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This is a link post American police using excessive force on an innocent man
Kicks off at about 1:10

Antonio Smith

Also covered on BBC News.
(SockCooker ПТН ПНХ, Fri 26 Jun 2020, 12:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post An absolute shambles of piss-poor Policing.
And undoubtedly more fodder for the tiresome Black Lives Matter bandwagon.
 (Huw Edwards #notalljews, Fri 26 Jun 2020, 13:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post Nick nick

(benito vaselini no not that one, Fri 26 Jun 2020, 15:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post There is a measurable bias for police arrests of people of colour
- in the USA, and other Western nations.

Is it complex? Yeah, sure. Does that mean there's no problem, and that these protests are a woke "bandwagon" ..?

www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01846-z
wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/news/item/cautionary-tale-about-measuring-racial-bias-policing
fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-statistics-dont-capture-the-full-extent-of-the-systemic-bias-in-policing/

If you aren't willing to look at the facts, but just want to attack race equality protests - then you're a racist cunt.

if you're willing to look at the facts and then say there's no racial bias problem with the justice system of the USA or UK, then I don't know what to say to you.
 (I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Fri 26 Jun 2020, 20:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's the standard right wing response to all this
"There is no institutional racism, only bad individuals. Nothing needs to change"

I'd imagine whatever shitrag Mr Penis and Jim Davidson both read has been pushing this line for weeks
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Fri 26 Jun 2020, 21:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post More people need to tell Mr Penis that he's a racist cunt.
I mean this sincerely.
 (I helped save b3ta! brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 26 Jun 2020, 23:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post Because I find Black Lives Matter tiresome?
You do know where their donations go, don't you?

Anyway, everybody is racially prejudiced to some degree. Fucking everybody. You're kidding yourself if you think you're miraculously immune to that particular human character defect. It's how we recognise and act on those prejudices that counts. I bet you're easily as racist as I am, secretly. At the very least, subconsciously.
 (Huw Edwards #notalljews, Fri 26 Jun 2020, 23:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post If I'm as racist as you, then I am at least trying to correct myself
- you don't seem to be doing that.

What do you mean by "You do know where their donations go, don't you?"
Are you implying that a racial equality movement is some kind of scam?
 (I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Sat 27 Jun 2020, 7:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post I bet he thinks it goes to the Jews wot dun 9/11.

(I helped save b3ta! brb homonecrobatrachophile, Sat 27 Jun 2020, 17:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post This is quite clearly something you tell yourself to make yourself feel better

(benito vaselini no not that one, Sat 27 Jun 2020, 8:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post Does this make you neurotic or psychotic?
I always forget the difference.

Either way, whatever mitigating circumstances prevent your brain from functioning properly, you're behaving like a stupid racist fucking cunt.
 (I helped save b3ta! brb homonecrobatrachophile, Sat 27 Jun 2020, 16:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post How does the US manage to hire
such a high proportion of knuckle dragging meatheads to do their law enforcement?
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Fri 26 Jun 2020, 14:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post They used to have a “maximum IQ” as a requirement in some states.
To avoid people getting bored or questioning things too much. They said it was removed some years ago after an outcry, whether it’s still actually in place, you can judge for yourself.
Edit..
The case was “Jordan vs New London” if you want to google all the reporting of it, and you can see all the details of who “they” are from the sources etc.
 (I helped save b3ta! Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Fri 26 Jun 2020, 14:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post Explains a lot.

(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 26 Jun 2020, 17:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post
Thx for mentioning that case; I googled it.
Wow.
 (SockCooker ПТН ПНХ, Fri 26 Jun 2020, 19:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post Also, it's Georgia
"Deep South".
A high percentage of racists and people who believe in invisible magic men in the sky. [Refs on request, eh...]
A friend of mine, of Jamaican origins, went there in 1996 when her daugher was in the olympics, and suffered truly appalling racist abuse. OK, that's anecdotal, but I have no reason to disblieve her.

The problem is endemic in the USA, especially the bottom bits.

There are problems in the UK too, but it's not so bad. We have a few "bad cops" but they are increasingly rare; the vast majority of them are great. We've moved on from Gene Hunt ("Life on Mars", set in 1973).

In England, now, a "fine upstanding" young black friend with a nice car gets stopped by cops a disproportinate number of times. Admittedly, he's driving in the wee small hours 'coz he works as a bouncer, but still disproportionate compared to colleagues. He's not too bothered about it, but it still sucks ass.

I'm trying to say... regarding racism, the UK is not perfect; far from it; but WAY better than the US.

The stuff we're seeing in the USA is abhorrent, and action is required. No, not burning down stuff; changing stuff.

UK needs to change too. Stop tolerating hate speech and racism.
 (SockCooker ПТН ПНХ, Fri 26 Jun 2020, 19:46, , Reply)