tudderone wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRrml8j9q4s

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

AGS had better step in and start cracking skulls and taking names in situations like this,otherwise this will become Portland, Oregon in Ireland real quick.Peaceful protest fine,but intimidating people and threatning people in vans as in another video is not on.
Start wrecking public property or your state provided house.Gonna take a long time like possibly years before the paperwork gets completed and funds are released under our slow beuracratic system to rebuild or rehome you.So unfortunately you will have to just stay in the wreckage of the house and neighbourhood your actions created.Want to act like animals?Get treated as such.

BattleCorp wrote: »

With that bunch ruled out, the alternative is just as scary. Or even worse.

"On the Tragic death of George Nkencho

The killing of George Nkencho by armed gardai on Wednesday 30 December in Blanchardstown has, inevitably, generated a lot of debate, some of it very angry, on social media. This is my response.

After offering our condolences to all the family who have lost a loved one and our sympathy to the shop worker who was injured in this tragic series of events, there are certain questions that need to be asked. Why was it necessary for the gardai to shoot and kill George Nkencho? There were at least 12 trained gardai on the scene. Why could they not disarm and detain him, as they have done with numerous other suspects – men with swords, members of the Kinnehan and Hutch gangs and so on – without shooting him? Second, if shooting was essential, and we do not accept that it was, why was he not shot in the legs to bring him down? Why was he shot at least 3 times (apparently 5 shots were fired)? George Nkencho was evidently mentally disturbed so why was no psychiatric social worker brought to the scene to de-escalate the situation? All these questions need to be asked and seriously investigated.
One point that needs to be clarified straight away is that raising these questions is not ‘supporting’ George Nkencho or his wielding a knife or attacking a shop worker. Widely differing claims are being made about George , such as that he had 32 criminal convictions but these are not reported in the media and are contradicted by friends and neighbours, plus while there was an altercation in the EuroSpar shop and the shop worker was injured he was NOT slashed in the face. But these are not the issue. Whatever George Nkencho may have done or not done in the past does not justify his killing.
Was race or rather racism a factor? Some people on social media are confidently asserting that racism has nothing to do with it. What makes them so sure? Institutional racism does not openly declare itself but it shows up in different practice and different responses and this killing is an example of such a different response and that too needs to be investigated. We know from a huge amount of experience, not just in the US but in Britain, France and round the world that racist attitudes can be embedded in police forces as in the wider society. Why should it be different in Ireland given, for example, the record of anti-Traveller racism in the gardai. Reports from the local Black Community suggest they do have experience of racist attitudes from the police and have been subject to racism in school.
Lastly, regardless of whatever racism there may have been from the gardai, there is no disputing the blatant racism in some of the social media commentary. The far right, anti-migrant Irish Freedom Party, posted video footage of the protest march through Blanchardstown on Thursday and called it ‘unacceptable’. The match was peaceful protest. For the Irish Freedom Party, who themselves have held rallies and marches against mask wearing and the Covid restrictions, what was unacceptable was that these were Black people marching and they called for them to be deported. To the Irish so-called Freedom Party I say what I find unacceptable is your racism and the same applies to any comments on social media which suggest it is alright for George Nkencho to be killed because we should ’look after our own’ and such like.
I, and People Before Profit, will always oppose such racism and argue for a united response of all working people to injustice whether it is about housing, access to health and education, women’s rights, workers’ rights such as Debenhams, student nurses, or police brutality.
#JusticeForGeorgeNkencho
#BlackLivesMatter

solarwinds wrote: »

She is very quick to dismiss the argument race had nothing to do with this. But spends the rest of her rant stating racism is endemic in the AGS.
Just wait until they start calling for the AGS to be dis armed, and the only thing they will be allowed to defend themselves and the public with will be a cute fluffy teddy bear in a gender neutral non racist colour.
I dont see any outrage or marchs when a Hutch or Kinnehan gang member gets shot.
Could that TD not have let investigations even start and come to a conclusion before jumping on the populist band wagon.

Cass wrote: »

Wasn't it RBB that once said he didn't know much of politics outside of Dublin?

tudderone wrote: »

I seen him and his ilk a few times on Vincent Browne, and they make me puke, him banging on about the evils of capitalism and socialism etc. My sister literally lives around the corner from his huge, gated house,[/B] pity he doesn't practice what he preaches.

he police were trying to subdue a violent criminal. well known to them, they had in fairness tried the non-lethal alternatives and they did not work. How many gardai does Smith or rich-boy want to be mutilated or slashed before they think its ok to shoot him ?