Black Lives Matter. Still

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#2624

I also see that the LAPD falsely claim that federal law allows them to require a social security number, which seems hinky. Ah, it is:

police are instructed to ask civilians for their social security numbers and are advised to tell interviewees that “it must be provided” under federal law. Kathleen Kim, a Loyola law professor and immigrants’ rights expert, who previously served on the LA police commission, said she was not aware of any law requiring individuals to disclose social security numbers to local police.

Assholes.

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#2625

Two words for them:

NOT. APPLICABLE.

Make them try to ‘prove’ a negative, go ahead.

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#2626

Holy shit, that is terrifying. But Biden is the terrifying dictator, right?

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#2627

Well, I’m glad the case above happened in a different district than this one:

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#2628
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#2629

This is what the Fraternal Order of Police posted after the incident:

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They basically kidnapped the kid to use as a social media prop.

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#2630

Wasn’t sure where else to put this… but it’s a case of a rich white celebrity with a brand to sell stealing from a queer POC…

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#2631

Here’s a super interesting article about (some of) the racist history of U.S. federal highway planning and construction and what some paces are doing to address it. Lots of well-executed graphics. The article focuses on just a handful of cities, but there are lots more. Real-life supervillain Robert Moses has a cameo.

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#2632

Wow!

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https://www.kapharstudio.com/work/

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#2633

“At the time, Fratus was also under investigation by the Massachusetts State Police for leaving menacing voice mails for the state’s attorney general, Maura Healey, in which he threatened to slit her throat.

Threats he made in 2018 against Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) — including lynching Black members of Congress — had also drawn FBI scrutiny. And on the same day that he contacted Outlaw, the evidence showed, Fratus also left anti-Semitic voice mails for an Orthodox Jewish charity in Ocean County, N.J., threatening to kill children at a day camp affiliated with the nonprofit.“

“ he has a history of violent behavior while intoxicated — including a series of attacks on Black women, the homeless, and police dating back to 2011”

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#2634

In Vino Vertias, my dude.

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#2635

This could be a cross post with the Trans thread;

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#2636

Or George H. influencing sonny boy George W.'s easy entry into the ANG to escape Viet Nam. (source WSJ): Two weeks before he was to graduate from Yale, George Walker Bush stepped into the offices of the Texas Air National Guard at Ellington Field outside Houston and announced that he wanted to sign up for pilot training. It was May 27, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War. Bush was 12 days away from losing his student deferment from the draft at a time when Americans were dying in combat at the rate of 350 a week. The unit Bush wanted to join offered him the chance to fulfill his military commitment at a base in Texas. It was seen as an escape route from Vietnam by many men his age, and usually had a long waiting list. Bush had scored only 25 percent on a “pilot aptitude” test, the lowest acceptable grade. But his father was then a congressman from Houston, and the commanders of the Texas Guard clearly had an appreciation of politics.

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#2637
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Racist, violent Colorado gang that engages in a "consistent pattern of illegal behavior" turns out to be the police department
#2638

Not sure if the DOJ is really serious about this.

futuramafry

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#2639

A figure in American history I just learned about…

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#2640

So glad the jury wasn’t buying that. He seems like a real menace to society. Maybe some time in the clink will help him get his alcohol addiction under control, but it won’t magically stop him from being a bigoted asshole.

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#2641

Where are all the right-wing small-government Libertarian protestors who despise eminent domain?

Oh, right.

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#2642

The pols supposedly weren’t motivated by racism, they just created a law that targeted people less likely to vote for them, and those people just happened to be Black: :roll_eyes:

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Elections 2021 and 2022
#2643
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