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George Floyd dies after police knelt on his neck (MOD NOTE IN POST #1)

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  • #962
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Pjohnson doesnt know Hurrache.

    Ah, but do you know johnsonp?

    walshb and brendanwalsh, Brendan responds to Brendan. Entertaining.


  • #963
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Probably doesnt suit many agendas but CNN have repeated many times over the last while that a police station was destroyed and that fences put up to protect it were pulled down.


  • #964
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,895 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Hurrache wrote: »
    Ah, but do you know johnsonp?

    walshb and brendanwalsh, Brendan responds to Brendan. Entertaining.
    Good post Osarusan, I completely agree.


  • #965
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,365 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Hurrache wrote: »
    Yeah, all depending on how Trump responds, it may further explode. His shooting and looting comment and apparent historical connotation stokes the fire, and lots are already comparing his differences in wording on tweets depending on the groups that are protesting.

    There's a massive historical angle there as you say, but even if there wasn't, you have the President of America threatening to kill citizens.


  • #966
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,136 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Trump has been threatening to kill everyone and anyone....

    His sick threats to nuke countries that stepped out of line....

    He is as about as wrong the man in charge here as there could ever be.


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  • #967
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    pjohnson wrote: »
    images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcT0kG_s4VJ-KJL2pCCnHj73VpHACxafVKR--k9PCrjO6MQyfZsp&usqp=CAU

    (Hopefully Guy Incognito posts just before or just after this)



    Edit:

    Goddamn it Guy.

    :)

    appologies, I was over in the soccer forum for a bit.


  • #968
    J. Marston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,393 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    I'd say the cops over there live for the day when they get to dress up and play real life Call of Duty in their riot gear.


  • #969
    BASHIR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭BASHIR


    https://twitter.com/MnDPS_MSP/status/1266338580596690949


  • #970
    Christy42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,106 ✭✭✭Christy42


    BASHIR wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/MnDPS_MSP/status/1266338580596690949

    They were confirmed to be members of media before the arrests took place so that is a load of bull.


  • #971
    SuperSean11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭SuperSean11


    If it was a third world country, what’s going on the US would be called genocide


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  • #972
    BASHIR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭BASHIR


    Christy42 wrote: »
    They were confirmed to be members of media before the arrests took place so that is a load of bull.

    Yes I know this.


  • #973
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,136 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Christy42 wrote: »
    They were confirmed to be members of media before the arrests took place so that is a load of bull.

    And it makes no sense. Can members of the media not be arrested?

    It's worded like it was wrongful arrest due to them being members of the media.


  • #974
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,789 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    walshb wrote: »
    And it makes no sense. Can members of the media not be arrested?

    It's worded like it was wrongful arrest due to them being members of the media.

    Because it was a wrongful arrest.


  • #975
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,136 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Because it was a wrongful arrest.



    It implies that they were wrongfully arrested due to them being members of the media. Hence my querying it...

    Unless I am reading it wrong...


  • #976
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    SuperSean11 wrote: »
    If it was a third world country, what’s going on the US would be called genocide


    The US has long-standing policing problems and a messed up racial landscape, but I don't think anything about this incident or recent similar incidents amounts to anything close to genocide.


  • #977
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,136 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    SuperSean11 wrote: »
    If it was a third world country, what’s going on the US would be called genocide

    This is just way OTT


  • #978
    Christy42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,106 ✭✭✭Christy42


    walshb wrote: »
    And it makes no sense. Can members of the media not be arrested?

    It's worded like it was wrongful arrest due to them being members of the media.

    Reporters have additional rights to be allowed report things like this. Sort of the same reason police don't arrest themselves for being in the middle of a riot.

    Ordinary people have to leave for their safety and because any ordinary citizens in the middle of a riot are going to be presumed to be part of the mob so they have to leave or get arrested. Members of the media or other people with actual jobs there are allowed to remain to do their jobs.


  • #979
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,365 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    When Turkey is talking down to you about human rights, you know you have real problems......


    "The racist and fascist approach that led to the death of George Floyd in the US city of Minneapolis as a result of torture has not only deeply saddened all of us, but it has also become one of the most painful manifestations of the unjust order we stand against across the world," Erdogan tweeted in English.

    "I believe that the perpetrators of this inhumane act shall receive the punishment they deserve," said Erdogan.

    "We will be monitoring the issue."


  • #980
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    super_furry wrote: »

    "We will be monitoring the issue."

    Wonder if Putin and the Saudis will be watching too
    360_F_102352090_ie3kLjDIvgrT1sxVDknWCUh8PxgMYzM7.jpg




  • #981
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    super_furry wrote: »
    When Turkey is talking down to you about human rights, you know you have real problems......


    "The racist and fascist approach that led to the death of George Floyd in the US city of Minneapolis as a result of torture has not only deeply saddened all of us, but it has also become one of the most painful manifestations of the unjust order we stand against across the world," Erdogan tweeted in English.

    "I believe that the perpetrators of this inhumane act shall receive the punishment they deserve," said Erdogan.

    "We will be monitoring the issue."


    The Chinese propaganda apparatus will make hay from this as well.


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  • #982
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    BASHIR wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/MnDPS_MSP/status/1266338580596690949


    The professional camera equipment, probably labelled with the CNN logo, didn't give them away no?


  • #983
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    walshb wrote: »
    And it makes no sense. Can members of the media not be arrested?

    It's worded like it was wrongful arrest due to them being members of the media.
    Freedom of the press in the US has been broadly interpreted to mean that the press must be permitted to be present to report on events provided that in being there they don't endanger themselves or the public.

    In the broadest sense this means that police cannot arrest reporters for reporting, where other members of the public could be commanded to move on or stop taking pitures.


  • #984
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Mod

    If you suspect someone has two accounts report it, don't drag the thread off topic with accusations, no more of that please.

    Re-opened.


  • #985
    MeMen2_MoRi_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,982 ✭✭✭MeMen2_MoRi_


    Another clip..

    https://v.redd.it/bj1ex31cdl151


  • #986
    1800_Ladladlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,466 ✭✭✭1800_Ladladlad


    BASHIR wrote: »
    I would of thought people from this country could see the oppression for what it is considering our history.

    This has to be one of the most uneducated comments Iv read on boards for a while. A massive misappropriation of Irish history, equating our history with that of the dire situation in the US at the moment is sensationalism at its finest.


  • #987
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,364 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266380510344949761

    'Not a racist, not a racist, not a r...'


  • #988
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,136 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266380510344949761

    'Not a racist, not a racist, not a r...'

    Surprised he didn't follow up with tremendous NG, best NG in the world, beautiful NG.....BEST shoot to kill NG anywhere....fine fine people...


  • #989
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,340 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Top class trolling from Erdogan there. He's in no position to comment on human rights but it did make me laugh.


  • #990
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,364 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Top class trolling from Erdogan there. He's in no position to comment on human rights but it did make me laugh.

    The sad thing is all these despots have an allie in Trump.


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  • #991
    FVP3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3


    Yurt! wrote: »
    The Chinese propaganda apparatus will make hay from this as well.

    That's pretty non existent.

    The US is a pretty horrible place, I am more concerned with its external rather than its internal actions.


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