"More than half of US police killings are mislabelled or not reported, study finds"

[The Rogue Wolf]

And there's far too many of my fellow members of this forum who know that I'm a good person that are perfectly fine with that reality I must live with.

It's because they look out into their lily-white gated enclaves, where the cops are their friends who keep "those people" out, and they shudder in terror at the very idea of changing anything lest "those people" come cresting the gates like the hordes of savages that they are, and start doing horrible things like stealing their stuff or marrying their daughters. So they need you to accept being a second-class citizen whose life can be snuffed out at any time, so that they can continue to feel safe and secure.

 

[ObsidianJones]

Just as a reminder for everyone, a Venn diagram depicting the "Work Forces"/"Burn Crosses" correlation:

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I guess we just need rally around the family, with a pocket full of shells.

While my situation isn't nearly as severe as yours, I get it.

Listen, severity isn't a pre-requisite for understanding and/or comradery. Your situation is always, always valid.

No one should ever be alone in this life.

 

[Eacaraxe]

I guess we just need rally around the family, with a pocket full of shells.

...and of course, this is the perfect time to remind everyone the history of gun control in the US is, beginning through to end, to violently enforce white supremacy. For all the times in this country's history that gun control became a forefront political issue, the only times gun control to varying degrees passed was when guns fell into the "wrong" (read, black, brown, and later poor) hands.

 

[ObsidianJones]

...and of course, this is the perfect time to remind everyone the history of gun control in the US is, beginning through to end, to violently enforce white supremacy. For all the times in this country's history that gun control became a forefront political issue, the only times gun control to varying degrees passed was when guns fell into the "wrong" (read, black, brown, and later poor) hands.

Which shockingly enough, is the perfect example I use to conservatives of why I am Progressive.

Whatever you construct to limit or disable someone else can easily be wielded against you. Gun Control is a common ground that a lot of conservatives understand. You want freedoms? Protect everyone else's, and they will stand by you when you need help.

 

[Eacaraxe]

Which shockingly enough, is the perfect example I use to conservatives of why I am Progressive.

Whatever you construct to limit or disable someone else can easily be wielded against you. Gun Control is a common ground that a lot of conservatives understand. You want freedoms? Protect everyone else's, and they will stand by you when you need help.

Yup. Also why I singularly loathe white liberals and white moderates even more than conservative types up to and including actual neo-Nazis, now. Malcolm X and MLK were dead-on in their appraisal of those types. That's why my defense of First Amendment freedoms is so ardent and uncompromising, too.

Last year on the George Floyd/Breonna Taylor threads, I pointed out the two most peaceful days of protest in Louisville was when NFAC came calling -- shenanigans relating to dehydration and heat exhaustion leading to accidental discharges in the first visit notwithstanding. LMPD remembered their manners, and stopped launching indiscriminate chemical weapon attacks, real fuckin' fast when a few hundred black folk showed up packing AR's, sidearms, and body armor. After last summer and particularly that, where my adult life had evolved from being a "common sense gun control" advocate to ardent Second Amendment supporter long before, I'll never do anything but advocate repealing gun control law already on the books, and black armament, again.

The irony of this, is across the river in red-ass state Indiana, we extended the castle doctrine and stand-your-ground to override qualified immunity for criminal cops. It's cold comfort, because SCOTUS neutered the police-created exigency standard last decade and cops have blank checks to commit perjury, but it is what it is.

 

[Trunkage]

I'm severely glad this doesn't have the chance to be labelled a homicide, but it still evenly shows the tactics of Reality Bending that Police try to implement and still get away with it mostly.

Honestly, a lot of the days I walk out and wonder if I'm going to be the next George Floyd event, or Ahmaud Arbery (Fun fact, their accused killers want their confederate license plate stricken from evidence because they are afraid it would prejudice the jury against them... not like what the flag stands for would prejudice the minds of those who wave it against blacks...).

I don't get to fight back, I don't get to plead my case, I don't even get to have an attitude or anything can be perceived as such. I get to just hope I make it out alive. And there's far too many of my fellow members of this forum who know that I'm a good person that are perfectly fine with that reality I must live with. That is exactly why I'm against most forms of conservativism. I wouldn't wish this life on anyone.

Man, you can worry about being Floyd or Arbery. I'd personally be more worried about being the person that the police got away with murdering. You will be unnamed or worse, have your name tarnished becuase the police screwed up. You can retroactively become a criminal without ever having your chance to plead in court. They can just vilify you and probably will never get caught

Edit: At least we were able to posthumously defend Taylor or Floyd