I’m not sure how many that is in a major metro area PD force, or how long it takes them to get wiped off ones record. Like, in a small town or suburb that would most likely be a ton, but I have no reference for how many complaints are received by major metro forces. I certainly wouldn’t have him be training new officers though with that list, that’s for sure.
Possibly one of the funniest descriptions of our current political system I’ve read lol.
Here’s a fairly recent example from Florida, though at least the poor lawyer who got drafted in this case is a criminal defense attorney. I know I’ve read stories much worse than this, where non-criminal defense attorneys got drafted to represent defendants, but I’m not finding them at the moment. And it always seems to happen in the South.
Thing with only two parties is, it leaves the crazies with no option but to join one or the other, and then everyone is a fascist/racist on one side, everyone is a commie on the other side. Hyperbole on both sides.
On the other hand, a shitload of parties having representation can be a fucking mess, like, say Brazil.
How about something in between, then.
Elitism.
This is the same as being in a hood with two gangs. You either join one and accept everything that comes with it, or get victimized by both.
As much as I hated tRump and his followers, I can’t stand this new direction either. It’s easier to pick a side and drink the koolaid. Accept the hypocrisy and be happy.
I’m with you on this, @theinneroh …
The problem is that people will accept the bullshit on their “side”…and then yell and scream about how the other “side” is the cause of all the world’s ills.
It drives me crazy.
…Don’t feel like Satan but I am to them…
To punish people, and to remove dangers from society.
To punish misdeeds, and to remove a danger from society.
That’s why the jury is supposed to be convinced “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
It shouldn’t, but that’s your problem to manage.
I’ve never had a problem revising my opinions and picking a side. Hell, I might even register as a Republican. The last primary I participated in was the Democrats circa 2008.
There are advantages to a two party system as well. It does a good job of stopping policy disasters before they get passed, for one.
The framework of the system is far more important. The fact that we can and do have third parties but people typically self-select to one of two doesn’t, in my opinion, speak to any inherent flaw with the electorate.
So pick a side, accept the flaws or start a third part where, even if you become viable….
You’ll still have to accept the flaws.
Back on topic, the tendency to take any given outcome and compare it to utopia is a hallmark of leftist thinking. I think that came into play from the minute the Chauvin video went viral.
I don’t think that makes it good restraint of another person, but there sure was a lot more to the story. There always is, yet no shortage of politicians and media figures saw fit to weigh in on the Bryant case as if it were George Floyd redux.
Why? They compare the imperfect outcome of a dead child to a perfect outcome of everyone safe and sound, instead of the averted outcome of another child being stabbed.
Only the profoundly stupid or sociopathic can look at that tape and conclude that the cop did something wrong, but lo and behold, here we are in 2021.
Jews were wealthier in the first year of the third Reich than the year after fall of the third Reich. These kind of gotchas are not really very meaningful. Also this is literally a year before the targeted destruction of the black community occurred:
At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
Yeah the black community is poor and crime ridden because white liberals are telling them they are victims. Not because of historical conditions of chattel slavery, segregation, targeted destruction and oppression for the last few hundred years.
The from Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office concludes the cause of death was “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.” That conclusion, death due to heart failure, differs from the one reached by an independent examiner hired by the Floyd family; that report listed the cause of death as “asphyxiation from sustained pressure.”
This medical examiner’s report does not mention asphyxiation. However, according to prosecutors, in charging documents filed last week, early results “revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.”
The medical examiner’s report also details blunt-force injuries to the skin of Floyd’s head, face and upper lip, as well as the shoulders, hands and elbows and bruising of the wrists consistent with handcuffs.
Signed by Dr. Andrew M. Baker, it says Floyd had tested positive for the novel coronavirus on April 3. A post-mortem nasal swab confirmed that diagnosis. The report notes that because a positive result for coronavirus can persist for weeks after the disease has resolved, “the result most likely reflects asymptomatic but persistent … positivity from previous infection.”
In addition to fentanyl and methamphetamine, the toxicology report from the autopsy showed that Floyd also had cannabinoids in his system when he died.
Floyd also had heart disease, hypertension and a mostly asymptomatic form of the more serious sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that primarily affects African Americans.
On Wednesday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison of second-degree unintentional murder against Chauvin. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison.
You are comparing our lurch into left wing programs for black to the lurch into fascism for Jews… OK.
Sure if you ignore history. Again, black did better as a class in the 60s when segregation ACTUALLY EXISTED. I would kinda think that actual segregation would be harder on a populous that a history of segregation from 60 years ago. Your narrative doesn’t match history. Over the time span that the civil rights movement made such great progress, conditions for black nose dived into unemployment poverty and crime. While I’m sure racism negatively affects blacks it’s unquestionably NOT a major driving factor in today’s disparity. Unless you want to lay out some reasoning for how we are more racist today than we were in to 60s? Or how segregation is more relevant today than when it actually existed?
Yes chattel slavery was as bad as the holocaust. Both were evil and abominations and the murder of a jew and of a black are equally evil, as was the enslavement of both. You are claiming 400 years of slavery, then mass discrimination ending a few decades ago (followed by targetted policing and red lining) doesn’t have anything to do with the plight of black communities in America.
Citing statistics a year before targeted policing occurred is pretty irrelevant. per capita black people still faced disproportionate incarceration, far lower wealth, lower education rates. Either this is because they are inferior or because of discrimination and social and material conditions.
As black people are not genetically prone to crime, there must be sociological factors.
Nope. I did not.
So you are arguing that laws and culture are more racist now than in the 60s? care to lay that our for me in a little more detail?
Um, yeah. What I originally proposed were sociological factors.
I am arguing the racist policing launched in a year before the time you cited, created worse social and economic conditions for black families, resulting in more crime. It is pretty simple.
OK. So would blacks be better off today if we went back to the culture and policy of the 1950s?
These are the ramblings of a bitter man trying to rewrite history. The early stages of the war on drugs treated drug use as a health issue more than a criminal one.