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Protests happening in Minneapolis and Baton Rouge right now
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Can't have a two way conversation with the people he racially profiles and harasses for identification
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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I always forget we can just post photos instead of trying to get people to see how they're either making up their own facts or barely know anything about it.
Seductivpancakes
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I'm sure he's not a racist. He has a black friend.
Man you really don't like minorities huh? Woman, Blacks, Muslims? So quick to reach for anything you can grasp to vilify them or movements fighting for them? No matter how unfounded the accusations or how much you are overstating or abusing context.
EdibleKnife
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How many is too many? Because you seem to think even just a few is enough to crucify the whole movement. I asked you what you actually think about police killing unarmed men, women and children and getting away with that because I have high standards for what protecting and serving means when someone is payed for that. Your rhetoric also sounds suspiciously like Trump's, "I saw Muslims partying in the streets after 9/11". If you want to provide sources for these processions and are convinced that saying something fucked up is license for police to respond with violence I'd quite hearing it.
"Look at my African American friend there, sitting there, behaving."
What the fuck are you talking about. Multiple studies have shown that blacks are much more likely to be targeted by cops than whites. Including a study done by the DOJ.
Are you really that stupid?
Valkyr1983
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People still have places to be
Life goes on, I can't put mine on hold because of tragedies
Peaceful protests should mean not affecting bystanders
Gotdatmoney
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What is far too many? Because hundreds of marches and activities organized occur by BLM and the vast bulk of them are peaceful and the overwhelming majority of those people have never ever preached violence. So where are you getting your numbers from? Scouring youtube and twitter for confirmation bias?
This is the attitude that makes these people realize you don't give a shit about them. So in turn, why should they give a shit about you?
Clearly, those are faked with an agenda.
People need to live too
Seductivpancakes
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I was gonna respond, but read his tag.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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That's the point: you can. They can't, which is why they're on the streets asking for us to recognize their humanity instead of doing what they'd actually like to do like the rest of us.
EdibleKnife
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Then find away around it or get over it because people are out their for the sake of their lives and the lives of their children and families. Protests affecting bystanders is nothing new particularly as related to civil rights.
Yeah he has a problem with poor people and minorities, going by past threads
R10Neymarfan
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And talent. I know Beyonce and Lamar are on the right track and they are making headlines. So is Jesse Williams. But for every one of them. There is a Raven, Wnedy Williams, or Stafy Dash...
Reporter has a hardon for the police to do something
This is pretty bad as far as tryhard shitposts go.
Again, do two wrongs make a right?
Is this protest effective?
You answered neither question.
Roads are used for more than commutes by the way. Ambulances and firetrucks don't fly.
Is not like i've ever envisioned you to be someone who cares for minorites in general.
Can you show an example where a protest hasn't allowed an ambulance or firetruck through?
good point. everybody who feels that there has been injustice needs to speak up. especially the ones we look up to.
About that:
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Also, yes, it is effective. As I said before, all the dozens of peaceful protests of people just yelling on the side walk to nearby cars haven't gotten attention nor conversation, these protests on the other hand have caused discussion nationwide.
I will say I have heard more (white)people talk about poor policing and black injustice from police in one weekend out and about and through friends and family here in Baton Rouge then I have in probably an entire year. I visited a restaurant the other night I used to work at and even the owner, a really conservative fellow, was sharing his stories of police mistreatment to a bar audience of about 8-10 of us patrons. Capping it off with saying he can only imagine how it would of went if he was black. Again, this is a climate-change denying, Ted Cruz supporting conservative.
...Now on the flip side there has been some not surprisingly sick Facebook stuff and speculation going around. But that is from the racists that aren't really ever changing and are just making themselves look like idiots proclaiming the stuff they have been.
I should be surprised, but at this point I'm not.
Some things are more important than your daily routine.
A slight inconvenience to one of your days could change the world.
EdibleKnife
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Which is why ambulances and firetrucks are clear to move through the crowd when they show up and often have alt routes for the sake of concerts, parades, sporting events and just plain daytime traffic from other obstructions. The movement isn't dead. It has sympathizers in the US and outside of it. The spread of BLM has resulted in more documentation by people in the public of instances of police brutality. No one has forgotten the name BLM nor will they forget it and city legislators, politicians, and law enforcement won't and can't ignore them. Also in no way is a day of blocked traffic even a slightly comparable "wrong" to the pure injustice that BLM is fighting against.
Gotdatmoney
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2 wrongs may (and history has shown does) inflict change. Which one of those scenarios sounds more palatable to the oppressed people?
Why should I care about your problems
Is whatever you're doing really that important to everyone else who's blocking your way?
What would you do to make people care I wonder? Maybe you would...protest
Funny how you equalized being late somewhere to systematic racism and abuse.
TestOfTide
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Johnny, your lack of subtlety tells me that you don't even care about the facts (especially since you'll say shit like "the stats say otherwise" then fail to provide any source), you just want and excuse to hate the movement and wish it away.
Well get the fuck over your annoyance with BLM, because now we have seen even moderate republicans call it a peaceful movement, meaning the only people who think it's a hate group are crazy conservative dipshits like yourself.
Guess what, Johnny, most of your group of dipshits is old baby boomers who will be dead in 10-20 years while the younger generations, while still heavily flawed, has a much higher prevalence of people that are willing acknowledge the racial issues with police. Or to put it more bluntly: Your dipshit bigotry is literally dying off.
So you have a choice in the years ahead:
- learn to be more accepting of other groups and willing to actually acknowledge racial issues
- keep getting angry at other groups for having the audacity to demand they stop being unjustly killed
In the end it's your choice to make, but for your own sake I suggest you get with the fucking times, especially because the kind of anger associated with anti-BLM sentiment is most likely bad for your health (since we all know how stress is bad for health).
Well get the fuck over your annoyance with BLM, because now we have seen even moderate republicans call it a peaceful movement, meaning the only people who think it's a hate group are crazy conservative dipshits like yourself.
Guess what, Johnny, most of your group of dipshits is old baby boomers who will be dead in 10-20 years while the younger generations, while still heavily flawed, has a much higher prevalence of people that are willing acknowledge the racial issues with police. Or to put it more bluntly: Your dipshit bigotry is literally dying off.
So you have a choice in the years ahead:
- learn to be more accepting of other groups and willing to actually acknowledge racial issues
- keep getting angry at other groups for having the audacity to demand they stop being unjustly killed
In the end it's your choice to make, but for your own sake I suggest you get with the fucking times, especially because the kind of anger associated with anti-BLM sentiment is most likely bad for your health (since we all know how stress is bad for health).
The Easton Crash, which in the end, reached a hospital.
‏@MassStatePolice Ambulance had to be diverted to a smaller hospital in SE Mass rather than level 1 Boston trauma hospital. Victim had been in Easton crash.
Also, there were other options to get the person to MGH:
BMF (Boston MedFlight) transports emergency patients regardless of their ability to pay and is financially supported in part by a six hospital consortium of the following:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston Medical Center
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Children's Hospital Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital
Tufts Medical Center
CrimsonCommie
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Holy shit not even subtle with your racism
You didn't even read to the end of the post
adamsappel
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I remember when my mother-in-law told me how glad she'd been when MLK was assassinated. He was causing all that violence down South. Then she said she missed her days in the John Birch Society.
TheOctodad
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http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/32411896/protesters-blocking-i-40-bridge
The guy (Joseph Kyles) that was just speaking on this livestream was fire.
The guy (Joseph Kyles) that was just speaking on this livestream was fire.
This article/excerpt just came up for me on twitter - context for those trying to hand-wave the issues with the police in Baton Rouge- http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/07/baton_rouge_police_brutality.html
I did, just feeds into the same thing
Honestly the concern trolling is pretty silly. If the poster knew where these protests were taking place in Baton Rouge and the general layout of the area, he would (hopefully)feel really stupid.
If you can't find your way around them without minimal loss to your commute time you would have to be one of the worst road pilots on the planet.
That wasn't part of the BLM group. The article calls them allies to the group but that was not a protest set up by the BLM organizations.
You're dismissing the fact the protestors deliberately blocked an emergency vehicle.
Nature of emergencies is that they are emergent. You can't predict who will make it to what hospital and who will die in traffic.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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Explaining emergencies to people as a reason why they shouldn't protest is rich.
like the emergency state of police brutality ?
people ain't doing this shit cause they are bored.
And I've addressed this before. If it's not protesters, it's a car pile up or nature taking its toll. There's always back up plans for these situations, and if it's dire, there's medical helicopters to transport people to Boston.
BRPD is fuck awful.
This is the same department that got in a lot of trouble a year ago using a sodomy law that was deemed illegal years prior by the courts to set up stings to target and arrest gay people.
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