Police Brutality Protests Thread

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Essence Lumin]

Op-Ed: Let’s Not Forget the Complicated History Behind Camden’s Transformed Police Department | NJ Spotlight

 

[Kara Spengler]

Which perfectly goes with me watching the old 'not the 9 oclock news' segment yesterday about how christianity was ripping off Python. After all, they even picked a hero with the same initials as John Cleese.

 

[danielravennest]

So Antiantifa is the real terrorist group?

Mathematically the anti's cancel out, leaving just facists.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

So Antiantifa is the real terrorist group?

Mathematically the anti's cancel out, leaving just facists.

Today on the internet, an engineer tells a literature professor how to do his job!

 

[Veritable Quandry]

And ruins the joke.

 

[Free]

And ruins the joke.

It was too meta. Or not meta enough.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

metafa

 

[Romana]

Meta-mathical?

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

 

[Romana]

I believe it.
I've come to tears over some very insignificant things since COVID.
Being a cop doesn't preclude everyone from being a human being. Some of them lose their humanity, maybe a lot, that's what it looks like lately anyway.
But I can't yet find it beyond the realm of possibility that a cop could be human and feel just like I did.

 

[Free]

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

 

[Kara Spengler]

WTF? To reuse a good quote, those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.

 

[Plurabelle Laszlo]

I had to double check if this was really true. Once again I couldn't believe how far they would go. I then asked around if anyone from the US would know ANY other explanation for this than the obvious, if there was any other way to interpret this symbol - apparently not. I seriously hope that this will trigger an international reaction. It's like they are shouting out 'here, will you finally understand that we REALLY are nazis'. And on top of that it's like a slap to the face of those who have suffered and died in the camps, and their families.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

WTF? To reuse a good quote, those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.

I'm pretty sure that whoever chose that particular symbol for the advertisement remembered its history perfectly well, as do the people whose donations, phone numbers and email addresses the advertisers seek, and regard its associations as a feature rather than a bug.

Back when I was at secondary school, my year's intake was the first one in which no students at the school had been alive during WW2, so the War was very much recent history.

Every year, as part of the preparations for Remembrance Sunday, as then it was, the head of the French department used to read out in assembly the final paragraphs of Camus' novel, The Plague, explaining that it was not just about the bubonic plague in Oran and how people responded, but also about how fascism and terror, and about how ordinary men and women, including former students at the school, had responded, and how we had all to be prepared to show similar courage and decency if and when the time came.

We owed previous generations a debt, was the general theme, and it was one we had to keep paying forward.

It feels more and more like the bill is coming due, along with interest charges for missed payments.

From the dark harbor soared the first rocket of the firework display organized by the municipality, and the town acclaimed it with a long-drawn sigh of delight. Cottard, Tarrou, the men and the woman Rieux had loved and lost, all alike, dead or guilty, were forgotten. Yes, the old fellow had been right; these people were “just the same as ever.” But this was at once their strength and their innocence, and it was on this level, beyond all grief, that Rieux could feel himself at one with them. And it was in the midst of shouts rolling against the terrace wall in massive waves that waxed in volume and duration, while cataracts of colored fire fell thicker through the darkness, that Dr. Rieux resolved to compile this chronicle, so that he should not be one of those who hold their peace but should bear witness in favor of those plague-stricken people; so that some memorial of the injustice and outrage done them might endure; and to state quite simply what we learn in a time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.

None the less, he knew that the tale he had to tell could not be one of a final victory. It could be only the record of what had had to be done, and what assuredly would have to be done again in the never ending fight against terror and its relentless onslaughts, despite their personal afflictions, by all who, while unable to be saints but refusing to bow down to pestilences, strive their utmost to be healers.

And, indeed, as he listened to the cries of joy rising from the town, Rieux remembered that such joy is always imperiled. He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen-chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.

 

[Cristiano]

I changed the name of this thread to clarify it.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Representative Matt Gaetz pwned by Representative Cedric Richmond - If the shoe fits ...

Matt Gaetz Shouts Down Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond: ‘Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?!’

Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on police reform blew up when Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) took offense at remarks made by Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) about race, asking the Black congressman “who the hell” he thought he was.Debating the Democratic-backed Justice in Policing Act on Wednesday

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Gaetz, meanwhile, jumped into the fray, saying that while he appreciated Richmond’s passion he wanted to know if the Louisiana lawmaker was suggesting that the GOP congressmen didn’t have any non-white children.

“Matt, I am not about to get sidetracked about the color of our children,” an indignant Richmond fired back. “I reclaim my time!”

The Democrat noted that he was aware that there are GOP congressmen who have Black grandchildren before pointing out that “it is not about the color of your kids” but instead about “Black males, Black people in the streets getting killed.”

“And if one of them happens to be your kid, I'm concerned about him too, and clearly I'm more concerned about him than you are," Richmond added, causing Gaetz to become irate. (Gaetz is not married and has no children.)

"You’re claiming you have more concern about my family than I do,” the pro-Trump congressman shouted. “Who in the hell do you think you are?”

Richmond, for his part, remained calm, needling Gaetz as the Florida Republican raged and demanded Richmond’s words be stricken from the record.

“If the shoe fits,” Richmond quipped. “A kicked dog hollers.”

 

[Innula Zenovka]