A collection of videos of police brutality

Post by nojvek » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 2:51 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #405

nojvek wrote: post #402

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Not sure why it was flagged but I use hn.algolia.com and it was one of the top links. I upvoted it. The police are making the situation worse and people need to know they are no longer the police who are their to protect them but the police who are abusing their power and worse than terrorists. This issue is way more important than SpaceX launch. It could mean we don’t have the next black Astronaut, or the next minor…

There's no question that it's more important. Of course it is more important than basically everything on HN's front page. For example, HN had a front-page story yesterday about whether the French adopted vinaigrette from the Italians. Such a topic is unimportant to the point of triviality. People sometimes feel like if a story isn't on HN's front page, that we, or the community, feel like it's unimportant. That's no…

Post by leereeves » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 9:50 AM UTC

scarface74 wrote: post #407

leereeves wrote: post #354

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This conversation has gone too deep, deeper than Hacker News can handle, so we should probably wrap it up. I'll just say that if 20 armed black men couldn't get away with protesting in Michigan, that says something very bad about the Democrats who run the state.

You act as if I think Democrats are holy saints with respect to equality. But those policemen probably weren’t wearing Black Lives Matter under their uniforms.....