RIP George Floyd

Cousins: You Just Activated my Trap Card :nthat:



thapointguy said:
Got heem!
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Sacramento Kings Announcer Grant Napear Resigns After 'All Lives Matter' Tweet

Sacramento Kings play-by-play announcer Grant Napear has stepped down from his TV role with the team ... after facing major backlash for tweeting "All Lives Matter."
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kingjay718 said:
ive felt uncomfortable as well. Especially when black folks use it. I don’t go around correcting everyone because I’d be tired and it’s their 1st amendment right of course but it’s just annoying.




I would hope so. I stand corrected. Blue doesn’t care about black nor brown. And I’ll be there tomorrow for my nutcrackers. Thank you.
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yea man trust. Da mayor is a really stand up dude and somehow has the youths and knuckleheads ears out there.

He literally pulled everyone together right after and told then thats not the wave and the goal is protect ya hood. Not turn into the cops as intimidators.
 
I've been seeing these corny chicks who date/married cops with these dumb posts saying "If you're anti-police, unfollow me."
But the ironic part is all the women posting it have the driest social media pages in town.

Like people are gonna be like damn I'm anti-police but I don't wanna miss out on the photos of her son riding his bike, or a photo of her trip to Six Flags.
 
thapointguy said:
Got heem!
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Sacramento Kings Announcer Grant Napear Resigns After 'All Lives Matter' Tweet

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Crazy. So quick to act. Imagine if they could do this with cops who kill citizens? Zero riots. Just equality. Pension lost. Job lost. Jail time. I mentioned it a page or two back. We’d possibly be out of cops at that point. The good cops job is harder without trust. But time and time again, there is no internal backlash against the bad cops.
All those Minnesota cops are fighting for their jobs back as we speak.
 
Upptempo said:



For all the "don't punish white people for what their ancestors did" or the classic "YOU didn't live through slavery so it shouldn't effect you."

a white 80 year old grandma isn't gonna proudly say when she was 15 her friends beat up a black girl for being in their neighborhood. So white people often think public racism and mistreatment of black Americans hasn't occurred since 1890.

Almost all black Americans who have living parents/grandparents have heard countless stories of how mistreated they were growing up. But yet, almost all white children will tell you their sweet granny Elizabeth never hurt a soul. That's because she's hiding the true history and the black elders are telling facts.
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Should force them to go to black old folks homes in the south and ask them to talk about all the missing kids from their childhood
 
pro or anti police

pro or anti riot

black verse white

we are forgetting one important thing even before george floyd
there is still a virus going around

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Riots Breed Chaos, Violence and Most Likely Covid-19
The pandemic seems to be forgotten amid the rage, but the demonstrations will only make it worse.

Like so many Americans, I didn’t get much sleep Friday night. All night long, I kept refreshing my Twitter feed, watching and re-watching the videos of the rioting that took place in cities nationwide in reaction to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis earlier in the week.



I saw a New York police officer throwing a young protester to the ground, calling her a vile name as he did; a police car going up in flames in Dallas; an assault on the CNN building in Atlanta; a police officer in Louisville, Kentucky, shooting a pepper-spray ball at a camera operator. And on and on.

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My feelings watching the riots unfold weren’t much different from most people’s: horror, revulsion and a powerful sadness that this is what it had come to, perhaps inevitably, three and a half years into the presidency of Donald Trump. I recalled watching the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968. I thought about Ferguson, Missouri, and about the way so many police forces across the country seem to operate with impunity. I thought about that appalling tweet the president sent earlier on Friday: “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”



And I thought about one other thing: Philadelphia in late September 1918. The U.S. had entered World War I the year before, and the city had planned an enormous parade — It would stretch two miles — to raise money for the war effort. The 1918 pandemic, which would eventually kill an estimated 675,000 Americans, was in its early stages, just beginning to jump from military bases, where it began, to the broader population.



Several doctors urged the city to cancel the parade because the hundreds of thousands of onlookers it would attract would surely cause the virus to spread widely. John M. Barry, in “The Great Influenza,” 1 describes what happened in the city after the parade:

On October 1, the third day after the parade, the epidemic killed more than one hundred people — 117 — in a single day. That number would double, triple, quadruple, sextuple. Soon the daily death toll from influenza alone would exceed the city’ average weekly death toll from all causes — all illnesses, all accidents, all criminal acts combined.
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On Friday night, the current pandemic seemed to be forgotten. Most police officers either wore face shields or masks, but most protesters did not. They crowded together, stumbled over one another as they ran from the police, engaged in shoving matches and more, ignoring weeks of warnings about the importance of social distancing.

In the heat of the moment, it’s understandable, I suppose, that angry protesters would forget that we are in the midst of a pandemic. But the consequence is likely to be severe. In many of the cities where the rioting took place, it had begun to seem as if the worst was behind them, with the number of hospitalizations and deaths declining steadily. There is no question that adherence to social-distancing guidelines, the use of masks, regular hand-washing and the cancellation of professional sports and other events that draw crowds have played a huge role in getting the pandemic under some semblance of control.

Over the next two weeks, as those infected during the riots show symptoms — and spread the virus to others — those gains are likely to be reversed. People have a right to be angry about Floyd’s needless death. But an upsurge in Covid-19 deaths is likely to be a result of the riots. It may not be as bad as Philadelphia in 1918, but it’s not going to be good.

I spent a good portion of last week reading papers by economists that attempted to calculate how the country can reopen in a way that would maximize economic activity while minimizing Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths. Although the papers didn’t necessarily agree on the best way to proceed, they collectively offered hope — that we were far enough along that we could start calculating the best way to get back on our feet. Now, after the riots, those papers may have been wasted effort.

I’ve seen suggestions on Twitter that the lockdown was part of the reason the riots took place. “When the only party youth is permitted to attend is a riot, we shouldn’t act surprised when they all show up,” read one tweet. I’m no fan of full-fledged lockdowns, but I don’t think that had much to do with the riots.

But I do think Trump’s lack of leadership since the beginning of the pandemic played a role. His refusal to wear a mask or insist on social distancing at his press conferences; his urging red states to reopen well before it was safe; his support of the armed citizens in Michigan who invaded the statehouse because they didn’t want to have their “freedom” curtailed — they all sent a message that he viewed the measures being urged by scientists as examples of “political correctness.” A real leader would have reinforced the message that measures aimed at tamping down a killer virus, however inconvenient, were in the best interest of everyone.

Without that reinforcement from a trusted leader, it’s been all too easy for angry protesters to forget that we are still in the middle of a pandemic and that people who don’t take precautions can still die. Some surely will in the coming weeks.
 
Upptempo said:
I've been seeing these corny chicks who date/married cops with these dumb posts saying "If you're anti-police, unfollow me."
But the ironic part is all the women posting it have the driest social media pages in town.

Like people are gonna be like damn I'm anti-police but I don't wanna miss out on the photos of her son riding his bike, or a photo of her trip to Six Flags.
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:rofl::rofl: QFE

my cousin's wife unfollowed me on IG. my cousin works for the oakland police department (trust me, I know, I know...I've been thru it with homeboy) and I've always been vocal about my opposition towards the PD. my comments must be hittin different because she unfollowed and blocked me yesterday. like *****, aint no one hurtin to see your 5th grader graduate and some bootsy *** finger paintings. matter of fact, **** all your kids too
 
160jordansdeep said:
pro or anti police

pro or anti riot

black verse white

we are forgetting one important thing even before george floyd
there is still a virus going around

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

www.bloomberg.com

Riots Breed Chaos, Violence and Most Likely Covid-19
The pandemic seems to be forgotten amid the rage, but the demonstrations will only make it worse.

Like so many Americans, I didn’t get much sleep Friday night. All night long, I kept refreshing my Twitter feed, watching and re-watching the videos of the rioting that took place in cities nationwide in reaction to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis earlier in the week.



I saw a New York police officer throwing a young protester to the ground, calling her a vile name as he did; a police car going up in flames in Dallas; an assault on the CNN building in Atlanta; a police officer in Louisville, Kentucky, shooting a pepper-spray ball at a camera operator. And on and on.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

www.bloomberg.com


My feelings watching the riots unfold weren’t much different from most people’s: horror, revulsion and a powerful sadness that this is what it had come to, perhaps inevitably, three and a half years into the presidency of Donald Trump. I recalled watching the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968. I thought about Ferguson, Missouri, and about the way so many police forces across the country seem to operate with impunity. I thought about that appalling tweet the president sent earlier on Friday: “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”



And I thought about one other thing: Philadelphia in late September 1918. The U.S. had entered World War I the year before, and the city had planned an enormous parade — It would stretch two miles — to raise money for the war effort. The 1918 pandemic, which would eventually kill an estimated 675,000 Americans, was in its early stages, just beginning to jump from military bases, where it began, to the broader population.



Several doctors urged the city to cancel the parade because the hundreds of thousands of onlookers it would attract would surely cause the virus to spread widely. John M. Barry, in “The Great Influenza,” 1 describes what happened in the city after the parade:


On Friday night, the current pandemic seemed to be forgotten. Most police officers either wore face shields or masks, but most protesters did not. They crowded together, stumbled over one another as they ran from the police, engaged in shoving matches and more, ignoring weeks of warnings about the importance of social distancing.

In the heat of the moment, it’s understandable, I suppose, that angry protesters would forget that we are in the midst of a pandemic. But the consequence is likely to be severe. In many of the cities where the rioting took place, it had begun to seem as if the worst was behind them, with the number of hospitalizations and deaths declining steadily. There is no question that adherence to social-distancing guidelines, the use of masks, regular hand-washing and the cancellation of professional sports and other events that draw crowds have played a huge role in getting the pandemic under some semblance of control.

Over the next two weeks, as those infected during the riots show symptoms — and spread the virus to others — those gains are likely to be reversed. People have a right to be angry about Floyd’s needless death. But an upsurge in Covid-19 deaths is likely to be a result of the riots. It may not be as bad as Philadelphia in 1918, but it’s not going to be good.

I spent a good portion of last week reading papers by economists that attempted to calculate how the country can reopen in a way that would maximize economic activity while minimizing Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths. Although the papers didn’t necessarily agree on the best way to proceed, they collectively offered hope — that we were far enough along that we could start calculating the best way to get back on our feet. Now, after the riots, those papers may have been wasted effort.

I’ve seen suggestions on Twitter that the lockdown was part of the reason the riots took place. “When the only party youth is permitted to attend is a riot, we shouldn’t act surprised when they all show up,” read one tweet. I’m no fan of full-fledged lockdowns, but I don’t think that had much to do with the riots.

But I do think Trump’s lack of leadership since the beginning of the pandemic played a role. His refusal to wear a mask or insist on social distancing at his press conferences; his urging red states to reopen well before it was safe; his support of the armed citizens in Michigan who invaded the statehouse because they didn’t want to have their “freedom” curtailed — they all sent a message that he viewed the measures being urged by scientists as examples of “political correctness.” A real leader would have reinforced the message that measures aimed at tamping down a killer virus, however inconvenient, were in the best interest of everyone.

Without that reinforcement from a trusted leader, it’s been all too easy for angry protesters to forget that we are still in the middle of a pandemic and that people who don’t take precautions can still die. Some surely will in the coming weeks.
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the threat of coronavirus has definitely crossed my mind the last couple days of protests. folks are trying to be mindful of physical space but when you've got 10,000-20,000 people moving in unison it's impossible to maintain 6'
 
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