___________ While Black
 

Driving, shopping, jogging, or simply living in your own home is dangerous if you're black.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/us/da...ing/index.html

And Trumpkins want to boycott Nike and the NFL for a simple protest. Disgusting morons.

Picking up trash, on your own property, while black. :mad:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/07/us/co...rnd/index.html

Driving while black.

Sandra Bland, It Turns Out, Filmed Traffic Stop Confrontation Herself

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/u...n-encinia.html

Lying, racist Texas cop. Wanna bet he's a Trumpkin?

These kinds of stories just break my heart. I fear that racism wont truly be a thing of the past until we're all the same color.

'Man says he was kicked out of Brandon Starbucks because he's black'

https://www.fox13news.com/news/local...use-he-s-black

Of course, it's Florida but c'mon Starbucks. You shut down the whole chain to retrain your employees so they will stop this crap. WTF?

A black couple were having a picnic. Then a white campground manager pulled out her gun.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...an-gun-picnic/

Black patient hooked to IV arrested after going on walk outside hospital

https://abcnews.go.com/US/black-pati...ry?id=64045701

While waiting for a friend...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/09/us/sa...rnd/index.html

Owning land while black.

https://features.propublica.org/blac...se-land-south/

Being a member of Congress while black is enough for Trump to want to throw you out of the country.

Waiting for a friend while black.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/08/16/us/...detained-trnd/

Shopping while black

Two black men say they were kicked out of Walmart for wearing protective masks. Others worry it will happen to them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...t-coronavirus/

Running while Black. The latest episode.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/10/opini...son/index.html

Arbery was assaulted when guns were pointed at him without lawful cause. His was the right of self defense, and of standing his ground. That his attackers shot him was murder.

https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/0*EE-3sQEw7ZbUEd6f.png

https://goodmenproject.com/wp-conten...n-protests.png

Word of a woman killed while sleeping while black has come out in Louisville. No-knock warrant on wrong apartment led to gunfight. I suppose the cops will get off on the 'honest mistake' excuse.

No-knock warrants lead to this sort of thing from time to time. They represent a militarization of policing that should not exist.

Birding While Black, Feeling Threatened By A Birdwatcher
 

And now... Birding While Black. For Fu*kssake what is wrong with these people?
Birding while Black

Derek Chauvin is the cop in the pic.

Ex-cop, along with his authoritarian pals. Not his first rodeo.

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/...ations-before/

Times may be changing....

Not fast enough.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/wo...on/ar-BB14CF37

RE: the George Floyd murder. I see that many members on Audiokarma are outraged by the looting. Jesus Christ, how fucking smug the entitled are!

Also one or two refuse to see race was a factor in his killing. One bad cop but several others who could have stopped it but didn't.

With all the cell phones with cameras shooting video nowadays. You would think this sorta of crap would stop.
But NOOOO!
Hope sending the officers to jail for a long time and the city sued of BIG $$$$ wake up the ones who can stop it from happening.

Minneapolis ex-officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck is in custody and faces a murder charge

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/us/mi...day/index.html

The state needs to keep custody of this case, and not hand it over to the feds, as Donny will simply pardon this murderer.

Well, we'll see what happens. Not all the evidence is in. I suspect we're seeing the wheels of justice in motion, though.

However, not everything is about Trump. He's not God. ;)

Meanwhile, from CNN: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/geo...9c6fd9338a9930

I've got the gas and the matches, but I'm not burning down my neighborhood until I have all the facts and it is clearly the correct action. :D

This is a developing story. Contrary to what many believe, we really don't know everything yet.

There is video of George Floyd from when he was taken out of his van until he was taken over to the police vehicle not resisting. Meanwhile video emerges of a man dressed in black with a hood under an open umbrella face covered in a respirator breaking windows in the Auto Zone store Outside agitator?.
https://bringmethenews.com/.image/c_...-63958-pm.webp

Let us hope Mr Trump does not see this and think it came be used for crowd control.....

BTW just how can they be legal?????:eek:


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Snow & Ice
Weeds & Unwanted Foilage
Insect Hives & Pest Control
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MN elected officials are saying there's evidence that extremist groups are behind arsons perpetrated in the Twin Cities during the protests over George Floyd's murder.

Of course there are. Allow tRump to talk crap trying to appear tough and take the focus off of the murder cops. Some have accused the Proud Boys of being complicit. Then there's the "umbrella man" who got caught on video smashing windows at the Autozone store. I've also seen another cell phone video taken of a group of black clad white men wearing masks smashing windows of and looting a CVS.

Every Person Arrested In Saint Paul Last Night Was From Out Of State, Mayor Says

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeik...te-mayor-says/

Yet the loudest voices over on the now shut down thread on AK were all asking, "why would they destroy their own city?". They didn't, and aren't. These may be the same agitators funded by Betsy DeVos family money...

This tragedy has a particular resonance for me in how people can be treated so differently based on appearance.

About 20 years ago I withdrew $100 cash at my bank (from a teller) and the next morning when paying for coffee and a pastry prior to work the cashier called for the manager and after a whispered conversation the manager told me that the $20 bill I gave the cashier was counterfeit. To my relief the manager handed the bill back to me and I paid with another $20 that was legal tender and went to work.

Later that day I went to my bank and presented the counterfeit $20 to a teller and explained that I'd gotten the bill from the bank the day before when I withdrew cash (I don't recall if I showed her a withdrawal receipt). She spoke with her supervisor and gave me a good $20 bill in exchange for the counterfeit bill.

I believe that the fact that I was white and apparently affluent was the reason I wasn't arrested & charged with passing a counterfeit bill.

All of my adult life fit a profile and for years PD hassled me. All I would of needed to do was cut my hair short, shave, quit wearing old blue jeans water buffalo's sorta things. Eventually society and time has mellowed PD's view somewhat or they just don't mess with old long hairs as much anymore.


I still have failed to met a single person who picked their uniform or sex at birth.

The riots are showing this country still has not come to terms with race and equality yet.

Black Family Trying to Flag Police, Protect L.A. Store From Looters, Ends Up in Handcuffs

https://www.newsweek.com/black-famil...dcuffs-1508127

3 more cops charged in George Floyd death, other officer’s murder charge upgraded

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/03/3-mo...-upgraded.html

Still no Murder One, as it should be, but Murder Two, and the others charged. Better than before.

Benjamin Crump, Esq. ✔@AttorneyCrump

FAMILY’S REACTION: This is a bittersweet moment. We are deeply gratified that @AGEllison took decisive action, arresting & charging ALL the officers involved in #GeorgeFloyd's death & upgrading the charge against Derek Chauvin to felony second-degree murder. #JusticeForGeorge

That is some good news.

Makes you wonder why people are, or ever were, protesting.

That said, when the dust settles it will be interesting to see what the juries decide. I remember Rodney King. It looked pretty cut and dried to everyone that saw the last 8 seconds of the video, but the jury disagreed.

There is so much we don't know, but much will come out. And it will almost certainly not all support the same side of the case. That's literally how it works in the real world. The Court of Public Opinion is really kinda worthless from a legal standpoint.

Virginia Governor Plans to Order Robert E. Lee Statue Removed
A statue of the Confederate general in Richmond is controlled by the state, but the city’s mayor said he would propose a bill to remove additional Confederate monuments there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/u...-richmond.html

Long overdue, but the times, they are a'changing.