Mississippi justice. I feel sick.

@Carla I'm hopeful those guys are a relative anomaly. But who knows. There's stuff going down in the south that I can't really relate to.
But my thinking is that there's something like 50 million police/citizen contacts a year. We hear about the very, very small percentage that go south and, in the minds of some, that paints ALL cops in the same light. I think it's a self-defeating outcome. I also think it keeps more "good" people out of the police force. I don't see that situation with that kid as being racist in nature in any way. I think it was a mistake. But the takeaway for some is 'all cops are racist.' It's not accurate, it's not fair and I think it makes the situation worse. I'd rather see the situation get better. But part of it getting better means finding the animals that would do something like "The Goon Squad" did and making a huge example out of them. I want to those guys to do long, hard time. No place for anything like in this country.

@Longpatrol The Slave Patrol loves to criminalize young Black children, especially Black boys, so that they will have a criminal record in the system for the rest of their lives.

@Longpatrol kids have been stealing cars.

https://www.motor1.com/news/420109/kids-steal-cars-crime-spree/

@Dshhh Yeah. She wrote that about the Till and Evers murders. Calling out the Governor by name was a big deal. She had guts. Sang that song at Carnegie Hall in front of the whitest of whites. She was a stud. A great artist.

@Dshhh guts!

@Coldplay Right?

@LordShadowfire Well, it is mostly younger men who are like that because they think they are bad-azz. I do not know the age group of the cops who did that but I am guessing they are not our age.

@Mindful
Heck, lots of places are hiring foreigners who just got in the country to be members of the Slave Patrol. You can bet that they don't give a damn about human and civil rights and the federal and States' Bill of Rights.

@deadgerbil No. You outed yourself as a racist. But I knew it all along. Now keep up the insult attempts because I exposed the truth. 🤣

Oh, and I am sorry I offended by doing a number on your favorite candy assed "fragrance".

@LoneVoice you're ridiculous lol the fact that you think you did a number against a fragrance shows how feeble minded you are

@deadgerbil YOU'RE ridiculous. YOU'RE feeble minded. There, did I win? LMAO!!!

@Scribbles when? I don't remember anything about it.

What? I'm confused.

I just meant that I remember reading about this case in the news like over a week ago,when It was first reported on.

The whole thing still makes me sick to hear about it.

@black4white I have no loved ones. I have no family. I live alone, and have been doing that for ten years now. It is easier to see human relationships from a distance. You have a smug attitude of someone who knows right from wrong. You think you are any different from the 8 billion poor souls mired in the muck of self-inflicted human suffering?

@sree251 well hopefully you can keep doing this for 30 more years... just count me OUT of your 8 billion you have counting... that would be extremely appreciated

@black4white Count you out? I will, if you can show me one thing in your life that the rest of the 8 billion are not doing.

@LoneVoice Ah yes; of course. Yet you have opportunity to and consistently do voice your contempt for liberals and what you perceive as their double-standards, and ME personally, without doing so on this post. One that is about something sick and disturbing that happened...is apparently still happening in a state with a long and documented history of racism towards black people.

@SW-User
Here's an example from California =
Woman partially blinded by police beanbag round during protest settles lawsuit for $10 million
MARCH 23, 2023
"LA MESA — A woman who filed a lawsuit against a San Diego County city in 2020 after she was hit — and partially blinded — by a beanbag round an officer fired during a protest has settled with the city of La Mesa for $10 million.

Leslie Furcron said Wednesday she was glad the lawsuit settled in her favor but that money couldn’t return her life to normalcy. The 61-year-old said she now gets blistering headaches, which have prompted her to drop out of college.

Doctors told her she would need to undergo reconstructive surgery to properly seal the hole the projectile left in her skull, she said, and she will never regain vision in her left eye.

“I wish that it had never happened,” she said tearfully from her lawyer’s office. “I thank God that I’m living, right? I thank God that I’m living, but not every day is a good day for me.”

Still, when asked if she would attend the protest again, after everything she’s endured, she didn’t hesitate before she said, “Yes.”

“I’d do it again,” Furcron said. “Because I’m not OK with police brutality. I have a voice. I have a 1st Amendment right.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-23/woman-partially-blinded-by-police-beanbag-round-during-la-mesa-protest-settles-lawsuit-for-10m

Of course they let the Slave Patroller off without any charges against him.

@Diotrephes Remember this guy?

The Police are protected. Qualified immunity plus the Police Union never pays a dime when their Cops kill innocent people. If the Law Suits came out of the Police Pension Plan or the Union paid all of the violence toward the public would stop. Of course the people on the Right will point out that there would be a mass exodus from Police Forces in the US. Wouldn't it be horrible to only have the law abiding Police left behind???

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow One of the main problems is that the criminal justice system is based on slavery. Some states have deleted the slavery clause from their constitutions but it is still in the federal constitution. Until it is deleted everywhere and for profit prisons are closed, the problem will continue. In addition any Slave Patroller who violates anyone's constitutional rights needs to be fired and sent to prison for a lenghty sentence.

@ninalanyon close enough for now. This year.
That bygone age is what maga is all about.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow What do you think modern prisons are today if they are not slave plantations?

@Diotrephes I suppose you could argue the difference is the slaves are multi-racial now.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow And cotton has been replaced by call centers.

@LordShadowfire Hitler did nothing wrong. He was provoked by the Allies (France, and the UK). The trouble makers in Europe are allied with the US, the quintessential trouble maker-that needs wars for economic survival.

@Justice4All Of course, there was nothing wrong with Hitler. I don't mean that he was a saint. You are right, he was no worse than the rest of us. As an American, I am ashamed that Americans are still supporting the US government in Ukraine after the horrific suffering we brought to other countries since Vietnam. We did more harm to our fellowmen than Hitler by far.

Thank you for a balance point of view. I thought I was the only sane guy in the west.

That'sthe thing, @smiler2012...these people are incapable of self reflection and shame.

@smiler2012 The US is what it is: a sad country. We did not become what we are from what we were. We have always been a sad country of nothing but race hatred filled bigots. We are what we are. Let's face it.

@LoneVoice allowed? You can do anything you want.
And i think my broad brush is appropriate.

@Carla Perhaps. Not without being nailed to the cross for committing an egregious offense. Nailed to the cross by the very same people who do the same thing when it fits their need.
But that's social media, I reckon. 🤷 I should know and accept it by now.

@Carla And by the way, many of my generalizations are appropriate as well, at least according to my experience. 😉 When I make a sweeping generality, I say 90% is close enough to say "all" or everybody. And when I say it, I say it figuratively. Unfortunately, there are humorless people who take me literally and go bananas.

@exchrist The Slave Patrollers get away with their crimes because the asskissers (the politicians) depend upon their oppression of minorities for their own objectives.

In order to have effective police reform almost all of the local, State, and federal politicians will have to be replaced with people who actually believe in equality. Right now, far too many people are still stuck in the Jim Crow era.

@Carla the issue is understaffing. Exhausted officers make bad decision havev reduced reaction and are not more likely to knee jerk react. Therefore not even defund how about staff the police

@exchrist this goon squad thing had absolutely nothing to do with understaffing.

@LordShadowfire A Glock 17 would work for me.

@LordShadowfire Braxton with a 93% white population of less than 200 people is in Simpson County. Apparently, a neighbor of a white woman called the "goon squad", white deputies of the county sheriff's department. Apparently, she was living with one of the two black guys. This situation is right out of central casting for a Netflix movie beating the drum on racism in America.

Assuming you are a white guy, would you be foolish enough to shack up with a black woman in any black ghetto of an inner-city in America?

What stands out to me is that Mr Parker and Mr Jenkins (the two black guys) had to file a case against the deputies who obviously committed a heinous crime. Why didn't the sheriff (probably a white guy) do something about the situation? Seems to me that the justice system doesn't work the way it should anywhere in America. With a 93% white population, the sheriff will be re-elected unopposed the way black public officials are re-elected ad nauseum no matter how bad America's cities get.

@Dino11 @LordShadowfire If a black male arms himself he will be shot/killed on sight... just the name of the game.. sooooo yeah this is where it is.

When whites arm themselves and shoot innocent people they are coddled and people ask... who made this person mad or look for excuses... just how it goes.

@CestManan it isn't easy. And many of those small communities aren't where people move to, but are born to. And the cost of moving a life can reach into the tens of thousands.

@CestManan Actually the funniest thing about what you've said is it is the cities where this happens most often. LAPD being one of the most cited examples of misconduct

@specman scroll down...BlueGree Grey was kind enough to post a link.
Their superiors were aware of their violent tactics.

@specman I seriously doubt that the sheriff didn’t know. Some of them have been in trouble before.

@KunsanVeteran yeah after reading that link in the comments I am pretty sure it was known by their superiors and the general public. It’s really angering they are just adding the fuel to the fire on people thinking all whites are racist.

@Carla I missed how it was covered up in the one report I read. I see that two deputies were fired and a civil rights investigation is ongoing.

I didn't read about the deputies being arrested either - but that is a foregone conclusion.

@Pretzel I would hope it's a foregone conclusion.

@LordShadowfire even if the state of mississippi doesn't jump on it the feds are involved. you can't really justify sexually assaulting a suspect with a sex toy, tasing them and then shoving a gun in their mouth and pulling the trigger.

not even in Mississippi

@SW-User the crime happened in January. They took this plea just recently.
I hadn't heard about it either. It is a small county of about 150 thousand. I think they yried to keep it quiet.
I believe it took journalists to dig into the history of this group of officers and bring it to the fore.

@Carla To be fair, the story has just broken in the British press.

Buy this is terrible. I thought naively this was long gone in America.

The British Police have a very poor record towards People of Colour, but not to this extent.

@Quimliqer no. When they shot the man, all bets were off. They have pleaded guilty to charges.

@Carla Thank goodness!!

@Carla Good

@Roundandroundwego People have always fought one another. It's not that big of a deal since there are more people today than at any time in history. Overall, there are very few people, as a percentage of the global population, who engage in overt acts of violence against other people today. When such acts of violence do occur we tend to get upset because we expect everyone to be non-violent and cordial to each other.

@Diotrephes yes, your people have always fought one another. That's why my people don't think it's all bad if you die faster than we do.

@Roundandroundwego Wars are very good for motivating technological advancements. If there had been no wars we would be a lot less advanced as a whole.

@KunsanVeteran One of the many ways #45 has had a negative effect to our country is to support the lowlife bullshit type of racist people.... but his minions dont see that

@GJOFJ3 they really had no option.

Thank you@BlueGreenGrey...

@LordShadowfire "people"...smh

@NativePortlander1970 that may be true. But this was six cops in a county of one hundred fifty thousand.
And even one bad cop can do more damage than those hundred can make up for.

@NativePortlander1970

I disagree, if there are "good cops'" why do they stick up for the bad cops and not get the bad cops off the force? This whole "brotherhood" is too 20th century and needs to go. Defending and uplifting the Constitution should be the only thing they uphold, not a fictitious "band of Brothers."

I say this with no anger or malice in my tone.

@calicuz Many, many good cops do come forward, many more than you realize. When I was in candidacy with the Portland Police back in the early 90's, such a case was going on, a vice cop planted a gun and his partner turned him in.