Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 299: George Floyd

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ExThaNemesis
05/29/20 9:33:36 PM
#253:


It just has me so upset and for someone to do something THAT STUPID and THAT EVIL makes me think the outraged public should, for once, get their pound of flesh.

Sitting in a cushy jail cell on taxpayer dime where he could some day get out on good behavior is way too good of a fate for this dude.

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LordoftheMorons
05/29/20 9:34:48 PM
#254:


Suprak the Stud posted...
He had cameras on him, knew he had cameras on him, the guy was begging for his life while the cameras were on him, he went motionless while the cameras were on him and the cop didn't even blink once. None of the other three officers were like "hey uh I think he's probably subdued" either.

The only thing that makes sense is he's gotten away with stuff like this before (maybe not straight up murder but abuse of power in some way) and it didn't even occur to him he could face consequences. I can't make sense of it any other way. Like you said, people were recording what he was doing and he saw them doing so.
Not sure if I saw it here or on Twitter, but apparently hes had like 17 official complaints, and only one resulted in any consequences (and even that was just a reprimand iirc)

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ExThaNemesis
05/29/20 9:34:54 PM
#255:


Like would anyone here really object, right or left, if to quell the rioting they had just said HERE HE IS, HAVE AT HIM, and thrown him into the mob?

Would anyone, anywhere? And if so, why? Other than some stupid sense of adherence to our phony justice system.

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Suprak the Stud
05/29/20 9:35:19 PM
#256:


I also understand the primal "something needs to happen" instinct. I don't agree with it. I don't agree with mob justice or anything like that. But, I mean...I get it. Seeing that happen is stomach churning.

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Jakyl25
05/29/20 9:36:06 PM
#257:


ExThaNemesis posted...
Sitting in a cushy jail cell on taxpayer dime


I dont think itll be all that cushy
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ExThaNemesis
05/29/20 9:36:13 PM
#258:


I haven't even watched the video coz it sounded so stomach churning.

And the day before did y'all see the video of that woman in Central Park who told the black dude recording her that she was going to call the police and say a black man was threatening her life? That was like, the DAY BEFORE this happened.

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KamikazePotato
05/29/20 9:36:50 PM
#259:


ExThaNemesis posted...
Sitting in a cushy jail cell on taxpayer dime where he could some day get out on good behavior is way too good of a fate for this dude.

This assumes he's going to jail

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ExThaNemesis
05/29/20 9:36:57 PM
#260:


Jakyl25 posted...
I dont think itll be all that cushy

anything at all is too cushy IMO

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ExThaNemesis
05/29/20 9:37:37 PM
#261:


KamikazePotato posted...
This assumes he's going to jail

If he doesn't go to jail, I hope they ignite a riot that's a thousand times worse than this one. I'd like to join.

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Jakyl25
05/29/20 9:38:03 PM
#262:


ExThaNemesis posted...
Like would anyone here really object, right or left, if to quell the rioting they had just said HERE HE IS, HAVE AT HIM, and thrown him into the mob?

Would anyone, anywhere? And if so, why? Other than some stupid sense of adherence to our phony justice system.


Because that doesnt solve the larger problem of accountability

Thats just this dude was the bad one so we are sacrificing him to absolve ourselves without actually changing anything.

Also what would you do with the other three
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ExThaNemesis
05/29/20 9:40:20 PM
#263:


I doubt anything is going to change no matter what happens to Chauvin, but if he were to be executed at least we'd have that absolute waste of human life not sucking up precious oxygen anymore.

The other three could've been scared of him or something which stopped them from saying shit I guess.

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UshiromiyaEva
05/29/20 9:44:15 PM
#264:


I would say the racist park lady got off lucky with the news being taken off of her, but she already basically got destroyed in 2 days. Lost the dog, fired from her job, ostricized.
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Suprak the Stud
05/29/20 9:44:36 PM
#265:


LordoftheMorons posted...
Not sure if I saw it here or on Twitter, but apparently hes had like 17 official complaints, and only one resulted in any consequences (and even that was just a reprimand iirc)

Yeah I saw that too. I have to believe he felt untouchable. Like ExTha pointed out, even if you are the most racist, most evil person, you usually behave differently when your actions are being recorded. You at least understand how society expects you to behave. He clearly did not care, probably because he didn't think people would care.

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Jakyl25
05/29/20 9:46:10 PM
#266:


Would have loved to have this ExTha going back and forth with Corrik
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Jakyl25
05/29/20 9:48:26 PM
#267:


UshiromiyaEva posted...
I would say the racist park lady got off lucky with the news being taken off of her, but she already basically got destroyed in 2 days. Lost the dog, fired from her job, ostricized.


Amy Cooper

She did move out of the news cycle and get somewhat lucky there, but it was also an important part of the Floyd story, because it showed that people think black men should be afraid of having the cops called specifically on them

Easy to chart out a cause and effect
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banananor
05/29/20 9:49:22 PM
#268:


Jakyl25 posted...
This wont mean anything to non-wrestling fans but this is an incredible development

https://twitter.com/randyorton/status/1266479458816536578?s=21

https://twitter.com/randyorton/status/1266498139105529856?s=21
hey, kevin nash in the responses as well

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Wanglicious
05/29/20 9:50:33 PM
#269:


Jakyl25 posted...
Amy Cooper

She did move out of the news cycle and get somewhat lucky there, but it was also an important part of the Floyd story, because it showed that people think black men should be afraid of having the cops called specifically on them

Easy to chart out a cause and effect

and this is right after Arbery too. dont' forget that one, the news there was one of the major primetime stories that was starting to fall out when all this hit.

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CaptainOfCrush
05/29/20 9:58:02 PM
#270:


ExThaNemesis posted...
The other three could've been scared of him or something which stopped them from saying shit I guess.
I doubt they were scared of him specifically. It's likelier they were afraid of being ostracized within their department. That's one aspect of this incident I wish would be talked about more - it's easy to call the killer a sociopath on a power trip because that's exactly what he was, but it's just as important to examine the (in)actions of the other cop who stood there for nine minutes and said nothing. You could just tell that his mind was racing a mile a minute, yet in the end, he didn't have the courage to tap his colleague on the shoulder and say "maybe ease up on his neck".

It's emblematic of a culture where the crazies can get away with their abuses of power because their good cop colleagues (who are always brought up after an incident like this) never call them out.

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ExThaNemesis
05/29/20 10:00:55 PM
#271:


No, I doubt they were scared of him but it's at least a viable argument that they could use.

One look into that guy's eyes and I'm scared of him.

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Reg
05/29/20 10:03:17 PM
#272:


Jakyl25 posted...
This wont mean anything to non-wrestling fans but this is an incredible development

https://twitter.com/randyorton/status/1266479458816536578?s=21

https://twitter.com/randyorton/status/1266498139105529856?s=21
I am not at all a wrestling fan but that second one is fucking spot on and mad props to the guy for recognizing it and saying it out loud. Especially to an asshole like the guy he's replying to.
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Jakyl25
05/29/20 10:04:15 PM
#273:


Wait did ExTha literally appear because I posted Orton tweets?
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ExThaNemesis
05/29/20 10:04:55 PM
#274:


Jakyl25 posted...
Wait did ExTha literally appear because I posted Orton tweets?

obv

I have an auto-alert that goes off any time someone on B8 mentions Orton or the RKO

but nah SephyG tagged me

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Wanglicious
05/29/20 10:24:42 PM
#275:


i just like to think that extha is lurking this topic, waiting to see at what point he RKO's everyone in it.


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Jakyl25
05/29/20 10:26:24 PM
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Jakyl25
05/29/20 10:44:02 PM
#277:


banananor posted...
hey, kevin nash in the responses as well


https://twitter.com/knicks_tape99/status/1266553021917429765?s=21
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ExThaNemesis
05/29/20 10:46:53 PM
#278:


Wanglicious posted...
i just like to think that extha is lurking this topic, waiting to see at what point he RKO's everyone in it.

I'm glad that this fear is instilled after all this time.

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Jakyl25
05/29/20 10:46:54 PM
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Suprak the Stud
05/29/20 10:54:41 PM
#280:


Jakyl25 posted...
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1266523108019666948?s=21

Awful, if true

How do you not find a pulse and at least not nudge the guy like "you might wan to get off of him - I think something might be wrong"?

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red13n
05/29/20 10:58:43 PM
#281:


Suprak the Stud posted...
How do you not find a pulse and at least not nudge the guy like "you might wan to get off of him - I think something might be wrong"?

The bystanders informed them of this multiple times. None of them gave a shit.

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Wanglicious
05/29/20 11:05:26 PM
#282:


Jakyl25 posted...
https://twitter.com/drivewendys/status/1266555286678048770?s=21

from the comments, he was throwing cement at 'em.
can't blame the cops on that one, fuck this dude.


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Jakyl25
05/29/20 11:17:47 PM
#283:


Any actual video of that?
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Wanglicious
05/29/20 11:20:04 PM
#284:


haven't checked. was just going off the comments and the person who uploaded the video said "doesn't matter" to that statement in a followup tweet so i'm assuming they know it's true.

Atlanta mayor speech is a good one.
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1266547800092876802

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Jakyl25
05/29/20 11:21:51 PM
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CaptainOfCrush
05/29/20 11:25:22 PM
#286:


This dude's gonna kill himself

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UshiromiyaEva
05/29/20 11:33:10 PM
#287:


Not exactly top priority right now, but looks like JK Rowling finally screwed up a bit too much and she's definitely cancelled, lol.

CaptainOfCrush posted...
This dude's gonna kill himself

I was thinking the same thing.
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KamikazePotato
05/29/20 11:37:26 PM
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Wanglicious
05/29/20 11:38:30 PM
#289:


don't worry, corona is gonna make a comeback real fucking quick.

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Grimlyn
05/29/20 11:43:48 PM
#290:


UshiromiyaEva posted...
Not exactly top priority right now, but looks like JK Rowling finally screwed up a bit too much and she's definitely cancelled, lol.
It's mindboggling how much of her life is just so strongly focused on trans folk that this keeps happening but I guess that's the life in the highly active UK TERF community

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red13n
05/29/20 11:45:17 PM
#291:


All the people protesting were the ones that would be first pushed out the door to die for the economy anyway.

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KamikazePotato
05/29/20 11:49:03 PM
#292:


By the way there's a ton of new shit happening right now that the politics board is covering right now. I strongly suggest heading over there and browsing. Greatest hits include stuff like the NYPD cop who approached a peaceful protestor literally backing away from him and shoved her six feet horizontally onto solid ground which triggered a seizure

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StealThisSheen
05/29/20 11:54:21 PM
#293:


KamikazePotato posted...
By the way there's a ton of new shit happening right now that the politics board is covering right now. I strongly suggest heading over there and browsing. Greatest hits include stuff like the NYPD cop who approached a peaceful protestor literally backing away from him and shoved her six feet horizontally onto solid ground which triggered a seizure

Wait, didn't that happen in 2012, or am I misunderstanding your post

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KamikazePotato
05/29/20 11:57:06 PM
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StealThisSheen
05/29/20 11:59:41 PM
#295:


Oh wow we're reliving police brutality from the past

Nice

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KamikazePotato
05/30/20 12:01:17 AM
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KamikazePotato
05/30/20 12:02:19 AM
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Jakyl25
05/30/20 12:05:15 AM
#298:


Yes, horses are definitely the best choice for mobility in a loud, crowded, stressful environment
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ChaosTonyV4
05/30/20 12:09:30 AM
#299:


https://twitter.com/petebuttigieg/status/1266498087192875016?s=21

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Jakyl25
05/30/20 12:18:28 AM
#300:


uh oh Petes algorithm is malfunctioning into nonsense
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VintageGin
05/30/20 12:18:36 AM
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Wanglicious
05/30/20 12:20:59 AM
#302:


looks like precincts in Brooklyn are under attack.
oh boy.


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