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Police officer injured in deadly ambush sues Black Lives Matter leaders
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Earthstrike
Member
What's the court going to rule, that you can't advocate violence against a government that you feel is oppressing you? Wouldn't that open up every conservative media outlet and the republican party to the same kind of lawsuit?
GrizzleBoy
Banned
Trash.
theechrisfox
Member
Johnny Law suddenly acting a lot like Snowflake Sally.
CommanderBuck
Neo Member
What in the entire fuck!
metalslimer
Member
Oh fuck off you pathetic trash
Considering the state he's in I suspect he personally doesn't have that much to do with the suit. Sounds like he suffered pretty horrific injuries just doing his job.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
Member
Bye bye first amendment
What a fantastic way to set the precedent that any protest that escalates to violence is the responsibility of the protest organizers. Now all that needs to happen is for agents to join the protest with escalation in mind and bam, no more protests. Doubly effective if we start labeling protesters as terrorists!
MugiwaraCole
Member
Fuck the police and anybody that love em.
I doubt it was his idea. Man behind the curtain shit.
So did McKesson ever advocate violence?
Was the ambush part of the protest he's linking it to? Was it listed on their schedule of events? Peaceful protest, Peaceful Prtest gets out of control, chant, murderous ambush in different place/time that already happened so time travel I guess?
Can victims of police violence generally sue the Police Union(s) their employees are members of?
Look, I have sympathy for the officer to a degree (and certainly lots for the deceased from the entirely separate incident), but how is basically pinning it on "most black people" and going to make police and race relations better? How is this going to make other officers safer? Even if you're insane enough to draw a direct line from the assault to McKesson personally, you're literally just fomenting and amplifying the existing divide.
This is like suing greenpeace because a pet owner slapped you.
Was the ambush part of the protest he's linking it to? Was it listed on their schedule of events? Peaceful protest, Peaceful Prtest gets out of control, chant, murderous ambush in different place/time that already happened so time travel I guess?
Can victims of police violence generally sue the Police Union(s) their employees are members of?
Look, I have sympathy for the officer to a degree (and certainly lots for the deceased from the entirely separate incident), but how is basically pinning it on "most black people" and going to make police and race relations better? How is this going to make other officers safer? Even if you're insane enough to draw a direct line from the assault to McKesson personally, you're literally just fomenting and amplifying the existing divide.
This is like suing greenpeace because a pet owner slapped you.
HellforLeather
Member
Inciting violence IS illegal. Not saying thats what happened but that is the law.
Yeah, he's severely handicapped and was in a coma for months.
Do you think that this sort of attitude is going to make things better? You can disagree with his case while still being mature and respectful to the dead.
AlexFlame116
Member
Wait he was in a coma???
Yeah, I'm guessing that the murderer's estate has very little worth, so they're trying a civil suit against people with greater means.
Big Baybee
Member
Why is it always on us to be civil when the other side isn't?
The attorneys have a hardon for BLM and McKesson. They've gone after them before for different shit.
This will be thrown out as it is federal. It's cheap pr for the lawyers with no scruples.
That's pretty shitty then.
Also, is it normal for a lawsuit to not name the plaintiff? I don't even understand how that would work.
It's not on black people and their allies to have a better attitude towards shit like this, because they're not the ones in a position of power to drive change.
Cooperation needs to be led and facilitated primarily by the police. Black people by and large are willing to work peacefully towards a better system- in part because we fear we will be killed without repercussions on part of our killers otherwise- but it needs to be understood that the trust in police has eroded because the actual institution of policing is decidedly racist. Ergo, it is on the police to start the conversations and internal changes and prove that they deserve the trust.
Suing a modern civil rights movement that black people favor because of retaliatory attacks that have ultimately been happening for ages regardless of their existence is not the way to do it, and it certainly isn't the way to get people to be sympathetic. Indeed, they might tell you to fuck off, which they have every moral right to in lieu of the social dynamics in play.
In short, don't get mad at the dog for growling at the guy who regularly kicks him.
You can act however you choose to. But I'd encourage you to think about what type of world you want to live in, and whether your words and actions are doing your tiny part in moving us toward that.
Disagreement can be constructive. Protest can be constructive. "lmao pathetic trash" at an injured police officer whose friends and colleagues were killed probably isn't constructive.
Agreed, if only.
If only police were held to the same standard.
This is so stupid. Im trying to think of a comparable but I actually can't.
Honestly probably, yes.
Honestly probably, yes.
Man Called Aerodynamics
Member
"Start"?
Sho_Nuff82
Member
So...who do we get to sue?
HawksWinStanley
Member
The Faceless Master
Member
they can go first.
they immediately try to paint the worst possible picture of the minorities they assault and batter and shoot and choke and murder.
what about them stopping first. bet that would cause the most progress.
I've already resigned myself to the fact that America will be a racist shithole until the day I die, because the fact is it doesn't matter how nice we are about it. Me asking nicely for officers to be held accountable for senseless deaths is going to end up with me waved off
and probably shot. /s(?)
Widdle Puppy
Banned
Fuck blue lives
Black people are literally powerless in this country against aggressive police and have their civil rights steamrolled pretty regularly. This is not on them. They don't have to give the police force as a whole any respect.
I'd be surprised if they didn't.