The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) is supposed to maintain law and order in Baltimore, Maryland, a US city not far from Washington, DC. They are supposed to serve and protect and yet the president of the city council says they are more feared than drug dealers.
From 2010 to 2014, according to the ACLU, the BPD killed 31 people. In the state of Maryland as a whole:
- Of those killed, 41% were unarmed.
- An unarmed Black person was ten times more likely to be killed by police than an unarmed White person.
- An unarmed Black person was more likely to be killed than even an armed White person!
- Only 2% of killer cops were charged with a crime.
From 2012 to July 2014, the city received 3,048 complaints of police misconduct. Even the police themselves admit that 1,203 or 39% of these complaints are true – about two a day.
But even of the 1,203 cases the police admit to, most will probably never go to court – because citizens fear the police, because the civilian review board is toothless.
From 2011 to 2014, the city settled 102 cases for $5.7 million. That does not count the $5.8 million it spent defending itself in court. The cost – and punishment – is passed on to taxpayers.
The president of the police union blamed such cases on lawyers and “criminal elements” taking advantage of the courts.
Among the “criminals” were:
- a 15-year-old boy riding a dirt bike,
- a 26-year-old pregnant accountant who had witnessed a beating,
- a 50-year-old woman selling church raffle tickets,
- a 65-year-old church deacon rolling a cigarette and
- an 87-year-old grandmother helping her wounded grandson.
The police do not respect age, sex or the law.
The 87-year-old grandmother was Venus Green. She tried to stop a police officer from searching her house without a warrant. He shoved her against the wall and she hit the wooden floor. He stood over her and said:
“Bitch, you ain’t no better than any of the other old black bitches I have locked up.”
He arrested her, breaking her shoulder while putting her in handcuffs.
She settled with the city for $95,000 – on condition that she does not talk to the press about it. The city and police say they did nothing wrong – and yet will not talk to the press either. What we know comes from court records.
Yet, even when the city has to pay, the officer is often “exonerated” by the findings of the internal affairs department. That would be the same internal affairs department that did nothing when two officers beat up Abdul Salaam after a traffic stop. Three weeks later those same two officers beat up Tyrone West after a traffic stop – and killed him.
The police break bones, cause organ failure and even death. Their two favourite excuses:
- “I feared for my life.”
- “He was resisting arrest.”
As required by Maryland state law, there is little citizen oversight.
Much of Black Baltimore is a police state where the US Constitution no longer seems to apply.
– Abagond, 2015.
Sources: Baltimore Sun (2014), The Atlantic (2015), article on the ACLU study (2015).
See also:
- Michael Wood – retired Baltimore police officer
- Baltimore power structure
- Freddie Gray
- The extremely incomplete list of unarmed Blacks killed by police
- the police
- slave patrols
- The Wire – the BPD as imagined by White liberal screenwriters.
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I HATE THIS COUNTRY. CANT WAIT TILL WHITE PEOPLE FALL.
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Do they teach the cadets when they are in the academy to say “I feared for my life”?
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Jay said: “I hate this country. Cant wait till white people fall.”
Rest assured Jay, these Edomites (white people) will fall, without a doubt!
Obadiah 1:4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
This scripture refers to white people being arrogant and continuously “exalt themselves” above everyone else and with the Bald eagle being Amerika’s national bird. Also, “nest among the stars” referring to the space station. What’s currently going on in Amerika these days is already WRITTEN and they will fall according to the Holy scriptures!
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Abagond- you are like the Ida B. Wells of this era. Thank you for continuing to shade light on this subject matter. It’s so taxing and depressing. Yet I wanted to encourage you my brother, keep on keeping on.
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The cop hurt that sweet looking lady? Oh, hell no. I’d be seeing red and screaming possibly committing bloody murder if she were my grandmother. 😡
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wow that grandmother is amazing. she locked the cop in her basement after he did all this.
“This was my private home, and if I latched it, that was my prerogative because he had no search warrant to go in my basement. So, I had to right to latch it,” Green said
“I was once a block watcher, department head of a high school. (I’ve) been around education for over 50 years. (I’m a) law-abiding citizen, I’ve never been arrested, I paid my taxes, owned my home, my husband died 34 years ago. (I) raised my son and I have been brutally abused,” Green said. “I feel like the Police Department needs to go back to school.”
http://www.wbaltv.com/i-team/Woman-90-locked-officer-in-basement-settles-with-police/11028044
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“Bitch, you ain’t no better than any of the other old black bitches I have locked up.”
There are no surprises here. These are just the type of comments one should expect from officers who lack not just training, but more importantly, empathy and humanity. These are qualities that are not handed over to you simply because you successfully complete a police academy, wear a badge and carry a firearm. That’s too darn shallow. However, it’s something more innate and central to one’s heart. The heart is what calculates one’s behavior, humanize your deeds and regulate your level of empathy towards people all at once. It’s just too darn unfortunate that it’s impossible to also give police officers a GOOD heart after completion of the academy!
Ms. Venus Green, may God keep you and everyone else who’ve been terrorized by Baltimore’s gun toting and heartless Terror Force!
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The U.S needs land in Africa that’s why all these blatant police shootings are happening to stir an uprising in African Americans while a sitting Black President does nothing. There is an open discussion about how the global White Elites have lost the race in Africa. For 100s of years they have exploited Africa, even after ending colonialism they wouldn’t help Africans with development. But China who received help from U.S companies, who built industry in Communist China but wouldn’t do the same in Africa. Now China has defied Western powers by helping Africa with billions in infrastructure. This caused Africa to have 7 out of 10 of the fastest growing economies in the world back in 2000. The rise of Africa is now unstoppable and the fall of America is as well, unstoppable. So the U.S needs land in Africa and African Americans are being conditioned to see America as no longer viable for them. Outright abuses of power committed against them by the government, police and private institutions in the U.S. Don’t be surprised in the coming years that proposals will be started for placing African Americans in Africa like the poor Jewish people of Nazis Germany placed in the MiddleEast to create Israel and an excuse for the U.S to have a support state there. This same thing will be done with African Americans and civil war between West Africans and African Americans will ensue.
The U.S is in serious monetary problems as they owe China billions they can’t pay. There have been so many dollars printed up that the dollar has no value, that’s why prices are rising. Those of you doubting that economic collapse is imminent need only heed the CIA director’s recent warning about the economic war waged against the U.S by BRIC and how it will soon push the U.S into a great Depression. Anytime the CIA is predicting something it means they are setting the stage for an event. It is inevitable the U.S needs serious restructuring, the kind which requires a total overhaul which can’t happen without a chaotic suffering by her populace. Plus California is in a unprecedented drought right now. California produces 20% of the U.S food supply. Famine is coming to many parts of America and a fuel crisis as well when the U.S enters a war with Russia.
It is high time my people starting studying farming. How to plant crops and how to dig water wells, how to irrigate crops, how grow herbs for medicine. These and other survival skills will be needed to survive the coming depression. Like do you know how to start a fire to cook with? Do you know how to purify water? Do you know how to build shelter for your family? Do you own land in your family? Now is the time to be a coupe acres of land somewhere down South and start purchasing farming and gardening equipment. Start a library on farming, plants, herbs, tool making, and other independent skills. Those who excel at this will survive but millions in the U.S and around the world will die in the global recession. Heed the warning. Love, Sango.
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Oh no, another post on the repressive nature of the police! What I find strange about such missives is the lack of evaluation of the political infrastructure that allows these reigns of terror to continue. Baltimore and Ferguson are majority Black cities with black mayors and in the case of Baltimore, 9 out of the 15 City Council members are black. Why does the reign of terror continue without any of these leaders being held to account? Where are the pissed off citizens ready to make these good for nothings pay for their nonfeasance? It’s past time to continue to play the victim and blame these things on an abstraction like racism. Cops are employees who can and should be fired for their misdeeds, instead what we see is support and endless chatter about “training”. Why are blacks willing to endure the present situation? Abagond, I hope your next post will tackle this more complex situation.
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This is very interesting as I had no idea so many unarmed people have been killed in Baltimore. I think one thing that’s not been expressed in the media is that BPD is still about 46% white and 43% black, even though the city’s population is 28% white and 63% black (the disparity used to be much worse).
Of all the images I’ve seen related to these protests, this one made me sickest:
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@resw77
I thought you could easily get your hand on the stats. 🙂
Anyhow, based on what I read (and what I remember) about Prince George’s county in the 1990s, it was worse on every single count (eg, % of unarmed killed, # that died in police custody, the ratio of blacks that got killed, the ration of the police department, etc.) than the recent situation in Baltimore and for several years, even worse than Baltimore at that time.
Yet, I don’t recall any massive protest at that time.
What it tells me is that this situation is not actually worse now than it was 20 years ago. But we have social media now, so people around the world can find out the news.
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@gro jo
I will be doing a post on the Baltimore power structure. I hope to have it up on Thursday April 30th. The first drafts for this post and the one on Freddie Gray ended with stuff on it, but I decided to put it in a separate post.
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@ Jefe
PG county still seems to be pretty bad: it had 21 police killings to Baltimore city’s 31 from 2010 to 2014, making it the second worst county in Maryland in absolute terms.
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The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) is supposed to maintain law and order in Baltimore, Maryland,
They are enforcing the laws. The laws are just written with the goal of keeping white people superior. No one ever seems to want to address that fact, no matter how obvious it is. Because people like money and shiny things, so when some legislator or administrator writes a law with white supremacy in mind, they never explicitly say that it’s meant to protect white(middle to upper class/wealthy people who usually, no matter what race they are, are enamored with whiteness or identify with whites because they are taught to do that) interests because it goes without saying in most peoples minds- and no one wants to admit that they’re more comfortable with that than they let on Even or especially black people.. That’s why every time black people get money they move out of their countries or their neighborhoods and complain about racism but revel in their new found “status”. I don’t blame white people for taking what we give them in many cases.
White (upper class) people know that as soon as they give black people money we break our necks to give away to other people outside our community.
If one of us manages not to fall for that, then we’re usually ostracized or punished in some way, i.e. Lauryn Hill or Wesley Snipes. Let me get some money tomorrow. You think I would give a dime to the government? Especially when I don’t even live here to receive what I’m paying for? Apparently people think money they didn’t earn is theirs for the taking? Naw. I’d only pay voluntarily to keep them out of my face and leave me alone.
So what if a minority gets a leadership position? They’re still a minority, this is why I don’t get why white people act retarded when this happens- but whatever those ones are stupid. If the HNIC agrees with the status quo, that’s great he’s legitimizing a crooked system. If the HNIC tries to straiten a crooked system out they’re not a threat because hes in the minority anyway, they can always be overruled. If that minority manages to succeed they can be eliminated. Its happened to basically every person who’s attempted to seriously reform things. It’s why a lot of people are scared to do it now.
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@jefe
“I thought you could easily get your hand on the stats.”
No, I don’t follow what happens in Baltimore.
“Anyhow, based on what I read (and what I remember) about Prince George’s county in the 1990s, it was worse on every single count”
Right, and not that it’s only white officers who kill, but it’s worth mentioning that PG Co. is about 65% black and 15% white but the police department is only about 40% black but nearly 50% white…somewhat worse than the racial disparity in Baltimore.
“Yet, I don’t recall any massive protest at that time”
I wouldn’t discount the media effect.
Although a dozen unarmed men in Baltimore have been killed since 2010, why was Freddie Gray’s murder the one that sparked the protests? I think it’s because the media made a big deal out of this one, whereas the other cases were largely ignored if not buried. If the media brought attention to a police killing in PG Co, I think the same protests would’ve happened there as well.
I recall one instance elsewhere where the police refused to provide details as to a police killing and no local journalists followed the story…so it just sort of went ignored.
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Let me ask everyone on this thread, because I’ve suggested this and no one addresses it.
WHY DON”T WE JUST POLICE OUR OWN COMMUNITIES?
Lobby for that. Seriously. We have a lot of people coming out the military, the training wouldn’t be that expensive. All criminal gangs send members to the military to be trained from the White Supremacists to the Bloods and the Crips. Thats what many gangs and black nationalists did anyway. That’s what a lot what the media calls “gang violence” in Chicago and many inner cities is, lets keep it real. But several gangs like that Gangster Disciples DO perform services that the community needs and the police and the government are involved in the supply side drug trade and f.cking way. That’s why all our troops are in Columbia(700 of Them) and Latin American and Afghanistan or parts of the world where cocaine and opium grow and they’re guarding the workers who cultivate and farm it. Thats why Bush Jr was so keen to invade the one Middle Eastern country that doesn’t have very much oil but has A LOT of Opium.
That’s how his Daddy and Oliver North and their buddy CIA employee Panamanian Dictator Manuel Noriega made billions.
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The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan—a nation under the military control of US and NATO forces for more than twelve years—has risen to an all-time high, according to the 2013 Afghanistan Opium Survey released Wednesday by the United Nations.
According to the report, cultivation of poppy across the war-torn nation rose 36 per cent in 2013 and total opium production amounted to 5,500 tons, up by almost a half since 2012.
“This has never been witnessed before in the history of Afghanistan,” said Jean-Luc Lemahieu, the outgoing leader of the Afghanistan office of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which produced the report.
The U.S. military has allowed poppy cultivation to continue in order to appease farmers and government officials involved with the drug trade who might otherwise turn against the Afghan Karzai government in Kabul. Fueling both sides, in fact, the opium and heroin industry is both a product of the war and an essential source for continued conflict.
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Where do people think the heroin in pharmaceuticals like Oxycotin comes from anyway?That what the French Connection was. That’s why this stuff is back in the country. Sh.t the banks rake in millions from laundering drug money. And the FBI protects smugglers, probably because they all have ties to or work for the CIA and the Department of Defense
Before I get e crickets as a response I’ll tell you why this won’t happen-
Upper to Middle Class Black People. Do. Not. Want.To. Live and Work Together. With. Lower Class Blacks.
They’re ashamed of us, even though all our ancestors came from the same colonialism and slavery and many of them are enamored enough with white people to fight for white interests over black and arguably HUMAN interests.
That’s what Step and Pharell and Coonye and many of the entertainers namely Micheal Jackson are doing. They want to but their way into the white club, and its never going to happen, but they would rather waste a fortune and a lifetime chasing a pipe dream than moving back to and helping rebuild the communities that made their art and their rise possible.
Integration made black people lose out solidarity. And this is why this will keep happening, because a community that doesn’t support itself cannot protect and defend itself. All those black entertainers love to take blakc dollars but when they get to a certain level they forget where they came from.
They’re not responsible for the violence and corruption, not directly but they can do something about it and they choose not to. They’re rather point the finger at white people and scapegoat than take a hard look at the ways in which they are complicit because they benefit from White Supremacy even as it is manipulating and controlling them. then work with poorer community members for a solution because that would take the kind of effort and risk that being subserivent to white interests doesn’t. Priviledges protect the Middle to Upper Classes from the brunt of racism. I know from living in the EU. Most of the culturalism and racism there was directed at Africans and Eastern/Southern Europeans who MAY have been Islamic but were not always like in Polish and Romanian peoples case. I was treated pretty fairly because I was a black person coming from America.
Thats why I did everything I could to help and assist illegal migrants, even giving money when I barely had to sharing whatever resources I had access to because I know what that’s like for people. I wasn’t popping bottles in the club with racist Europeans except to get intel on programs and jobs that helped my Afron European friends. And I passed everything along to them.
Black people really don’t do this anymore, and we need to be honest about why we don’t and that’s my take on.
White people only do what we let them do. And they’re not obligated to help us because we’re not them. We are obligated to help each other, fatherlessness in the black community being the biggest example of that: Why would so many black men, who know the evils of the system, allow their children to be raised and brainwashed by it? The system can’t provide for them and protect them as well their fathers can- and yet!
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I’m not blaming anyone for this but I’d rather organize and defend against a this than complain about it.
I’d much rather deal with the problems of organizing the black community than the problems of that come from oppressing our community. That’s all I’m saying. And to be organised the people who have power have to take responsibility, not control, but responsibility for not living up to their roles as community leaders, role models and symbols. It’s an inter sectional too- in ALL ethnicities and races but I’m talking about the black community because that’s the one I’m apart of.
I brought up the government’s active role in the supply side of the drug trade to prove a point about how crime, corruption and violence are largely a American Cultural Phenomenon that institutionalized at all level but everyone in society likes to point to the poor like their own socio economic classes sh.t doesn’t stink. And that mess is the reason why this happens. Sociopath, Sadists, Psychopaths and other violent abusers only pick victims no one will punish them for abusing.
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People constantly talk about how white people have the advantage in their institutions and how we never get ahead.
INTEGRATION WAS A FAILURE AND IT SERVES WHITE INTERESTS AND KEEPS US OPPRESSED AND DIVIDED.
Let’s make our own institutions. For God SAKE! Our own police. Our own schools. Our own Hospitals. We already have some but we need more. Jewish and Muslim people do that for a reason and I would prefer religion no to be involved but whatever gets it done. The Black Panthers introduced the breakfast program, people steal black peoples ideas all the time because they’re good and they WORK. I hate the way balck people act as if any collective endeavor is doomed to fail. When really, we’ve done nothing but be successful! Like we f.cking excel at everything we do! Look at the Olympics. Any sport or time the playing feild is level. We can DO this. It wouldn’t be perfect at first but neither was White Supremacy. It took hundreds of years to get to where it is today and every problem we have, everyone who is non black has too(sometimes even worse than us.) but it would be better than this b.llsh.t all the time. I really feel that’s true.
Thats what I loved about travelling, even with the squabbles. I loved living with black people of different ethnicities and nationalities.
I miss us working together. I miss my friends even when they did things that hurt me or made me sad because they were hurting themselves.
I was a lot happier with my own people than I am without them.
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I only brought up the gangs because they’re not as bad as the government. IDGAF what anyone says now. I’m not going to join one or support one but lets be honest, gangs don’t use bioweapons, like vaccines and manufactures viruses to kill or permanently disable babies. They are the lesser evil to me at this point. And I’m not defending what they do either there’s just no comparison.
If black men and women supported and loved each other, together or with other people whichever( there are a lot of white and asian people that prefer black communities, just like there are black people that prefer non black communities but both are in the minority) we could defend and protect each other from this better than we are. The courts are back to Jim Crow Segregation levels again, people need to wake up and realize that.
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Brutalizing an elderly woman is just deplorable. Whoever that animal was that verbally abused that poor lady and physically abused her is an animal in my opinion.
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This is our generation’s struggle for civil rights _ to bring down these brutalizing so called servants of the law. To hell with the mainstream media calling the Baltimore uprising riots. Gray’s murder was the last straw. How else can the powerless and disenfranchised get their voices heard except to take it to the streets?
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I feel they policeman who were involved with Freddie Gray’s death will walk free.
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@mariareginacd
It depends on what you mean by policing ourselves. If you mean in the manner that the black panther party did, then it is likely such a movement would be labeled a terrorist act.
If you mean in the manner of having black police officers, then they can be just as racist in that they will take on the mindsets of those that trained them.
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@ sharinalr
It depends on what you mean by policing ourselves. If you mean in the manner that the black panther party did, then it is likely such a movement would be labeled a terrorist act.
I don’t care if it is. It needs to be done and other ethnicity gets to have their own police force. The Jewish people have their police, the Koreans and the Chinese have their own police.
I mean the government clearly doesn’t care about this stuff, so why are we looking to them for solutions when they’re a part of the problem, is how I feel. Like they’re not innocent at all. They’re goading this to control the population.
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@sharinalr
If you mean in the manner of having black police officers, then they can be just as racist in that they will take on the mindsets of those that trained them.
I did mean like the black panthers. Not like the black police officers that’s what I mean when I said we need to have our own institutions. That is a perfect example of why integration just does not work in America or anywhere really. the minorities just get brainwashed into working against their own interests.
If people are worried about violent reprisals…it’s pretty stupid to do now because they’re violent no matter what we do. I don’t care what people who do things like this label us as.
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@mariareginacd, you’ve posted an excellent commentary.
You are correct, white people take advantage and further oppress us as black people due to our internal divisiveness as a group. Some of us consider ourselves to be democrats, republicans, independents or as a member of the green party. We need to quit leaning on and expecting the intermingling of whites among us to be the answer. That hasn’t worked since this country’s inception and it won’t work within today’s volatile environment so don’t expect it to.
The main problem that’s afflicting black folks today is that we are essentially a POWERLES people. Power is the capacity of a person, team, or organization to influence others (Lethbridge.edu). Therefore, none of us should be fooled by having a black Mayor with four or five members of the city council being black as having power. Yeah, that may be a little power on a certain level but it’s restricted. It’s restricted so much so that you may as well deem what little power given to a Mayor as being impotent. As a Mayor, you lack the authority or power to effect an arrest of a police officer hat has obviously murdered an innocent constituent, but yet, a murderous cop remains on the city’s payroll. Hell, … a killer cop is even allowed to be home with his family while the victim is stretched out cold in the local morgue flooded with embalming fluid in preparation to be buried. Yes, indeed, we have a very EFFing sick white supremacy society masquerading itself as even tempered, fair and balanced democratic nation. And then you get white apologists and a few handkerchief wearing negroes making an appearance on either CNN or Faux News screaming some BS about due process for the officer and allow the so-called investigation to proceed with interruption.
Frederick Douglas once said the following about power: “A man without force is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted that it cannot honor a helpless man, though it can pity him, and even this it cannot do long if signs of POWER do not arise.”
We as black people must realize that power is something that is not given or handed over to you, instead, it must be taken. White people cannot do sh&t for us, therefore, don’t wait for them to act on your behalf. It’s not going to happen!
Currently, the white power structure exists behind a curtain. Meaning, real power exists within state legislatures where laws are enacted and at the Governor’s office with the power to veto or approve bills, not the illusionary power of the Mayor’s office.
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mariareginacd
It is not so much a matter of whether you care what you are labeled as it is a matter of caring what brought about that downfall. Looking to the black panther movement is a good thing, but we need to also look to what brought them down and be smarter. You know as well as I do that whites don’t want blacks to police their own. Nor do they want blacks to have anything that they did not have a hand in. Movement in the manner of black panthers needs to be calculated and highly organized.
As to the government, people have yet to learn not to trust them. Either that or they fear survival without them. I personally can’t remember the last time I gave a shyt about the government.
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You know as well as I do that whites don’t want blacks to police their own. Nor do they want blacks to have anything that they did not have a hand in. Movement in the manner of black panthers needs to be calculated and highly organized
I agree with you completely. I also think it should be unisex, interclass, interdenominational. Leadership should be 50% women and 50% men. And reflect ACCURATE population demographics. We’re a very diverse community, but so we the black Panthers that’s why they were considered threatening enough to be eliminating.
There’s better technology and social media, that can be manipulated but as Ferguson showed not as easily as the News Media. That’s why there’s all these laws in congress trying to restrict or take control of the internet. They do not want people talking to each other and exchanging information. I think it can seriously be done this time.
I would seriously rather try to organise and fail than accept the failures of integration any longer. And I’ve expressed openly despite the danger that it puts me in that we’re being targeted for genocide, so that we can be culled and reenslaved(wage subsidies, just pay for labor!). I feel like its now or never.
We have to resist this sh.t.
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As to the government, people have yet to learn not to trust them.
People are more afraid of the government than they admit. That’s how scary the US Government is: People are scared to even admit being afraid of it.
I think technology is a game changer or a kind of leveler at the very least. It evolves and adapts too quickly to be controlled. And the reason I speak out so much is because the Government wants what’s going to be kept secret. They’re counting on people being too scared.
They’re not the only or the most powerful Government out there. And they know the world is watching. That’s why they’re attempting to do all of this in a compartmentalized manner so it looks disorganized and not like its a part of a coherent campaign to drive us out of the cities-isolating us from view and limiting our access to resources and information, back into the fields. They’re already indoctrinating young people to accept the police as overseers anyway.
Like I don’t get how anyone can access the situation and see how the system is set up to do exactly what its doing. That’s why there’s no point in following or trying to reform it it was never meant to be fixed because its not broken. They just hide the agenda better now.
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@Sharinalr
There’s other methods I can think of doing too, both in an urban and a rural environment. Methods like micrography and cyphering, on a personal communication level.
I think being as vocal and open as possible us actually whats best. They’re going to what they do regardless and you can’t hide from them anyway. Might as well declare ourselves.
Besides its very easy to misdirect white people or mislead them. They do it to themselves and they’re not as educated or as intelligent as they let on. They don’t understand a lot of our humour or irony. Even if we explain it to them.
I have literally said “I’m going to do xyz.” To their faces. And they didn’t listen or believe me…until I did xyz. But by the time they realised what happened it was already done.
F.ck arguing with them, outmanuever them, they’re always trailing behind us, waiting for us to do stuff first anyways.
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@sharinalr
That’s why they hide stuff too. They know they can’t outsmart us. That’s why they lie, emotionally manipulate, or gang up on us or use force unnecessarily. They’re too afraid to fight,that’s why they handicap black children with vaccines and mind destroying drugs.
They’re afraid of our strength. That’s why they go to extremes immediately. They how strong we are, we were bred for strength and survival and they could never go toe to toe with us if it came to that.
And we don’t need them. They need us.
That’s why they’re so “superhuman” according to them, but they can’t stop obsessing over people they claim are subhuman and inferior to them.
They need us. And we don’t need them. And they hope we never realize it.
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White people are as dangerous as a domestic abuser is when their victim is fed up with them, and is getting ready to leave them. That’s the most dangerous time but that’s how close were are too. That’s why they’re so many if them are getting out of pocket.
You’re exactly right about them but they’re not as powerful as they act and like to think they are.
That’s why IDGAF about them either. F.cking cowards.
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@blakksage
If you only knew. I’m too smart for my own good and I’m not as afraid of them of them as everybody else. That’s why they’re trying to chemically lobotomise me, lol. All us actually but n.gg.s like me especially and first.
I know the score and I know who’s really winning. I know their playbook too.
It only has like two or three plays in It.
And they’re all b.tch moves.
This is survival season. And I’m not going back to fields to pick cotton again or to be slave industrial laborer or whatever b.llsh.t unpaid labor they want us to do. I’m resisting just speaking openly.
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Raycoon Lewis
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The opening words of Lewis’s coon message to the Black residents of Baltimore:
“No, way, no way…no way this can happen in our city.”
Why didn’t Raycoon send a video to the Baltimore Police Department on ‘Black Lives Matter’ or ‘Police Criminality Must Stop’.
Is this the same Raycoon Lewis that was charged with two counts of murder but struck a deal with prosecutors in exchange for his testimony against two of his companies? Yes it is.
Baltimore is like in other city in America – a White corporation that practices the highest form of White supremacy – White capitalism. Cities with large Black populations generate lots of income – mainly from citations and city court fees that Blacks receive.
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@Micheal Cooper
Justice is a business. Far from being a drain on the system, black people sustain the system.
Much as I love the NBA, I gotta call them out too. F.cking turned inside out jerseys? I seriously think they came up with that just to not look weak but they totally did! The Black Panthers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King would be proud. Like… they just went right out and made more money for that racist Jwhite man Donald Sterling, like it was nothing! And everyone was saying,” oh they don’t have a choice but to play it’s their job”when the master slave analogy couldn’t have been more apparent. I never understood that, I’m sorry.
That was the ONE time black men had leverage and they didn’t use it. None of those athletes do like Muhammad Ali, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos did. I really don’t buy excuse in 2010, do they like making racist white people richer than they already are? The entertainment industry I can kind of understand, but not sports. People will watch for the talent not the owners or the coaches.Like why can’t the NBA collectively just buy out their own teams or better yet start their own league.
That’s why SOME middle to upper class or aspiring to be middle or upper class black people just astound me.They call out other black people but they live, love and work for white people who treat them that way? Even the woman who Sterling was talking to on the tape was saying some crap about how “black people needed to do better” when she’s a Black Latina playing the bed wench for this old decrepit racist white man, and on the cheap from what I heard. Prostituting to old decrepit white peen is “aspirational” because he buys her designer clothes she can stunt in?
And I played basketball but that’s why I stopped playing. So many athletes have that mentality. I grew up in poverty too and I’m just not willing to degrade and destroy my body that way for a white man’s dollar.Especially in Basketball. It is so physically taxing and the stress injuries build up over time. At least Boxers rest for months between fights, basketball and football players just get patched up and go out every night on the court until the season ends. And even out of season they practice, practice, practice. They literally destroy their bodies in some cases, their family relationships suffer or get strained and for what? To make a rich white man richer?
I’m glad Sterling got called out because I’m not antisemitic but the Jewish people in and from NYC can be the most racist people you’ve ever met or the most anti racist people you’ve ever met-there’s really no in between.
Like to me, Obama and all those men fought to get to those positions of power to have power but for what reason exactly? To not use any of it apparently or to be able to get away with rape in Darren Sharper and Reggie Bush’s case. They’re protected by the powerful so they definitely serve their interests.
But I’m not going to talk about this anymore since I really do want to focus on solutions. I know white people read this board and they love nothing more than to see us tear each other down. To each his own. I’m just not going out that way.
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That was the ONE time black men had leverage and they didn’t use it. None of those athletes do like Muhammad Ali, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos did. I really don’t buy excuse in 2010
2015*
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@abagond
thanks for the stats.
I know that from 1990-2000, it was worse than Baltimore and in some years led the nation in that decade.
Here is an article written by Ta-Nehisi Coates back in 2001
(sorry for all the quoting, but I think it is relevant to police brutality in general, esp. in reference to majority black jurisdictions like Baltimore.)
(http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0106.coates.html)
Black and Blue:Why does America’s richest black suburb have some of the country’s most brutal cops?
Maybe this is one reason PG County has no money left to pay for its schools.
And some other points he raised:
So …..
Don’t expect change by diversifying the workforce.
Don’t expect change with wealth and affluence.
Don’t expect change with a Black president or black attorney general.
PG county has already shown that this does NOT WORK. Many of the victims brutalized by the police were middle-class blacks. This article was written 14 years ago.
The only think that will work is a change in the institutional system. This appears NOT to be on the Federal Government’s agenda.
And, I also have to put the onus on the rich and powerful BLACK elite for propping up a system that is designed to denigrate, dehumanize and even kill them.
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mariareginacd said: “It only has like two or three plays in It.
And they’re all b.tch moves.”
LOL, I feel ya MariaRegina!!! 🙂
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@ mariareginacd
In terms of corporate prostitutes, which are most of the Black athletes (and rappers) of today, you’re speaking to the choir.
Unfortunately, 99 percent of today’s Black athletes are racially, socially and economically unconscious. The Muhammad Ali of the 1960s – a man that I have the utmost respect for (just look at my primary picture profile, it depicts a 1967 Ali) – was racially, socially and economically conscious (at least, economically conscious in the NOI). Both Tommie Smith and John Carlos were conscious men, too.
Unlike Black athletes of today, many Black athletes in Ali’s heyday had each other backs when it came to the wrongdoings in the social and sports world. http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/russell-civil-rights.org
Many people (Black or White) would believe that the times have changed and that White racism/White supremacy is not overt as it was in Ali’s day. Yes, the times have changed and, to many people, White racism/White supremacy doesn’t seem overt. However, White racism/White supremacy is still overt, but you don’t notice it until it becomes vivid and pronounced in the form of police brutality.
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@Jefe
PG county has already shown that this does NOT WORK. Many of the victims brutalized by the police were middle-class blacks. This article was written 14 years ago.
The only think that will work is a change in the institutional system. This appears NOT to be on the Federal Government’s agenda.
THANK YOU! Like how much more obvious do they have to make it? They’ve been “promising” reforms for years. Meanwhile police brutality is increasing to the point that it’s being done openly and brazenly and the justice system is getting harsher on petty quality of life crimes, when black people commit them, always seeking felony convictions so that they can build more prison labor staffed food processing plants, like the have out in the Midwest, but at the same time they’re letting killers get away with murder in front of the whole world. Dehumanizing and polarizing blacks a the same time.
The next step is relocation and that’s what “gentrification” is doing in NYC and other inner cities.
Then we all know what the step after that is. The Nazis only sent the Jews to the gas chamber who couldn’t work. They wanted slave laborers for factories. That was the first thing the Nazi’s did whenever the invaded a country. Take people as slave laborers.
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@ mariareginacd
In terms of corporate prostitutes, which are most of the Black athletes (and rappers) of today, you’re speaking to the choir.
Unfortunately, 99 percent of today’s Black athletes are racially, socially and economically unconscious. The Muhammad Ali of the 1960s – a man that I have the utmost respect for (just look at my picture profile, it depicts a 1967 Ali) – was racially, socially and economically conscious (at least, economically conscious in the NOI). Both Tommie Smith and John Carlos were conscious men, too.
Unlike Black athletes of today, many Black athletes in Ali’s heyday had each other backs when it came to the wrongdoings in the social and sports world. http://i0.huffpost.com/gen/1109027/thumbs/r-TODAY-IN-HISTORY-MUHAMMAD-ALI-large570.jpg
Many people (Black or White) would believe that the times have changed and that White racism/White supremacy is not overt as it was in Ali’s day. Yes, the times have changed and, to many people, White racism/White supremacy doesn’t seem overt. However, White racism/White supremacy is still overt, but you don’t notice it until it becomes vivid and pronounced in the form of police brutality.
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Since this occurs in black majority places; it’s strange that essentially the riot’s are a wake up call that they actually need to vote and participate in the system on a local level.
Though since; this apparently happens even in places that are black majority with black majority police forces in well off neighborhoods.
Might be why they are more extreme in those neighborhoods, don’t want to take any chance of being “infested” by bad elements that are so common elsewhere.
Hasn’t even Bill O’Reilly did a thing where he said it was well past time that something was set up to deal with police brutality?
It’s pretty bad when someone whose basically a mouth piece for republicans is saying that.
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Many of us know that White supremacy is a system that White people use to dominate non-White people. The system of White supremacy is maintained by institutions and corporations, e.g., churches, schools, prisons, banks, professional sports, news networks, Hollywood, etc.
The highest form of White supremacy is White capitalism and its lowest form is extreme hate groups, like Neo-Nazis. Since the birth of White supremacy (probably the 15th century), Black people have been its number one victim. The enslavement of African people in the Western Hemisphere and the colonization and rape of Africa were done at the hands of White supremacy. As a global and complex system, White supremacy has destroyed and handicapped Black people, Black countries, Black communities, and Black businesses. In America, White supremacy has kept Black people broke, dependent, and divided. Constantly, right-wingers (White, Black or other) are telling Black people to stop blaming others and to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, like other ethnic groups. Historically, Black people have pulled themselves up by their torn bootstraps. Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Bruce’s Beach in Manhattan Beach, California are excellent examples. Both cities – Tulsa and Manhattan Beach – had successful Black residents and thriving Black-owned businesses. Unfortunately, Black people’s success in Tulsa and Manhattan Beach was met by White supremacy. So when right-wingers start the bootstrap crap its sounds, as Abagond puts it, self-serving and delusional. Unfortunately, the Black success in Tulsa and Manhattan Beach has NEVER been told in an American schoolbook, and, yes, it’s due to White supremacy.
I’m about 15 minutes away from Manhattan Beach, California, which is about 98 percent White. Manhattan Beach is located in the L.A.’s South Bay area. It’s known for its clear blue skies, fresh air and brown sandy beach. When Manhattan Beach was incorporated in 1912, no places on the southern California coast welcomed Black people. In fact, race-oriented, restrictive covenants prevented Blacks from moving to Manhattan Beach, except for a two-block area that one of the developers, George Peck, specially set aside for Black people. In 1912, Charles and Willa Bruce (entrepreneurs) became the first African-Americans to buy the land in the area. The neighborhood came to be known as Bruces’ Beach after the Bruces built a two-story resort, complete with a dance hall, cafe and fishing pier. Bruce’s Beach (resort) was a rare place where Black people could enjoy the Southern California shoreline. By the early 1920s Black families were able to buy properties near the Bruces’ beach resort and build their own summer or primary homes. This helped the area grow into an important fixture of Manhattan Beach’e Black community. The story gets muddy, y’all. As the value of coastal real estate increased, White hostility toward Black residents increased. Members of the Ku Klux Klan had garnered a local following who declared that Blacks who frequent Bruce’s Beach would no longer be welcomed in town. When Blacks refused to listen to the Klan’s threatening message the White hate group turned their intimidation tactics on the local Black residents. There were numerous cross-burning by the Ku Klux Klan. Black people risked being arrested if they went to public places elsewhere in the city after dark. In 1924, city officials (White supremacists) condemned Bruce’s Beach, and some White residents (upholders of White supremacy) pressured Black property owners to sell their land at prices below fair market value, the City of Manhattan Beach (a White corporation) seized the land under eminent domain. The Bruces and other Black residents sued the city. In gesture of at least partial fairness, the judge (a White supremacist) insisted that the plaintiffs be allowed to live elsewhere in the city, if not adjacent to the beach.
In 1927, Buce’s Beach was completely demolished, along with other cottages on the site. The Bruces received $14,500 and left the city. Other evicted Black residents moved to the small enclaves of Venice and Santa Monica (cities in L.A. county) whereas some moved back to the south-central corridors of Los Angeles. Unfortunately, the land was left vacant, essentially just a weedy sand dune through the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. By 1960 the vacant land was developed into a park and called Beach Front Park. In 1962 it was renamed Bayview Terrace Park, which was the winning entry in a community contest. In 1974 the park became known as Parque Culiacan Park in honor of Manhattan Beach’s first sister city in Sinaloa, Mexico. In 2006, after months of controversy, the City Council renamed the park in honor of the original land owners, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce, which is Bruce’s Park.
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http://wikimedia.org/2889867/Bruce-s-Beach-City-Park
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hey have you guys taken responsibility for anything that went wrong in your life or is it all about race and the white male that has made you life horrible and miserable? How mush bs in your life do you attribute to white men bringing you down?
just wondering
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Louis Farrakhan follower /
idownloadpicturesandpassthemoffasmbecauseimgenuine /
icutoffmyheadcauseimgenuine /
fakemormonwhoneedslove /
leroy
is banned for using sock puppets.
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Oh wow. I was way off. Kiwi was correct in that it was leroy.
You are good at calling it kiwi. Real good.
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@mariareginacd
Well said and I agree.
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I just came back from blocking and deleting this White conservative off of my Facebook for deflecting in the comment sections when I spoke about how police brutality affects working class and poor minorities especially poor and working class Black people. I am so glad that Abagond banned that LouisFarrakhanfollower troll off of this site because I am tired of them coming on here and deflecting the topic. Why come on a site or blog that you don’t agree with? Especially when the issue doesn’t have anything to do with them.
Centuries of generational poverty, institutionalized racism, classism and excessive force by the police is causing many Blacks across the country to lash out and riot and protest in Baltimore and in many areas around the country. Black people are getting sick and tired of being mistreated, overlooked, discriminated against and looked down upon in this country. And many people are tired of hearing and seeing young, Black men such as Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown etc and young Black women such as Rekia Boyd and Aiyanna Jones being shot and killed unjustly by the police.
I don’t agree with their method of looting and tearing down public and private property because I don’t believe that tearing down your own communities wouldn’t solve any problem in our communities. Especially when it wouldn’t do them any good at the end of the day. However, they have the right to free speech and express themselves and protest against the racism and classism and unjust murders of young, Black people.
Though, I don’t approve of this looting, I understand the frustration of many low income Blacks who are living in this country even though I don’t live in the ghetto or hood.
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I don’t agree with their method of looting and tearing down public and private property because I don’t believe that tearing down your own communities wouldn’t solve any problem in our communities.
Have you heard of scopalamine? Columbian Devil’s Breath?
http://www.vice.com/video/colombian-devil-s-breath-1-of-2
I don’t think many of those “looters” are from Baltimore. Or even Looters. I think they’re “crisis actors”. Every time black people protest some random people start causing a ruckus to distract from the real issue because…that’s what they were hired to do. Cause chaos, and disrupt movements. That’s a pretty old way of dividing and destroying grassroots/dissenters/oppositional movements. I notice the looters from Ferguson weren’t even from that community. I’m sure many of them were just criminal opportunists but a percentage of them were probably sent out by some group or person to do just that. There are even drugs that the government experiments with, like scopalamine, that can make people do those things.
I mean…who really has the time to be like” There’s civil unrest going on somewhere? Let me haul a.s over where it’s happening just to see what I can score! With no worry or threat to my own personal safety. Let me break my neck to get caught up in this crossfire”. I know there are people who think like this but…the media is very manipulated and I just don’t think it’s as many people are we’re seeing. Most people have jobs and a life and even broke unemployed criminals usually go for low hanging fruit. They’re not just going to up and decide to go wherever there’s social unrest to get some material goods. Depending on where they’re coming from that would be a waste of time, gas money, and bus fare.
I notice the rioting in Ferguson coincided with that shooting finally getting mainstream media attention too. Because for awhile it was only on social media. Then when it’s mainstream news, suddenly there’s all these looters on the scene? The timing was just too coincidental, especially with how the mainstream media did their best to avoid covering it because the police were arresting reporters, and city assembly members who were protesting, surely they couldn’t have been mistaken for looters? None of the people on twitter mentioned the looting, They did mention the police shooting at the crowd of unarmed people resisting the curfew. They did mention reporters getting arrested. They did mention and I saw videos of police turning cameras away from them or ordering reporters to at gunpoint. But not much looting was going on. Then once the issue became national news suddenly there’s all these looters everywhere.
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because I don’t believe that tearing down your own communities wouldn’t solve any problem in our communities.
Most of the people wouldn’t do that. That’s why I feel like the “looting” is fake and it’s just a performance being used to distract from the main issue.
At least that’s my take on it.
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http://www.infowars.com/army-seeking-crisis-actors-for-ohio-military-drill-in-june-ahead-of-jade-helm/
I know a bunch of conspiracy websites talk about this so it sounds so sketchy but…actors are hired to do things like this all the time. To attend political rallies and shout slogans. Many of the people you saw on talk shows were/are just actors playing a character. Most actors don’t get mainstream recognition and if they do tapes are lost or footage is erased. Even day players and extras actually make a good living. If you’re just in it for the money you don’t mind playing a welfare queen baby Momma who doesn’t know the father of her kids or a criminal ruffian looting a city. It’s just a job after all.
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As a kid I attended a demonstration with my youth group and the person who brought us there got paid for it. Many pastors at churches will use their congregations this way. The leader of our religious youth group got paid to bring us there, but we were told it was a field trip and it was fun. I mean we got a free hotel stay, meals, toys and prizes, a free trip to a different city, but we were basically being hired out by our youth group leader to do that.
And I was seven at the time so I don’t even remember what the demonstration was about I just think back on it now and realize it wasn’t a “field trip”.
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I mean, the problem with acting is it’s very unpredictable and time consuming, there’s not many jobs that let you leave to go to auditions at the drop of a hat. And the few there are are very competative so oftentimes you have to take whatever work you can get rather than the work you want to get. So in terms of who has the most time on their hands to go “looting”….out of work actors who are being paid would be a very likely answer. I know unemployed people have a lot of time on their hands but…you do actually have to have acting experience to be an extra or a day player. Extras get $300 or more daily IF they’re hired.
IF they’re not they get nothing, not even travel reimbursementso most unemployed people would rather interview for jobs that pay less but are more likely to hire them than go to auditions and cattle calls where everything is based on the luck of the draw. That’s why I think this “looting” is fake too.
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I am praying Marilyn J. Mosby can secure justice for Freddie Gray.
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@ Mary
Me too.
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@ gro jo
I have not forgotten about the post on the Baltimore power structure. It will probably go up tomorrow.
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Six officers have been charged in connection with Freddie Grays murder. I can’t get too excited because if it end like all the others before them and it’s business as usual, meaning they walk free. I won’t hold my breath.
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@pumpkin: Yep
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Charges that don’t lead to convictions and sentences are worthless.
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The president and others want to make out like it is just a few bad apples, that NOT ALL cops are “rogue cops”. YET when the police protect the murderers within their ranks, they become party to the crime.
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@ Pumpkin
I sent Adeen your address.
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@ Jefe
Thanks for the Ta-Nehisi Coates quotes and link on police brutality in PG county. I would like to do posts on police brutality in PG county and in a White suburban county. If you know of any good online sources or have any insights yourself, that would be helpful.
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The stiffest charge “depraved heart murder” that is an apt description of these murdering thugs with badges in uniforms. Most of them from George Zimmerman to the murderers of Eric Garner choking him on live camera footage for the whole world to see have depraved hearts. And now Freddie Gray with his severed spine and those dogs wouldn’t get him medical attention when he was in distress. Yes “Depraved Heart Muder” is the accurate description for these murdering thugs.
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@pumpkin: Yes, they always demonize the dead black man with character assassination.
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@Marina
No, I haven’t heard of Colombian’s devil breath.
And I don’t agree with the way Blacks in Baltimore and Black communities across America are looting stories and setting fire to buildings and stores in their own communities. It doesn’t do them any good because why destroy your own communities when you can band together to challenge the system.
Why not build an economic infrastructure that supports the individual needs of the community? Or build a real political self government for your communities unlike opportunists like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson?
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And I don’t agree with the way Blacks in Baltimore and Black communities across America are looting stories and setting fire to buildings and stores in their own communities.
I don’t think the people doing most of that are from Baltimore. Or any of the communities that stuff is happening in, but that’s my take on it. The timing is just too convenient in Ferguson and this case.
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re abagond’s point:
It should be obvious that in every case, including Cleveland, North Charleston, Baltimore, etc., it is the problem of just a few cops not acting properly.
Even the DOJ probe in Ferguson does not point any problems to the general problem of police brutality, but the discriminatory behaviour of a few individuals in the Ferguson government. The general institution stays intact.
Yet, blacks are painted as having no respect for property in general.
Should the president be viewed as being party to the crime if he fails to mention or identify problems with policing methods and philosophy in general?
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@abagond
Comparing police brutality in West Baltimore to a black middle class county and a majority white suburban county might be revealing. PG was very unique that as it became blacker and wealthier, its police brutality got markedly worse, even worse than Baltimore’s for a while.
Maybe comparing Baltimore to PG county to either Montgomery or Howard in MD might make sense, since they are close to each other and can be considered as coming from the same region of the country. Montgomery and Howard are in the top 10 wealthiest countries in the nation, and are actually fairly racially mixed, with significant numbers of Asians, Blacks and Latinos, but many of the brain drain variety. (Montgomery is 49% white, 17% black, 14% Asian and 17% Latino).
I am trying to understand the situation myself, so I wish I knew where information sources might be. I will let you know if I find any.
Maybe we should first look at the DOJ probe report on PG that they did back in 2000? We should know at least what the DOJ found as the problem back then and what action PG took to address it.
Of course, as someone who grew up in PG and had family living there until the 2000s, I have my own personal point of view. PG’s desegregation plan in the 1970s had major impact there which still shows its effects today.
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Any advice for ex-MD Governor ex-Baltimore mayor Martin O’Malley? Are his chances to run for President shot?
I think that if he is smart, he could turn the current events into his favour, given his intimate knowledge of Baltimore and the protest against policies which were established during his tenure as mayor. He has to admit mistakes that need to be corrected.
BTW, O’Malley was the mayor during the time period covered by the TV show “The Wire”
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@ Jefe
I hope to God that O’Malley does not run. His solution to crime was to arrest as many Black people as he could. He had no regard for Black people or the US Constitution or even simple honesty.
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http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/5/1/class-not-race-the-engine-of-police-harassment-in-baltimore.html
…the stats seem to indicate race bias even if the title says no..?………
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Why does NPR like to pin the problem in Baltimore to Black-Asian tension?
Baltimore Unrest Reveals Tensions Between African-Americans And Asians
(http://www.npr.org/2015/04/30/403231749/baltimore-unrest-reveals-tensions-between-african-americans-and-asian-owned-busi)
Jeff Yang’s commentary:
(http://us.cnn.com/2015/05/01/opinions/yang-asians-black-baltimore/index.html)
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@ Jefe
Last night on Fox News, Juan Williams was blaming it on the breakdown of the Black family.
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@abagond: No what would Juan Williams know about the black family? He didn’t marry a black woman. IJS.
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Juan Williams statement about the breakdown of the black family is a fatuous statement. Of course what can you expect from one of FOX’s crazy talking heads.
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Juan Williams is a coon and sellout.
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When Rand Paul make the same statement, he was accused of “whitesplaining”. But at least Rand Paul admits that he is not that aware of issues facing “minority” communities and hired a group of African-American advisers to brief him.
But when Juan Williams does that, is that called “whitesplaining”? Anyhow, “whitesplaining” is what whites do to blacks and POC, but Williams’s audience is obviously white people.
Besides, who is responsible for the breakdown of the black family? What happened to black male baby boomers in those neighborhoods? (that is a rhetorical question).
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[…] The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) is supposed to maintain law and order in Baltimore, Maryland, a US city not far from Washington, DC. They are supposed to serve and protect and yet the president of the city council says they are more feared than drug dealers.From 2010 to 2014, according to the ACLU, the BPD killed 31 people.Continue reading… […]
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Just Read
(http://news.yahoo.com/justice-department-to-investigate-baltimore-police-for-civil-rights-violations-133949380.html)
Justice Department to investigate Baltimore police for civil rights violations
“Investigators will examine whether Baltimore police engage in practices that violate the Constitution or federal law.
“This investigation will begin immediately and will focus on allegations that Baltimore Police Department officers use excessive force, including deadly force; conduct unlawful searches, seizures and arrests, and engage in discriminatory policing,” she (Baltimore mayor Loretta Lynch) said.”
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Correction:
Baltimore mayor Loretta Lynch
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U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch
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In 2013 Baltimore had 333 homicides, a rise of 7.3% from the previous year. Baltimore posts a murder rate of 37.9 per 100,000. 90 percent of the murder victims are black, and about 90% of the suspects are black. Do the math. A black man is a lot safer among white police than among his own “soul brothers.”
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[…] The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) is supposed to maintain law and order in Baltimore, Maryland, a US city not far from Washington, DC. They are supposed to serve and protect and yet the president of the city council says they are more feared than drug dealers.From 2010 to 2014, according to the ACLU, the BPD killed 31 people.Continue reading… […]
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What do you think of the above sources which debunk this post, Abagondar?
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@Kevin Orff
What you posted was a conversation on a forum that did not debunk this post. Nice try though 😉
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Reblogged this on ?verything!.
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