Racism is alive and well, Thanks Trump and his supporters!

[joan1984]

WTF are you ranting about? What Police department are you upset about, and what if any connection is there to the story you are pushing of assault outside a Subway sandwich store, open at 2am, which turns into every cookie cutter type report of victimhood by the perps, who cannot be described except for those wishing to Make America Great Again, and as white guys, wearing ski masks... who we are to believe are so well versed in leftist obscure actors, they either stalked, or just for the hell of it, singled this one out... What, no white van...

Were DNA samples taken when the victim was hospitalized? Was he hospitalized, even? RapeKit swaps to run in the database, or at least rule out some abusers? How do you know he was not raped? lol...

You believe this stuff, and present it here along with your usual dozen cut and paste items you blame on President Trump, and rarely need to defend as any relevance, and expect it will be swallowed whole...

Enjoy your warm climate, chump...

I'm not surprised you are defending a police department that covered up the murder of a civilian by an officer shooting him 16 times, 9 in the back.

The funny thing is if it was gun violence you'd go back to your bullet scarred racist thread.

Don't you have a white sheet to wash before you go have sex with Richard Spencer?

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[Athos_131]

You believe this stuff, and present it here along with your usual dozen cut and paste items you blame on President Trump,

Do you have a credible verifible source to refute things?  No. you never do.  All you have is your racist ranting, shitbird.

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[joan1984]

Common sense.

And, what was your ranting about Police?
Details please, how Police are relevant to your 'story', dragging MAGA into some actor being supposedly injured on a Chicago street. What happened to his sandwich?

You believe this stuff, and present it here along with your usual dozen cut and paste items you blame on President Trump,

Do you have a credible verifible source to refute things?  No. you never do.  All you have is your racist ranting, shitbird.

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[Athos_131]

Common sense.

Your concept of common sense is to defend racists, child rapists, sexual assaulters, grifters, committers of treason and classists.

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[Athos_131]

Signs displaying swastikas briefly posted near Skyline High School in Mesa

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[Athos_131]

Persons of interest in Jussie Smollett attack captured on camera, police say

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[Athos_131]

For years, Trump bashed the NFL and players who protested racial injustice. Here’s why he stopped

But the decision that year of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to kneel during the national anthem, to protest police brutality and racial injustice, proved too alluring for the president. Trump wrapped himself around an American flag pole at rallies, stoking white racial anxiety.

“Whenever the president finds himself in a political pickle — to put it crudely — he reaches for the culture wars,” said Eddie S. Glaude Jr., chairman of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University.

The president ignored the racial message that the mostly African American players sought to convey. He learned quickly that he could elicit loud, appreciative boos whenever he disparaged Kaepernick or accused players of disrespecting the anthem and the flag.

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[Athos_131]

A Conservative Nonprofit That Seeks to Transform College Campuses Faces Allegations of Racial Bias and Illegal Campaign Activity

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A Conservative Nonprofit That Seeks to Transform College Campuses Faces Allegations of Racial Bias and Illegal Campaign Activity

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Kirk acknowledged in an interview that it is something of an irony that he heads an organization devoted to waging political warfare on campuses when he never actually attended college himself. “I joke that I wasn’t smart enough to go to a four-year school,” Kirk told me, although he noted that he continued his studies at a community college.

[Athos_131]

Why They Kneel: Everything We Said About Police Brutality Was Wrong

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[Athos_131]

Cardi B Turned Down Super Bowl Offer to Support Colin Kaepernick, Report Says

“I got to sacrifice a lot of money to perform. But there’s a man who sacrificed his job for us, so we got to stand behind him,” she told the AP.

Speaking about her husband, rapper Offset, Cardi B told the AP, “My husband, he loves football. His kids play football. It’s really hard for him...He really wants to go to the Super Bowl, but he can’t go to the Super Bowl, because he’s got to stand for something.”

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[Athos_131]

Here Are The Racist Conspiracy Emails Rotting Right-Wing Billionaire Joe Ricketts' Brain

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[Athos_131]

‘What black girl magic looks like’: White officer demoted for mocking black woman whose car he impounded

A veteran Detroit police officer has been demoted and reassigned after posting a Snapchat video showing a black woman whose car he had just impounded walking home alone while he and another officer make derogatory remarks about her to each other in the background.

Meanwhile, pre-made captions that say “What black girl magic looks like” and “celebrating Black History Month” appear at the bottom.

The officer who created the video was identified as Gary Steele. He and his partner had pulled the woman over on Tuesday night because her registration had expired, police said. The officers were going to have her vehicle towed.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig told reporters at a news conference Thursday that body camera footage had shown that there was an offer — from either Steele or his partner — to escort her home. The woman refused, Craig said.

“She gets to do that, but we get to make sure she gets safely home,” Craig said. “But then to put up this insensitive post makes me angry.”

The Snapchat video, which was first published by ABC affiliate WXYZ, shows the woman walking away down a snow-covered street.

“Priceless,” one of the officers says.

“Walk of shame,” the other responds.

“In the cold,” the first one says again. Later one of the two says, “Bye, Felicia.”

The temperature low on Tuesday was 2 degrees in Detroit, according to AccuWeather.

Craig said that Steele, an 18-year veteran of the police department, had been demoted from corporal to officer.

“I’m not troubled, not disappointed; I am angry,” Craig said. “To make the reference to Black History Month is even more problematic.”

Craig said that the department was continuing to look into the incident and that Steele’s partner was also being investigated. Steele did not return a request for comment sent to his LinkedIn profile.

The woman whom the police had stopped was identified by local news outlets as Ariel Moore.

“What they put on there, that’s racist,” her mother, Monique Mobley, told WXYZ. “They demeaned my child for no reason.”

Moore told the outlet she was shocked.

Steele has had issues with the law himself. In 2008, he was charged with attacking an ex-girlfriend and firing a gun near her head, according to the Detroit News. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and was able to keep his job at the police department, the newspaper reported.

“His history is troubling,” Craig said. “There’s a pattern, and I’m concerned about that pattern.”

He added: “He’s been a part of the force for 18½ years, who we expect to know better. This is a person who trains new officers.”

Craig said the officer could be suspended or fired. He said he called Moore’s mother to express his concerns about the way her daughter was treated. The department would pay the fee for towing her car, he said.

Another white Detroit police officer made a Snapchat post widely interpreted as racist last year. The video showed him in uniform with the text, “Another night to rangel [sic] up these zoo animals.” That officer, who was still on a probationary period at work, was fired.

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[Lois]

There is no need to impound a car for expired tags.  Wherever I've lived I've just gotten a fix-it-ticket.  This must be white privilege.

[Jed_]

There is no need to impound a car for expired tags.  Wherever I've lived I've just gotten a fix-it-ticket.  This must be white privilege.

I once got a threat to tow and impound, most likely due to the 50+ Grateful Dead stickers on my Toyota pickup (those stickers might be similar to being black when you’re pulled over?).  Once the officer checked my clean record, he got more reasonable and listened when I explained I had recently moved and must not have received a forward of my renewal despite filing all paperwork with the US Postal Service.  Turns out, and that cop should have been able to check, I did renew and was legal, but the registration was sent to my old address.

His first reaction was to tow and impound, and I’m sure that reaction was based on his perception of me based on my Deadmobile.  It sounds like this young black woman experienced a similar kneejerk reaction.

But again, I’m white.

[Athos_131]

‘You call this justice’: No charges against officer who killed black man he mistook for a mall shooter

A police officer who shot and killed a black man during a shootout inside an Alabama mall will not face criminal charges.

A report released by the state’s attorney general’s office says that the officer “reasonably exercised” his power when he shot Emantic “EJ” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. three times. In the seconds-long chaos of that Thanksgiving night, the officer saw Bradford holding a gun, just feet away from a man who had just been shot. He saw the 21-year-old as “an immediate deadly threat to innocent civilians,” the report says, even though Bradford never fired his gun.

Bradford’s death last November reignited racial tensions in Alabama, where protesters marched through the Riverchase Galleria in the city of Hoover, demanding why police killed a black man who may not have had anything to do with the shooting.

Now, more than two months later, the decision to not charge the officer has renewed that outrage. On Tuesday evening, protesters outside Hoover City Hall burned American flags spray-painted with “BLACK LIVES DON’T MATTER,” as police officers watched from a short distance. Frank Matthews, one of the organizers, told the Associated Press that demonstrators, including Bradford’s relatives, will travel to Montgomery, Ala., on Wednesday to protest outside the office of Attorney General Steve Marshall.

“Today took us by surprise. Some were expecting today’s outcome; some weren’t,” Iva Williams, of the Birmingham Justice League, told reporters Tuesday. “But nevertheless, we stay united in seeking social justice moving forward.”

The 26-page report released on the same day pieced together the rapid sequence of events that began with two gunshots just before 10 p.m. on Nov. 22, during early Black Friday shopping at the Galleria.

Erron Brown, the man who police later said was the actual shooter, allegedly shot 18-year-old Brian Wilson on the mall’s second-floor walkway and left him lying outside a JC Penney store. Brown ran toward the store as mall shoppers scurried away. Bradford, who was nearby, ran in the opposite direction. But he then turned around and headed toward the JC Penney and Wilson, with his gun drawn, the report says.

The officer and his partner, both of the Hoover Police Department, were behind him, just a few feet away. Believing that Bradford was about to kill Wilson, who was already bleeding with gunshot wounds, the officer fired four shots. He struck Bradford in the head, neck and lower back.

But what the officer didn’t see in the immediate chaos was Brown, who shot Wilson just seconds earlier, the report says.

Witnesses told investigators that they heard the officer tell Bradford to drop his weapon. But the officer told investigators that he was unable to give verbal commands because of the “quickness of the event” and the “immediate threat” he believed Bradford posed, according to the report.

The report says that the officer’s actions were consistent with nationally-accepted standards for active shooter scenarios. That he mistakenly believed Bradford shot the victim “does not render his actions unreasonable,” the report says.

“First, a reasonable person could have assumed that the only person with a gun who was running toward the victim of a shooting that occurred just three seconds earlier fired the shots,” the report says, adding that the other officer and two other witnesses all said that, at that moment, they also believed Bradford was the shooter.

Brown, 20, has been charged with attempted murder. His attorneys said he shot Wilson in self-defense, according to the report, which did not say how the two men knew each other. There has been no evidence that Bradford was involved in the shooting, and it remains unclear why he drew his gun.

The report also did not say whether he knew that the officers were behind him. Although the officer was wearing a body camera, he did not activate it before he shot Bradford. There was “no time” to do so, he told investigators.

Bradford’s parents and a family attorney said earlier that he had a concealed-handgun license. The officer, who was not named, was placed on administrative leave after the shooting, though it was not immediately clear if he has been reinstated. The Hoover Police Department have not responded to a request for comment Wednesday.

Outside Hoover City Hall on Tuesday evening, activists vowed to not stay silent. Bradford’s relatives, including his mother, held pictures of him in military uniform. (A spokesman for the Army told The Washington Post last year that Bradford began training but never completed it.)

“You shoot my firstborn son three times, three kill shots and you call this justice. How dare you. If this happened to your child, would you still call it justice? Because I don’t see any justice in this,” Bradford’s mother, April Pipkins, said in front of reporters, her eyes watery.

“He didn’t deserve what you did to him. . . . If you felt like he was a threat, you had to shoot him three times? And you say that the law justifies this? No verbal warning. Shame on you. Shame on you,” Pipkins continued.

Bradford lived just outside of Birmingham, a few miles from the mall. He was one of the nearly 1,000 people who were shot and killed by police in 2018, according to The Post’s database of police shootings, and is now among the many black men whose deaths have led to accusations of systemic racism in U.S. law enforcement.

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[Athos_131]

Virginia Sen. Tommy Norment was an editor for VMI yearbook filled with racist photos and slurs



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[Athos_131]

Virginia Police Sergeant Suspended After Antifa Group Identifies White Nationalist Ties

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[Athos_131]

The Cruel and Kind Intentions of Blackface


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[Athos_131]

Gucci Pulls $890 Sweater Following Blackface Backlash

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