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12 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:


You guys are fucked. 

 

I feel there's likely a large number it Americans that trust the military and National Guard to show restraint more than the local police. It's likely naivety leading them to not think local police would still be calling the shots. If Americans are anything, it surely is naive.

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Commissar SFLUFAN

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8 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said:

I feel there's likely a large number it Americans that trust the military and National Guard to show restraint more than the local police. 

The logic behind this belief is essentially that the military/National Guard represents a vastly more diverse cross-section of the population than local law enforcement agencies.

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PaladinSolo

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8 minutes ago, Emperor Diocletian II said:

The logic behind this belief is essentially that the military/National Guard represents a vastly more diverse cross-section of the population than local law enforcement agencies.

Which is probably why trumps approval with active military is basically the same as his national approval. 

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AbsolutSurgen

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54 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said:

 

I feel there's likely a large number it Americans that trust the military and National Guard to show restraint more than the local police. It's likely naivety leading them to not think local police would still be calling the shots. If Americans are anything, it surely is naive.

This scares the shit out of me:

 

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15 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Susan Collins, and anyone in any sort of power, doesn't give a single fuck about being ratioed. All it's doing is annoying a staffer who runs the Twitter account.

The only people who care about being ratio'd are the people who call out people for being ratio'd. It's meaningless.

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PaladinSolo

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Can't wait to hear about what they find!

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/02/george-floyd-protests-live-updates/#link-J2TZTAS4IVGDDAS5NI456NNKYI

 

The Minnesota Department of Human Rights will investigate the Minneapolis Police Department’s policies and practices over the past decade after filing a civil rights charge in response to Floyd’s death, the state announced Tuesday.

Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero will lead the probe, which Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s office said in a statement “will determine if the MPD has engaged in systemic discriminatory practices towards people of color and ensure any such practices are stopped.” Walz said at a news conference that this was the state’s first civil rights investigation into the Minneapolis police.

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Ben and/or Jerry did not hold back.

 

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Silence Is NOT An Option

 
 
 

All of us at Ben & Jerry’s are outraged about the murder of another Black person by Minneapolis police officers last week and the continued violent response by police against protestors. We have to speak out. We have to stand together with the victims of murder, marginalization, and repression because of their skin color, and with those who seek justice through protests across our country. We have to say his name: George Floyd.

George Floyd was a son, a brother, a father, and a friend. The police officer who put his knee on George Floyd’s neck and the police officers who stood by and watched didn’t just murder George Floyd, they stole him. They stole him from his family and his friends, his church and his community, and from his own future.

The murder of George Floyd was the result of inhumane police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy. What happened to George Floyd was not the result of a bad apple; it was the predictable consequence of a racist and prejudiced system and culture that has treated Black bodies as the enemy from the beginning. What happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis is the fruit borne of toxic seeds planted on the shores of our country in Jamestown in 1619, when the first enslaved men and women arrived on this continent. Floyd is the latest in a long list of names that stretches back to that time and that shore. Some of those names we know — Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Emmett Till, Martin Luther King, Jr. — most we don’t.

The officers who murdered George Floyd, who stole him from those who loved him, must be brought to justice. At the same time, we must embark on the more complicated work of delivering justice for all the victims of state sponsored violence and racism.

Four years ago, we publicly stated our support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Today, we want to be even more clear about the urgent need to take concrete steps to dismantle white supremacy in all its forms. To do that, we are calling for four things:

First, we call upon President Trump, elected officials, and political parties to commit our nation to a formal process of healing and reconciliation. Instead of calling for the use of aggressive tactics on protestors, the President must take the first step by disavowing white supremacists and nationalist groups that overtly support him, and by not using his Twitter feed to promote and normalize their ideas and agendas. The world is watching America’s response.

Second, we call upon the Congress to pass H.R. 40, legislation that would create a commission to study the effects of slavery and discrimination from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies. We cannot move forward together as a nation until we begin to grapple with the sins of our past. Slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation were systems of legalized and monetized white supremacy for which generations of Black and Brown people paid an immeasurable price. That cost must be acknowledged and the privilege that accrued to some at the expense of others must be reckoned with and redressed.

Third, we support Floyd’s family’s call to create a national task force that would draft bipartisan legislation aimed at ending racial violence and increasing police accountability. We can’t continue to fund a criminal justice system that perpetuates mass incarceration while at the same time threatens the lives of a whole segment of the population.

And finally, we call on the Department of Justice to reinvigorate its Civil Rights Division as a staunch defender of the rights of Black and Brown people. The DOJ must also reinstate policies rolled back under the Trump Administration, such as consent decrees to curb police abuses.

Unless and until white America is willing to collectively acknowledge its privilege, take responsibility for its past and the impact it has on the present, and commit to creating a future steeped in justice, the list of names that George Floyd has been added to will never end. We have to use this moment to accelerate our nation's long journey towards justice and a more perfect union.

 

https://www.benjerry.com/about-us/media-center/dismantle-white-supremacy

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