https://nitter.net/Tori4ThePeople/status/1616385175444721665?t=Tor7tvTmJspIsOriOrBetA&s=19
TBH I feel like videos and instances of (especially 'merican) cops gunning down innocents without any fucking justification is pretty regular. George Floyd one just happened to go big for a variety of reasons. However disgusting this one is, I highly doubt it'll end with much furore - Especially if it's already been successfully suppressed this long.
Yeah you could probably write a paper on all the things that led specifically to the 2020 protests. I doubt something like that can happen again launched by a singular murder (at least in the foreseeable future)
CW: image of police brutality: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/us/memphis-tennessee-tyre-nichols-death-federal-investigation
CNN reports it not as “executed,” but “passed away.” Incredible journalism.
Legit Emmett Till levels of brutality. Heinous as fuck, that family has to be a mess right now goddamn
If they executed someone and this is clear in the video are we gonna see another police station burn down?
I still love that opinion polling on that initially was like "hell yeah"
unrest insurance
Getting paid paid actors to vandalize my property so I can commit insurance fraud
Didn't chuds already do that? "Blacks rule" fake graffiti and all?
On January 8, the police department announced officers pulled over a motorist for reckless driving the previous day. “As officers approached the driver of the vehicle, a confrontation occurred and the suspect fled the scene on foot,” officials said in a statement posted on social media.
Officers pursued the suspect and again attempted to take him into custody when another confrontation occurred before the suspect was apprehended, according to police.
“Afterward, the suspect complained of having a shortness of breath, at which time an ambulance was called to the scene. The suspect was transported to St. Francis Hospital in critical condition,” officials said.
The man, identified as Nichols, died a few days later, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
lmao so what the fuck actually happened you ghouls? how can you write like this with a straight fucking face?
edit: meant to reply to @Wertheimer
CNN reports WWI: “A confrontation occurred somewhere overseas after a man passed away, along with his wife, on the streets of Sarajevo.”
Not doubting that it's going to be something really damning, but "local businesses are buying unrest insurance" isn't really evidence of anything. "The most easily panicked and reactionary group in America thinks riots will happen" no shit.
1 too cold
2 treat machine is back on
3 a reactionary controls the main source of information sharing
4 not Trump is president
1 too cold
As a Floridian I do genuinely forget this is a factor in most places.
This is the time when you could do something like a major protest or riot here. You want me to wear black bloc in a heat index of 110, or best case scenario 90? No thanks. Who’s gonna light a cop car on fire, it’s too warm to be near it!
I'm worried about how the protests will look now that the police have militarized even further under Biden
I think the American population is too Brandonized right now for more major social unrest. Maybe in a couple years after Biden goes. But we can always hope :brick-police:
Yeah there’s also no major lockdown making people insane and restive to boil over. There will never be another protest like 2020 in the USA until lived conditions seriously deteriorate to the level that many people faced during the pandemic
Idealists and Liberals like to think protests are based on principles and specific events. George Floyd’s death could happen today and it would barely make the news. There was nothing particular about that specific incident that lead to the biggest protests in decades, it was just the spark that lit the gas built up from conditions. Riots and protests aren’t about idealist principles, they are about food, jobs, energy, state violence, etc. It has to be real and felt by a large chunk of the population, not activism
he was an ATL teacher on vacation in LA, the cousin of a founder of BLM, he said "they're gonna George Floyd me" before they killed him.
You're probably right but I'm still gonna have hope
Think about it, if some real riots break out under Brandon it will be totally different than what happened under Trump because the democrats won't be able to co-opt the protests or steal any of our energy like they did last time
No performative :liberalism: as a false answer to the people's anger
I don't wanna bum you out, but there have been so many times that DC and the media just flat out ignored bad shit happening or picked the softest version of outrage they cared to address and sated the masses with some dumbshit event like obama and another black man having a beer with a cop.
2022 was the worst year in recorded history for U.S. in terms of police brutality, deaths in custody, and "it's okay because a cop did it" style street executions.
Thanks, Joe
Edit: Memphis Police Department just announced the firing of five officers involved in the death of Tyre Nichols.
