The death of George Floyd/Chauvin guilty

Originally posted by socool8520
Is this just one faction or the whole movement? You're free to believe what they believe as long as you don't harm anyone. I'm not very familiar with the group other than stints I see on the news.

careful! i expressed skepticism and was personally attacked, slandered, and ddm even PM'd me veiled threats of reporting me for "shilling for antifa".

that particular account was created the day after trump started barking about antifa.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
explain this then:
https://twitter.com/antifaintl?lang=en

divisive twitter troll accounts are easy to make. ask putin 👆
as far as the link you provided
https://archive.fo/https://twitter.com/ANTIFA_US/status/1267184839339290625

appears to have just been made today

why should i believe it was genuine? convince me, black lion

Lol Bash who hurt you?

If it still has a low number of retweets /likes or whatever, then likely it was bait. It's also nice to see that the majority of the group does not agree with that tweet.

From what I know of the group, I wouldn't be on board but I am for equal rights of all people. I think there are better ways of going about it then some of the news clips I have seen fromt heir group.

Originally posted by socool8520
If it still has a low number of retweets /likes or whatever, then likely it was bait. It's also nice to see that the majority of the group does not agree with that tweet.

From what I know of the group, I wouldn't be on board but I am for equal rights of all people. I think there are better ways of going about it then some of the news clips I have seen fromt heir group.

the account was suspended on the same day it was created. it could well be that they were acting as agitators, though i've seen nothing convincing.

saw a video of some white guy wearing black, breaking a concrete curb to make projectile weapons and got punted by the surrounding protestors. was he antifa? i saw no evidence for or against, but pretty sure the burden of proof is on the claim that he was antifa.

So the officer is going down for murder, so at least there is some progress being made. Hopefully, this becomes a wake up call for PD's to screen for better cops and prevent this type of ridiculous behavior from continuing. I believe DDM said something about routing mental screenings and such which I think is a good idea.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
the account was suspended on the same day it was created. it could well be that they were acting as agitators, though i've seen nothing convincing.

saw a video of some white guy wearing black, breaking a concrete curb to make projectile weapons and got punted by the surrounding protestors. was he antifa? i saw no evidence for or against, but pretty sure the burden of proof is on the claim that he was antifa.

There's offshoots to every group. Some become much more extreme. Unfortunately, this is often the faction that is the loudest.

someone on the internet suggested a required 4-year law degree.

sure it wouldnt solve the problem 100%, but i'm totally down with police having to be intelligent as well as knowledgable of the law they're upholding.

Well, I would prefer my PD to be intelligent as well. A psyche test is a must though. They have to deal with stressful situations often. We must ensure that they are fit to do the job. Being a cop can easily weigh on you after awhile I would think. There is no shame in hanging it up if what you have seen is getting to you. Also, if your a prejudiced person, it would be great to weed them out as quickly as possible.

how about psyche test + law degree 👆

as far as screening for prejudice, that's only effective to a point. they can screen by searching their twitter/facebook for questionable content (common corporate practice these days), but apart from that racists tend to be very good at masking their true feelings and intent. (this forum contains a few superb examples). i think a majority of racists would definitely slip through that crack, spare the exceptionally stupid ones (which a law degree requirement would sort out).

Here's a twitter thread on some positives surrounding these protests, people helping each other on a communal level.

https://twitter.com/apodoxus/status/1266977787870666753?s=20

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
how about psyche test + law degree 👆

as far as screening for prejudice, that's only effective to a point. they can screen by searching their twitter/facebook for questionable content (common corporate practice these days), but apart from that racists tend to be very good at masking their true feelings and intent. (this forum contains a few superb examples). i think a majority of racists would definitely slip through that crack, spare the exceptionally stupid ones (which a law degree requirement would sort out).

I don't think they can do it forever. They would slip up eventually. Making the evaluations routine might get them sooner or later. They start giving questionable answers on evaluations combined with questionable procedeures and you might weed them out before they can truly hurt someone. I'm all for education plus screening.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!

Interesting 😉

In the new series, that is the gay one.

does he also have narcissistic personality disorder?

Originally posted by Artol
Here's a twitter thread on some positives surrounding these protests, people helping each other on a communal level.

https://twitter.com/apodoxus/status/1266977787870666753?s=20

Those organizers seem to have the decent and positive intentions of what it means to protest. Good people.

I really wish the good intentioned protesters would actively confront incitors and rioters, though.

Where I live , in SE Wisconsin, I heard on a local news station that as of yesterday all but 3 of the arrested rioters were from out of state. That's out of 60 total arrests. Smh.

I haven't fact checked but apparently that's what the Chief of Police of Milwaukee, Alfonso Morales said.

We have a curfew not but Ducey has been kind of wishywashy about enforcing. I think it probably holds strong in The big cities, as that’s where most of the rioting/demonstrating/protests are. But I don’t think it’s as strictly enforced statewide

Towns, and suburbs are fine. Even some neighborhoods in bigger cities are okay. It's mostly the gentrified area businesses that are getting hit.

Yeah I’m not expecting it where I live. Even then AZ has no concealed carry laws, and a ton of guns so these protesters really are taking their lives in their hands.

They know better than to go to certain areas. I live in a pretty homogenous minority neighborhood that is not quite middle class but close, it would be a mistake for that nonsense to carry over here. Cheers Carthage.

Good on these cops:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/05/31/in-some-cities-police-officers-joined-protesters-marching-against-brutality/amp/

Strange thing is most of these protesters in Minnesota probably voted those responsible for this into power. The city? Democrat run. The state? Democrat run.

Surely nobody will suggest that if a police department is corrupt and racist the city and state played absolutely no role in that...