SquadronROE posted:

Well yeah, they've got guns. They're scary dudes.

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

Do Europeans use Charlemagne et al in contemporary political discussions though? As in, do they pass around Facebook memes with so-and-so quote by Charlemagne to justify why the French should hate the Moors Muslims?

Dapper_Swindler posted:

its probaly because its extremely obvious he is a loving kid. he was 12 and all the pictures of him show a 12 year old kid being a kid and the video clearly shows everything. even if they were not non indictable on murder/manslaughter, they should have been at least fired for incompetence and other stuff this includes the dispatcher.

baw posted:

Also he says "police and communities" as if there is some sort of equal culpability. moderate republican right there

GalacticAcid posted:

Yes which only compounds the hilarity of the garbage state of most state-level Democratic organizations.

Rhesus Pieces posted:

I don't know where you got that ide-

@KateAronoff: Prosecutor McGinty says Rice should have known better before playing in the park, because he "looked older"

blue squares posted:

It's getting to the point where Sikh temples and businesses need to have signs up saying "We're not Muslims you idiots"

baw posted:

just want to take some time to remind everyone that this happened a couple years ago and no one was shot

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

The far right republican would say, "Nah, let's just exterminate all black people."

Also, screw Kasich. Let's be divided. On one side, the vast majority for whom the justice system was a major abortion. On the other side, the minority responsible for carrying out this miscarriage.

Now riot.

MariusLecter posted:

blue squares posted:

It's getting to the point where Sikh temples and businesses need to have signs up saying "We're not Muslims you idiots"

FourLeaf posted:

They already do!

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

Do Europeans use Charlemagne et al in contemporary political discussions though? As in, do they pass around Facebook memes with so-and-so quote by Charlemagne to justify why the French should hate the Moors Muslims?

GalacticAcid posted:

Charles Martel, hero of the Battle of Tours (which you know from playing Age of Empires II), is the eponymous inspiration for the Charles Martel Society - a white supremacist "intellectual" organization that publishes Bell Curve-ish poo poo like the "Occidental Quarterly."

More info on these losers here.

Note these are mostly white Americans who compose this org so not the same idea but still sad and pathetic.

FourLeaf posted:

They already do!

quote:

Phoenix officers were called to the home of 39-year-old Anitra Braxton on Dec. 26 and discovered a body on her couch covered in a towel after obtaining a search warrant, KSAZ reported.

During an interview at police headquarters, Braxton explained that the victim did not believe in God so she shot her in the eye, the police report said. She then kept the victim’s body on her couch for three days, calling it a “shrine from God.”

Braxton was charged with first-degree murder. The body had not yet been identified. Police said that evidence suggested the victim had been pregnant.

Rhesus Pieces posted:

I don't know where you got that ide-




@JuanMThompson: Prosecutor says straight up: "We don't second guess police officers." "It's clear the officers were not criminal."


@hash_said: Prosecutor: "It would be unresponsible & unreasonable to require a police officer to wait & see if gun is a real."


@KateAronoff: Prosecutor McGinty says Rice should have known better before playing in the park, because he "looked older"

Rhesus Pieces posted:

I don't know where you got that ide-

quote:

@KateAronoff: Prosecutor McGinty says Rice should have known better before playing in the park, because he "looked older"

The Maroon Hawk posted:

what in the gently caress is this

Jackson Taus posted:

Let's be fair here. It was kinda clear early on that 2014 was unlikely to be a banner year, and a lot of benches got hit pretty hard in 2010. So it's not like these state-level Democratic parties had a lot of choices. The "good" candidates are generally smart enough to sit out being a challenger in tough elections - notice how nobody except Bernie Sanders (who probably can't run in 2020/2024), Tommy Carcetti, and a pair of basically-Republicans challenged Hillary for the nomination? That's because the Democratic Governors/Senators who are left realized they couldn't beat Hillary (or that there's no room in a field to be more moderate than Hillary or more liberal than Bernie and precious little daylight between them) and so didn't run. You've got the same problem here - if I'm a popular mayor or a state senator or something, I'm keeping my head down in 2014, rolling the dice that things look better in 2018 or whatever.

Joementum posted:

Kasich's opponent in 2014 was already a weak candidate who then got caught in a car with a woman who wasn't his wife at 4am, at which point the national party pulled its support.

Rhesus Pieces posted:

And are officially a lethal threat the second they hit puberty.

radical meme posted:

Glad I waited until now to visit this thread today. I got three proposals. Two could be adopted in every state and the third would be difficult to adopt in any state that isn't solid blue.

1) Establish an office of Independent Investigator in each state charged with the responsibility of investigating peace officers and the power to hire an Independent Prosecutor. (This is the one that probably won't happen ever, anywhere.)
2) Require rigorous training for all peace officers in non-lethal response methods and continuing training every year in non-lethal response.
3) Increase the number of minority officers in every peace officer force to reflect the demographics of the community they are policing.

That's all I got. And I don't know how we can accomplish any of those things because each of them costs money and that's something that no state wants to hear.

Mr Interweb posted:

Does anyone know where one can find monthly job losses/gains by state?

Stereotype posted:

I googled "monthly job losses/gains by state"

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewbd.t06.htm

they have lots of statistics there

quote:

@KateAronoff: Prosecutor McGinty says Rice should have known better before playing in the park, because he "looked older"

Mr Interweb posted:

This guy deserves a major beatdown.

Stereotype posted:

It comes from a fairly unrelated indictment of term limits; that the practice basically gives the Governor a lot more power since Senators can no longer expect to outlast any given Governor.


I'd believe that Jeb literally took away money for helping children with cancer.

Mr Interweb posted:

This guy deserves a major beatdown.

joeburz posted:

While part 3 would definitely help, it's total impact is likely rather limited since we see in areas where there are larger minority police populations the overall culture of police departments still exists to perpetuate systemic bias. Doubly so if you buy the argument that newer members of the police force are limited in their ability to change the culture due to retaliation, etc.

Part 1 and 2 are likely to be impossibly difficult by simple claims of "budget concerns", external for 1 and internal for 2, although the impetus to improve in either regard doesn't exist much at all from within which is is a massive barrier. I'm interested to know your opinion or thoughts on how external forces would produce changes in those areas, knowing your opinions on protesting by the BLM.

Trevor Hale posted:

States' rights wound up being a terrible idea.

Combed Thunderclap posted:

Oh god he's posting from 1789 and 1861 simultaneously someone call the Time Police

(Also 1883 and, gosh, most years I guess)