COMMUNITY Social Justice Thread: R.I.P. George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor & now Tyre Nichols
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Pig Lives Matter are defending Karen’s pulling guns on innocent black folks...
Dwayne
Laissez le bon temps rouler
TheNightKing
J.A.P.A.N.
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Formula 1 broadcast quickly cuts away from disjointed driver kneeling moment, prompting criticism
Before Formula One kicked off its season last week at Austria’s Red Bull Ring, defending champion Lewis Hamilton led all 20 racers to the starting line where an “End Racism” banner flanked them. Every other driver wore an “End Racism” t-shirt while Hamilton wore a shirt that read “Black Lives...
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Disanthrope
Inconvenient truth + Necessary evil
Disanthrope
Inconvenient truth + Necessary evil
StringerBell
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What the police really believe
Inside the distinctive, largely unknown ideology of American policing — and how it justifies racist violence.
www.vox.com
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Video of Pennsylvania police officer restraining man prompts outrage, protests
"You can't help but see a video like that and not immediately leap to the worst conclusions," one official said.
www.nbcnews.com
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Amid a national movement to defund the police, LAPD officers and their supporters rally outside headquarters
Officers say they are demoralized by the cuts, which will deliver a huge hit to overtime pay and hiring in the 10,000-member department, when they have worked hard to build ties with community members and are willing to risk their lives to keep people safe.
www.latimes.com
BDP™️
Acknowledge Moi
This 5 Guys is in a shopping center next to my neighborhood
The Lonious Monk
Celestial Souljah
I want to know where her numbers come from. Cops kill people way more than the get killed by people, and whites kill more cops than blacks, so I wonder where she got that stat.
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Loses It on Fox News Over Violence Against Police: 'America Better Wake Up and Get Angry!'
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick went on a full-throttle tear on Monday in order to rip Democrats, Black Lives Matter, and the #DefundThePolice movement on Fox News.
www.mediaite.com
The Lonious Monk
Celestial Souljah
It's crazy how these Republicans just make up shit that is easily proven wrong. It's even crazier that most of the information proving them wrong comes from the government they are running right now.
www.fbi.gov
Only 48 cops were murdered in the entire year of 2019. 36 of those deaths happened in the South and Midwest which are typically Red areas. To put it in perspective, cops killed over 1000 people last year. When you include accidents, only 89 cops died last year at all. That means cops killed more than 10x as many people as they lost on duty. This idea that cops are in danger is bullshit.
FBI Releases 2019 Statistics on Law Enforcement Officers Killed in the Line of Duty | Federal Bureau of Investigation
According to statistics reported to the FBI, 89 law enforcement officers were killed in line-of-duty incidents in 2019. Of these, 48 officers died as a result of felonious acts, and 41 officers died in accidents.
www.fbi.gov
Only 48 cops were murdered in the entire year of 2019. 36 of those deaths happened in the South and Midwest which are typically Red areas. To put it in perspective, cops killed over 1000 people last year. When you include accidents, only 89 cops died last year at all. That means cops killed more than 10x as many people as they lost on duty. This idea that cops are in danger is bullshit.