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(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 14:58, Reply)
Graphic shooting.
Happened yesterday, 23rd. Witnesses say the man was breaking up a fight between two girls, and was shot when going to his car to get his children.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 12:42, Reply)
He also appears to be carrying a knife. Considering US Law Enforcement's reputation for being a little on the trigger happy side, perhaps he should have dropped the knife and stopped moving when the Officers told him to? He seemed to have plenty of warning.
He also appears to reach down to grab something from the door cubby/floor of the driver's side just before he's shot. But never mind that, eh? He's clearly an innocent angel who would never dream of keeping a gun in his car.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 12:58, Reply)
You're sick in the head, Mistah Privatez.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 13:54, Reply)
But there seems to be a reasonable amount of justification for shooting this particular fuckwit.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 14:05, Reply)
Not even the mafia would be so sick.
Soz. Got a bit snowflakey there.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 14:10, Reply)
Once in the back of the head would have been sufficient. But his back is far easier to hit, and seven shots should be plenty to ensure he doesn't continue to reach for his weapon and proceed to discharge it into one of the Officers/children.
But God forbid the police shoot a known felon with previous convictions for concealing weapons in his car, after repeatedly telling said fuckwit to stop moving to the vehicle, right?
This is nothing but another excuse for a bunch of fucking morons to riot.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 14:14, Reply)
Should armed police turn up to a domestic dispute and start threatening to kill people?
Soz for being a cunt about it.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 14:23, Reply)
Should police turn up to a domestic dispute? Yes. Particularly if it has spilled out onto the street and somebody with a history of violent domestic disputes (this dude) happens to be there.
Should they threaten to shoot somebody if they don't comply with their instructions? Yes.
The fuck should I have empathy with this cunt for? If an armed Officer tells me to stop moving, I'm going to stop fucking moving.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 14:38, Reply)
It'd be funny if you got Parkinsons and were shot for not freezing because of it.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 14:42, Reply)
From that video, it doesn't look like the situation has escalated to the stage that shoot to kill is justified. Difficult to tell as we can't see what's in the car.
I would like to think that police don't kill people unnecessarily, but since watching one kneel on an unarmed man's neck until he died a few weeks ago, I'm less certain.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 14:47, Reply)
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 15:07, Reply)
Is getting into your car after being told to stop grounds for execution?
You're right that there might be circumstances we don't know about that happened before the video started, maybe he was threatening to get his gun and shoot the other woman. But on the face of this vid alone it seems disproportionate. Cars are left hand drive in the states, so he wasnt going for the glove compartment at least. Maybe he was planing to drive off?
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 15:57, Reply)
He's previously been convicted of concealing firearms behind/under the driver's seat of his car.
In the video Sock posted, just before the Police Officer fires, you can see Mr Blake suddenly reach for something at floor level. It's quick, but there's definitely a direct movement made.
Is it completely beyond possibility that he was reaching for a weapon? Or that the Officer had reasonable suspicion to believe he was?
If an Officer draws his weapon and tells you to keep your hands raised, you wouldn't suddenly reach into your pocket, would you? Because you might get shot. I don't see how this is any different. He was repeatedly told to stop moving. He wasn't shot until he reached for something in his vehicle. If you were going to keep a concealed weapon handy in your car, you'd probably keep it somewhere within easy reach of the driver's seat. Like the door cubby.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 16:04, Reply)
Shooting someone in the back who might or might not be attempting to locate a weapon seems a pretty low threshold for executing them, even if they are ignoring your orders. I don't know about prior convictions, didn't see a mention of them on any news articles or the police statements they gave after. Sure it's not just some claim you read on social media? From witnesses it sounds like he was trying to break up a domestic fight with his family all there, so it seems unlikely he was planning to start shooting at police
{edit} so he has some pending charges for domestic, but no weapons charges
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 16:16, Reply)
racinecountyeye.com/police-k9-dozer-helps-subdue-man-who-pulled-gun-at-bar/?fbclid=IwAR2sJUHqIAUaZqEvzW_Anfx24M_QzhEpYEQafEsub3iUaYhhikVidND8fTg
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 16:25, Reply)
I did put the caveat that my reading was on the video alone, you seem to be quite well informed on the background, and they are good sources
I guess they'll find out in the enquiry, if he didn't end up having a gun in the car they'll be in hot water
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 16:35, Reply)
In fact, he was unarmed and didn't own any guns or weapons : abcn.ws/3gk0xYM
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 16:05, Reply)
He's a convicted felon. That doesn't mean he wasn't in possession of one, though.
He's also facing numerous Domestic Abuse charges. Which explains why the Fiancé was so quick to jump to his defence. Google Trauma Bonding, if you're not familiar with the phenomenon.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 16:11, Reply)
"Convicted felon" doesn't mean he WAS in possession of a weapon either...
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 16:27, Reply)
I reckon the Officers are within their rights to neutralise the threat however they see fit. They had already deployed a taser that had failed, how else should they have resolved the situation? Ask him nicely one more time to stop reaching into his vehicle? Say please?
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 16:33, Reply)
Why have you been investigating the shady past of the victim rather than the shady past of the inept/monstrous person who tried to kill him?
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 17:43, Reply)
stop dancing around the fire, spit it out and get down to the nitty gritty
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 17:52, Reply)
This vid is interesting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckz7EmDxhtU
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 16:39, Reply)
I think you need more than suspicion they MIGHT be opening their car door with the intention of locating a weapon before you shoot them seven timed in the back . I think you need a reasonable imminent threat. They hadn't been called to robbery, there was two unarmed women fighting in a domestic dispute, not the kind of thing you'd be expecting a shootout.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 16:31, Reply)
Ok, i've heard enough, to the gallows with him.
(, Wed 26 Aug 2020, 21:19, Reply)
I was beginning to think nobody here had my level of common sense of reality in a dangerous situation. I guess there are two of us here.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 15:50, Reply)
US cops aren't Bruce Willis. They're poorly trained, and shit scared, probably have a family at home and have to make life-or-death insta-decisions. If you're resisting and prancing around reaching for things, you're going to get fucking shot.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 18:18, Reply)
I haven't spent any time in deprived areas of the States. Certainly no more than you've spent in deprived areas of the UK.
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(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 6:15, Reply)
But welcome back.
Also: you’re on fire.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 20:30, Reply)
I got pulled over in louisiana once, thought I might have been speeding. I got out of the van and the cop pulled a gun on me and yelled at me to put my hands on the bonnet. Freaked me out a bit, not really the sort of thing that happens in England or Australia. They do seem quite trigger happy.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 15:48, Reply)
and you can get out and have a conversation and try and weasel out of the fine, as I'd done quite a few times before in Australia (though having said that Australia's become more like the US recently, and I think they now want you to stay in your car). I also had a lot of drugs in the van so I wasn't keen on them coming over
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 16:02, Reply)
thinking it was the polite thing to do. I only had two cops pointing their handguns at me. Disclosure: I look like the casting for the part of a flower child.
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 23:05, Reply)
At a range of 1 to 2 feet?
Seven times?
There's no excuse for this. What so ever.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 23:24, Reply)
"Now the question to ask yourself is: "do I feel lucky?".
Well do you, punk? ...punk? Aww crap. Jerry, get the plant, I'll put his fingerprints on it"
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 6:24, Reply)
One? Three?
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 7:16, Reply)
having a hole ripped through your lungs, turning them into a gurgling blood frothy mess gasping for life tends to make most people lose track over what they were looking for, but I guess he really needed to have his spleen, duodenum and liver burst and his spinal cord severed to really reconsider having a fossick around
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 7:30, Reply)
www.ajc.com/news/national/here-why-police-don-shoot-wound-the-case-deadly-force/IV4ohtIm6r8FaEMj78u1bO/
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 9:03, Reply)
so you admit you have no idea of his intentions. that they could have been anything including "go sit in his car for a bit and listen to Sepultura because of all these crazy women doing his head in"
And " ensure the assailant stops reaching for a weapon" is a much nicer way of saying the "making sure the man getting into his car is totally fubared"
The link you gave, while it might be protocol for US cops, describes examples where the officers are actually being threatened with weapons, not "maybe he's going fish one out of his car so I better execute him just in case"
Again, you seem to know more details. if he actually said he was getting a gun, then that's a fair justification. That he actually had some weapons charges, I think it puts it into the debatable pending enquiry category on whether it was justified. But the fact it's getting looked at all is because of both being on film and the BLM protests. ones with far less justification almost never resulted in even a caution before this. It took a week of protest to change their mind and investigate the Floyd killing, one that ended up with adverse findings against the officers involved when looked at by an independent coroner.
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 10:46, Reply)
Any way you turn it, you don't execute people because they "might".
The officer's gun is aimed, safety off, bullet in chamber, slack out of trigger - instead of panicking and shouting like a loon.
Then wait to see if he is getting his wallet or a Glock.
No way in fucking world that dude can get a gun out, chamber a round, remove safety, raise his arm, aim and fire before a trained person can get 2 or 3 well aimed shot to the centre of mass.
Even if that dude is a Navy Seal/Jacky Chan/Ninja he is done for.
This is real life, not movies or a video game.
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 12:48, Reply)
Assuming that the bloke was reaching for a weapon.
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 15:01, Reply)
"it's a fair cop, gov"
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 15:13, Reply)
Btw, I work with stuff that could kill me or my colleagues in an instant as fast as a Glock most everyday.
Watching out for your life and your mates all day everyday is tiring and frustrating - I get it.
I've worked in war zones too, I get it too.
Shooting out the 180 bar hydraulics or the 3000V supply would save my life and be quick.
But we don't, so we train, drill, watch out and do our job properly and debrief.
Doing worse than that cop is hardly possible, he killed a man through sheer incompetence.
Fuckwits like that should not have more responsibility than a damp cloth to clean tables, so the real pros can take orders and serve.
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 21:47, Reply)
If UK police had a credible risk of every nutter they arrested pulling a handgun on them they'd probably kill a lot more people too.
If they can ever persuade Americans to drop gun-ownership from their national identity, then maybe they could have a country instead of a fucking shooting gallery.
Nice infographic showing the extent of US gun laws state-by-state (from 2013)
www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jan/15/gun-laws-united-states
(, Tue 25 Aug 2020, 10:39, Reply)
I did a video for a song by Jim Bob (Carter USM)
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 10:49, Reply)
...is when Fruitbat tackled Phillip Schofield to the ground at the Smash Hits awards.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 23:40, Reply)
loads of references to the CUSM days - 50-something, chaos and delay on the underground, stinking world, etc.
(, Sat 12 Sep 2020, 10:28, Reply)
I've not posted here in ages, but it's my candleday, so I thought I'd show my face. Have something suitably incendiary.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 8:49, Reply)
This video is like if Ghost happened in the 60's.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 16:06, Reply)
I can't get enough of Belarusian post-punk toskawave synth-pop Molchat Doma
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 18:54, Reply)
I already told you once
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 23:09, Reply)
I've just realised that with everything else going on, I missed the 30th anniversary of Henson's death. 30 years since this TV special made me cry uncontrollably.
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 22:47, Reply)
but that's because you're a fucking joke lolol
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 0:18, Reply)
Listen to Big Bird singing it's not easy being green.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 1:54, Reply)
Is getting close to “Dad’s Army” proportions nowadays.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 13:16, Reply)
or is /talk just so tediously toxic nobody from other boards visits it?
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 22:42, Reply)
but their middle-aged mellow slowdown is rubbing off on me.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 11:04, Reply)
We could call it the egg joke albumen
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 22:52, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfawvs5PouA
bob is a national treasure
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 22:59, Reply)
I'm already fluent
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 1:20, Reply)
I miss live comedy. Especially for moments of madness like this.
Plenty of comedians have been posting clips of themselves during lockdown but Sully O'Sullivan has just posted an old clip of his most ignoble moment.
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 21:01, Reply)
!how the hell he didn't get hurt!!
"sorry haven't seen the film" lol
very good, need to catch up on Sully O'Sulivans work
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 21:11, Reply)
Doctor theatre made him push through and finish his act.
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 22:27, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnTNn0ebv1c
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 21:48, Reply)
About ten years ago I was in a bar in Chorlton, with an awesome comedy line-up, and Sully did this routine when an angry lady shouted at him for being racist. It didn't go well for her.
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 22:26, Reply)
People were having their meals, and bobcat decided to jump on one of the tables from the stage, which went ok. But then attempted to jump to another table and fell, sending the table, dinners and wine glasses all crashing sideways to the floor and some of it into the woman's lap. I was baked like a christmas ham, fond of bucket bongs in those days, and almost had a stitch laughing so hard. His act was pretty good too, I vaguely recall, but nothing could top that kind of slapstick
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 1:53, Reply)
Bonus points for pressing fast fwd and humming Yakkity Sax...
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 17:58, Reply)
I'm still drunk with power on this whole beat edits thing, so I took one of my favourite bits of video game music and put it into 6/8. Kinda.
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 16:45, Reply)
need mind bleach
why did she have to take her top off
Mods!!! needs to be tagged as NSFW
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 20:32, Reply)
Pretty stuff and you can do it easily at home (they say).
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(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 15:05, Reply)
I was following down some wikipedia rabbithole, reading about Lady Miss Kier losing lawsuit against sega, when I found this. Thought I'd post for its shitness.
Imagine you're at a dance party, and the DJ leads with this set list:
‘Everywhere’ – Fleetwood Mac (their number 4)
‘Brown Eyed Girl’ – Van Morrison
‘This Charming Man’ – The Smiths
hey, at least some morrisey fan shoegazers are dancing, so it's time to drop some....
‘You Can Call Me Al’ – Paul Simon
‘Sweet Child o' Mine’ – Guns N' Roses
‘Fancy’ – Iggy Azalea
I don't know if they make eccys strong enough
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 1:15, Reply)
- these are exactly the kind of thing that you have to have in your collection to please the cloth-eared nincompoop crowd.
If you have the luxury of playing at a genre club or event, then you can be more creative in your playlists - but playing a wedding? You'd better have the fucking Birdy Song.
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 8:34, Reply)
You must also carry at least one Nolans album and a shed load of Abba.
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 14:04, Reply)
I used to play student nights in the late 90s - we took requests (because students, in the 90s) and in a 2hr set I’d get at least half a dozen requests for dancing queen. Any attempt to explain we played it 5 minutes ago was met with wailing and gnashing if teeth that could only be placated with Waterloo.
To this day I can’t fucking stand abba.
Or chumbafuckingwamba
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 20:59, Reply)
that have been so overplayed that you never want to hear them again.
I'd enjoy going to a night that played the b-side from every one of them.
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 10:15, Reply)
you watch as you put on "fancy" as people stand around awkwardly wondering how to dance to a song with a nonrhythmic sparse bass line, no beat, and a long rap bridge in the middle of the song. Graceland was good album, but a party album to get people up and dancing? not quite, more for listening to on a long drive. ditto brown eyed girl with its time changes. Dancing queen is a floor filler because it's easy to dance to, catchy hook to a disco beat. Anyway, it's just some internet fodder article, but i reckon there's crap choices in there by any criteria
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 2:29, Reply)
but they're all really obscure, and you've probably never heard of them.
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 16:34, Reply)
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 16:59, Reply)
No chance, at least two of these have incurred the ban hammer at our place.
(, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 10:00, Reply)
Fair play to her, she knows how to exploit her assets, as her channel clearly shows. This particular instructional video must be the finest demonstration of how close to catastrophic failure modern fabrics can be, without actually failing:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az8CB9hPTR8
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 14:28, Reply)
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 15:38, Reply)
a Rorschach test with the ink, paper and some kind of blotter.
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 19:01, Reply)
Competition link here:
gleam.io/xTuXM/ministry-of-geeks-headset-game-giveaway
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 20:38, Reply)
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 23:57, Reply)
*course material and test available from youtube at a low, low price
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 0:50, Reply)
i'm literally hitler. i don't have any real friends!
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 21:46, Reply)
Not Brb, though.
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 22:17, Reply)
seeking out uncontacted tribes to moan at
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 22:57, Reply)
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 17:10, Reply)
Who else could be that hatstand radio-rental?
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 8:48, Reply)
And nearly all giant anteaters are mask deniers. Other species, like the tamandua, are less anti science.
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 17:16, Reply)
no kissing for a start.
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 21:07, Reply)
Only got as far as the bullets.
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 9:19, Reply)
I saw a trailer at the cinema a few months ago and it looked pretty good, but I don't recall any of the time moving backwards stuff - that's putting me right off it.
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 10:02, Reply)
This is supposed to get people into cinemas? Fuck that.
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 20:02, Reply)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53862695
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 10:23, Reply)
"There are car chases in which The Protagonist is going forwards when all else is in reverse, fist fights that take place over millennia but happen in the same time and space, and bullets that seal rather than penetrate."
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 14:17, Reply)
64.media.tumblr.com/07ec078647004768947dc46ec3d743c3/tumblr_n2m6m1WbXr1r2ndk4o1_400.gifv
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 11:04, Reply)
Not really. I just needed an excuse to make that pun.
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 13:51, Reply)
This film can go fuck itself.
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 14:04, Reply)
just cannot watch him for some reason
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 14:09, Reply)
Unrelated, covid-19 strikes a blow for taste
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53873271
(, Sat 22 Aug 2020, 15:18, Reply)
Pull down your pants next to a big bowl of turds thinking, "right, which one of you is coming up in here first?"
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 0:22, Reply)
That's funny, I had the exact same thought the last time I was at the Blue Corner Sauna.
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 4:42, Reply)
Also, I’m slowly coming round to this music, but only when it’s part of a film. I loathed Post Malone’s output until I saw Spiderverse, and now I can just about listen to that song, whilst still loathing his other stuff. Baby steps, yeah?
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 10:17, Reply)
I still think What's up Danger is the only interesting song on that soundtrack
(, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 12:11, Reply)
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