Another great day in a country in which it's far safer to be a white male openly walking around with a deadly weapon than a black male armed with either a fake gun (while in the fake gun aisle at Wal-Mart) or nothing at all. Rest assured, though, that when the cops gun down another black guy on suspicion of being a black guy with a gun (I mean, They all carry guns, right?
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To use against our womenfolk?) the news will focus on reporting about a handful of people who vandalized and looted a QuikTrip rather than the fact that the police added another name to the list of unarmed black men shot for being Probably Armed black men.
Gosh I sure hope that QT is alright.
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Dr. Mac says:
In Portland, Or recently, the cops killed a (large) black man using a choke hold…. no guns necessary. The Portland PD have an especially bad record when dealing with the mentally ill. It's a lot easier to kill them than deal with them. The War On Drugs (Praise Be To Ronny) has created thousands of small armored units of deadly police units just waiting to use all of that shit on anybody who even looks like a threat… usually a brown or black person. In 1968, we waited for the Revolution…. too bad.
Jado says:
But what about the convenience stores? Won't someone think of the convenience stores?
comrade oz says:
Even the "über-liberal" MSNBC couldn't help itself with the videos of mostly black folks taking advantage of the disturbances in Ferguson, MO. The cameras focused in close enough to give the impression that the looting was widespread and violent as only live shots can do.
Khaled says:
The shooting at the Wal-Mart happened in my town, Dayton. It was in suburban Dayton, in one of the lilly-white burbs near Wright-Pat AFB. Beavercreek, where the Wal-Mart is located, has some negative history with race- for a few years, the city council resisted efforts to put a bus stop by the mall (which is very close to the Wal-Mart) fearing that "crime would go up" because of a bus stop. Why would people claim this? Because the city buses would allow people from the city (ie, black people) to take the bus to the mall. The city ended up getting sued over it, etc. A bus stop was finally, grudgingly, put in. One of the worst parts about the shooting in the Wal-Mart was the immediate, visceral response on facebook, etc, that the guy must have taken the bus to the Wal-Mart, and other racist drivel. The paper actually ran a story and the police had to respond that the guy DID NOT take the bus to the store- he was with some friends who were buying stuff for S'mores.
In all of the chaos after the police showed up with guns drawn, a woman collapsed and died of a heart attack. All of this over a dude with an air rifle.
Some time ago, in one of the chain drug stores in town ( I managed another one of the chain drug stores in one of the bad neighborhoods) a man had his holster and gun visible while shopping. The cashier remarked to him that he shouldn't bring his gun into the store- they sold alcohol after all. The guy called, complained to one of the supervisors, and threw a fit that the chain "didn't support the 2nd amendment" and threatened to have a boycott of the stores by him and his teabagger friends. The supervisor played nice about the whole thing, and she was quite embarrassed by the whole thing- she was convinced that bringing guns would reduce crime. Funny, no one at my store thought people bringing guns into a store would be good at all- when someone had a pistol in his shorts, he was told to leave the store or the police would escort him off the property. Of course, we had been robbed at gunpoint a year or so back, what did we know.
Oh, and here's a fun fact for the Ohio people- it is illegal to carry a loaded weapon in your car- it has to be secured in the trunk or unloaded if it's carried in the car itself. Which I'm sure all the CCW permit holders here in this state do.
bill says:
Don't know if it's possible for the American public to hate each other any more at this point…?
Arslan says:
Americans, get you shit together on race and economics, otherwise this is your fate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
A Magnet says:
@Arslan: Is there a specific thing you'd suggest I do to further that goal? Voting doesn't help – I can pick a candidate that will lose or a candidate that won't tear everything down quite as quickly. It's similar at the local level – except depending on the locality, you get to choose between candidates there is no information for, candidates that are crazy, and candidates that will lose. Delightful. I mean, I guess I could run myself, but I'd imagine I'd just be throwing away what little money I have.
Signing petitions isn't doing anything. Protests get straight up ignored by the media – well, unless it's a bunch of angry white dudes saying horrifyingly stupid things – so building momentum is getting impossible. There are a few projects working to cut down on the effectiveness of oligarchic bribery, the Mayday project in particular, but that's going to take time and it may or may not work.
On the plus side, once they're done tearing down this country, I'm sure the regressives will happily jump over oceans to find their next victims – although with the oceans getting bigger, there might not be any first world countries left by that stage.
Xynzee says:
@A Mag: "On the plus side, once they're done tearing down this country, I'm sure the regressives will happily jump over oceans to find their next victims"
Don't worry they already have, or weren't you paying attention to what happened to Greece?
Australia's current government is trying to accomplish in three what it took Ronbo and Maggie 30yrs to accomplish.
They're also fulfilling a promise set out by the Liberal Party 40yrs ago to dismantle our Medicare system.
The Treasurer is trying to saddle uni students with American style debt, despite the irony of photos of him protesting when something like a uni level "co-pay" was brought in.
He even was outed recently as saying that the "debt crisis" his party ran on was a complete fabrication.
Arslan says:
You know you don't have to have certain politicians to do something about racism right? In terms of police issues that's at a local level where there is often more opportunity to effect radical change. As for economics well that is harder, but that's why you have to educate and organize workers.
BruceFromOhio says:
Seems that at least one point from your previous post, "In many countries around the world the leaders can just send out death squads and various uniformed skull-crackers to physically eliminate them" has come home after all.
It was a nice civilization there, for a time, while it lasted. Hope you enjoyed your stay.
c u n d gulag says:
Imo:
A lot of our police don't think of themselves as police anymore.
They think of themselves as a paramilitary force.
If the cop isn't already on the SWAT team, then s/he wants to be, and auditions with every arrest.
And who can blame them, when the DoD has sold, or handed-down, all of the old military gear down to cities and towns, whose politicians want to appear tough on crime, no matter the human cost.
c u n d gulag says:
Imo:
A lot of our police don't think of themselves as police anymore.
They think of themselves as a paramilitary force.
If the cop isn't already on the SWAT team, then s/he wants to be, and auditions with every arrest.
And who can blame them, when the DoD has sold, or handed-down, all of the old military gear down to cities and towns, whose politicians want to appear tough on crime, no matter the human cost.
Tim H. says:
The treatment of minorities should be considered a sneak preview of what the elites wish to do with the rest of us, just need a few more years of dehumanization.
Skipper says:
When I want to amuse myself, I try to imagine the scene if four or five black guys were to exercise their right to "open carry" and showed up carrying assault rifles to have lunch at the Ritz Carlton in Orange County.
Sondra says:
I hate this story and I hate the headline on the story as it was reported: "Police shoot…fake gun." It was not a fake gun, it was a TOY gun in the TOY aisle. So let's get that right at least.
Shame on police who cannot tell a toy from a real gun and shame on the idiot who called 911…and shame on Walmart for not having packaging around their toy guns so that the police would at least have a clue when they see they bubble wrap.
FUCK THE POLICE says:
They need to stop this where it starts…in training and procedures.
If your too fat to apprehend a person you should be working a desk job.
If your not cut out for it mentally you should be let go.
If your superiors think shooting first b/c person in question is resisting arrest he should be fired.
To all the military personal that served in any war you should be paid extra to join the police force to show these bitches what it means to hold gun.
####FUCKTHEPOLICE###
arjun says:
Call me a grammar Nazi if you will, but is it really so hard to tell the difference between "your" and "you're?" I.e., "YOU'RE too fat and so is YOUR supervisor."
Dr. Mac says:
@ arjuna: Most fifth graders know that… so, are you what they call a troll? I've been wondering about that.
arjun says:
Sorry to burst your bubble, but i'm no troll. I use my real name on every post; it just bugs me that so many adults don't seem to know what "most fifth graders know." BTW, i make my living as a translator, so i guess i am more sensitive to the obvious difference (to me, anyway) between "your" and "you're," "to" and "two," and "its" and "it's."
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