The Goat Pen

hedge wrote:I'm not quite getting the math on this:

"So far this year, 14 police officers have been killed in ambushes, and while that number may seem low, it represents a more than 45% increase over 2015, when only three officers were slain in ambush attacks, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund."

It's the new math.

It was more than a 45% increase, Typical journalese.

It was also just more than 450% increase.

"A black cop shot a black criminal who wouldn't drop his gun and there are riots?"

Evidently the gun and ammo were stolen during a burglary in March. Also, I know the guy's sister is grieving, but one of her comments was "He should've been tased, if anything." If anything?? What else were they supposed to do, ask him to drop the gun more nicely?

He should have been tased, if anything," Neal said. "We want everybody to feel our pain."
At one point, the crowd chanted "ready for war," followed by a a chant of "peace, peace, peace."
Meanwhile, another group of about 100 gathered at the park near a BP gas station that was burned during Saturday's protests. Crowds ebbed and flowed at the station throughout Sunday; as night fell, community and church leaders led a prayer circle and spoke of a community that needs healing from ongoing "racism, injustices and oppression."

Wants everybody to feel her pain? Dear lord...

There is racism, injustice, and oppression in this world, but this ain't it.

Well you are now racist and part of the problem AA. BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!

If a gas station had to be torched, at least they picked the right one.

The Worst Part About BP's Oil Spill Cover-up: It Worked - Newsweek Dec 2011

The rumor started that a honkey cop shot an unarmed black kid in the back. Guess who has egg on their faces now? Nobody. They don't care.

BigRedMan wrote:Well you are now racist and part of the problem AA. BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!

I think blacks have gotten a raw deal by many in authority. Not in this case, though.

All lives matter. It's too bad this happened because some over zealous idiot decided to spread a rumor to stir things up.

wasn't much different in Ferguson

Milwaukee is extremely segregated and problematic. It has been for years. The spillover was bound to happen, even though the conversation is muddied with this particular shooting.

AA is a dialed-in and reasonable dude. You've saved me keystrokes.

an excellent way to lose support for your cause is to express a desire for the suburbs to burn.

the media has selected their spokesperson for the Milwaukee riots.

Yeah and if a white person said that, it would be all over the news as a hate crime, labeled a terrorist, and put on a list.

But in this case "Well the frustration of racial profiling and how the man has held us down for all these years justify it"

Fuck that noise. You know why there are no jobs in places like that? Cause they get robbed or burned down? As a business owner, what is your motivation to put a business there if you know it is going to be a constant headache. What is your motivation if you can't keep help just for the above reasons? And everybody in the damn neighborhood knows who the fuck did it, but the neighborhood won't fix itself. Cops come in to do their job, nope, they are just profiling and seeking out young black men.

Sorry if I seem insensitive, racist, or dumb on this. Sure there are corrupt cops. There are corrupt doctors, teachers, politicians, and business owners. I just don't understand the logic. We need jobs. We need money in our community. Something happened and we don't know all the facts. WEll fuck it, better go loot and burn shit down and then have our hands out for a hand out and free shit.

I just don't get it and probably never will.

Well, BRM, hopelessness, anger, and despair can do funny things to a psyche and lead one to recklessly do things that turn out to be counterproductive in the long term. For example, have you ever been so mad that you punched your own wall in your own house even though you had to fix the hole and risked hurting your wrist or breaking a bone, but you still did it?

I know I have.

you know you're going to fix it though after you do it

Why fix it? He'll just do it again.

you don't know you are going to fix it before you do it because you don't intend to put a hole in the wall before you hit it. You just act out and that is the result. Then you say fuck me, I just gave my wife something else to gig me about. It was her fault in the first place, but I can't tell her that. Let me go for a ride.

yeah I'm redoing a 500 sq foot deck with composite

every gap bewtween deckboards that is an 1/8 " off she spots
the slightest mis;level she spots

I want to punch a wall just thinking about what she put me thru saturday