A woman confronts stormtroopers. Credit: Jonathan Bachman/Reuters. Source.
A man being “detained”. Credit: Jonathan Bachman/Reuters. Source.
Ieshia Evans. Credit: Jonathan Bachman/Reuters. Source.
Police arrest activist DeRay McKesson during a protest along a major road that passes in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters. (Max Becherer/Associated Press).
A man being “detained” by stormtroopers. Credit: Jonathan Bachman/Reuters.
Another person being “detained”. Credit: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters.
Oh, but look! In that last photo, a stormtrooper has a boo boo on his elbow! Justification! Wonder if that will end up on facebook.
Well, at least the woman holding the white person doesn’t look too proud of herself.
As for the flesh wound, well, it could get infected and eat his whole arm and then he would die! Imminent threat!!!!
All of these are very expressive, but it’s still the second one down, the eyes, that really get to me. As I said before, down but not beat. That’s a lot of determination and resentment that’s not going to be squashed by a few police officers being excessively violent. Intimidation, how does it work again?
I meant to say stormtroopers, of course.
How many cops does it take to “detain” some skinny unarmed protester?
Half a dozen. Some with weapons at ready.
Sorry, sorry, stormtroopers. Too bad these don’t miss when they shoot.
Beatrice:
A whole battalion! With a handy dandy armored tank in back of them.
Why, WHY, WHY isn’t the world watching and reacting?
It was the images from the Petraeus Bridge that got the USA to pay attention to Selma. Why isn’t that happening now?
Giliell:
Because
#All lives matter
#Blue lives matter
# White lives matter
and
People of colour are just over-reacting. If they stop rioting and shit, stormtroopers would leave them alone. Yep.
Too self-absorbed in our own far-right troubles?
One could be forgiven for believing that Brexit (and perhaps the refugee crisis, in an inappropriately US-centric view) is just a conspiracy to take attention away from what is happening in USAmerica…
I don’t know, I’ve seen Leshia’s photo in local papers, with a rather sympathetic article. But admittedly, it looked more like some intern copying and translating popular articles (which this time happened to be not racist, but tomorrow the paper is bound to also publish some racist shit) than the media actually reacting.
Look at all the AR-15s and 30 round banana clips. Looks like someone’s prepared for a mass shooting.
And for the younger people who might not know about this, Bloody Sunday.
Yes, that shocked the hell out of people, and they woke, for a little while, anyway. They need to be woked again.
Marcus @ 11:
It’s worse than Kent State, and I never in my life thought I’d see a day where I would say that.
People woke up and defeated racism.
The End.
..
Too bad there are so many sequels and reboots.
Right? They look prepared to go full massacre on the crowd.
And someone is going to try and convince us it’s all to keep people safe. Which people? Not the protesters. Not all the neighbors who tried to help the protesters. Not any random black person who might find themselves “at fault” for walking outside while someone somewhere pissed the police off.
Beatrice @ 14:
*Snort* And here we rest in the so-called 21st century.
Just a few more to go before we solve this racism thing once and for all!
Caine@#12:
And for the younger people who might not know about this, Bloody Sunday.
For the Irish, it was just another bunch of English slaughtering Irish. That had been going on for about as long as Americans slaughtering black and indigenous people.
It took bombs in London to get the English to back off. I don’t want to say the IRA’s tactics worked but… they kinda did. One of the side effects of my particular brand of moral nihilism is that I incorporate retaliation into my ethics. But it’s so seldom done right it’s not worth discussing here.
If you haven’t seen the movie “71” it’s really good. Not good in the “oh, I want to watch this again” good but rather in the “I never saw it from that angle before, wtf” good.
All it’s going to take is some idiot to trigger a massacre. :( The guy in Dallas tried pretty hard -- you saw that picture I posted of the Dallas cop “questioning” the innocent motorist with a gun stuck in his face? The whole situation could have gone horribly pear-shaped. If the cops don’t wise the fuck up pretty quickly, there will be more people showing up armed, and eventually they will have a big problem. The dumb fuckers don’t seem to understand that they are surrounded.
Marcus @ 19:
I did, and that was fucking terrifying, too.
Yep. It’s Custer, and we got your Crazy Horse.
Nit-pick: Evans’ first name is “Ieshia.” That’s a capital i at the front, not an L.
Shiv:
I’ll fix it. All my info yesterday came from here: https://twitter.com/hashtag/LeshiaEvans?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc and they are still going with the L.
There’s a good article about Ms. Evans here.
I admire Iesha Evans’s dignity.
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Giliell:
For the same reason that a raging dumpster fire is able to be the Almost-Certain Presidential Nominee of one of the two major USAian political parties—there is a huge (sorry, I meant, “yuge!”) racist (actually, multiply-bigoted, but who’s counting?) underbelly that used to know that loud expressions of racism in public would be considered Unacceptable, and best saved for angry muttering among friends.
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Beatrice:
Nice way to put it!
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There are people actively trying to fan this into open race warfare.
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