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Begun The Civil Wars Of 2020 Have
Two days ago a policeman in Minnesota, who was well known for his brutality, murdered a black man, George Floyd, by suffocating him during an arrest for allegedly paying with a fake $20 bill. (video, longer version) It was one of many such murders.
Spontaneous peaceful protests against the regime ensued.
Yesterday afternoon the regime sent in its provocateurs. One of allegedly six was a white man in black clothes, masked with a professional gas mask and carrying a black umbrella. He was filmed as he started to smash shop windows even while protesters told him not do do that. (video). When people got suspicious of him the man walked away, his umbrella still up. (video). He was later identified as a member of the St. Paul police department.
Into the night the protests grew and took on a socialist tone when people started to communalize the goods offered at a local Target market known for its extensive surveillance. Later the local McDonald’s restaurant was also liberated by fire.
The regime gave up. Police fled from the 3rd Precinct in a large convoy (video, video). Soon after that the precinct was set on fire. (video)
These are not race riots. Many of the protesters are young people of white color. (video, video)
Throughout the night more buildings were set on fire.
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The local regime governor order his national guard to intervene.
The president threatened to kill the unarmed protesters:
…These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!
Trump’s wordplay had an historically racist undertone:
“When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” is a threat coined by Miami Police Chief Walter Headley, who promised violent reprisals on black protesters in 1967. He also said: “We don’t mind being accused of police brutality. They haven’t seen anything yet.”
Twitter marked the president’s tweet as ‘glorifying violence’ but did not remove it.
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Early this morning Minnesota State Police had come back to the scene. It arrested a dark skinned CNN reporter in front of the running camera (vid). The reporter had asked the police where they wanted his crew to setup. He did not get a response. No reason for his arrest was given. Another CNN reporter, this one of white color, was also approached by police but was permitted to stay:
CNN’s Josh Campell, who also was in the area but not standing with the on-air crew, said he, too, was approached by police, but was allowed to remain.
“I identified myself … they said, ‘OK, you’re permitted to be in the area,'” recounted Campbell, who is white. “I was treated much differently than (Jimenez) was.”
Jimenez is black and Latino.
After CNN called on the governor the reporter and his crew were released. Here he explained what happened. The police did not apologize to him.
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The British government protested against the arrest of the journalists.
There are now public calls for further protests in many more cities. Those are likely to escalate.
Calls for President Xi of China to provide the American rebels with the means to defend themselves against the regime have not yet been answered.
Posted by: Nemesiscalling | May 30 2020 0:46 utc | 133 Whites who run into trouble with the law usually occur more often in rural areas where whites live in poverty.
Having been in Federal prison, I can tell you that there are five classes of Federal prisoners:
1) Urban blacks.
2) Urban Latinos.
3) White Urban Thugs.
4) White Rural Rednecks.
5) White Middle- and Upper-Class Professionals.
And a smattering of Asians, Native Americans, and foreigners, and perhaps some other statistically insignificant sorts.
Class 5 are a very small minority. By far 95% of the prisoners in Federal custody are in the first four classes. Their common characteristics are poor, badly educated, stupid, and malicious. Probably 75-85% are in for drugs – either using or selling. 75% of bank robber are robbing banks to either buy drugs or get money to buy drugs to sell them. I was an exception – I was robbing banks to get money to buy weapons and other resources to bury the people who run this country. If it wasn’t for the “War on Drugs”, most of these guys would be stealing hubcaps and robbing liquor stores. They aren’t smart enough to do anything else.
That’s it. That’s American crime on the Federal level. On the state level, you can add in your rapists, your burglars, your muggers, your armed robbers who stick up liquor stores, etc. All of whom, I guarantee you, are in the same classes and do crime for the same reasons (although maybe more rapists are middle-class since sex crosses demographic lines, I don’t know.)
“Rural areas are often much less densely populated and, as a result, I posit that instances of police brutality go often unrecorded.”
No one wants to offend the local sheriff in small towns. Rural redneck sheriffs in this country are a standing joke in the movies because they’re real.
“I posit that blacks being in densely populated urban areas have a much greater chance of having their interaction recorded by bystanders than whites in rural areas who are having trouble with the police.”
Keep in mind that ghetto blacks *do* have serious behavioral problems, both in terms of tendency to commit crimes and tendency to be unable to interact with white authority figures or any authority figures for that matter. This is the result of generations of racism. On an individual level, ghetto blacks can be hostile, impatient, massively ignorant of what constitutes “acceptable behavior”, and a variety of other personality issues. Again, this is the result of generations of racism.
I have interacted with ghetto blacks on a daily basis for at least the last thirty years. I have lived in areas and buildings where a significant proportion of the residents were black, and I was in prison for nine years with them. Trust me when I say that many, if not most (and certainly not all), of these people have serious social interaction problems as a result of the same characteristics as the prisoners I described above. I’ve gotten along with some, but I expend effort to avoid most, because my daily observations have proven to me that many (again, not necessarily most – I am not a statistician – or all) have extremely bad outcomes in interactions with each other, let alone white people.
That, of course, does not justify using excessive police force against someone who merely bad-mouths them. Cops are supposed to be “professionals” (not that they ever have been in history in any country that I’m aware of – even including Japan whose prisons I have read are extremely bad). But the US population has been conditioned from school years to “trust Officer Friendly” – along with stupid cop shows like “Adam-12” and others which either show cops violating people’s rights with impunity – to condition people to accept that as “normal” because “they’re only criminals” – or show cops as “nice guys”. Then there’s the old “a few bad apples” schtick – which was disproven in New York back in the Seventies when it was proven that *every* cop in New York was on the take, plus the vast string of thuggish behavior recorded over the past thirty years. And again, the over-militarization of police forces everywhere (even some small town I read about got an armored military vehicle from the Feds.)
I occasionally read articles in Police Magazine – one of the main publications for cops. They *always* take the side of the cops in these matters. There is a “cop mentality” which is an “us vs them” mentality – and “we is us”, to paraphrase the comic strips.
I’m always careful to read reports of police misuse of force carefully, because as having some knowledge of police procedures, some knowledge of combat firearms use, and the like, and what is reasonable use of force in terms of self-defense whether one is a cop or not, a lot of times people don’t get the view of the cop who views himself as under threat or to what degree the cop might actually have been under threat. They assume, for example, that if a cop shoots a guy with a knife who is thirty feet away it’s a clear case of over-reaction (it’s not, a knife-wielder is a threat at least out to 21 feet, as has been proven in tests by cops and martial artists.)
But that didn’t apply in the Rodney King case, and from what I’m seeing in the Floyd case, it doesn’t apply here. Hopefully the facts will come out in court and the cop will go to jail. Except he’ll probably be put in isolation, so no one can shank him. Sucks for him to be isolated, but he deserves worse.
Of course, the problem then is that the remaining cops will take it out on blacks on the street even more than they do now.
Because it’s the *system*, not just one cop. And the *system* is not just so-called “law enforcement” or even the economic “system” (which is what cops *really* “enforce”). It’s the whole society-state system (which is also what cops *really* enforce). And in the end, as I’ve said before, that deconstructs down to the “human system.” Which, unfortunately, is no “system” at all – just a mass of emotional brain biochemistry distorted by delusions and fear.
Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | May 30 2020 2:27 utc | 148
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