What are you arguing for?
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Don't forget that Ramsey Orta, who recorded the murder of Eric Garner in 2014, is going to prison for 4 years after "being repeatedly arrested and harassed by cops since he filmed the fatal police chokehold nearly two years ago."
Very weird. Surely the police knew this would be a PR nightmare.
Let's all shut down highways until we get some feel good legislation. Beg the system that oppresses us to make a new rule that it has to enforce against itself to stop oppressing us. That'll fucking show them. Maybe Kendrick Lamar and Bono can collaborate on a song, and we can get a Time Magazine cover, a memorable hashtag. A cool logo or colored ribbon to avatarize for the season. Iconic photographs of superstar politicians hugging poor minorities. Sky's the limit really.
Might as well of happened a century ago imo. Think about how the average person got the news back then. I think we have to use different tactics to match the tools of the day.
I think (hope) that we would all prefer to win the minds. Like they're saying in the Pac thread right now, 'revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin pussy'. Going this route is going to be unsatisfying and require a lot of patience. But they'll win a physical fight. Protesting is basically begging them to nice.
Any cop they would send to jail for that is basically a patsy. Would that be satisfying? To see them sacrifice a fall guy?
I think your first mistake was engaging kamspy as if he wasn't being disingenuous.
This is fraking unreal. He must have grounds for a suit here? Unlawful arrest and detainment etc.
The stuff about Orta too, I should be suprised, but I'm not. I'm so sick of this shit and the only way I see things starting to change is getting the right people in office, yet the voter turnout is tragic amongst youth, lower educated and minorities is tragic, especially when it comes to midterm elections. How do we get people to work for changing things, and how do we get educated white people to start really caring about their fellow people. Where do I sign up, where do I start working to change things? I'm sick of just complaining about this stuff, I want to change it.
And people will still defend the police in America, mmmm I wonder what the people who defends the police have in common...
Sounds like his supervisor fucked up hiring him if he knew he had unpaid traffic tickets/violations when he started. He was going to lose that job as soon as anybody above his direct supervisor found out(most likely when the government comes around to double check the private firm hires at the end of the year).
It probably came up now since he was in the media.
Very weird. Surely the police knew this would be a PR nightmare.