Does military hardware really not have 4K cameras these days, or do they just post-process it into early 90s camcorder before releasing it for that Gulf War aesthetic?
And here, for the umpteen millionth time, is why bodycam footage should be released right away. Because cops lie about everything, including when they beat a surrendered man to death on camera. AGAIN. This footage was kept from the public for two years (with the prime cop delivering blows thankfully killing himself months ago), so don’t start with the “Well, they have to investigate first...” bullshit. They beat him to death, they murdered him, it’s worse than George Floyd, and they withheld the footage to buy time cover it up. Just like the old woman being attacked by those sadists in Loveland: again, month and YEARS and they won’t release footage. And now the police are incensed because AP did their jobs for them and released unauthorized footage.
The 1 year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd was honored today by a shooting at George Floyd Square. the dude just casually walking his dog around at the end is my favorite
So American TiB friends... want to see just how sick, twisted and racist OUR country’s history can be? Behold: “Residential schools” were nothing more than concentration/death camps for native kids, sponsored and funded directly by the church. They essentially kidnapped, tortured and murdered thousands of children just to “break” them from their traditions and beliefs. Piss on them all.
First they play it down as no big deal, then they whitewash it as just some tourists gone wild, now they're honoring them as martyrs. This will end well.
Oh FFS. Quoting U2 lyrics? Makes me want to find her grave and shoot the headstone. Not to speak ill of the dead, but screw her. She went there looking for trouble and someone accommodated her.
Is it really any worse than making a saint out of George Floyd? It's not just one side doing this bullshit.
If you want to lionize home invaders who attack pregnant women to support their addiction, good for you I guess.
She was shot by police while actively invading your capitol building. She deserved it. Floyd is no fucking saint, and probably deserved to be behind bars, but the manner of his death was 100% wrong. The cops are not judge, jury, and executioner. He did not deserve to die the way he did. The two scenarios are miles apart.
I don't lionize Floyd, in fact I've commented (years ago) that it's unfortunate that we need to find avatars for systemic problems so they're easier to wrap our minds around. That said, Floyd was not part of an effort to deny my right to vote and overthrow my government, so his posthumous canonization, while in my opinion misguided, ultimately has no effect on my life.
Oh c'mon. You and I both know a bunch of unarmed idiots was not a threat to your right to vote or overthrow the government. People like to play that shit up, but we just went through a whole year of people looting, burning, and attacking federal property without a peep from the same concerned citizens. We just ended up with a bunch of people clutching their pearls about people with a different opinion than them. Meanwhile we have our border being overwhelmed with people illegally crossing it, inflation is problematic, international relations are not doing so well...but hey! Let's bitch about how stupid the other side is while we go under. Maybe at some point everyone will finally see the light and vote Democrat...it will be interesting to see when the country becomes Portland, Chicago, St Louis, San Fransisco, Baltimore, Memphis, Los Angeles all rolled into one. Good luck with that.
And yet here we are.... A drug addict who did a home invasion holding a gun on a pregnant woman is lionized because reasons. A military vet, who from what I've seen never victimized anyone, did something really stupid that didn't hurt anyone except herself. Yeah, fuck her straight up the ass. Who would you rather have living next door?
She was part of an illegal mob breaking a defensive line and was told 3 times to back the fuck up and didn't, during a violent breach of the focus of your democracy. I don't get how you dismiss the attack on the capitol so lightly. Some of them were armed, and they KILLED people. So far 500 people have been arrested and charged with crimes. The vast majority of your country looks upon that as a big deal. Everyone who participated should be considered a traitor, her included.
Some of them were armed? No offense, but I'm going to need a source on that. One person died and she was shot by a fed. And let's remember this whole subject was started by someone claiming that people were lionizing the dead rioter. No one here has martyred her. I never dismissed the whole thing, it was a bunch of idiots being idiots. However, I take exception to people clutching their pearls about "It was an attack on our Democracy" or whatever their argument might be when we just went through a whole year of people attacking federal buildings and being told "This is what democracy looks like."
Toytoy, you know I'm your friend, but you have to admit that if I tried to push my way into a place where I wasn't welcomed, and got SHOT, you probably wouldn't have a lot to say in my defense. Hell, you have called me out for being stupid before. That dumb bitch had it coming, BUT THAT DOESN'T DEFEND THE ASSHOLES IN THE CHOP/CHAZ (because they were assholes, no better than the cops. The only difference was that THEY were in charge for once. And they abused it. ) "Concerned citizens" did not like the BLM protests, OR the Capitol riot.