OIS, rumors of riot control unit surrounded by protesters.
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/...0-ad6e4cea67af
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpuMGkEzqZU
Shooting video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dOBB1IFXo
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OIS, rumors of riot control unit surrounded by protesters.
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/...0-ad6e4cea67af
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpuMGkEzqZU
Shooting video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dOBB1IFXo
Delightful. As if the trial wasn't going to cause enough of a shit show already, now there will be more fuel for the fire, regardless of whether the Brooklyn Center cops got it 100% right, 100% wrong, or somewhere in between. Just what this metro area needed more of. :(
Well, they looted a Footlocker in Daunte’s name.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaki...olved-shooting
https://twitter.com/@twitter/status/1381462484951965696
That sort of behavior is always confusing to me. Police did something we didn't like, so let's break things and steal things from businesses that had nothing to do with the incident in question? Not exactly effective revenge. If they believe the police did something wrong (entirely possible, of course), then the protest/riot outside the police station at least made some kind of sense, but looting businesses is just throwing a childish tantrum.
It's simple. Most thieves need a way to justify their theft to themselves so they maintain their internal narrative of being a good guy/gal. Few criminals are genuinely remorseful simply because they've justified their actions so they don't have to feel bad about it. So "systematic racism" becomes a way to convince yourself you are justified in stealing from "the system" and if you tack on a "they have insurance" so you don't have to admit a real person is being hurt by your actions and it's cake.
Note this is also why criminals confess. The few genuinely remorseful (often fairly new addicts who actually do feel terrible about their actions in the moments they aren't overwhelmed by their addiction) confess to get it off their chests. The justifiers want to convince you of their reasoning and justifications.
More mansions for BLM leaders.
yay.
That governor..... MN is gonna suffer that fool.
But he was elected .
And here we are again.
I identify with the victim class, I’m going to take free shit. Hell, they owe it to us anyway. Call it reparations.
Let’s blame the Po-lice before the facts are known. Err body know they racists anyway, this just proves it again.
Even though I’m not in the victim class, I’m going to signal my virtue by tweeting my support, standing guard while my victim class brother and sisters get their free shit, and continuing to vote for these assholes like this Peckerwood of a Governor.
I’m not surprised, so much as saddened. “You get the Policing you vote for”. So, MSP and Minnesota are getting what they voted for. Good luck.
Looks like it's time to update the https://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?43810-St-Paul-Minneapolis-Riots-Aftermath thread.
Just got notice that my friends with the guitar shop in the Midway district of St Paul preemptively decided to empty all their inventory and customer repairs at 12:45 last night, after observing a huge amount of sketchiness on the street, and hearing about a bunch of liquor store and music store burglaries over the past week here.
They were looted and picked clean in the original May '20 riots, and were only saved from bankruptcy by a generous GoFundMe campaign.
Brooklyn Center is not far north of Minneapolis; it is really a second ring suburb of the city. I think we may just be in for interesting times again.
As others pointed out - this is just a convenient form of justification for 'free' stuff.
Footlocker is owned by a large corporation it's part of 'the system'. And 'the system' shot our friend. Or really they shot a guy we didn't even know, but it doesn't matter because he was black*. So, we're going to attack 'the system' to teach them a lesson. W
*And don't say it's racist to attack 'non-black system' when police shoot a black man, because only non-black people are racist.
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Nevermind that they're often looting franchises and stores owned by their black neighbors or places where their neighbors and friends work. And that 'the system' is made up of people from all races.
<Sarcasm> 'The system' must be a 'non-black' (read: white) system; because black people would never abuse each other like white people abuse(d) them in the past. </Sarcasm>
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There are injustices being done to black communities that have been perpetuated for nearly two centuries now**. And the division between race and the middle and upper classes is definitely real. But at some point, someone has to come around and point out that the injustices aren't being perpetuated by only non-black people. And importantly, that it is black-on-black violence and abuse that keeps communities down far more than 'the system'.
99 people were shot in Chicago this past weekend. We're up to 872 shootings in 2021, 166 homicides. Of the 166 homicides, 80.1% of the victims were black, in cases where the assailant was known/reported 63% of the assailants were black. Male victims outnumber female victims 6.29:1 in all shootings. Making the overwhelming majority of homicides this year in Chicago being black males and that the overwhelming number of those homicides were committed by...black males.
I really don't know what else to say, except; when a white person shoots a black person and it makes the news, it's because statistically speaking it's rare relative to a black person shooting a black person.
**For instance, Chicago has one of the lowest (percentage wise) closure rates on homicides in the country. This is a reflection of both low man power, but also that the last six mayors and DAs do not/did not prioritize closing homicides, particularly within black communities. Because it is 'too difficult' and 'too man power intensive'. Those are excuses that perpetuate a historical trend in Chicago to treat black communities and black residents as second-class citizen not worthy of proper policing. Yes, it is difficult to do that work, because of an innate distrust of police in those communities, which is why it must be prioritized to get done.
Media shit storm going on now that the Brooklyn Center chief has announced it was and "accidental discharge". Said she (officer) fired one round from her duty weapon, when intending to discharge her Taser.
Recent update says the officer intended to deploy a Taser, and the shooting was an ND.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/minnesota...014849404.html
"Associated Press
Police: Minnesota officer meant to draw Taser, not handgun
MOHAMED IBRAHIM
Sun, April 11, 2021, 6:48 PM
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — Police in a Minneapolis suburb where a Black man was fatally shot during a traffic stop say the officer who fired intended to use a Taser, not a handgun.
Police Chief Tim Gannon described the shooting as “an accidental discharge.”"
Well, having just seen the video evidence thanks to the supplied link, it was pretty clear she made a mistake under pressure. Shouting "taser, taser, taser" but firing her sidearm followed by her immediate (following) remarks. There's really no other conclusion to be drawn.
There will be hell to pay, regardless. And looting, because that will help put the genie back in the bottle. :rolleyes:
Yup.
In the BWC video she clearly warns the suspect she's going to tase him though she is seen with her Glock in hand. Then afterwards states ‘Holy S**t, I Just Shot Him."
Noticed the other officer was wearing his taser crossdraw on the left side.
One is tempted to posit that maybe an expired tag wasn’t worth fleeing the cops over...
Maybe the digital backplate that displays remaining round count from the other thread can be modified to read 'NOT YOUR FUCKING TASER DIPSHIT' in big flashing letters.
This has happened before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Oscar_Grant
Oh for fucks sake...A negligent discharge?
Cue: Someone calling to replace all handguns with Tasers; so this can never happen again.
Cue: Someone else calling to disarm all police officers, British style, so this can never happen again.
Cue: The actual reality that some departments will update UOF and location of carry of a Taser so that 'this can't happen to us', followed by what is in effect the wholesale cessation of Taser carry and use, because it's just more weight on the belt that can't even be used properly anymore.