seats back at the table following their loss, and they were allowed to revise history in their best interests, and peddle the myths of the Lost Cause for generations. And so it played out through Jim Crow, and Desegregation, and the Civil Rights era. And after a few landmark cases and legislation, it died down for a bit, while it was extremely unpopular to be racist but among very close company.

Now, it's becoming more popular to be openly racist (aka "White Nationalist") and they see the Trump victory as vindication of their views/agenda. Who'da thunk, that electing a racist person to the Presidency could have cause so much trouble?
 
This really did force Trump to show his hand, and he did not disappoint his white supremacist base.

Piece of shit! If I ever had any suspensions that he was a white supremicist/sympathizer, this is proof right here.

People need to vehemently call this out and ask for his resignation.
 

TheOMan

Tagged as I see fit
Can you imagine the number of bullet holes that car (and person) would have if he were black and plowed into the racists???
 

Darknight

Member
They caught him.

Just saw that. Thanks.

I was looking at facebook and even though race shouldnt matter, it was some white dude. You know if this person was colored, they would be using it against him on the air ways.

Nope, here his race dont matter but the right is trying to spin it into the guy being a lefty.

Fuck this man. Instead of acknowledging the facts, the right media wants to paint it in a way to blame the other guys. WTF.
 

Syder

Member
If the Alt-Right actually organised a car attack on pedestrians, what are the chances we'll see more or a just copycat? or something worse?

I feel like this is a legit concern now.
 

III-V

Member
Piece of shit! If I ever had any suspensions that he was a white supremicist/sympathizer, this is proof right here.

People need to vehemently call this out and ask for his resignation.

Remember when he played coy on David Duke? Good times!

Anyone have a name on this radical MAGA terrorist yet?
 

Toxi

Banned
Well in this case they were just looking up the license plate to figure out the owner. It wasn't really a theory, he did own the car previously it seems.
yeah I really trust the Internet detectives who couldn't even check to see if the guy was still posting on his social media account after the perp got arrested

Stop making excuses for these shitheels.
 
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