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Police Brutality Thread

Sorry but it doesn't. There are reasons cops kill civilians and then there are reasons cops kill civilians. No single act stands on its own without an understanding or discussion of the circumstances in which the act took place.

Positioning a view without supplying context or reference material amounts to no less than propaganda.

sorry, but you're wrong. the graph shows that if you isolated black Americans into their own country and evaluated it exactly the same way, it would have a death rate twice as high as the "real" USA. These numbers are calculated across all demographics , poverty levels, crime rates. High crime areas, rich areas, low crime rate areas, poor areas. Urban areas, rural areas.
 
sorry, but you're wrong. the graph shows that if you isolated black Americans into their own country and evaluated it exactly the same way, it would have a death rate twice as high as the "real" USA. These numbers are calculated across all demographics , poverty levels, crime rates. High crime areas, rich areas, low crime rate areas, poor areas. Urban areas, rural areas.
Shouldn't believe everything you see on Reddit > . Should also read the first response..
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Having skimmed that Reddit I can't see where the OP obtained his figures so could you please post the links/articles you reference in "souces: us census bureau, 2019 Police Shooting Database, Washington Post"?

and here is another graph > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_by_country
and another https://www.vox.com/2020/5/31/21276004/anger-police-killing-george-floyd-protests
and another https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...death-toll-gun-control-officers-a8777046.html
and another https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...un/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database
and another https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/ (this one is particularly interesting).

My point? When posting graphs and statistics for public consumption, please ensure your "facts" are accurate, unbiased and consider the context.

./empeebee
 
Not familiar with the AR15 forum but is it a fact-checked, validated, peer-reviewed source of news not reliant on 3rd party hearsay or subject to orchestrated manipulation by lobby groups?
haha like the WaPo or the NYT or CNN....

the AR15 forum replaced the AR14 forum, because the AR15 direct operated gas rotating bolt action was a much more popular Eugene Stoner creation than the AR14 retarded blowback action, plus Biden said he would take AR14s away from people.
Giiven the level of discussion on AR15, retarded blowback seems a very fitting description.

This whole thing will blow over, there will be some further theatrics but there are not enough US military people who take their oath seriously, if the middle ranking officers take their oath as their guide then things could be different. The lower ranks are irrelevant.

Come November Amerika can choose between Alzheimer's and senility (Biden) or Egomania and subnormal intellegence (Trump) which mental deficiency would you like....and heres the joke no matter which way USAns vote nothing will change. The connected will screw over the unconnected and the rulers will remain the same.
 
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I think the word prejudice fits more than racism.
It’s criminal profiling that keeps getting certain people fucked up by cops.
Not to diminish the BLM movement at all, because I think it’s an important conversation still.

I know they made racial profiling a crime but the reality is that criminal profiling still has the element of race within it, it can’t be denied given that when sizing up a suspect as a potentional threat the first cues are visual 🤷‍♀️

George Floyd had a violent criminal history, a drug problem and he was a large black man from a poverty striken background.
I don’t know if the cops were aware of his history or not but the rest was easily determined upon sighting him.
This would 100% have made the methods the cop used in detaining him harsher than someone with a more privileged background.

Happens to all blacks and makes their futures predetermined in a lot ways.
I see why they’re standing up, and I stand with them.
 
@madness00 & @HeadphonesandLSD . So I am watching the news channels covering the protests on Black Lives Matter plaza (D.C.) Parliament Sq. London (U.K.), Australia & France. So far I have seen a shit-ton of "Black Lives Matter", "Justice for George", etc. placards. I have not yet seen any "All Lives Matter" placards.

I'll keep watching.

I don't know why you mentioned me. Must have been a mistake. Probably meant @mal3volent.
 
@madness00 & @HeadphonesandLSD . So I am watching the news channels covering the protests on Black Lives Matter plaza (D.C.) Parliament Sq. London (U.K.), Australia & France. So far I have seen a shit-ton of "Black Lives Matter", "Justice for George", etc. placards. I have not yet seen any "All Lives Matter" placards.

I'll keep watching.

the only people who write all lives matter on signs are trump supporters, conservatives, etc. why do you expect to see one at a protest for the murder of George Floyd
 
the only people who write all lives matter on signs are trump supporters, conservatives,
Just to clarify then - democrats, liberals & political-agnostics do not think all lives matter? What about royalists? Am I misreading your comment?

why do you expect to see one at a protest for the murder of George Floyd
because apart from being black, he had a life. Just like those that are white, beige, brown, yellow, green or purple also have lives.
 
Just to clarify then - democrats, liberals & political-agnostics do not think all lives matter? What about royalists? Am I misreading your comment?


because apart from being black, he had a life. Just like those that are white, beige, brown, yellow, green or purple also have lives.

go back and read that girls sign again.
 
you're missing the point, spectacularly
My bad. Sorry. Could you please explain to me what the point I have so spectacularly missed was then?

go back and read that girls sign again
I read the sign. Though somehow, please forgive my skepticism, I just don't see a little girl who happens to have an A1 (A0?) piece of card lying around, suddenly being inspired to write such politically motivated, thoughtful message without some kind of adult influence. Do you?
 
My bad. Sorry. Could you please explain to me what the point I have so spectacularly missed was then?


I read the sign. Though somehow, please forgive my skepticism, I just don't see a little girl who happens to have an A1 (A0?) piece of card lying around, suddenly being inspired to write such politically motivated, thoughtful message without some kind of adult influence. Do you?

you say that as if it matters she didn't write it. I said hers because she's holding it.

are you trolling or what? I have no clue what your point even is.
 
With the deepest respect of your posts helping with harm reduction, drug education and yes, even your Abyss posts :), no I am not trolliing.

I am suggesting that all is not as it seems. Just 'cos she's holding it does not mean that she wrote it, or that she understand what the message is, or that she has 3rd party influence (who may have also had 3rd party influence) in writing it.

My point? Yes it does matter who incentivized her to write it and what that person's agenda is.

Do black lives matter? Of course they f'ing matter, just as any lives matter.

Are people oppressed because of their skin color/religion/life choices? Yes they are.
Should they be martyred/deified/made into political or humanitarian rallying cry because they suffered oppression? Yes, in certain circumstances (Mahatma Ghandi/Nelson Mandela/Martin Luther King).

Should we automatically rise up due to media hype around the unfortunate death of a man at the hands of the police? Should we march out onto the streets and burn down out neighborhoods? Should we attack innocent bystanders trying to defend their livelihoods? I'll leave that answer to you.

What's your point? That more black-skinned folk are killed by police in the U.S. than white-skinned folk? Let me ask you, per capita, what percentage of violent crime is committed by what skin-color in the U.S.?
 
He sounds a bit of a cunt to be fair.
armed robbery
Home invasion
Beating women
Drug dealing
Meth and fentanyl in his system
 
He sounds a bit of a cunt to be fair.
armed robbery
Home invasion
Beating women
Drug dealing
Meth and fentanyl in his system

To be fair? what has fair got to do with it? the guy could have been a complete turd but you can't just go murder them for being a turd, otherswise a lot of people here would be in constant fear of their lives.

Drug dealing... meth and fentanyl in his system, same as pretty much all of BL.

Is there a suggestion that he was beating women and invading homes at the time of his arrest and murder?
No

Just dehumanize the victim. You are defending something that is indefensible.
 
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