fasciz wrote:
ketchup or catsup wrote:
Great points!
Hey, did you see that so far this weekend in Chicago that there have been 26 shooting and 5 killed?
I checked the local news websites to see where the BLM protests against this sort of violence were being held, but couldn't find anything scheduled.
Can someone tell me where and when the protests will be held?
Thanks in Advance!
As you are well aware, inner city violence is not the focus of BLM.
No black on black crime is. Neither is black on white crime or black on police crime. This is all about the 1% of cops who go off the reservation, typically when provoked. Black lives don’t matter unless they can be exploited by the political left to advance their own narcissistic, self righteous causes and profiteering. And that is extremely sad.
Calling it the whitehouse is racist wrote:
fasciz wrote:
As you are well aware, inner city violence is not the focus of BLM.
No black on black crime is. Neither is black on white crime or black on police crime. This is all about the 1% of cops who go off the reservation, typically when provoked. Black lives don’t matter unless they can be exploited by the political left to advance their own narcissistic, self righteous causes and profiteering. And that is extremely sad.
I don't agree with your notion that trying to fix police accountability is an unjust cause.
Mary Skip wrote:
"99.99% of cops will not tell on dirty cops. This is the real problem."
So true!
Hey, did you see down in Florida a few days ago? A big party in a warehouse, two shot one killed. Over 100 people at the party, but no one saw anything! The party was at 3:30 am, so maybe the power went out and things went dark, so that is why no one saw anything.
That is the only explanation, I think, as I'm sure the partygoers would not want the deceased to die in vain, and would surely point out the shooters.
What do you think?
Is there news on AP wire? AP has no bias. On AP wire, they simply state facts.
"#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer...."
From my perspective, as a trained researcher, the problem with BLM begins here. There's no question in my mind that the police need to be reformed; I agree with Coleman Hughes and many others on this point. It's much less clear, as he argues in his "Stories and Data" article and "The Moral Case Against Black Lives Matter," that race is the sole or even the primary factor in shootings of unarmed black men.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2020/06/15/stories_and_data_496240.html
But of course George Zimmerman wasn't a cop. He was a neighborhood patrol chief in a multiracial (NOT white) gated-but-open community, one who had been asked to serve in that role by others in the community who admired his selflessness.
Zimmerman was acquitted because the prosecution's case just wasn't very good, and because John Good, the one witness who actually saw Martin on top of Zimmerman, raining down blows on him "MMA style," was entirely believable. Good didn't see what preceded the encounter, and it's entirely possible that Zimmerman profiled Martin, since the community had been preyed upon in the previous few months by black men, mostly young. One of them stole Zimmerman's bicycle off his terrace. Two more who lived in the community broke into the house of a woman with a baby. Zimmerman wasn't a racist; the FBI interviewed more than 30 people in the community, including Zimmerman's ex-wife, and they couldn't find one single person who claimed he was racist. That's why the DOJ never ended up pressing civil rights charges.
I don't personally think the evidence is there for Martin having been casing houses and looking to break in. He was just strolling home and chatting with his girlfriend on the phone. To that extent, Zimmerman probably did get things wrong. But it's also clear that Martin was freaked out by, and almost certainly pissed off, by having been profiled in this way--and given the time-stamps on his motions and actions, it's clear to me that he went back and did what Zimmerman claimed he did, which is say, "You got a problem" and then "You've got a problem now," before jumping on Zimmerman and beating him down.
John Good saw the beat-down. He had by far the best view of any witness. His trial testimony was consistent with his original statement to investigators--and that original statement was made when nobody yet cared about the case.
Zimmerman shot Martin in self-defense. One bullet. Then, unsure whether he'd killed him, he flipped him over, pinned Martin's arms to the ground for a moment, and then rolled off.
BLM's problem is that this particular case, featuring a chronic school truant and somebody known to his peers as an MMA-style after-school brawler and CELEBRATED as such, is a fatally flawed case on which to build a movement.
Sham 69 wrote:
blm discussion always full of semantics
Not really. Do you like Marxism? Yes or no?
Calling it the whitehouse is racist wrote:
fasciz wrote:
As you are well aware, inner city violence is not the focus of BLM.
No black on black crime is. Neither is black on white crime or black on police crime. This is all about the 1% of cops who go off the reservation, typically when provoked. Black lives don’t matter unless they can be exploited by the political left to advance their own narcissistic, self righteous causes and profiteering. And that is extremely sad.
1% seems low for sure. Even if it were....... it’s not only the 1% doing the damage, it’s also the remaining 99% covering it up, etc.
Cops need to go.......