Minneapolis police in the news again

[MechAg94]

Atlanta Protesters Block I-85 & Burn Cars Following Wendy's Shooting
https://youtu.be/czBppLdjc5o

I guess blocking highways has become the new free speech or something.

[Jim147]

This is the new normal.

[WLJ]

This is the new normal.

Until the dems win the WH then things will suddenly mysteriously quiet down

[Jim147]

Yeah if super idiot wins it will go back to normal because the press won't cover it. If current idiot wins it's four more years of this crap.

I didn't like Trump before he ran for president and I didn't like Biden while he was in the senate.

[French G.]

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/06/09/ouch-nick-searcy-has-the-perfect-suggestion-for-andrew-yang-who-wants-to-rename-the-police-something-nicer-and-lol/
Andrew Yang wants to rename the police to something that sounds better (isn't that a typical leftist solution?)
Nick Searcy has the best idea.
Does that mean they would carry Fuzzy Bunny Movie Guns?  

It won't solve the problem but it might help. One issue with police is the culture. I despise the term "law enforcement" which is how they all self describe. A return to outmoded terms like "peace officer" would help. Order of society is the higher goal, not enforcement of the law.


And meanwhile back in the real world... The busiest spot in my old hood of ultra oppressed Charlottesville I about got caught tonight in a traffic jam, protestors closed a very busy intersection and the cops set a very wide cordon around it with public works dump trucks, trash trucks and such. I couldn't get within a half mile but I suspect the crowd was very high SPF.

[kgbsquirrel]

I think it was Steven Crowder that talked about just eliminating police unions.  I think idea was the unions were part of the system that was preventing bad cops from being fired or removed. 

I think it is a good idea as I don't think any public employees should be unionized. 

Might also help if they didn't discriminate against smart people who apply to be cops. 

[Cliffh]

De-escalation is a tactic cops are supposed to use.  Should be used more often.

I agree with night sticks.  Effective and not usually fatal, at least not as often as firearms.  But they'd need training on when to stop using the stick.  And there would need to be an effective way to insure they do stop using the stick.

[Ron]

Headline:
              Wendy's restaurant at center of recent shooting burned down in mostly peaceful protest.

 

 

[griz]

Night sticks are no magic (non lethal) bullet.  Those old enough to remember Rodney King will know what I'm talking about.

[WLJ]

Headline:
              Wendy's restaurant at center of recent shooting burned down in mostly peaceful protest.

 

 

Peaceful means no one in the media, Fox News excluded, was attacked

[dogmush]

Night sticks are no magic (non lethal) bullet.  Those old enough to remember Rodney King will know what I'm talking about.

That's my first thought everytime night sticks or batons are brought up.  There's a reason we moved away from them.

The issue is that cops go to weapons to often, and don't take proper care in their use of force.  Changing which weapon they go to doesn't fix the underlying issue.

[Ron]

That's my first thought everytime night sticks or batons are brought up.  There's a reason we moved away from them.

The issue is that cops go to weapons to often, and don't take proper care in their use of force.  Changing which weapon they go to doesn't fix the underlying issue.

There are more than one "underlying issue(s)".

[Ben]

That's my first thought everytime night sticks or batons are brought up.  There's a reason we moved away from them.

The issue is that cops go to weapons to often, and don't take proper care in their use of force.  Changing which weapon they go to doesn't fix the underlying issue.

I don't know enough to give a real opinion, and none of this has ever been done to me, but I kinda think I'd rather be tased or pepper sprayed than whacked with a baton.

[WLJ]

Can remember my dad, who was a police office, coming home around the time of the late 60s riots with one of those big and heavy as ____ flashlights they often carried beat to hell. You could do some major damage with those things.

[zxcvbob]

Can remember my dad, who was a police office, coming home around the time of the late 60s riots with one of those big and heavy as ____ flashlights they often carried beat to hell. You could do some major damage with those things.

The cops I used to work with in Houston carried the 5 C-cell Maglites.  I bought one and carried it in my car.  When leaky batteries finally ruined it I tried to get a replacement, and they don't make those anymore. 

[dogmush]

I don't know enough to give a real opinion, and none of this has ever been done to me, but I kinda think I'd rather be tased or pepper sprayed than whacked with a baton.

Having been actual maced, pepper sprayed and tased in training, and done some decent sparring with batons, Tasing is hands down the quickest and easiest to deal with.  It hurts, and it locks you up, but it's pretty much over once they stop the juice.  Chemical sprays linger for hours, and a good beating for days or weeks.

[Angel Eyes]

I'll just leave this here:

https://www.leoweekly.com/2017/08/white-people/?fbclid=IwAR3DWxw7u0JiOyn7X_7Igc3jWQ4QC49XUfzXwTLxO6bnH_fbyp6EclkF6Uw

White people, here are 10 requests from a Black Lives Matter leader

Most of it boils down to "gimme your money, gimme your stuff."

[WLJ]

I'll just leave this here:

https://www.leoweekly.com/2017/08/white-people/?fbclid=IwAR3DWxw7u0JiOyn7X_7Igc3jWQ4QC49XUfzXwTLxO6bnH_fbyp6EclkF6Uw

Most of it boils down to "gimme your money, gimme your stuff."

Almost three years old. Be willing to bet they have added a few more by now.

[Ben]

Almost three years old. Be willing to bet they had added a few more by now.

Perhaps old, but yet more proof that it's not about equality, it's about making others subservient to them. As alluded to elsewhere here, they have gone from MLK's "stand with me" to "kneel before us".

The only people you get on your side with that attitude are pansies. I'll proudly stand next to someone justly seeking freedom. I will fight someone demanding that I bend a knee.

[WLJ]

My comment was directed more to the fact they've probably added some since then

As alluded to elsewhere here, they have gone from MLK's "stand with me" to "kneel before us".

Think that was me

[Devonai]

I had to get a snootful of OC spray when I was a gate guard at my base.  I didn't have much respect for the stuff until that day.  Compared to CS gas during basic training, I'd rather deal with OC if my life was on the line.  After getting baptized with OC, I was required to wail on a guy with a padded baton for 60 seconds before cuffing him.  I did it, but all the fight was out of me after that.  In my defense, it was a rather gratuitous dose and the instructor told me to keep my eyes open.  Ouch.

As for CS gas, I was borderline incapacitated almost immediately and I barely got my chin strap on my helmet buckled.  However, recovery time was much faster compared to OC.

Though they wanted to issue us Tasers, that never came to fruition and I'm fine with that.  I know enough about it from second-hand accounts for my pleasure.

[lee n. field]

Black Love Matters.

sounds like a pornhub category

[WLJ]

The cops I used to work with in Houston carried the 5 C-cell Maglites.  I bought one and carried it in my car.  When leaky batteries finally ruined it I tried to get a replacement, and they don't make those anymore. 

Here ya go, 6 D-Cell Maglite. This thing doubles as a war club
https://www.amazon.com/Maglite-Heavy-Duty-Incandescent-4-Cell-Flashlight/dp/B000056BME?th=1

[sumpnz]

From a text message conversation that started about the riots and eventually made it's way to slavery and it's effects that I had with a few friends.  This was the black guy's take.

Yes the idea of slavery being tied to skin color was very much a new twist to it.

I think it stems from the European colonist coming from a feudal cast system defaulting to a similar system but based upon skin color. And it's an easy sell. And the poor whites liked it because where as in Europe they were the bottom of the system now in America they aren't. They can now look down on slaves and of course the"savage" Natives.

The similar situation today is in the Apologizing for your white privilege.

The person apologizing thinks that they are better than the Black, that they have a higher station in society solely because of thier skin color. A black that accepts that apology is validation of the view that the white is better than the Black.

This is a new tactic in Democrat 150-year history of controlling Blacks.

[WLJ]

So if whites are inherently racist and nothing can be done about it and whites are the majority of the country what options does that leave? Unless they leave that only leaves partitioning the county or whites willingly allowing themselves to be enslaved or exterminating the whites Dalek style. So far it's been mostly give me give me give me.
I just want to know what's BLM's end game in this.

I would love to see someone in the MSM ask them this point blank. Yeah I know.