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joelove
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W.T.Carl
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| 40 years of Democratic politics. The city has a black mayor, majority black city council ( 9 to 6 ), and black chief of police and a majority black police force. Two former mayors went on to run the state, which has had only two ( including the current one ) Republican governors in the past four decades. For a better view of the situation, you should watch a HBO series called THE WIRE. It's fictional, but........................ |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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sirius black
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
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I don't see anything unusual about Baltimore. Its not just this one case of the guy who had his spine broken, its a laundry list of neglect local, state and federal in communities like these. Cities don't have the say they once had over education (no child left behind is federal) as well as other instutions. And often, as in Baltimore, its sometimes poor leadership.
In fact, I think the Baltimore folks are pretty calm in context. If there was a pattern of police abuse on white teens and 20 somethings, what do you think would happen on the next incident that was the last straw?
Way, way more than what SOME of the blacks in Baltimore are doing. We bring high powered rifles to shoot feds over taxes, not even lives (Cliven Bundy ranch) we blow up buildings (Oklahmoa), if we feel slighted over something we have mass shootings (Columbine, Sandy Hook), look at the Hunting Beach, Ohio State and Unvi. of Kentucky riots and those didn't even have a reason or it was over a lost basketball game.
imagine if it was systemic police brutality? No, the Baltimore people are pretty calm considering. |
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Plain Meaning
Joined: 18 Oct 2014
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| sirius black wrote: |
| I don't see anything unusual about Baltimore. Its not just this one case of the guy who had his spine broken, its a laundry list of neglect local, state and federal in communities like these. Cities don't have the say they once had over education (no child left behind is federal) as well as other instutions. And often, as in Baltimore, its sometimes poor leadership. |
You're right, Baltimore is not unusual, but state and local actors are certainly to blame at least as much as Federal neglect.
For example, Obama's own Chicago and its black site.
Chicago's detainees speak
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A friend of Wright’s swept up in the same police raid described his own brutal treatment at the facility, known as Homan Square, including attacks to his face and genitals. The experiences of the two men line up with the way defense attorneys described the “black site” warehouse to Ackerman: as a place where detainees were held off the books, without access to lawyers, while being beaten or shackled for long periods of time.
Wright claims that nine years ago, he spent “at least six [brutal] hours” at the Homan facility on his 21st birthday. He says that he was never read his Miranda rights, and that his arrest was not put into the police system until after his ordeal was over. Wright was reminded of the facility again this week when he noticed a tweet from a writer he admires, The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates, linking to Ackerman’s story. Ackerman compared Homan Square to the network of shadowy torture centers built by the CIA across the Middle East — but focused “on Americans, most often poor, black and brown,” rather than on purported overseas terrorists.
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Siska has known about the goings-on at Homan “since about the mid- to late-2000s.” Siska also said that most of those detained at Homan are poor, black and brown people suspected of street crimes. When I asked why reporters haven’t covered the abuses allegedly occurring there, Siska replied with a slight chuckle, “That’s the million dollar question. The problem is a lot of reporters agree with the police perspective.” |
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Kepler
Joined: 24 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| sirius black wrote: |
I don't see anything unusual about Baltimore. Its not just this one case of the guy who had his spine broken, its a laundry list of neglect local, state and federal in communities like these. Cities don't have the say they once had over education (no child left behind is federal) as well as other instutions. And often, as in Baltimore, its sometimes poor leadership.
In fact, I think the Baltimore folks are pretty calm in context. If there was a pattern of police abuse on white teens and 20 somethings, what do you think would happen on the next incident that was the last straw?
Way, way more than what SOME of the blacks in Baltimore are doing. We bring high powered rifles to shoot feds over taxes, not even lives (Cliven Bundy ranch) we blow up buildings (Oklahmoa), if we feel slighted over something we have mass shootings (Columbine, Sandy Hook), look at the Hunting Beach, Ohio State and Unvi. of Kentucky riots and those didn't even have a reason or it was over a lost basketball game.
imagine if it was systemic police brutality? No, the Baltimore people are pretty calm considering. |
A list of about five white individuals who have behaved worse than the Baltimore rioters is deceptive cherry picking. Actually, most Americans who have been shot by police are white so we should be seeing rioting and looting all over the US in white communities.... |
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sirius black
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
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Sorry, those fox news talking points won't cut it. blacks make up about half of all police shootings. Whites are almost 2/3 of the population, blacks amost 13 percent.
There is no cherry pick. "about 5 whites?' the major media didnt show the extent of the Huntington beach riots, the Ohio state riot and the University of Kentucky riots. In the latter, guns were fired, cops were hurt, tens of arrests over a losing a friggin' game. "about 5 is a straight out intentional misrepresentation' THere is no reason for whites and asians for that matter to riot. There are no issues, certainly not life and death issues. And you didn't answer the question, what if whites had the same number of incidents in context. Lets see if you nuance or just lie.
Also, how many of the white shootings were of white teens and 20 smethings unarmed and the police got off free from it?
Its a fact cops target lower income black and brown neighborhoods. That's a fact. Its easy pickings. Many states have a quota to fill for private prisons. Second, cops are promoted based on arrests. Its easier to arrest some black dude for whatever, even trumped up, the legal system is stacked against him. Try that in the suburbs. Whites take as much and some stats so more drugs than blacks but cops target blacks almost exclusively.
Frat row at my school was pot heaven..everyone knew that, cops knew that, but it doesn't pay to arrest the guys at Kappa Alpha or the Fiji house.
Finally, the anger is over injustice. You never hear blacks rioting over a clear cut case where the cops had every right to use deadly force. ALL the incidents and riots or marches were over perceived injustice. |
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Plain Meaning
Joined: 18 Oct 2014
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Nobody knows how many Americans the police kill each year
Here are estimates:
http://www.vox.com/2015/4/10/8382457/police-shootings-racism
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An analysis of the available FBI data by Vox's Dara Lind shows that US police kill black people at disproportionate rates: black people accounted for 31 percent of police shooting victims in 2012, even though they made up just 13 percent of the US population.
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Police were 21 times more likely to shoot and kill black teens than white teens between 2010 and 2012, according to a ProPublica analysis of the FBI data. |
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tophatcat
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Location: under the hat
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| This thread is racially attacking white people. I hope the MODs remove it. |
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Kepler
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