The riot to reform police thread

[michigancat]

Cops suck so hard

https://twitter.com/mdslock/status/1271113571401900033

[kim carnes]

Cops suck so hard

https://twitter.com/mdslock/status/1271113571401900033

Kind of a bigoted post

[Spracne]

My Google Assistant is getting in on the action:

[bucket]

https://twitter.com/skenigsberg/status/1271478823545159680

[CHONGS]

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1271832001364979716?s=09

[catastrophe]

I tried that move in grade school b-ball before and the socialist refs called a foul on me. ME!

[IPA4Me]

Things are getting a little testy in Louisville.

https://twitter.com/ShaqWLKY/status/1272653039468531712

[cfbandyman]

Reason: Was the Shooting of Rayshard Brooks 'Lawful but Awful'?.

https://reason.com/2020/06/15/was-the-shooting-of-rayshard-brooks-lawful-but-awful/

Law & Aw?

[chum1]

https://twitter.com/MaraGay/status/1274061810920980481

[michigancat]

checking in from BERKELEY CALIFORNIA

probably should have gone in the SF things thread

[chum1]

https://twitter.com/ByAdamWagner/status/1274149116323512320
https://twitter.com/ByAdamWagner/status/1274150273532022786

[Spracne]

Who are the statues of? Anyone know?

[treysolid]

Who are the statues of? Anyone know?

nobody important

[michigancat]

https://twitter.com/jrivanob/status/1274194145838428160

[sys]

that's not cool.  dumbasses.

[Spracne]

That would be Union General and President Ulysses S. Grant?

[Dugout DickStone]

That would be Union General and President Ulysses S. Grant?

Left off slave owner

[Spracne]

That would be Union General and President Ulysses S. Grant?

Left off slave owner

I'm not going to look too much into it, but his wiki page seems to suggest his ties to slavery were pretty weak, with lots of evidence suggesting he supported emancipation (like teabagging the Confederacy). There should be more nuance when peering into the past. If the standard is that recordable history starts at the point where the badges of racism cease to exist in society, then history has yet to begin.

Anyway, I guess I just was unaware that Grant had been cancelled.

[chum1]

According to twitter backlash, Grant inherited a slave and then freed it ASAP prior to the war. And was definitely an abolitionist based on what he'd written on the subject.

[catastrophe]

Personally I don’t really gaf about any statues but I do think the vandals should pay for the damage.

[treysolid]

Personally I don’t really gaf about any statues but I do think the vandals should pay for the damage.

like a reparation?

[DQ12]

Really wouldn’t have guessed a statue of Grant would enter the crosshairs.

[catastrophe]

Personally I don’t really gaf about any statues but I do think the vandals should pay for the damage.

like a reparation?

Well except this would be payment from the exact perpetrators to the exact victim. So maybe more like a lawsuit.

[treysolid]

Personally I don’t really gaf about any statues but I do think the vandals should pay for the damage.

like a reparation?

Well except this would be payment from the exact perpetrators to the exact victim. So maybe more like a lawsuit.

you should look up the definition of the word "reparation". "Exactness" doesn't have anything to do with it

[Dugout DickStone]

That would be Union General and President Ulysses S. Grant?

Left off slave owner

I'm not going to look too much into it, but his wiki page seems to suggest his ties to slavery were pretty weak, with lots of evidence suggesting he supported emancipation (like teabagging the Confederacy). There should be more nuance when peering into the past. If the standard is that recordable history starts at the point where the badges of racism cease to exist in society, then history has yet to begin.

Anyway, I guess I just was unaware that Grant had been cancelled.

You own one fellow human being and they never let you live it down...