Running racism in America thread

Vallejo - former Navy city with a lot of older white folk and influx of non-white first homebuyers. Police force has been a mess for years.

 

Good. Hope it starts a trend.

The ACLU has filed a class-action lawsuit against Minnesota authorities on behalf of journalists whom state and local police were filmed beating, shooting, gassing, and arresting during protests against the police killing of George Floyd.

In an overnight filing, the ACLU claims the city of Minneapolis, the Minnesota State Patrol, and Minneapolis police violated the First and Fourth Amendment rights of journalists by preventing them from observing and recording the protests and by unlawfully restricting their movements, respectively. The authorities are also accused of arresting journalists without probable cause, violating their due process rights.​

Minneapolis Cops Sued for Shooting, Beating, and Gassing Over a Dozen Journalists

 

Number 7

Why does it have to be a person?

 

His timing is not off, per se, because it’s not going to be a different opinion In 2 months. He was asked a question and he answered It. I don’t personally agree with him at this point - I think it’s a bad opinion - but I think he’s pretty comfortable with what he said.

 

That Cotton op-ed is going over like gangbusters in these parts. I always suspected there were wannabe Li Pengs in the upper echelons of government, and it's nice/awful to be proven correct.

 

Bet that comfort is short-lived.

 

Between the wrongful death lawsuit (that we all know is coming) and now this, Minneapolis will have to declare bankruptcy. I won't cry.

 

I don't mean this as a knock or a judgment in any way, but rather a genuine question -- Where is Colin Kaepernick during all of this? I'm not suggesting he should be taking a victory lap, but the world - the WORLD - has finally woken up to the cause he tried to spark four years ago and I haven't seen or heard a word from him yet.

I haven't seen so much as a "Kaepernick couldn't be reached for comment." I certainly may have missed it.

I'm curious as hell what he's doing right now.

 

So the City of Birmingham says that any protestors are confined to a park miles from downtown and City Hall, between the hours of 10 am and 3 pm, and they must have a permit. Unsurprisingly, the protestors don't think much of this. After curfew, the cops dropped the hammer.

Birmingham restricts demonstrations to W.C. Patton Park

 

I had seen a story to the effect that he was donating money to help get protestors out of jail. Don't remember seeing anything else.