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Leaders in black protests have been killed off by white power supremacists over the years. The creator of this site risks the same.
There is no indication this website is a racial thing. It looks like the op is gathering any videos of police brutality.
As always, you have to ask, compared to what ? Are the majority of police actions brutality, or only a miniscule fraction? This is the crucial question, and a site like this provides no insight at all. (or so I imagine, since site is down) If you want to fan the flames, though, add a section for protesters savagely kicking unconscious victims in the head.
Agree. I wish this stayed on reddit and Twitter. I hate seeing this kind of hot topic stuff here.
I saw a live broadcast on one of the 24-hour live cable news channels last night. Everyone had their phones out recording everything from every angle. The technology is becoming ubiquitous. Bodycams and their video recordings can be misused or edited. So too can field recordings by protesters and agents saboteur.
More recordings means more checksums against tampering, deletion, and improper framing of real-world events.
As always, you have to ask, compared to what ? Are the majority of police actions brutality, or only a miniscule fraction? This is the crucial question, and a site like this provides no insight at all. (or so I imagine, since site is down) If you want to fan the flames, though, add a section for protesters savagely kicking unconscious victims in the head.
PS. site should be back up
To document with videos is valuable, but I think the site should provide as much context as possible, what I would wish for, show: * Date of incident * Short description of context * Primary source, or at least, where the video was found * Media coverage of incident * Updates on convictions/official investigations into the incident * Official statements / responses * linked videos (videos of the same incident, but wi…
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> savagely kicking unconscious victims in the head. You're talking about this oft-shared video, I imagine: https://twitter.com/LibertyHangout/status/126692640226952396... Yea, wow, those protesters really did a number on that guy. Obviously he was just defending his shop from Thugs, right? Oh wait... no. He was a crazy person running at protesters with a sword: https://twitter.com/sable_sonya/status/12671483332038000…
The first link is one of the two I saw today, yes. There's really nothing that convince me that these people are not evil. (The second was in Portland, I think.) The second link doesn't seem to have any video. But head-kicking beyond the point of unconsciousness is not how I would defend myself from a crazy person (if that's even a factual take). The third link is hard to interpret, but until someone analyzes it, I a…
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> It's an extremely delicate judgment call made in split seconds that often means the difference between life and death How come cops in many other countries are so much better at making these judgement calls than in the US?
Are they? I prefer to ignore value comparisons not based on numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
The gap with other first world countries is absolutely enormous.
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About as spineless and unethical as every other human being. You know how we have some people worth billions and simultaneously people literally digging through garbage for food? That's not an accident, it's a constant built into this species, unless we start doing some eugenics, preventing idiots from breeding, which'll take far longer than your lifetime to come into effect. You interested in attempting to improve t…
Are you actually arguing for eugenics?
I should say, most people who use the word "unethical" are of the real idiot variety. Arriving at eugenics as a potential solution to most of people's problems should automatically grant you a million dollars because it indicates interest in other people's well being and independent thought.
Arriving at the attempt at eugenics being a really bad idea should land you another ten million, so that you can spend the rest of your life explaining to those behind you, why ideas that seem too good to be true, are too good to be true, so that we don't get another fundamentalist idiot like Hitler or Stalin in power.
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Otherwise known as the "but kids are starving in Africa" rhetorical fallacy.
Well, if you want to focus on police abuse, journalists and opposition leaders are routinely tortured and killed by security forces in Africa. No one gives a shit. You might say, well, that particular case happened in , so people there are concerned. Of course, and that's fine. I'm sure there are things they can reform in that police department. But how does that explain the support protests around the world? It's a…
Lemme guess, Soros?
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That video is a 5 second long anecdote. Regardless, the woman was probably told to move and was refusing. When you disobey riot police in a riot situation that's what happens and I absolutely side with the police. Data literally supports what I'm saying. A distorting narrative is what's driving all the recent calls to action and solidarity. People are being lied to and misled, either that or they are just using the n…
The outrage started not because of the video that was undisputable evidence of police violence, it started because the police did not immediately arrest the officers who committed and helped with the murder of a person. Had Minneapolis have to burn to the ground, so that they finally arrest the murderer policeman?
Without the broader narrative that police disproportionately kill blacks then the killing would not have sparked riots or protests.
In fact a white man was killed very recently on almost the exact same manner yet there were no riots or calls to action.
Unfortunately many anarchists and terrible people took advantage of the killing to cause destruction.
I know this is hard for some people to accept, but the police deal with the worst dregs of society every day so you don't have to. They get pissed on, stabbed, punched in the face, shot, and killed working for less than 1/4 of the pay of many software developers do. We bitch about JavaScript vs Golang while they have to wonder if the next person they pull over for a speeding ticket is going to pull a gun on them. The…
Like kneeling on someone's neck for minutes. Yeah. I hope you dropped this: /s