Protests Erupt After Police Kill Man in Brooklyn Center, MN

[Nevilledog]

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[TheRealNorth]

1. Stay safe out there & keep watch for RW instigators

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. FTP.

[ret5hd]

4. ACA still B

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. .

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. This shit can't continue.

Phone camera's are being turned on the police state. LEO has to change their thinking....they can't look on people as prisoners and themselves as wardens. That's not how a free society works. Proportional racial LEO is imperative for a democracy to function.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. "Proportional racial LEO is imperative for a democracy to function."

That theory gets you Justine Damond.

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. Well him and Clarence Thomas.

But the results - eventually - will speak for themselves.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. Representation within oppressive systems merely gets you representative oppression.

[OAITW r.2.0]

14. Our system allows for enlightenment. Depends on the majority. nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. We live in a white supremacy. Without active dismantling of white supremacist systems, the patterns

continue unbroken.

[OAITW r.2.0]

16. Sounds Republican to me. We are in charge, we don't want to change our thinking.

Solution? Stop people from voting!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. Walk me through how you got to that conclusion.

As someone who is working on police abolition, I'm curious interested in how my posts came across in such a way to bring you to that conclusion.

[OAITW r.2.0]

18. Republicans White Supremacism. The Status Quo.

Am I wrong?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. It's undeniable that the U.S. is a white supremacy no matter who is presiden or which party controls

state houses. The concept of a police force in the U.S. is built upon white supremacy. Hiring people of color within a white supremacy actually lends legitimacy to white supremacy -- after all, would REAL racists hire black people? White supremacy cannot be reformed; it must be abolished.

[OAITW r.2.0]

20. Got it, that's why you need to reflect the race of the community that you are policing. nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

21. Disagree. The entire concept of policing in the U.S. is a white supremacist institution.

No matter who is working inside the system, they will follow white supremacist mores and enforce white supremacist values.

[OAITW r.2.0]

22. We agree to disagree.

cool.

[IcyPeas]

5. not again! wtf

[crickets]

7. How awful. Enough. Something has got to change. The killing must stop. nt

[dalton99a]

8. Brooklyn Center police officer shoots, kills driver during traffic stop

https://kstp.com/news/bca-investigating-police-shooting-in-brooklyn-center/6072013/
Brooklyn Center police officer shoots, kills driver during traffic stop

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal apprehension is investigating after a Brooklyn Center police officer fatally shot a driver during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon.

According to the Brooklyn Center Police Department, officers pulled a car over for a traffic violation just before 2 p.m. near 63rd Avenue North and Orchard Avenue in Brooklyn Center.

Police say the officers determined the driver had an outstanding warrant, and the driver tried to get back in the vehicle while they were trying to make an arrest.

At that point, an officer then shot the driver, and the car kept driving for several blocks before crashing into another vehicle.

[Crunchy Frog]

9. I wonder if some of them are acting out because of the Chauvin trial.

I'm sure that it's very triggering to some of them.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. Imagine -- the eyes of the world are on the Twin Cities because of the trial, and they still feel

like they can or have to act like this.

[uponit7771]

23. +1,

[berniesandersmittens]

24. +2