There it is, just that bald.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/21/494900984/black-men-ma....

An "OH WOW" read from a State Supreme Court ruling on a Boston case. Maybe there is hope from the Judicial system after all.

has a photo of a cop back (dressed all riot) facing two terrified black women. I believe the photo. Context is right, but more photos would help in conclusions.

I read on FB some responses, more measured, saying that burning boxes was shameful, and I agree except for context. That is rage being vented. Anger reached boiling. Understandable to me.

I heard Former Secretary Clinton say that on NPR this morning. I've heard President Obama say the exact same thing. "This is not who we are." Well guess what, this is who we are. How many more of these police murders do you have to see to understand that ? Ask 'em in Afghanistan who we are, or in Iraq, Libya, Syria. We can argue about how we got this way, but don't tell me that "this is not who we are."

1. Cops are out of control and killing people.
2. PoC, black people, are disproportionately the victim.
3. No one cares or is listening because of prejudice and msm spin.

This is why I maintain BLM made a mistake by focusing on the black community. While accurate, it alienates "others" and creates "all" lives matter. Imagine the gay community if they had just focused on lesbians instead of all gay people.

The tragedy is that raw numbers show more whites are gunned down by cops than PoC, and people with mental handicaps are the most likely to be killed by cop. Native Americans are equal to blacks as most likely shot by cop. If BLM had made the bigger and more inclusive case while stressing their numbers, they would have cut "all" lives matter off at the knees. Instead, we have just one more divisive argument to distract us from the point that cops are out of control, over armed, poorly supervised and under trained, and the war on drugs is the excuse that lets them do it.

Someone is now trying to claim that PTSD is why the cops are like they are. I'm not sure how I feel about giving them an excuse or crutch to achieve change. But if it saves a life, I guess they can make up all the alibis they need to quit acting like killers and assholes. I still say all this military equipment is a big reason for the dystopia. Maybe if they had to go out there naked and unarmed, they'd find a little humility.

there is no accountability whatsoever, for even the most heinous transgressions.

How many more blatant brazen examples of this, while the 99% are fined to death and priced out of comfortable living and imprisoned for the most innocuous and sometimes phantom non-violent crimes, while we watch the same routine played over and over and over. Cops, Wall St Economic Terrorists and corrupt, criminal politicians, even in the face of mountainous evidence of their crimes, continue to throw it in our faces and flout the law. The tinder can't get much higher, folks.

If the cornerstone of society is the law, then what if the law is a lie? The great radical lawyer William Kunstler, who defended everyone from the Chicago 7 to the Attica Prisoners Uprising to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation protesters, concluded that indeed it was. "The law is there to protect the Haves and their property from the Have-Nots."

Two-tiered justice system is firmly in place, as Glen Greenwld concluded in his excellent book "With Liberty and Justice For Some."

Taibbi wrote brilliantly in "The Divide" about the juxtaposition of a morally bankrupt and deadly law enforcement, judicial, correctional and financial system that has no qualms making life as miserable as possible for the poor while the rich keep getting richer. We saw this vividly played out in Ferguson, when the WaPo (having some credibility then, or more specifically the journalist Radley Balko, with help from citizen watchdogs ArchCity Defenders) uncovered that every household had an average of 3 outsanding tickets or violations. A brutal, dystopian feudal system was exposed as targeting black citizens.

Taibbi talks about this insane system in a chapter called "Little Frauds":

What's different now is that these quaint old inequities have become internalized in that "second government" – a vast system of increasingly unmanageable bureaucracies, spanning both the public and private sectors. These inscrutable, irrational structures, crisscrossing back-and-forth between the worlds of debt and banking and law-enforcement, are growing up organically around the pounding twin impulses that drive modern America: burning hatred of all losers and the poor, and breathless, abject worship of the rich, even the talentless and undeserving rich.

In one chapter he describes how the State vociferously pursues welfare recipients with unrestrained vigor, during unannounced visits, trying to determine if they're being defrauded for a couple of hundred dollars, and concludes:

In the 21 biggest federal settlements of a mortgage fraud abuses – $300 million from State Street for lying to investors, 150 $3 million from Chase and the magnetic her settlement, and so on – those companies and a few others paid a total of $26 billion in damages to the government. In every single one of these cases, the relevant companies were allowed to settle without admitting wrongdoing. Not a single individual was charged and any of those cases. Not a single individual had to pay so much is a dime of his own money and damages.

Not one home was searched. No banker ever had someone pick up his underwear by a pencil and and wave it in his face.

$26 billion of fraud: no felony cases.

But when the stakes are in the hundreds of dollars we kick in 26,000 doors.

In just one county.

Stay in the streets, Charlotte comrades.

As the great James Baldwin observed for all-time about his expatriated country in his 1964 Nation essay " A Report from Occupied Territory,":

 Now, what I have said about Harlem is true of Chicago, Detroit, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco—is true of every Northern city with a large Negro population. And the police are simply the hired enemies of this population. They are present to keep the Negro in his place and to protect white business interests, and they have no other function. They are, moreover—even in a country which makes the very grave error of equating ignorance with simplicity—quite stunningly ignorant; and, since they know that they are hated, they are always afraid. One cannot possibly arrive at a more surefire formula for cruelty.

This is why those pious calls to “respect the law,” always to be heard from prominent citizens each time the ghetto explodes, are so obscene. The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer. To respect the law, in the context in which the American Negro finds himself, is simply to surrender his self-respect.

The prolonged protest keep the conversation alive. By discussing the many points of intersection, from predatory lending and police ticketing of minorities to pay for municipalities duped by duplicitous Wall St deals to the prison industrial complex to the funding of both major parties' campaigns, we have a chance to enlighten the masses who only feel a malaise but haven't been able to connect the dots.

Doesn't recognize the victim's 2nd amendment right to bear arms?

And with a few exceptions, North Carolna is an open carry state.
http://www.opencarry.org/state-info-n-s/north-carolina/

So if the police story pans out, open carrying in view of a police officer is now a crime punishable by summary execution in NC. No trial, no jury. Shouldn't the founders be spinning in their graves over these constitutional violations? Shouldn't the NRA be joining the protestors?

Less flippantly, have the police released the info proving that the victim owned a gun? (Of the same type he allegedly had in his hand)

"Who do you think is telling the truth?"

Not the cops.

I avoid Youtube, Facebook and pretty much anything with a comment section (Except here, of course). Most of the people making said comments have never experienced things like this so it's easy for them to trivialize the situation, the experiences and the tragedy for the sake of their own heavily propagandized confirmation bias.

There's a reason Dr. King referred to rioting as the 'Language of the Unheard'. It's just too bad that the image most people have of him these days is also heavily twisted and propagandized.