Facing the Truth in the 21st

[Billy_Kinetta]

New data shows that far-right vigilantes, often with support from cops, have threatened protesters nearly 500 times since police killed George Floyd.



A U.S. Army sergeant, who had previously posted tweets about targeting Black Lives Matter activists, shot and killed a protester in Austin, Texas.

Black Lives Matter protesters marching through a rural part of Bedford County, Pennsylvania, say a white man opened fire on them at night, striking one protester in the face.

A man in Iowa City, Iowa, allegedly drove his car into a crowd of protesters and, according to a criminal complaint, later justified the attack by telling police the protesters needed “an attitude adjustment.”

Ross said his dataset includes about two dozen incidents of vigilantes receiving approval or support from law enforcement. A sheriff in Arizona, for example, announced he would form a “civilian posse” to help “suppress lawlessness” during a time of “widespread unrest.”

In California, a sheriff’s deputy was spotted wearing a “III Percenters” militia patch on his uniform while policing a protest. And in Portland, Oregon, cops let the neo-fascist gang the Proud Boys attack protesters in the streets.

Disturbing images also emerged of police cozying up to far-right activists: A cop in Georgia was photographed fist-bumping an armed militia member, and cops in Philadelphia posed for a friendly photo with vigilantes who roamed the city’s streets with baseball bats.

Still more stories emerged this summer of cops themselves relishing violence against protesters.

A police chief in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, was suspended for two weeks after writing a Facebook comment encouraging people to drive their cars through Black Lives Matter demonstrators.

“HIT THE GAS AND HANG ON FOR THE SPEED BUMPS,” he wrote.

And in Wilmington, North Carolina, three white police officers were fired after being caught on camera using racial slurs while discussing massacring Black protesters.

“We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them fucking N words,” one officer said.

“Wipe ’em off the fucking map,” the same officer said. “That’ll put ’em back about four or five generations.”

Escuse eh mwa, but red fonts are reserved for the USMB popo.

Now he'll be screaming about moderator supremacy.

 

[Natural Citizen]

I spent last weekend in Lancaster, and noticed quite a few more Trump lawn signs than Biden.

I like going up that way, very nice area.

 

[eagle1462010]

 

[eagle1462010]

Fascists stick together. Makes them pretty easy to spot.

Yes, that is true. Thanks for being so obvious.

Yes you love the police no matter how crappy they are.

Sorry we don't negotiate with terrorists..........or those trying to justify their BS.

BURN LOOT AND MURDER........their lives don't matter to me anymore.........take your psy op slogan and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.

 

[ninja007]

Fascists stick together. Makes them pretty easy to spot.

Yes, that is true. Thanks for being so obvious.

Yes you love the police no matter how crappy they are.

Boy are you wrong. I post videos of cops abusing their power all of the time. I was one of the first to call the cop kneeling on Floyd's neck a murderer.

What I know to be true is the training cops get is poor, thanks to the progressive movement. What I do know is they are not supported at the political level by politicians who put them in shitty situations, take away their ability to do the job properly, and won't pay for the training they should have.

What I do know is 10 percent of them are scum. Criminals with a badge, just like in any profession on Earth. They need to gotten rid of, but the rest of them are good, hard working people doing the crappiest job in this country with little support.

The police are by definition a fascistic organization and attract authoritarian types as members and supporters. To scrutinize their every action and protesting their mistakes and wrongdoings is patriotism in it's purist form. The unconditional support of the far right for brutal police tactics against people of color is a sure sign we have a fascism problem in America. Are you going to be part of the problem?

more whites are killed by police; also why do you ignore a much much bigger issue? black on black crime, killing hundreds every month?