alpha news is a media outlet formed by the minnesota republican tea party alliance
you sure can pick 'em.
the inference that if you can somehow prove that these individual incidents of police violence were justified, it follows that the BLM movement was otherwise happy prosperous citizens who've been fooled into protest. It's a canard. The anger is always there, unfair and targeted police treatment is a regular experience of black americans, on top of the lives of struggle and disenfranchisement many live . It just takes different sparks to set it off. They'll be more deaths in police custody, some of them will be justified, but many wont. I thought the vox pops in the end painting cops as the victims a bit rich, as if many of them arent cunts who abuse their power.
Im sure of posted this before, but here's Neil Degrasse Tyson www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK0p0DzZVzI talking about how even wealthy black academics experience police profiling. If I was a black american, I reckon I'd be fed up and angry too.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 6 Jan 2024, 21:53,
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OMG! You’re doing that thing where you argue about something you haven’t watched or read again. Quelle surprise!
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 6 Jan 2024, 22:46,
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It's over 100 minutes long, nobody can be bothered with that.
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Zuowan, Sat 6 Jan 2024, 23:11,
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True, but you’re still bothered enough to opine on its validity despite not having watched it.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 6 Jan 2024, 23:29,
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i saw enough
they wasted about 20 minutes talking about the protest before they got to their point of the supposed miscarriage. but as soon as they started making untrue claims that have been floating around rightwing corners of the internet, I thought I'd look up who alpha news were: Quelle surprise
Floyds drug use was extensive discussed in the trial, rather than suppressed as the video falsely claims, with the medical examiner concluding that his drug use did not contribute at all to his death by cutting of his oxgenwww.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N3241XJ/
the "knee to the back of the neck was part of the authorised police training" was also comprehensively rejected in the trial by the police trainers themselves www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/05/984587443/former-training-commander-on-chauvin-neck-restraint-thats-not-what-we-train.
The second half of the video was a selection of cops talking about how hard it is to be cop because they can't act with impunity like they used to, they're the real victims here, intercut with pictures of biden. It's just rightwing trash rehashing long refuted claims to the gullible, as if somehow if they can prove floyds verdict was unsound it will delegitimise the BLM movement. I honestly wasted too much of my time looking at it, I should have known better
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 6 Jan 2024, 23:34,
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Are you saying that there are /links posters who have racist views?
Are you *sure* mate?
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probably, but I've not seen any evidence that prufrock is, just wish he'd be a bit more selective
But I reckon why the rightwing wanted to attack the BLM is that it's useful for them if people fear them, instead of being sympathetic. Same with mexicans, trannies, "woke culture", whatever blame distraction from the sad fact it's become a plutocracy. It's not motivated by racism, but it's convenient to harness and stoke it
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 8 Jan 2024, 21:33,
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Hey everyone!
If cumquat may was a black American, he'd be fed up and angry
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Thu 11 Jan 2024, 20:19,
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