This is what happens when you don’t have any black people in leadership positions in your organization.
Sounds like Portland PD was extra fucking shitty last night. 30 second warning to disperse before using more tear gas. Several more marked Press members assaulted and arrested.
Weird how armed white folks are treated differently. Guess you dont want to start beef with your brother or neighbor.
Punisher is a decent binge watch, but not as good as Daredevil. Video sums it up pretty well and I'm not surprised that many cops miss the fact that while Punisher acts as judge, jury, and executioner in a fictional storyline, they're not supposed to be a single one of those things.
A guy I played football with in HS wasn't smart enough to get the very basic grades needed to get into college on the full ride scholarship several colleges wanted to give him. Guess what that guy does today? Police officer. I imagine this is rather common.
Students and faculty ask Washington and Lee to change its name Spoiler Student leaders at Washington and Lee University have asked that the name of the school be changed, that the glorification of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the campus end, and that those steps be followed by lasting institutional change. In a separate effort, a majority of faculty members has signed onto a petition calling for changing the name, which faculty leaders plan to give to the school’s board of trustees on Monday, according to a professor helping to lead the effort. And 2,000 alumni have joined a group calling for the name to change, according to a leader of a coalition formed on social media. The mounting pressure on the board comes at a time when monuments are falling across the country amid protests over police brutality and urgent examinations of racism, culture and the way history is remembered. The private college in Virginia, named in honor of two of its early benefactors, George Washington and Lee, has particularly deep and complex ties to the Confederacy. Lee’s tomb, a place of pilgrimage for some who venerate that cause, is on the campus. Over the years, school officials have taken steps to change the way Lee’s contributions are remembered, such as emphasizing his role as an educator and removing Confederate flags. After violence in Charlottesville was ignited by the dispute over a monument to Lee, the university’s president called for a thorough examination of the institution’s history. That commission recommended numerous changes, including the way that history would be taught and shared, but did not call for the school’s name to be changed. Traditionally the school’s alumni have been staunch advocates for maintaining the school’s name and many of its traditions. But in recent weeks, after the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, national protests over race and the removal of Confederate monuments even in Richmond, which was the Confederate capital, a growing number of alumni have changed their minds, become more vocal, or both. “For the first time ever, it seems like this effort has momentum,” said Trent Merchant, who graduated in the class of 1992 and has helped lead an effort by alumni to write letters to university leaders advocating for a change. “We want to remove an obstacle that is standing in their way,” he said. University leaders have prioritized issues such as equity and inclusion, he said, “but because of the university’s history the board is sometimes walking in quicksand. “In many ways, Lee is the foundation of a culture built on myths, lies and legends that has been actively propagated by the university and its community for 150 years,” Merchant said. “If we remove that foundation, it at last creates an opportunity for that university community to work together to create a culture that speaks more accurately to the university’s values and current initiatives.” A spokeswoman for the university did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday. Thomas P. Rideout, the president of a group dedicated to preserving the school’s history and values, the Generals Redoubt, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday. Rideout said last month that eliminating racism is important, but that changing the name of the university would not accomplish that goal. He said the school’s president and rector had reaffirmed to him in May the school’s name would not change. The group has been supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations since its inception in late 2019, according to its website. Faculty members have been circulating a petition calling for the name to be changed for several days and more than 200 have signed on, said James Casey, a professor of economics and a 1991 graduate of the university. He said they plan to close it to signatures at the end of the day Friday and deliver it to the board. “There’s an assumption that the status quo is neutral and we are asking for some sort of radical change,” Casey said, but he disagrees. “Keeping Lee is just as much of a statement of values as dropping Lee. Keeping the name, to me, is a radical decision.” Student leaders could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday. But in their statement to the university, they wrote that the executive committee of the student body had concluded that they could no longer remain silent on this issue. After listening to discussion in recent weeks, they wrote, “it is clear Robert E. Lee’s enduring legacy on our campus and in our university’s name serves as a constant reminder for many, especially Black students and other students of color, of the racial oppression he fought to preserve and which has persisted throughout the history of our nation.” As representatives of the student body, they wrote, they could not ignore students affected “most personally on a daily basis by the glorification of Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee University. The call for the removal of Lee from our institutional name is not a call to erase our history, but rather a call to end the exaltation of a figure representative of values incongruous with the values of our university.” It was just one of many changes that were needed at the school, they wrote. “[W]e are committed to concrete, institutionalized change that seeks to make the W&L experience meaningful and memorable for each and every student.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/educ...s-faculty-ask-washington-lee-change-its-name/
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/505592-massachusetts-detective-fired-after-post-supporting-black-lives-matter Take THAT, detective!
Just a little human decency. Just some compassion. Reading the story of that young man what kind of animal makes fun of his death. Like fuck man. I seriously have to take a breath sometimes. I know it doesn’t seem like it cause I’m always on here but I do step away for my mental health.
Besides being one of the few women in college in 1920, my woke grandma use to talk about the militarization of police in the early 1990s.
Some crazy people marching down Colonial Dr here despite crazy lightning. Not a risk worth taking in Florida.
“Black Race Rioters” in the video title from someone named Turn NYC Red. How disgusting is your recommended list? Related: RIP my recommendeds now for playing that
Not the Onion: Police Officer and Family Members Quit Fantasy Football League Due to BLM Movement I'll spare the details, but this a league I am in and just heard about
He should have not been standing there. We don’t know what happened before the video started. Did you see what he was wearing, he was asking for it.
I’m assuming just general family drama? I’m experiencing some as well. One guy was on the stand with police and COVID is a hoax side of things. He got upset that people were ripping his random memes/articles and then left a group text message. He coincidentally has the big house with the pool, so now party’s and the balance of everything is off. I’m sure the last 5 months have torn apart a bunch of families.
Maybe it’s just me but if I was worried about the police treating me unfairly, I would not be acting like a complete ass when I come in contact with them. Deescalation goes both ways.
I was always under the impression law enforcement was paid by the public to Protect and Serve the public and are trained specifically to keep the peace and not beat and kill the public? Call me crazy but as a member of the public I never have received training or paycheck to do the same
1 group are trained professionals in deescalation the others are not. Why do not expect the professional to behave differently and more controlled?
It seems like the cops are being professionals and just trying to do their job while the others are trying to provoke the very thing they are protesting. It’s so backwards.