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noblekane said:
who? was he the kid on wonder years?
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Al Anastasia said:
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Bob McNair's reaction
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$tacy said:
I unintentionally boycotted the nfl. I just had 0 interest to watch except the super bowl. I used my fantasy app to watch my team and highlights on tv but didn’t sit thru 1 whole game unless I was somewhere and it was on. NFL low key boring now b.
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You haven't experienced Red Zone. :smh:
 
blastercombo said:
**** the NFL. All in all it’s nothing but a group of rich old white men playing a game of my ******s are better than your ******s and last years antics proved that. They don’t care about the players and the money they hand out is nothing to them. Quit giving that league money
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And... take the pro football blueprint that already exists and start your own league. Problem with that is most of the players are meathead and think like employees instead of bosses.
 
The problem with starting your own league is like trying to start any business. You need money. In this case you need deep pocketed investors. And who are they? Old white guys again.
 
lightweight champion said:
The problem with starting your own league is like trying to start any business. You need money. In this case you need deep pocketed investors. And who are they? Old white guys again.
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It's even harder than that, you needs billions in financial capital but more importantly and even harder to acquire, you would need immense cultural capital that can't be bought and that takes generations to build up if you want to compete with the NFL or any other cultural institution.

Honestly it's insulting the imply that the players are just idiots who lack the foresight to implement such a vision.
 
northoaklandfc said:
It's even harder than that, you needs billions in financial capital but more importantly and even harder to acquire, you would need immense cultural capital that can't be bought and that takes generations to build up if you want to compete with the NFL or any other cultural institution.

Honestly it's insulting the imply that the players are just idiots who lack the foresight to implement such a vision.
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Nah, facebook memes said it's real easy.
 
Wasn't sure where to post but I've usually posted these incidents here; the cops did it again. RIP to unarmed black man Stephon Clark. Shot and killed in his own backyard. :smh:
I'm sure the shooting was justified. /s
Cellphone, gun, ... what's the difference? Under the acute threat of being confronted with a black man holding something in his hand, the officers quickly decided the right course of action and sprayed 20 shots at the man.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/3/21/17149092/stephon-clark-police-shooting-sacramento
Police shot and killed an unarmed black man in his own backyard. All he was holding was a cellphone.
Officers say they mistook Stephon Clark’s cellphone for a gun. Activists want more answers.
Police killings of unarmed black men helped fuel the rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Now a new tragedy — the shooting death of an unarmed black man in his own backyard — is raising new questions about how much things have changed, if at all.

On Sunday, 22-year-old Stephon Clark was shot in the backyard of the home he was staying in with his grandparents. Police officers were purportedly responding to reports of a man breaking car windows.

According to a press release issued by the Sacramento Police Department, a helicopter tracking a suspect directed the officers to Clark, who ran towards the house after being confronted by officers. The police department said Clark turned and began to “advance forward with his arms extended, and holding an object in his hands.”

The officers, who are said to have thought the object was a gun, then fired 20 rounds at Clark. It’s unclear how many of the shots hit Clark, but other facts aren’t in dispute, and they’re disturbing: After the shooting, officers waited several minutes for backup before moving to handcuff Clark and beginning medical treatment. And the only item he turned out to have been carrying was a cellphone.

The shooting has sparked public outcry both locally and nationally. And, nearly four years after the death of Michael Brown sparked the rise of Black Lives Matter and brought more attention to racial disparities in police shootings, the Clark case serves as a stark reminder that even as national attention has waned, unarmed black men and women continue to experience deadly encounters with police.

There are a lot of questions and few answers about the Sacramento shooting
What happened immediately before Clark’s shooting remains unclear, and his family and community are demanding answers.

”He was at the wrong place at the wrong time in his own backyard?” Sequita Thompson, Clark’s grandmother, said to the Sacramento Bee on Tuesday. Thompson also said that though she heard the gunshots, she never heard the police ask Clark to drop what he was holding. Clark’s family also said that they were not immediately told that their relative was the man killed in their backyard.

At a city council meeting in Sacramento on Tuesday, local activists argued that the police department’s multiple statements on the shooting have only added to the confusion. “They put one story out that he may have been armed. They put out another that he had a ‘tool bar,’ whatever that is,” Tanya Faison, founder of the Sacramento chapter of Black Lives Matter, told reporters. “Then they put out that he had a wrench, and then they put out that he just had a cellphone. They need to get it together.”

The officers who shot Clark have each served in the Sacramento Police Department for less than five years, and were placed on paid leave while the investigation continues. Both officers were wearing body cameras. A local ordinance requires that footage from the cameras be released to the public within 30 days, and the department says that it plans to release video and audio from the helicopter in the near future.

Clark’s shooting is the latest in a troubling pattern
Clark’s death follows several high profile police shootings of black men in recent years. According to the Washington Post’s Fatal Force database, some 230 people have been shot and killed by police in 2018. 38 of those people were identified as black in news reports.

Research has shown that there are significant racial disparities in police use of force. While these disparities are most commonly attributed to issues like implicit bias and systemic racism, recent research has also noted that specific factors like high levels of housing segregation and economic inequality also play a role in where police shootings occur and who they affect.

“It’s not just about how individuals interact, but how society is structured,” Michael Siegel, the author of a recent study examining the relationship between housing segregation and structural inequality to police violence, told the Intercept earlier this month.

At this point, it is unclear what the results of the police investigation will be, or if the officers will face charges for the shooting. But when police officers shoot civilians, it is rare that these cases lead to prosecution. As Vox’s German Lopez has noted, police are given wide latitude to use force and only have to reasonably perceive a threat at the time of the shooting for their actions to be legally justified.
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Who's supposed to protect us from the "protectors"? R.I.P. to Stephon Clark. |l

I'm sure the #alllivesmatter and #bluelivesmatter crews will do the mental gymnastics required to make it Stephon's fault for being in his own backyard with a cellphone. :smh:
 
These racist scum expose themselves everyday. To those idiots a Nazi is better than a Democrat which is disgusting.

RIP Stephon Clark. This never gets easier. Where was this "bravery" when the Parkland shooter was killing everyone?
 
Belgium said:
Wasn't sure where to post but I've usually posted these incidents here; the cops did it again. RIP to unarmed black man Stephon Clark. Shot and killed in his own backyard. :smh:
I'm sure the shooting was justified. /s
Cellphone, gun, ... what's the difference? Under the acute threat of being confronted with a black man holding something in his hand, the officers quickly decided the right course of action and sprayed 20 shots at the man.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/3/21/17149092/stephon-clark-police-shooting-sacramento
Police shot and killed an unarmed black man in his own backyard. All he was holding was a cellphone.
Officers say they mistook Stephon Clark’s cellphone for a gun. Activists want more answers.
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Shot him 20 times, why? Well we know why, but "why?" That is intentional. Police are (supposed to be) accountable for every bullet they fire.
 
northoaklandfc said:
The region lost a beautiful black man.

**** a cop and everything they stand for.

Just thinking about these vile pigs fills me with rage.
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I don't trust cops anywhere. Won't even bother calling them if I'm in a pinch, they'd probably end up killing me for (insert made-up reason). Even do my best to outright avoid them by accident, including not speeding or any other traffic violations.
 
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