No Justice, No Peace

This hero for the people promptly resigned when this went public.

I think he thought he was being funny. There are no depths.

Yeah, I considered that possibility. Either way...

Racist jokes are still racist.

Michael Bennett: Las Vegas Police Threatened To "Blow My ******* Head Off"

Same story, new name.

The small twist on this one is, the police union reacted to Bennett's accusation
by asking the NFL to "investigate" the defensive end. To their credit, the NFL responded firmly that they saw no need for such an investigation.
This is why the police can never be counted on to police themselves.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/new-hampshire-police-refuse-to-discuss-apparent-lynching-of-8-year-old-biracial-boy/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=im&utm_tracker=1737131x84899
A group of white teens attacked an 8-year-old biracial boy and hanged him by a noose, his family says, and police in Claremont, NH are refusing to release information in the case.

The Root’s Angela Helm reported on Sunday that an 8-year-old biracial boy was hanged by a rope around his neck by other juveniles in what his grandmother said was a racist attack.

As the child was being flown by a medevac to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, his mother Cassandra Merlin posted to Facebook, “So my son is being flown to Dartmouth after a 14 year old kid decided to hang him from a tree. I don’t care if this was a so called accident or not. My son almost died because of some little sh*t teenage kids.”

NH1.com said that Claremont Police Chief Mark Chase refused to comment on the case, but said the department is investigating the incident, which took place on Aug. 28. He said that because the perpetrators are juveniles, he is prevented from discussing the case publicly.

He said that unlike the adult judicial system, which is aimed at punishment, the juvenile justice system is designed to correct and rehabilitate aberrant behavior.


“These people need to be protected,” Chase said. “Mistakes they make as a young child should not have to follow them for the rest of their life.”

“Notice how he called these predators ‘young children,'” wrote Helm, “infantilizing the white teens. Conversely, teens like Trayvon Martin are made out to be hulking, menacing adults. Chief Chase seems to be centering the perpetrators feelings and futures, all but forgetting about the trauma of a little boy who had his so-called friends hang him from a tree to the point where he had to be medevaced to a hospital.”

According to the victim’s grandmother Lorrie Slattery, he was playing with a group of children and teens when they began to taunt him with racist epithets and throw sticks and rocks at him.

Someone stood on a picnic table and the group wrapped a rope from a nearby tire swing around the boy’s throat, then kicked him off the table.


The victim swung back and forth three times before he was able to free himself. None of the teens came to his aid.

NH1.com said Chief Chase refused to state whether the crime was racially motivated, although accounts of the incident make it clear the attack was based on the child’s race.

Slattery told Valley News it’s clear to her that the attack was racist because her grandson has been targeted for racist abuse from the same group of children and teens in the past.

Her grandson is recovering now and preparing for his first day of school on Tuesday.

Helm wrote, “Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. Say what you want, but when the U.S. president defends avowed white supremacists, one can’t be surprised when bullying takes on a decidedly racist tone as it did with an 8-year-old biracial boy who was hung from a tree in the year 2017. The climate has been set.”

Since Donald Trump’s election, hate crimes have spiked dramatically in the U.S., particularly in the area of hate-related murders.

Meanwhile in the ongoing injustice done to Freddie Gray, the DOJ has decided not to go after any of the officers involved. Apparently they don't feel Mr. Gray's civil rights were violated.

www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/12/550550977/doj-won-t-prosecute-baltimore-officers-involved-in-freddie-gray-case

SANKOFA:

"Police brutality toward black people in the United States is of such common usage and longstanding as to have attained acceptance of proper behavior. The theory has always been that the way to treat black people is like children; that they have to be punished when they misbehave and make a nuisance of themselves such as asking for their civil rights...Every race riot in the United States has stemmed from the one single fact that a white law enforcement officer has committed a brutality against a black citizen."
Written by Chester Himes in July 1967 following the bloody Newark up rising

And here is a good example of why it is foolish to assume that every time a cop shoots and kills someone it's a case of homicidal maniacs hiding behind a badge:

https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/19/shooting-georgia-tech-suicide-cop/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

In this case, many of the fools who jumped to this conclusion were also lawless asswads who took to the streets to demonstrate their righteous anger and fulfill the threat of this thread's title by rioting: setting fires and attacking police.

The repeated rationalizing of such criminal and anti-social behavior, whenever it follows a death of someone at the hands of the police, has helped create a hair-trigger response in the minds of a significant number of people (largely young left-wing males) who see themselves as warriors for social justice or are just waiting for any excuse to cause violent mayhem.

The evidence is overwhelming that the Georgia Tech student died from suicide by police, and there is no evidence that the police acted rashly or improperly. Rioting is never a legitimate response, even if one or more cops do abuse their power, but have we come to a place where it is understandable or even acceptable that mob violence is the first reaction to any and all police shootings where the victim can't be seen on national TV spraying bullets into a crowd? Even in such an obvious case of justified police violence, I'm sure there would still be a handful of asswads arguing the cops didn't have to kill the guy.

At Georgia Tech one SJW complained that the victim "only had a small knife" --- which he flourished while rushing at the police. The fact that he yelled "Shoot me!" to the cops, I feel certain, was additional proof for many that the police overreacted:

"This should have told the police that he was committing suicide and that he wasn't going to hurt anyone else. Why didn't they just wrap him up in a bear hug or if they had to use their guns, why didn't they just wing him or shoot the knife out of his hand? I saw the Lone Ranger do it all of the time on those old TV reruns!"

Obviously, the police should and are trained on how to react when faced with an armed suspect who refuses to follow their orders. For the sake of the lives of the police and bystanders, they are trained to fire at the target's center mass; to take him or her down and out. That this will most likely kill the person is understood but actually beside the point which is to eliminate the threat presented by the suspect. The police academies around the nation are not training recruits on the use of trick shots to subdue a violent offender.

You couldn't pay me enough to be a city or campus cop today.

And here is another good example of Finn using ridiculous hyperbole and strawman arguments to make his nebulous points:


Of course, he can't show any trace of any thing similar to someone making the above claim. But that's Finn.

When you have the truth on video so often, it's not necessary to lie or exaggerate. Whether or not the law accepts the truth is the real issue.

Yup, sometimes the films show an uniformed, state-sanctioned, unstable bully with a gun, a stick and a fast car, acting out. And it seems everyone can see that except the justice system at large, and the cop apologists.

Some people's gut instinct is to side with the oppressor and blame the victim regardless.

Yeah, it's infuriating, and on another level, kinda interesting. What do you think makes them do that?

Good grief! Why is this so hard for liberals? Don't take PCP and then try to murder police officers and you won't get yourself shot in self defense.

Get it? No? Why the hell not? Everyone else can figure out how not to go on murder sprees.

Sheesh!

An innate sense of bourgeois superiority.

I'd go along with that - except the bourgeois part. Prosperity (even superficial prosperity) isn't necessary for some to have an innate sense of privilege and supremacy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41351249