Yet another racist killing by US police

[saxitoxin]

The DOJ has indicted two protesters who tossed a Molotov cocktail into an empty police car with a variety of terrorism charges. They now face a minimum sentence of 45 years and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. And they were such bumblers that the Molotov didn't even ignite properly and only singed part of the steering wheel.

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/pu ... -for-bail-

[jimboston]

jim do you think the guy who knelt on George Floyd's neck and choked him out needs prosecuting or do you need more info than just the video of the killing before you feel able to come to a decision?

Sometimes the video shows everything you need.

Gonna need either a 'yes' or 'no' from you, given your history with semantics.

And no, I am not being anti-semantic!!! Some of my best friends like semantics.

I think my answer was quite clear.

[jimboston]

The DOJ has indicted two protesters who tossed a Molotov cocktail into an empty police car with a variety of terrorism charges. They now face a minimum sentence of 45 years and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. And they were such bumblers that the Molotov didn't even ignite properly and only singed part of the steering wheel.

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/pu ... -for-bail-

They’re idiots.
They’re lawyers and should know better.
Protesting <not equivalent> Property Destruction

I think 45 years to life is excessive... but i’d love to see them lose their license(s) to practice law.

[saxitoxin]

The DOJ has indicted two protesters who tossed a Molotov cocktail into an empty police car with a variety of terrorism charges. They now face a minimum sentence of 45 years and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. And they were such bumblers that the Molotov didn't even ignite properly and only singed part of the steering wheel.

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/pu ... -for-bail-

They’re idiots.
They’re lawyers and should know better.
Protesting <not equivalent> Property Destruction

I think 45 years to life is excessive... but i’d love to see them lose their license(s) to practice law.

45 to Life seems fine to me

[riskllama]

literally just stumbled across this, seemed relevant...



there's no way this would have ended the way it did, nowadays...

[jimboston]

No? How would it have ended?

[mrswdk]

If the way it actually ended (cba to watch the video) was anything other than five black civil servants dead at the hand of over-zealous police then I think you already know what the difference is.

[riskllama]

LOL, jimbo - seriously??? flex your fuckin' head, man...

[jimboston]

LOL, jimbo - seriously??? flex your fuckin' head, man...

You’re the person who is claiming to have absolute vision of alternate reality...

So me not being omniscient means I’m not able to flex my head?

[Dukasaur]

LOL, jimbo - seriously??? flex your fuckin' head, man...

You’re the person who is claiming to have absolute vision of alternate reality...

So me not being omniscient means I’m not able to flex my head?

Quite honestly, jim, I think your encounters with Nomad Patriot have left you scarred for life. These obsessions about the literal meaning of words, refusing to read between the lines, refusing to see the big picture, these are the hallmarks of a Nomad argument. Whether you admit it or not (most likely not) your encounters with him rubbed off on you, and not in a good way. Please see if the old jimboston is still hiding somewhere, trying to get out.

[riskllama]

LOL, jimbo - seriously??? flex your fuckin' head, man...

You’re the person who is claiming to have absolute vision of alternate reality...

So me not being omniscient means I’m not able to flex my head?

Quite honestly, jim, I think your encounters with Nomad Patriot have left you scarred for life. These obsessions about the literal meaning of words, refusing to read between the lines, refusing to see the big picture, these are the hallmarks of a Nomad argument. Whether you admit it or not (most likely not) your encounters with him rubbed off on you, and not in a good way. Please see if the old jimboston is still hiding somewhere, trying to get out.

+1, Duk...was thinking the very same thing.

[jimboston]

LOL, jimbo - seriously??? flex your fuckin' head, man...

You’re the person who is claiming to have absolute vision of alternate reality...

So me not being omniscient means I’m not able to flex my head?

Quite honestly, jim, I think your encounters with Nomad Patriot have left you scarred for life. These obsessions about the literal meaning of words, refusing to read between the lines, refusing to see the big picture, these are the hallmarks of a Nomad argument. Whether you admit it or not (most likely not) your encounters with him rubbed off on you, and not in a good way. Please see if the old jimboston is still hiding somewhere, trying to get out.

Forum PTSD?

Maybe riskllama is not a good candidate for my ‘corrections’... it’s the extremism of mrswdk and Saxi that ‘trigger’ me, and maybe others are getting hit with my obsessiveness as I swing wildly about the Forum.

I don’t blame Nomad... though I see your analogy. I blame mrswdk, myself, and maybe my general mood during Covid. I think I need a new hobby.

[2dimes]

I think I need a new hobby.

Get a pellet smoker. Easy to run and you can make better BBQ than a vast majority of restaurants that try. It takes a lot of love and time to do low and slow but the results are increadible. Just set a timer to check on things so you don't burn them.

[mrswdk]

jim: 'it's not my fault I behave the way I do, it's other people's fault for provoking me'

Sorry I wore such a short skirt, I should have known that by doing so I would force you to grope me.

[jimboston]

jim: 'it's not my fault I behave the way I do, it's other people's fault for provoking me'

Sorry I wore such a short skirt, I should have known that by doing so I would force you to grope me.

I didn’t put the entire blame on you... you still need some work on your reading comprehension.
Your assault analogy fails miserably. Try again.

[mrswdk]

Bill Cosby’s lawyers claim he was a moral authority for black Americans and that his conviction for being a serial rapist was a bogus charge trumped up by racist prosecutors:

https://apnews.com/ba05bbb5b49f714c9ca80e7a03366a0c

Is poor Bill an innocent victim after all? #ClapForCosby

[mrswdk]

Fed up of waiting for an institutionally racist justice system to come to their aid, America's blacks have begun exercising their second amendment rights and forming armed militia to a) resist government oppression and b) pursue justice for Breonna Taylor, the medic slain in her bed by police during a bungled raid at an incorrect address:

Demonstrations against racial injustice continued across the US on Saturday

A group of heavily armed black protesters marched through Louisville, Kentucky demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed in March by police officers who burst into her apartment.

Scores of the demonstrators, carrying semi-automatic rifles and shotguns and clad in black paramilitary gear, walked in formation to a fenced off intersection where they were separated by police from a smaller group of armed counter-protesters.

The black militia dubbed NFAC want justice for Ms Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician who died in a hail of gunfire when drug investigators bearing a "no-knock" warrant entered her Louisville home four months ago.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/0 ... cebreonna/

[Jdsizzleslice]

Fed up of waiting for an institutionally racist justice system to come to their aid, America's blacks have begun exercising their second amendment rights and forming armed militia to a) resist government oppression and b) pursue justice for Breonna Taylor, the medic slain in her bed by police during a bungled raid at an incorrect address:

A racist justice system that allows people to exercise their second amendment rights, regardless of race.

Right...

I think we could take your propaganda headlines, swap them with some headlines at the New York Times, and they wouldn't skip a beat.

[mrswdk]

Black people: *form armed militia to resist government oppression*
jdizzle: well this is just more proof that all is well!

You're the living embodiment of this meme, bro.

[Jdsizzleslice]

There is no oppression by the US government. A militia that is majority black does not prove the former. There are many militias in the US.

You can be a loon in your own corner, just don't bring that over here and expect the rest of us to convert to your weird ideologies.

[mrswdk]

So you think that black people who have been driven to protest, then riot, then form militia do not have a legitimate grievance with the government they are standing in opposition to?

[Jdsizzleslice]

So you think that black people who have been driven to protest, then riot, then form militia do not have a legitimate grievance with the government they are standing in opposition to?

Been driven to riot by a MSM who now holds far-left ideologies, and will not condemn rioting and the destruction of major cities infrastructure in the US.

The NFAC is a Black Nationalist militia that formed pretty recently. They have extreme viewpoints (far-left viewpoints) that do not encompass the majority of black Americans. They are a fringe group.

What grievances have they stated against the US government?

[mrswdk]

US police: *slaughter large numbers of innocent black people*
Black people: *start protesting*
jdizzle: that darn MSM instigating all those riots!

[Jdsizzleslice]

US police: *slaughter large numbers of innocent black people*
Black people: *start protesting*
jdizzle: that darn MSM instigating all those riots!

1) Police are not slaughtering black people. How many unarmed individuals have been killed this year by the police?
2) There are riots. I would classify some of the unrest (Portland, Seattle) as an insurgency. The unrest has been majority rioting/insurrection, not protests.
3) Correct, the MSM is not denouncing the rioting and insurgency.

[mookiemcgee]

US police: *slaughter large numbers of innocent black people*
Black people: *start protesting*
jdizzle: that darn MSM instigating all those riots!

1) Police are not slaughtering black people. How many unarmed individuals have been killed this year by the police?

2) There are riots. I would classify some of the unrest (Portland, Seattle) as an insurgency. The unrest has been majority rioting/insurrection, not protests.

3) Correct, the MSM is not denouncing the rioting and insurgency.

1)I don't know if this is helpful, but I believe the number in 2019 was 114 people in the US.

2) an insurgency in Portland? It's basically one city block where there are always protests anyway cus... 'portland'...I was there 6 months ago at the same block was 3 days of protests of the local bussing authority. The insurgence as you call them (I'll stick with citizens of america for now) are equipped with lazer pointers and fireworks as their weapons of choice.

How long till the US military crumbles before this violent revolutionary force (language from DHS press release)? Please call me when they succeed in blinding the entire US military. This looks more like Kabuki theater to me, then an insurgency.

Now to me Seattle is a whole 'nother can of worms.

3) Isn't the news supposed to be impartial? Why should it denounce or support rioting? "MSM" news article below, about Seattle. Where is the conspiracy? They describe the riots, the police response and mostly stick to facts not opinion or moral judgements. There is left media, and right media and sometime there is news that just tries to be news without injected it own moral judgement on a situation. Please don't lump it all together, it undermines peoples ability to trust whats left of actual news. Either just say CNN, or the left wing media or something else.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/riot-decla ... -continue/