[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Tiste Simeon, on 07 July 2021 - 09:54 PM, said:

Yeah I saw a video of an officer somewhere putting Taylor Swift on his phone and playing it quite he was talking to people.

'When the sergeant whipped out his phone and started playing Taylor Swift, Burch was taken aback. "Are we having a dance party now?" he asked. "No, sir," the sergeant said. "Are you playing pop music to drown out the conversation?" another APTP member asked. "No," the sergeant responded. "He doesn't want you recording so he's playing music in the back," Burch said.

[...]



"You can record all you want," [the sergeant] said, according to a video obtained by The Verge. "I just know it can't be posted to YouTube."

[...] In 2019, one Twitter user posted a "tip" for deplatforming fascists by playing music at rallies, then reporting videos of it when they were posted online. Copyright reform advocate [...] called the idea a "clever hack," but he called out its potential for abuse by other groups, specifically including police looking to avoid scrutiny online.'

https://www.theverge...utube-copyright

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 08 July 2021 - 03:04 AM

[Maark Abbott]

It's not surprising really. Accountability is the enforcer's bane, after all.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Utah Woman Charged With Hate Crime for Stomping on "Back the Blue" Sign


The case is yet another instance of law enforcement using hate crime enhancements to punish people for criticizing them.


Louisiana became the first state in the U.S. to make police a protected class under hate-crime laws [...]

A New Orleans man was the first person to be charged under the law for allegedly shouting racial and sexist slurs at police.

[...] police [...] in [...] Pennsylvania charged a black man with "ethnic intimidation" for calling them Nazis while he was being arrested. [...] Pennsylvania law enforcement had charged at least three other residents with hate crimes for making offensive statements to police.
[...] Police have employed a wide variety of laws against people exercising their protected First Amendment rights. [...] San Diego Police [...] issued more than 80 tickets over the last decade for "seditious language" under an unconstitutional World War I–era law. [...] the majority of the tickets were issued to minorities for allegedly using vulgarities.
There's a wide body of case law upholding the First Amendment right to flip off or otherwise offend police officers, but despite this, arrests and tickets are still meted out to people who hurt cops' feelings.'
https://reason.com/2...-the-blue-sign/
For the New Orleans and Pennsylvania cases, which made national headlines, the charges were dropped.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'[...] harrowing video emerged of a police officer kneeling on the neck of a 46-year-old man. He pleads and writhes for 6 long minutes before suffocating to death. Despite the striking coincidence in circumstance, the victim was not George Floyd. He was Stanislav Tomáš, the most recent Romani victim of police brutality in Europe and this time at the hands of Czech police. Official responses have ranged from the shocking to the silent. Czech authorities immediately defended the actions of the police, tweeting ‘No Czech George Floyd’, and claiming the actions of the police were proportionate to his apparent criminality. Meanwhile, grassroots solidarity protests have arisen across Europe to demand justice.


The killing of Stanislav Tomáš is not an outlier. It is a tragedy nestled within a general trend of structural socio-economic discrimination and violence inflicted by a general populace whipped up into fascistic frenzies. This is now common across the entire continent. Stanislav’s case is tragically typical: a murdered Roma man from a community that struggles from discrimination in access to education, employment, sanitation, infrastucture and housing—effectively ghettoised. Stansilav was purportedly homeless at the time of his death.


From Italy’s Matteo Salvini calling for “a mass cleansing street by street, piazza by piazza” to anti-Roma pogroms already taking place in France, North Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria, a contemporary Far-Right international coalition has been waging an escalating, popular war on Roma across the continent since the collapse of Communism. This is inextricably linked with the almost universally dire economic condition of the Romani people. With the withdrawal of welfare safety nets and states implementing a regime of welfare chauvinism, Romani communities are deemed a lumpen, unproductive surplus population. [...]


[...] Roma communities are confined to residing in precarious marginality, unable to pay rents and meet the costs of privatised services, whilst being completely excluded from whatever scraps of public provision that remain.'


https://www.versoboo...d-roma-congress

[Malankazooie]

Vice News ran a short piece.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Trump says his only regret as President was not deploying military to attack BLM protestors


[...] "I think it would be hard if George Washington came back from the dead and he chose Abraham Lincoln as his vice president, I think it would have been very hard for them to beat me," [...]


[...] he regrets his response to protests last summer [...] "'I think if I had it to do again, I would have brought in the military immediately,'" [...]


[...] Georgetown law professor [...] wrote[...] "Past presidents used the Insurrection Act to protect civil rights — not to send troops to silence dissent."


"The last time the act was invoked over local objections[...] was when past presidents used it to send federal troops to enforce desegregation orders in the South during the civil rights era. Using it now to suppress protests about police racism would be a bitter inversion of the spirit of the law."


For Trump to have used the Insurrection Act in 2020 only to have incited an insurrection in 2021 would have been an irony too great to escape the history books.'

https://www.rawstory...ter-protestors/

[Gust Hubb]

Census dot map. So much segregation in the US...

https://www.cnn.com/...-ethnicity-map/

[Malankazooie]

huh, Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand. That's not very typical is it? The tough guy sure did turn on the blubbering water works.

[Malankazooie]

National Guard marshaled to Wisconsin in advance of verdict.

[Maark Abbott]

The whole trial seems farcical from the outside. Seems rather clear that the kid placed himself in a situation where he was legally allowed to bag himself some libs, but will get away with it despite that intent.

Why else would you take up a long gun, travel out of town to an active riot zone in opposition to the rioters? Those are not defensive actions, those are the actions of someone actively seeking confrontation.

[Macros]

Its open and shut in a normal world. Lock the fucker up

[QuickTidal]

Macros, on 15 November 2021 - 01:16 PM, said:

Its open and shut in a normal world. Lock the fucker up

This. Hopefully the jury sees through the BS.

[stone monkey]

Presumably the Defence's case boils down to: Rittenhouse is totally justified in killing the people who were defending themselves from him in the first place. So yeah, I can absolutely see the US Justice system going for that, it's not like it hasn't done that before...

[Tiste Simeon]

stone monkey, on 15 November 2021 - 03:04 PM, said:

Presumably the Defence's case boils down to: Rittenhouse is totally justified in killing the people who were defending themselves from him in the first place. So yeah, I can absolutely see the US Justice system going for that, it's not like it hasn't done that before...

He's white and loves guns and the judge appears to be a Trump fan. The prosecution doesn't have a chance.

[Maark Abbott]

The way I've summarised it so far by example is:

I am a Blades fan. I go to a Wednesday pub on matchday, and say as loudly as I can "all Wednesday fans are cunts!".

This places me in a situation where I will expect to have to defend myself, but was otherwise entirely avoidable. In short, shit-stirring. First thing a Judge here would ask me is "Why were you even there?"

[glasseye]

Maark Abbott, on 16 November 2021 - 08:44 AM, said:

I am a Blades fan. I go to a Wednesday pub on matchday, and say as loudly as I can "all Wednesday fans are cunts!".

Kind of curious if any non-UK forum members know which teams you are referring to without the benefit of a quick Google.

[Tiste Simeon]

glasseye, on 16 November 2021 - 11:18 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 16 November 2021 - 08:44 AM, said:

I am a Blades fan. I go to a Wednesday pub on matchday, and say as loudly as I can "all Wednesday fans are cunts!".

Kind of curious if any non-UK forum members know which teams you are referring to without the benefit of a quick Google.

Wonder if Maark is part of the BBC (not *that* BBC...)

This post has been edited by Tiste Simeon: 16 November 2021 - 12:29 PM

[Maark Abbott]

Tiste Simeon, on 16 November 2021 - 12:29 PM, said:

glasseye, on 16 November 2021 - 11:18 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 16 November 2021 - 08:44 AM, said:

I am a Blades fan. I go to a Wednesday pub on matchday, and say as loudly as I can "all Wednesday fans are cunts!".

Kind of curious if any non-UK forum members know which teams you are referring to without the benefit of a quick Google.

Wonder if Maark is part of the BBC (not *that* BBC...)

I assume this is something to do with Barnsley FC, aka Norf FC, but no, I don't even follow football. I just used the example of Blades and Owls to make my point.

[Tiste Simeon]

Blades Business Crew, the violent hooligan firm from a few decades back linked to United.

[Aptorian]

glasseye, on 16 November 2021 - 11:18 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 16 November 2021 - 08:44 AM, said:

I am a Blades fan. I go to a Wednesday pub on matchday, and say as loudly as I can "all Wednesday fans are cunts!".

Kind of curious if any non-UK forum members know which teams you are referring to without the benefit of a quick Google.

Hufflepuff and Slytherin?