You been vaccinated yet?

 

OOOPS Chauvin is now facing federal charges for the same shit in 2017. That one was for 17 minutes and there were 18 complains against Chauvins useless ass that were not allowed in court but they did allow for Floyd's past to be used against him, abusing a 17 year old should have gotten his useless ass fired but he stayed on the job. Maybe now this cocksucker will go to prison for all of his life and have no chance of parole, this is why we nee police reform.

 

Yes indeed!
Chauvin, we can be pretty confident, will die in prison, one way or the other.
But fuck that! We still need POLICE REFORM to get that cocksucker.

 

I hope folks are open to the possibility of Criminal Reform too ??
So many egregious police wrong-doings could be prevented if criminals comitted fewer crimes !

 

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If you believed the conservative/Republicans around here you would think that BLM protesters and Antifa are the same groups and they are rioting and burning US cities coast to coast. But most of us know better than to believe treasonous conservative/Republicans that only do that to try and distract from their violent insurrection and attempted coup.

Let's take a look at how the Chauvin verdict was really received among social justice protesters.

'GUILTY!' Across the US, cheers fill city streets after Derek Chauvin is convicted in the death of George Floyd

From Minnesota to New York to Florida, Americans triumphantly flooded streets Tuesday to celebrate and mark the moment when former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted in the death of George Floyd.

The largely peaceful demonstrations came as cities across the country prepared for possible violence that cropped up sporadically in last year's protests after Floyd's death, a landmark incident that sparked a reckoning in the U.S. over racial inequities and police brutality.

Some cities had already activated the National Guard as the Chauvin verdict loomed; others declared states of emergency.

Chauvin, who is white, was found guilty by a jury on all three charges in the death of Floyd, who is Black. He was convicted of second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. He could face decades in prison at his sentencing in eight weeks; at a minimum as a first offender, he likely faces 12.5 years. His lawyers are likely to appeal the verdict.

Floyd was accused of using a counterfeit $20 bill last summer and was seen on video being pinned to the ground by Chauvin's knee for more than 9 minutes.

Minneapolis: Celebration outside courthouse, some residents flee city
A hush stretched over the dozens crowded outside the Hennepin County courthouse as the verdict was read.

“GUILTY!” the crowd yelled. “All three!”

Horns begin blaring across the city as the crowd chanted Floyd‘s name. “Say his name! GEORGE FLOYD!” Some cried and hugged at George Floyd Square, the site of Floyd's death.

Jennifer Starr Dodd, an organizer with Our Village Reunion, was in tears, embracing friends who were encouraging her to drink water. Her legs were shaking. She said the verdict gave her hope and allowed her to feel ready to heal. She called it a signal that her life and her children’s lives matter.

'This means everything': Minneapolis joyfully chants George Floyd's name after Derek Chauvin is found guilty of murder

“I’m in shock,” she said, minutes after the verdict was read. “We matter, you know, they see us and they see our pain. Today is the beginning of the healing work.”

Ahead of the verdict, some residents left the city – which had been the center of protests and riots after Floyd's death. When the court announced that a verdict had been reached Tuesday and would be read later in the afternoon, a flood of office workers left downtown, their vehicles jammed into the streets.


Thousands of police and members of the National Guard were activated, and Guard troops carried unloaded rifles at key intersections in Minneapolis. Downtown Minneapolis was largely boarded up.

Los Angeles: Flashpoint of 1992 LA riots becomes a place of celebration
In 1991, four Los Angeles police officers brutally beat motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles. Next week will mark 29 years since the intersection of Florence and Normandie avenues became a flashpoint for violence after the King verdict came down.

On Tuesday, the intersection was a place for celebration in the wake of Chauvin’s guilty verdict. A racially diverse group of several dozen people gathered to praise the jury’s decision and to call for continued accountability.

A Black man in a Los Angeles Lakers cap danced on the street corner, chanting: “Get used to this, get used to justice!”

Passing cars blared their horns as demonstrators waved signs and Black Lives Matter flags. Music and the smell of fresh tacos were in the air.

“Justice has been done,” said Sherri Burks, 52, as a man walking by added “finally!”

Burks lives around the corner from Florence and Normandie and recalled the 1992 riots.

“I was right here,” she said. “Burning everywhere, stores getting busted up.”

Randy Dulaney, 62, of Pasadena, California, lived not far from the intersection. He came back to visit an aunt Tuesday and went to the intersection to join the celebration and “to show love back to the neighborhood.”

“Today, we have more power,” Dulaney said. He wore a cap embroidered with “I can’t breathe” and a T-shirt with pictures of late civil rights leader and U.S. Congressman John Lewis.

Portland, Oregon: Multiple people arrested as police declare unlawful assembly
Portland and the rest of Oregon saw vigils, peaceful protests and more violent demonstrations in the days, weeks and months that followed Floyd's death.

Tuesday's protest, which followed the police killing Friday of Robert Douglas Delgado, saw nearly 100 people marching in the streets to “celebrate George’s life” and go “all out for Duante Wright,” according to KOIN.

Some began spray painting buildings. Portland police said that several broke windows and declared an unlawful assembly, arresting multiple people, according to The Oregonian.

Mayor Ted Wheeler declared a 24-hour state of emergency after unrest Monday, allowing him to impose a curfew and take other measures if unrest occurred.

New York: Dozens rally for Floyd

Dozens of people marched from Times Square through Midtown Manhattan, snaking through the streets repeating the names of Black Americans killed by police.

“Whose streets? Our streets,” the group chanted.

A few dozen New York police officers followed closely as the group moved. At one point, the group stopped in the middle of an intersection and knelt down. “One conviction is not enough,” a man said over a loudspeaker as horns honked.

Derek Chauvin found guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd

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Atlanta: Protesters armed with long guns take to streets
Several dozen protesters holding portraits of George Floyd and large flags with the words "BLACK LIVES MATTER" marched through the streets calling for changes and celebrating the verdict.

The demonstrators gathered at a mural of Floyd in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood. Some chanted "guilty, guilty" and many carried signs reading, "Jail killer cops now." A few, wearing all-black outfits, carried handguns and rifles.

More:What are the odds Derek Chauvin is successful in appeal of guilty verdict in George Floyd murder?

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Columbus police officer fatally shot someone while responding to an attempted stabbing call. The shooting occurred just as Chauvin was found guilty.

Police received a 911 call at 4:35 p.m. about an attempted stabbing. The caller reported a female was trying to stab them, then the caller hung up. Officers went to the home and 10 minutes later, the person had been shot and killed by an officer.

Hazel Bryant, who said she was the aunt of the victim, told the USA TODAY Network that the person killed by police was a 15-year-old girl. The girl lived in a foster home there and got into an disagreement with someone else at the home, she said.

More:Columbus police shooting updates: Aunt says teen girl killed; crowd protests

Bryant said her niece had a knife, but maintained that the girl dropped the knife before she was shot several times by a police officer.

Protesters with Black Lives Matter signs, megaphones and a loudspeaker joined the crowd gathered behind crime scene tape about a half-block away from the shooting scene. About 50 people had gathered by 8:30 p.m.

"We don't get to celebrate nothing," K.C. Taynor said through a megaphone of the Chauvin verdict. "...In the end, you know what, you can't be Black."

Kiar Yakita of the Black Liberation Movement said she was not surprised that another police shooting happened.

"Why did they kill this baby?" she asked aloud.

Mike Fair, 63, brought an amplifier and a microphone, and expressed his anger, suggesting, "there should be an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."

Washington, D.C.: Bob Marley music and celebrations outside the White House
Several dozen protesters rallied at Black Lives Matter Plaza, across the street from the White House, to celebrate the verdict. The gathering featured Bob Marley tunes and smiling protesters.

Meika Polanco, 48, said she wished more people came out to celebrate the verdict at the plaza: "Everyone has to mark this moment in their way."

She and friend Jenny Baca, 38, have been attending protests since June but stopped coming after Joe Biden became president. The guilty verdict in the Chauvin trial brought them out.


"It's a first step," Polanco said. "It shouldn't have taken this much to get one conviction, but we're thankful for it. We're hoping it's the beginning of a sea change.

"Like his family said, justice would be George Floyd is alive. We're not going to celebrate putting one more person in prison, but we are going to celebrate that the people on the jury saw what the rest of the world saw."

The plaza was a central area for protests after Floyd's death last year and is home to the intersection cleared by law enforcement before President Donald Trump's infamous photo op with a Bible outside St. John's Episcopal Church, which was damaged by a fire during the protests.

“I was overjoyed. I was overwhelmed,” said Cheria Askew, 43 a Norfolk, Virginia, native who has lived near Washington since an Army assignment stationed her at the Pentagon. “There were mixed emotions. I didn’t know what the verdict would be. I was expecting just a not guilty on the murder charges and at least just him getting the manslaughter charges.

“For him to be guilty on all three charges, that’s big.”

Florida: Activists feel relief and a 'small victory'
The unanimous decision by the jury has been viewed as a sign of progress by many allies and activists around Florida.

"We can taste justice in America today," said Sarasota activist, mother and Black Lives Matter Manasota board member Sarah Parker. She called the verdict a "small victory in a very long battle" for racial and social justice.

"Having justice served in a system that we have little or no faith in, it is surprising," Parker explained. "This conviction does remind us why we are in this fight. As a Black woman, with children, sometimes we need that refresher, these moments, to remind us why we're doing this."

Francine Julius Edwards, a local community activist involved in civil rights and voting rights, organized a demonstration in central Florida last year after George Floyd was killed.

“It was exhausting, and it felt like Black people were on trial proving their humanity,” she said Tuesday in reference to the lengthy Chauvin trial.

And though Cynthia Slater, head of the Daytona Beach NAACP, said that though the verdict "has been a long time coming," that "it's just the beginning of what we need to see in law enforcement and policing."

Petersburg, Virginia: Racial inequity hasn't suddenly been solved, community says
Initial reaction from Petersburg area leaders and citizens is that while they applaud the verdicts as correct, that does not mean that racial inequity in justice has suddenly been solved.

Lafayette Jefferson said Tuesday's events made him feel happy, but cognizant. The verdict may seem like a victory to many, but Jefferson, the Petersburg NAACP president, questions the legitimacy the decision will have in future cases.

“During the George Floyd trial, young Black men were still being killed,” Jefferson said. “It’s not going to change anything for them and their family.”

Petersburg resident Jhovan Galberth, one of the driving forces behind the city's peaceful protests last year, said the verdict revalidated not only the peaceful protests in Petersburg, but all of them across the country that led the call for reform.

"This is a short celebrated victory," he added. "We still have more work to be done."

Montana: A verdict that hits home
Because Native Americans are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system and are victims of police brutality, for many in Montana, Tuesday's verdict hit home.

Though Indigenous people account for 6.6% of Montana's population of about 1 million, they make up 17% of the adult incarcerated population in the state, according to the ACLU of Montana. Native Americans also experience higher rates of police violence.

Erica Shelby, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, said her stomach was in "knots" all morning awaiting the verdict. She thought of Emmett Till, who was lynched in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, and King, an activist who was beaten by Los Angeles police officers in 1991.

"I was really anxious," Shelby said. "But when the verdict was out, I just screamed. Thank goodness. This happens time and time again, we have police violence against minorities and people are found not guilty all the time."

Melody Bernard, a Chippewa Cree tribal member who organized a Black Lives Matter protest in Havre last summer, said the guilty verdict is proof that activism works.

"Seeing this and seeing everyone who participated in the protest last summer, it's like, 'Hey, look our voices do matter!'" she said. "We all watched a man die. Someone's father, someone's brother. It could be any of our relatives. So if we don't stand up, no one will."

Contributing: Elinor Aspegren, Ryan Miller, Trevor Hughes, Daniel Wolken, Chelsey Cox and Gabe Lacques of USA TODAY; Mark Ferenchik, The Columbus Dispatch; Samantha Gholar Weires, Sarasota Herald-Tribune; Kristi K. Higgins, Tamica-Jean Charles, Sean Jones and Bill Atkinson, The Progress-Index; Nora Mabie, Great Falls Tribune; The Associated Press.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...rek-chauvin-nation-reacts-verdict/7308287002/

 

Over a year of almost continuous rioting and lawlessness by BLM and antifa.

One 4 hour riot.

And according to stumbler despicables keep wanting to talk about a year of BLM and antifa riots to distract from one 4 hour riot.

The propaganda chief is indeed a master liar and hypocrite.

 

First: The BLM protests were 97%peaceful (some of the problems with property damage was done by ‘proud bois’ et al)
Second: Jan 6 2021 Was an attempted coup calling it anything else (except insurrection) is an attempt to rewrite history

 

Was not an attempted coup, even MSM isnt calling that...they call it a riot...do you really think a couple a hundred hillbillies thought they could overthrow the United States govt?...It was a fucking protest/riot...

Yet the nightly riots, destruction of property public and private, autonomous zones, that have been going on across the nation for months are peaceful protests and damage done is cause by proud bois and not BLM/antifa...is that what your saying?

 

First Chauvin Juror Speaks Out: I Saw No Remorse in His Face
https://www.thedailybeast.com/derek...ys-he-saw-no-remorse-in-ex-cops-face?ref=home

 

George Floyd Riots Caused Record-Setting $2 Billion in Damage, New Report Says. Here’s Why the True Cost Is Even Higher

Foundation for Economic Education, September 16, 2020

Even beyond face-value insurance costs, riots leave a lasting shadow on a city that haunts its economy for decades.

When George Floyd died while in police custody in late May, most agreed his premature death was a tragedy. Yet the discussion on criminal justice reform that emerged in the weeks after Floyd’s passing was quickly overshadowed by the rioting, looting, and violence that broke out in major cities such as Minneapolis, Seattle, and New York.

Dozens of people were killed or injured in the violent unrest, and thousands of businesses and properties, many minority-owned, were looted, torched, or otherwise vandalized. Only now are we beginning to realize the full cost of the destruction. New reporting from Axios reveals that the total insured property losses incurred during the George Floyd riots will come in at $1 billion to $2 billion.

The US has experienced rioting over racial tensions before, but this report shows that the damage from the latest unrest will far exceed any historical precedent.

“The arson, vandalism and looting... will result in at least $1 billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims,” Axios reports. “[This will] eclips[e] the record set in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of the police officers who brutalized Rodney King.”

However, there are many reasons that this figure vastly underestimates the true damage wrought by the looting and violence that has broken out in recent months.

For one, the Axios report only measures insured losses. The obvious problem here is that not all the damages were insured...

Indeed, 75 percent of US businesses are under-insured and about 40 percent of small businesses have no insurance at all. Their untold millions in losses don’t show up in the $2 billion figure.

So, too, insurance doesn’t account for the personal pain and suffering caused by rioting. For example, what about the more than 15 people who died during the unrest? Their lives and their families’ pain don’t get counted in any insurance company’s budgetary analysis. Nor does the pain of those such as an elderly businessman punched in the face while his store was ransacked in Kenosha, Wisconsin manifest itself in total reports on insurance compensation.



Moreover, looking at mere insurance totals fails to factor in the lost sales revenue and unpaid labor that businesses victimized by rioters face.

And that’s all without even considering the long-term economic impact rioting has on a community. We must also remember that riots leave a lasting shadow on a city that haunts its economy for decades. The afflicted areas face higher insurance rates, lower property values, higher prices, reduced tax revenue, and decreased economic opportunity.

One study of the 1992 Los Angeles riots concluded that not only did the destruction cause $1 billion in initial property damage, over time it led to an economic decline of $3.8 billion in sales activity and at least $125 million in tax revenue.

Moreover, a 2005 study examining similar riots in the 1960s found ‘negative, persistent, and economically significant effects of riots on the value of black-owned housing’ to the degree of ‘a 10 percent decline in the total value of black-owned property in cities.’

And seeing as the new reporting shows that the George Floyd riots were more destructive than the riots in either of the above periods, we can reasonably expect that the long-term economic consequences will be more severe as well.

 

The forum liar in action!

Thinskin

 

@Distant Lover

Well distant racist give this a read and scroll down........of over 10,000 demos labelled blm demos 95% were peaceful, furthermore of the 5% that were violent a large proportion were due to counter demos or heavy policing!

https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/de...violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/

So take your racist, eugenics bullshit and get back in your basement!

Thinskin

 

I've been trying to get real data re: how many BLM protests were entirely peaceful, how many BLM protests turned violent, how many peeps were injured or killed, how much money damage was done. The internet search results vary crazily depending whether the source is left or right. If I ever get some realistic data, I'll post it; So far I can't believe either side.

 

What part of two billion dollars in damage don't you understand? The Master of Facts does not feel the need to respond to your insults in kind. You and the Master of Facts know that the Master has won this argument.

 

Do a Google search for "George Floyd" + riots + damage. When I did, I got "About 2,330,000 results."

 

Yes. I had the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. I also think I had and recovered from a mild case of COVID-19.

 

Did your search manage to find the Citigroup report on the true cost of racial discrimination in the United States?

Performed in 2020 the study put the cost at $16 trillion and counting.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/h...Due-to-Racial-Inequality-in-the-United-States

I have posted this before and there are links to the original report not that I expect all you racists and fascists to read this!

Thinskin

 

Uh...here in the U.S. there isn't a single law that supports your leftist nonsense...however banks are required to have a set of standards to loan money...if someone cant meet the standards or the criteria and the money does get loaned out to them, regardless of race...we have what was coined...''TOXIC LOANS''... so tourist keep up the good work with all the leftist propaganda bullshit, it suits you.

 

I am sorry ace I forgot to include hillbillies in my list of people who would not read the citibank report!

My apologies.

Thinskin