Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28

Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by colejohnson66 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:56PM (#23396213)

I can’t respond to your earlier comment: but people aren’t saying he’s a saint; they’re making him a martyr of sorts. He died from police brutality, and instead of trying to fix that (over the past few decades), the police and President have waged civil war.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by TeaDrunk on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:34PM (#23396596)

Black leadership has been bombed, assassinated, and jailed. Their neighborhoods are targeted for predatory financial extraction and are disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards like waste processing plants, dumps, etc.

The Black Panther party had significant leadership and unification, social programs like food, educational programs, etc. They were killed. Bombed in fact. Prominent leaders were shot in their beds by the government.

Black Wall Street existed, utterly peacefully in fact, and they were utterly destroyed by white riots.

The black community has tried repeatedly to address things and in every turn they were beaten back down.

What do you recommend?

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by r_c_a_d on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @05:28AM (#23401567)

It will take a long time, generations, to fix this. I remember the 1981 race riots in London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Brixton_riot

There was a public inquiry afterwards that led to the creation of a Police Complaints Commission. But that was largely ineffective for at least 20 years afterwards.

Ultimately I think integration and education are the only solution. My parents didn't meet a non-white person until they were in their late 20s. At my school there were a few black families. At my kids school there was a lot of diversity; and differences in race, sexuality and religion seem to be "old people's problems" to them now.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by TeaDrunk on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:11PM (#23410125)

Integration has been resisted with violence- see busing.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by bigiain on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:05AM (#23399550)

Maybe they could try respectfully taking a knee at football games? Surely that'd work? /s

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by jascii on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:35PM (#23396603)

Deflections are not really a productive discussion tool.

That aside, why do you think that is? Could hundreds of years of systemic economic repression have any causual effect on that? Do you have any suggestions how we as society could bring those numbers down?

Lastly, how in bleeps name does that justify police violence?

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