Anthony McIntyre reflects on current disturbances taking place in the United States. 

America is turning into a police state in front of our eyes. Many might well feel it has been such for quite some time. The unaccountable actions of the racist police have caused huge frustration in which resentment took strong roots and in recent years has been articulated through the Black Lives Matter movement and campaign.

Where black lives don't matter very much is in the minds and intentions of those who sustain the systemic racism that has so characterised US society but which officialdom has sought to depict as being something from a bygone age. America is led, and continuously misled, by a racist president. The national leadership in America that was happy to allow a cretin to assume the office of president and brazenly lie every day of his incumbency has a lot to answer for.

For days now our television screens have served up incessant footage of nation wide disturbances as I Can't Breathe protestors flock to the streets.

From Los Angeles to Miami to Chicago, protests marked by chants of "I can't breathe" - a rallying cry echoing the dying words of George Floyd - began peacefully before turning unruly as demonstrators blocked traffic, set fires and clashed with riot police, some firing tear gas and plastic bullets in an effort to restore order.

At this very moment right across the US, those protestors are being confronted by mobs of Pig Power activists in police uniform. The public lynching of George Floyd in Minnesota last Monday was the catalyst but this time bomb had been on a slow burning fuse. For years we have been hearing of black men and women being murdered by the cops as US society's endemic institutionalised racism, always lurking like a croc just beneath the surface, pounced on its prey. Accountability is as rare as an honest creationist.

The charging of the brutal cop, Derekkk Chauvin, has done nothing to alleviate tensions. He is being prosecuted on a charge of third degree murder which is basically manslaughter. The lawyer representing the family of George Floyd has called for the charge to be upgraded to first degree murder. George Floyd was publicly garrotted by a racist cop. Everybody watched it. Chauvin knew what he was doing: he heard his victim's anguished gasps for breath and ignored them, appearing to derive sadistic satisfaction from the life ebbing away beneath his knee.



Last night my wife, a US national, sat up to watch live TV coverage as the cameras moved from city to city, and where those behind the cameras were also targeted by the cops, no doubt emboldened by the President-sponsored fatwa issued against the media. She felt it was a gesture of solidarity with those standing up to the Pig Power movement, much like she had sat up each night of the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza when Israel set about the murder of Palestinian civilians with a Nazi-like brutality. Then she livestreamed the war crimes being directed by the criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. Last night she tweeted incessantly in support of those being attacked by Pig Power. I don’t have the stamina for it, and after watching some episodes of Le Reina Del Sur, lubricated by whiskey, I went up to bed and fell asleep, a few pages into a book on the religious right in the US. It seemed appropriate reading material given that the Pig Power offensive against black people is inextricably embedded in a crackpot culture of creationism, narrow minded bigotry and know-nothingism. Eugene Debs, in 2018, observed that "for in every age it has been the tyrant, who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both."

Watching Pig Power jackboot through the streets of American cities, equipped with state of the art protective apparel, the contrast has not been missed. Health workers, who really were trying to make an authentic contribution to society, refusing to discriminate on the grounds of colour, were compelled to operate on the front line often with little more than garbage bags to protect them from Covid-19.

There is much at stake for the legitimacy of Western society when its supposed flagship state is licencing race war and unleashing the Pig Power Movement on its own citizens.

⏩Follow on Twitter @AnthonyMcIntyre.

America Is Burning

Anthony McIntyre reflects on current disturbances taking place in the United States. 

America is turning into a police state in front of our eyes. Many might well feel it has been such for quite some time. The unaccountable actions of the racist police have caused huge frustration in which resentment took strong roots and in recent years has been articulated through the Black Lives Matter movement and campaign.

Where black lives don't matter very much is in the minds and intentions of those who sustain the systemic racism that has so characterised US society but which officialdom has sought to depict as being something from a bygone age. America is led, and continuously misled, by a racist president. The national leadership in America that was happy to allow a cretin to assume the office of president and brazenly lie every day of his incumbency has a lot to answer for.

For days now our television screens have served up incessant footage of nation wide disturbances as I Can't Breathe protestors flock to the streets.

From Los Angeles to Miami to Chicago, protests marked by chants of "I can't breathe" - a rallying cry echoing the dying words of George Floyd - began peacefully before turning unruly as demonstrators blocked traffic, set fires and clashed with riot police, some firing tear gas and plastic bullets in an effort to restore order.

At this very moment right across the US, those protestors are being confronted by mobs of Pig Power activists in police uniform. The public lynching of George Floyd in Minnesota last Monday was the catalyst but this time bomb had been on a slow burning fuse. For years we have been hearing of black men and women being murdered by the cops as US society's endemic institutionalised racism, always lurking like a croc just beneath the surface, pounced on its prey. Accountability is as rare as an honest creationist.

The charging of the brutal cop, Derekkk Chauvin, has done nothing to alleviate tensions. He is being prosecuted on a charge of third degree murder which is basically manslaughter. The lawyer representing the family of George Floyd has called for the charge to be upgraded to first degree murder. George Floyd was publicly garrotted by a racist cop. Everybody watched it. Chauvin knew what he was doing: he heard his victim's anguished gasps for breath and ignored them, appearing to derive sadistic satisfaction from the life ebbing away beneath his knee.



Last night my wife, a US national, sat up to watch live TV coverage as the cameras moved from city to city, and where those behind the cameras were also targeted by the cops, no doubt emboldened by the President-sponsored fatwa issued against the media. She felt it was a gesture of solidarity with those standing up to the Pig Power movement, much like she had sat up each night of the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza when Israel set about the murder of Palestinian civilians with a Nazi-like brutality. Then she livestreamed the war crimes being directed by the criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. Last night she tweeted incessantly in support of those being attacked by Pig Power. I don’t have the stamina for it, and after watching some episodes of Le Reina Del Sur, lubricated by whiskey, I went up to bed and fell asleep, a few pages into a book on the religious right in the US. It seemed appropriate reading material given that the Pig Power offensive against black people is inextricably embedded in a crackpot culture of creationism, narrow minded bigotry and know-nothingism. Eugene Debs, in 2018, observed that "for in every age it has been the tyrant, who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both."

Watching Pig Power jackboot through the streets of American cities, equipped with state of the art protective apparel, the contrast has not been missed. Health workers, who really were trying to make an authentic contribution to society, refusing to discriminate on the grounds of colour, were compelled to operate on the front line often with little more than garbage bags to protect them from Covid-19.

There is much at stake for the legitimacy of Western society when its supposed flagship state is licencing race war and unleashing the Pig Power Movement on its own citizens.

⏩Follow on Twitter @AnthonyMcIntyre.

41 comments:

  1. Mackers,

    Like so many other people around the world, you and Carrie clearly see what's happening here in the states: the police are engaged in another phase of the war against black people in this country. Slavery created a latent cancer, and it will never be eliminated or excised. No amount of magical thinking and mendacity from the white plutocracy can wipe away the stain of slavery and its legacy. Jim Crow rests but does not die. The rage continues, and justifiably so.

    As I watched the footage of George Floyd's murder last Tuesday, my blood pressure set to explode, I did not expect to see our cities convulsed by protests, destruction, and these running battles with the police. Stupid me. This always happens, Watts and 1968 and South Central replayed. Now of course we're in an even worse place, divided into warring camps during a pandemic with a complete absence of federal leadership. You write, "America is led, and continuously misled, by a racist president. The national leadership in America that was happy to allow a cretin to assume the office of president and brazenly lie every day of his incumbency has a lot to answer for." Yes, exactly.

    In my opinion, Mitch McConnell and the Republican senators are the most culpable. They have failed miserably and with disastrous consequences, sitting on their hands and allowing a buffoon to violate the Constitution and stoke the flames of hate and bigotry. Trump's enablers are a criminal class beholden to religious fanatics, gun nuts, and knuckle draggers, the "white trash" used as muscle by the obscenely wealthy. More hell today for sure.

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  2. Michael

    Repubican Senators had their opportunity to put country before party during the impeachment proceedings against Trump and they failed miserably and pathetically.

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  3. How come Noraid criticise the Psni & Ruc, yet are as quiet as church mice when it comes to criticising the American military and Police ?
    Is it because that's where their offspring are employed ?

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    1. Ronan

      The hypocrisy of Irish Republican supporters in America is legendary. Wasn't Provo supporter No 1 in Congress, Peter King, an advocate of putting all Muslims on an FBI watch-list or such like? As legendary as their racism.

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  4. Barry,

    I couldn't agree more. The evidence of a Ukraine shakedown was substantial, but McConnell and his GOP cronies made a farce of the Senate trial. They allowed horrible, opportunistic slugs like Alan Dershowitz, the bold defender of Claus von Bülow and O.J. Simpson, to grandstand while barring actual witnesses and evidence. There was no real Senate trial. Now, in a further violation of the nation, they sit on their hands while Trump bungles through the pandemic and threatens to shoot those who protest police brutality. The cult party has sold us down the river. They want the Confederacy, not the United States of America.

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    1. Michael

      Fintan O'Toole's phrophecy of a Roman Empire-style denouement for the USA looks more starkly likely by the day. I fear there will be a rerun of the events pof the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention at this year's GOP convention.

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  5. Barry,

    Did Fintan O'Toole recently publish a piece positing such a denouement? If so, I'd really like to read it. I've taught ancient history for nearly twenty years and have long thought the United States is the modern iteration of the Roman Empire and that we Americans are going through Rome's decline in an accelerated way. To my mind, the "barbarians" - in a threatening sense - are not Hispanics driven to the southern border for myriad reasons but rather homegrown poor whites, the "white trash" whose unabashed quest for certain freedoms (e.g. guns) paradoxically wages war on the freedoms of so many. As for the conventions, we'll have to see if they happen. Trump is stepping on Charlotte's neck, but any sane person would say no, no damn way. Right now we're in 1968 on overdrive, so the Mayor Daley mayhem of Chicago, as you suggest, may follow.

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  6. While I agree with the sentiment of the rioters, I fear they're about to get a crash course in state violence. A lot of people caught on video are about to get the unwelcome noise of the door going off the hinges at five in the morning followed by getting the shit kicked out you for a few days.

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    1. David.....

      The vast majority of citations and charges against George Floyd protesters were ultimately dropped , dismissed or otherwise not filed, according to a Guardian analysis of law enforcement records and media reports in a dozen jurisdictions around the nation.

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  7. Michael

    Yes, Fintan O'Toole published that article in the Irish Times which (I think) was reproduced in TPQ.

    But you should Google it as his words are so prescient.

    When I heard Joe Biden's speech today (not everyone's favourite I accept) I almost felt physical relief at hearing some words of common sense at last. A reelection of Trump is too awful to contemplate.

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  8. Sean Mallory says

    AM –

    I remember Rodney King and the film footage of his murder. I understand that a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since Rodney King but with this killing has American society changed? It would certainly seem to have become a lot less tolerant to a section of its society rather than trying to understand it and have itself become more receptive.
    Having watched very little of the coverage of this as to me it is a continuation of what is the norm in the USA, there is absolutely no chance of the cop being found guilty ... in fact I wouldn’t hesitate to suggest that they are all re-instated when this parody of justice is over and that includes appeals.
    The land of the free being a euphemism for white domination. Even the white trailer trash have more rights than Samuel Jackson!
    The ruling elite tolerate Trump as he makes them millions of dollars, if he were not to be doing so then his arse wouldn’t hit the chair in the oval office.
    On a different note I can’t help but choke on the sick when the Brits report on it. Their voices change to that of someone at a wake fully sympathising but emphasising that it must be protested within the confines of the law. They don’t tend to adapt that tone when it’s happening in their own back yard - Hillsborough proved that.

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  9. Sean Mallory,

    Rodney King was badly beaten by the LAPD, but he was not killed. He survived his beating and the officers went on trial. They were acquitted and the people of South Central Los Angeles, which includes Compton, began rioting. We would not have known about the beating of Rodney King if not for the person who taped the incident from an apartment window on the other side of the highway where the LAPD pulled over King for drunk driving. The circumstances of the case and the all white jury that sat in a court far from the scene of the beating and King's neighborhood allowed the defense team for the LAPD officers to win their case. It was a travesty of justice.

    The Derek Chauvin and George Floyd case, however, is different. The video clearly shows Chauvin murdering George Floyd. Millions of people around the whole world have seen the footage. Chauvin is currently under arrest and being held in a Minnesota jail. Massive protests sparked by the murder have rocked the country for over a week now. Chauvin will be prosecuted. So should the other three officers who are accessories to Floyd's murder.

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  10. Free The Minneapolis Four

    Up until a few weeks ago, I was 100% certain that Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd (TPQ link). I believed that Derek Chauvin got a fair trial and George Floyd was simply a misunderstood black man from the hood who a racist white cop choked out. Today I believe Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, Tou Thao, and Alexander Kueng are all innocent and the only person responsible for the death of George Floyd is George Floyd. What they didn't get was a fair trial.


    Everyone knows that miscarriages of justice happen in every country and the United States isn't exempt. Most people are familiar with 'The Birmingham Six and The Guilford Four' that became politicized to suit an agenda. And that is what I believe has happened with the death of George Floyd. George Floyd's death became politicized to suit an agenda. What made me re-evaluate my 'position' was a documentary called The Fall of Minneapolis.

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  11. Frankie, the whole world watched that mobile phone coverage of the last nine minutes of George Floyd's life extinguished as it was by the imprint of Derek Chauvin's knee on his neck.

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  12. The whole world also watched Chauvin's trial which was fair down to the minutest forensic detail. It was that rare moment in US criminal history - the conviction of a cop for an act of egregious, racist crime against an African American.

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  13. Exactly who has politicised George's murder? Antifa? George Soros?

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  14. The US really is a moral and ethical cesspit pretending to be a banner of virtue for the " free world"...which in reality means a serval state to Washington hegemony. Not that any other nation is much better.

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  15. Barry,

    the whole world watched that mobile phone coverage of the last nine minutes of George Floyd's life extinguished as it was by the imprint of Derek Chauvin's knee on his neck.

    According to the Mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey it took 5 minutes, Al Sharpton says 8 minutes 46 seconds, CNN gave two different times, Kamla Harris says it took 9 minutes and 29 seconds, and Nancy Pelosi says it took 8 minutes and 46 seconds....The official time was 7 minutes and 46 seconds George Floyd was restrained using techniques that every police officer in Minneapolis is trained in using when 'whoever' refuses to comply with orders. But you'd have known that if you had watched the documentary I linked above. Instead, you made up your own time of 9 minutes. What you and everyone else failed to mention was 36 seconds after George Floyd was restrained and on the ground, the police called for the emergency services with a CODE 3 (Police radio Code 3 means Emergency - Proceed immediately with lights and siren)...Once the call was made the fire service turned up at the wrong place the ambulance turned up later than normal and more time was lost because they (EMS)were ill-prepared-----Again Barry you'd have known that if you took time to watch "The Fall of Minneapolis" and listened to medical experts.

    it was by the imprint of Derek Chauvin's knee on his neck.

    More untruths that don't tally with the official autopsy.

    George Floyd 20-3700
    Page 2
    A. No facial, oral mucosal, or conjunctival petechiae
    B. No injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngeal structures
    C. No scalp soft tissue, skull, or brain injuries
    D. No chest wall soft tissue injuries, rib fractures (other than a single rib fracture from CPR), vertebral column injuries, or visceral injuries ............

    What imprint of Derek Chauvin's knee are you referring to Barry? What Dr. Baker said in his notes was that if George Floyd had been found at home or any place else, he'd have chalked his death up to an overdose due to the number of illegal drugs in his system. George Floyd had enough Fentanyl and Methamphetamine to kill himself several times over. Floyd also had recently recovered from Covid-19 and had serious underlying health conditions...

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  16. Barry,

    The whole world also watched Chauvin's trial which was fair down to the minutest forensic detail.

    What I saw was police officers telling lies after they took an oath to "tell the truth, whole truth and nothing but....." Why did Medaria Arradondo--Chief of Police for Minneapolis lie under oath when asked about the use of the maximum restraint technique? He said it was not part of the training, yet every police officer at that time was trained in MRT. Katie Blackwell the officer in charge of training said the same---that MRT wasn't part of the training. Yet the Minneapolis police's training manual clearly shows MRT being used as part of the training and was permitted at the time of Geroge Floyd's arrest (goto 1 hour of 'The Fall of Minneapolis' and you can see the training manual yourself or open up a search engine and search for '5-316 maximum restraint technique' and it for yourself....

    Why wasn't Officer Lane's bodycam footage allowed? The cam footage shows Officer Lane asking the fire dept why they went to the wrong place when dispatch had updated the exact location or why wasn't the footage that showed Officer Lane performing CPR on George Floyd allowed. Or the footage that showed how ill-prepared the EMS were (they knew they were going to resuscitate George Floyd yet they didn't have the oxygen mask and tube connected losing valuable time)

    who has politicised George's murder? Antifa? George Soros?

    Among others...Why don't you take time to watch The Truth about George Floyd's Death and Filmmakers Reveal the Truth about George Floyd (both 'interviews' are hosted by Glenn Loury and his co-host John McWhorter---two black professors with more degrees between them than a right angle triangle).....

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  17. Frankie, yes George had drugs in his system but it was the constriction of his breathing by Chauvin's knee that was the cause of his death

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  18. Barry....

    You aren't convincing me with your arguments. All you are doing is repeating what you've said...."Derek Chauvin is a racist cop who got a fair trial"....He might be racist (I've seen reports he has more slaps on his wrist than most cops have) but he didn't get a fair trial, none of the Minneapolis four did. And if America wants to protect its 6th Amendment, then all the evidence has to be on the table and nothing is held back.

    I've asked you to listen to this Joe Rogan video before (9mins)...refresh your memory and watch it again and listen to what Lawyer Josh Dubin says about Kamala Harris' Criminal Justice Record and how she hid evidence to keep a white man in prison for years.....

    Check out what Gene Borrello (former associate of The Bonanno Crime Family) has to say about the recent stabbing of Derek Chauvin in a chat with John Alite (former associate of The Gambino Crime Family)..........

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  19. If he didn't get a fair trial why has there been no notice of an appeal?

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  20. Barry,

    Yes, there have been appeals, and the US Supreme Court has gone 180* and overruled itself when new evidence has become available and all the facts laid bare. Last November the US Supreme Court decided not to accept the latest appeal . Chauvin's legal time requested the S.C. to look at the case but refused to.

    "The Supreme Court did not provide comment on its decision to refuse Chauvin’s appeal."

    The Supreme Court has been known to overturn previous rulings. A table of Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decisions . A short list of overturned Supreme Court landmark decisions


    What is not disputed is the amount of Fentanyl and Methamphetamine George Floyd had in his system. In The Fall of Minneapolis at 9 minutes 30 seconds Officer Keung asks George Floyd if he has taken anything and Floyd says "No". Then what was in his mouth? Had George Floyd admitted he had taken pills as he did to Officer Creighton in 2019 2019 then George Floyd might be alive today.


    When Dr. Flower was asked to give his expert medical opinion, he said George Floyd had very serious underlying health conditions from an enlarged heart, high blood pressure, hypertension, narrowed coronary arteries (one was at least 75% blocked) and a tumor known as a paraganglioma. Floyd’s fentanyl and methamphetamine use were other significant conditions that contributed to his death.....And George Floyd’s death should have been classified as “undetermined,” rather than a homicide, because there were so many competing causes.......


    When George Floyd was passing fake $20 notes at Cupps, this rock was in the middle of the 'bat flu' scam and everyone was told to be good model citizens, respect social distancing, gimp up and part take in a global eugenics program by taking untested vaccines to see what cause and effect it has on humans. One of the things that they found out was 'bat flu' was not a super spreader and social distancing did not increase the risk of catching 'bat flu'. While America was burning, early testing of people found that there wasn't any increase of people being infected.... After George Floyd’s killing, experts warned that demonstrations could set off new waves of infections. But early testing in Minneapolis tells another story ....... COVID-19 case growth drops in Minnesota despite protest fears.......

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  21. Dr. Baker, in the official autopsy, found...

    "The decedent was known to be positive for 2019-nCoV RNA on 4/3/2020. Since PCRpositivity for 2019-nCoV RNA can persist for weeks after the onset and resolution of clinical disease, the autopsy result most likely reflects asymptomatic but persistent PCR positivity from a previous infection. "


    Isn't it at least possible George Floyd died from 'bat flu'? All health agencies from the WHO down to governments, media were all saying that anyone who has tested positive for 'bat flu' and has underlying health conditions should respect the rules even more so because they are in a high-risk group. At 12 minutes 24 seconds into 'The Fall of Minneapolis' George Floyd admits he has just had Covid, suffers from anxiety, is claustrophobic, and at 13 minutes 19 seconds George Floyd complains about his breathing while refusing to get into the squad car. At 4 minutes into the documentary George Floyd, who recently tested positive for 'bat flu' and is 'claustrophobic', he is found sitting in the driver seat of a closed SUV with no mask, pills in his mouth and has two friends with him.

    Exactly who has politicised George's murder? Antifa? George Soros?

    Antifa isn't a single group but a decentralized network of left wing extremists who use the same violent tactics the far right does.....

    Antifa supporters conduct counter-protests to disrupt far-right gatherings and rallies. They sometimes organize in black blocs—ad hoc gatherings of individuals who wear black clothing, ski masks, scarves, sunglasses, and other material to conceal their faces—use improvised explosives and other homemade weapons, and resort to vandalism.

    When Antifa members wear masks and use explosives against right-wing fascists, you give them your 'vote'. And yet when Hamas or any Palestinian group you care to mention uses the same tactics against a fascist right-wing Israeli Government, you label them bloodthirsty terrorists........and why is it that some of Antifa's symbols look similar to Nazi symbols?

    George Soro's apart from working with Nazis in WW2 and admitting he has a masonic God complex that he enjoys acting out (you call David Icke mad and he only said he thought he was the son of God), and he also gives millions to both Antifa and BLM..

    "In a similar vein, PolitiFact’s Yacob Reyes wrote an article to debunk claims that Soros was funding Black Lives Matter — only to admit and downplay his funding of BLM-adjacent groups. Writing in response to Owens saying that Soros “injected $33 million into Black Lives Matter,” Reyes rated the claim “False” because the groups weren’t official BLM groups — but merely radical far-left groups that share virtually an identical ideology to Black Lives Matter (and everything else Soros funds) and engage in the same kind of disruptive activities."

    I have no time for Soro's or anything he funds.

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  22. Exactly who has politicised George's murder?

    Maxine Waters tried her best to make the death of George Floyd political. And called for for protesters to ‘get more confrontational’ if no guilty verdict is reached in Derek Chauvin trial . Forcing Judge Cahill to slam Maxine Waters remarks. A few months after the death of George Floyd, The Memphis Five brutally murdered Tyre Nichols and Maxine Waters, Antifa, BLM weren't as vocal about Tyre, a young black man murdered by cops.

    On the 26th May 2020 Dr. Andrew Baker performed the only autopsy on George Floyd and shortly after the state prosecutor along with FBI showed up at his office to discuss his findings. Dr. Baker said he couldn't find any bruising on George Floyd's neck, or chest and there was no physical sign of asphyxiation. Although he informed them about George Floyd's underlying health conditions, signs of recently having 'bat flu' and having illegal drugs in his system. The FBI called over the next several days asking the same questions and if he (Dr. Baker) was sure about his findings.

    Amy Sweasy was the person who asked Dr. Baker to carry out the autopsy and in a sworn statement s admitted ......

    I called Dr. Baker early that morning to tell him about the case and to ask him if he would perform the autopsy on Mr. Floyd,” she explained. “He called me later in the day on that Tuesday and he told me that there were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd’s neck. There were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation,” Sweasy said, according to the transcript.

    “He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ And then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers.
    "

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  23. “He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ And then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers."


    Those words of advice were given to Professor Roland Fryer because of his findings about not finding any difference in the extreme use of force US Cops use when dealing with 'crime'--- the colour of skin didn't play any part in the outcome....

    Colleagues warned him not to publish it because it would “ruin” his career, Fryer said. (MSM)

    Fryer told Weiss he initially became interested in the topic after the shooting of Michael Brown and some other “early viral videos of police violence.” He said he was “surprised” by the result because he expected to find evidence of bias.

    After the study was complete, Fryer said he hired eight additional freshmen to redo the study but came up with the same result.

    “On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account,” Fryer’s study found.

    Colleagues warned him not to publish it because it would “ruin” his career, Fryer said.



    Professor Roland Fryer ---Open the interview at 22 mins 45 seconds---until 32 mins...And listen to Fryer talk about his 2016 report.....

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  24. For someone who as
    much as condoned the attempted murder of DC Caldwell and constantly gave Lesley Stock the third degree because of her RUC service, your bad mouthing of a victim of one of the most egregious racist murder by police in the US and questioning of the integrity of the court case is remarkable indeed, Frankie.

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  25. And I have no trick with Antifa either.

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  26. Barry....

    For someone who as much as condoned the attempted murder of DC Caldwell

    How many times do I need to say things Barry before you understand? If anyone joins the RUC MK2 in the occupied six counties they run the very real risk of being shot dead or caught in an up and under. It's called an occupational hazard. A Postman runs the risk every day of being nipped in the ankle by a Jack Russel to being mauled by an XL bully-type dog. It's called an occupational hazard. If a Butcher isn't carefull cutting meat they could chop off their fingers. Again occupational hazard.

    and constantly gave Lesley Stock the third degree because of her RUC service

    Why are you still offended and defending someone who is 'Not really here'...?

    your bad mouthing of a victim of the most egregious racist murder by police in the US

    I'm not bad mouthing George Floyd, I simply said who George was...not what MSM want be believe. He had more convictions than there are football teams in the English Premier League. He was involved in burglary where a woman was pistol whipped and robbed. He sold drugs on the street. He was also involved in armed robbery. And at the time of his death when he was passing fake $20 notes across a counter (money laundering???) he had enough Fentanol in his system to kill several men. Lied several times about when is mother died...George Floyd was a low life piece of scum and not the model citizen you make him out to be. I am not making fun about his death but I don't believe he died as a result of Derek Chauvins knee---The offical autopsy said it wasn't Chauvins knee that killed Geroge Floyd.

    and questioning of the integrity of the court case is remarkable indeed, Frankie.

    What is wrong with questioning the decision any court arrives at? Isn't that allowed in a free and open society anymore? What if no one had questioned the integrity of the courts concerning The Guildford Four, Birmingham Six, and Maguire Seven? What if Christy Walsh wasn't allowed to question his court's integrity....?

    and questioning of the integrity of the court case is remarkable indeed, Frankie.

    From Wiki a list of miscarriage of justice cases............."This list includes cases where a convicted individual was later cleared of the crime and either has received an official exoneration, or a consensus exists that the individual was unjustly punished or where a conviction has been quashed and no retrial has taken place, so that the accused is legally assumed innocent. "


    I believe the Minneapolis Four at the very least deserve a retrial and all the evidence is made available. The more I 'go down the rabbit hole' and look at the evidence, it reads to me like Minneapolis Four are victims of a miscarriage of justice.

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  27. So do you or do you not support the killing of members of the PSNI, Frankie? Do you think Rodney King was a low life piece of scum?

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    1. In my view Frankie doesn't support the killing of anybody. He discusses the context in which people are killed and outlines his take on the character of those killed as he feels that adds to context. I have never found him a cheerleader for killing but he does mock the hypocrisy and double standards that are often brought to the discussion of such matters. As for courts,a prominent barrister said of the courts in the North if you want justice go to a brothel. If you want screwed go to the courts.

      It is as well Christy Walsh challenged the North's courts in his case.

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    2. I've never thought frankie supported any killing from any quarter Barry, bit surprised at your comment to be honest

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  28. Barry,

    So do you or do you not support the killing of members of the PSNI, Frankie?

    How many times and ways do you want me to answer the same question? If anyone joins any police force they know the risks-----that includes being shot dead, blown up, beheaded by Mexican drug cartels, or beaten up by illegal immigrants on the streets of New York .

    Once again.....I had no respect for the RUC and I today have the same amount of respect for the RUC MK2. How can I respect a police force that continually covers up murder? ---Open the link, Barry.


    Do you think Rodney King was a low life piece of scum?

    I always thought Rodney King was lucky to be alive after the beating. Had he been set upon by five Memphian black American police officers, as in the case of Tyre Nichols, then Rodney King would have been beaten to death...Those points have been raised and covered by several Quillers---Go back and read from the start.

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  29. He did say that at the time of DS Caldwell's shooting that few if any TPQ readers would regret the shooting of a police officer. Make out of that what you will.

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    1. He is most likely assuming that TPQ is read mainly by republicans opposed to what SF have become and further assumes that as a result of that they would not give a toss about John Caldwell. Both assumptions are wrong but that is a far cry from him supporting PSNI being killed. At the same time I don't think he answered your question directly. He responds by explaining the risks that cops face, whereas your question is whether he thinks such risk being posed in the first place is justified.

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    2. Barry/Anthony...

      Barry...

      He did say that at the time of DS Caldwell's shooting that few if any TPQ readers would regret the shooting of a police officer. Make out of that what you will.

      Caldwell is a DCI....the official time it took for George Floyd to die was given at 7mins 46 seconds (not the 9mins you claimed above) and I never mentioned the word 'regret'...and you can Frankie Fact Check me anytime, Barry.

      What I said in a TPQ piece called Former Irish Republican Political Prisoners Repudiate Far Right was this comment...

      My take....Anyone who joins the police force in the North runs the real risk of being shot or blown up in a bomb....Its a simple fact of life...As long as there is a British presence on the island, rightly or wrongly there will be people who will take up arms and use them against British state forces......Personally I wont lose any sleep over a cop being shot and I seriously doubt most Quillers didn't lose any sleep either.....

      How much sleep did you lose Barry?

      Anthony,

      I have no idea about the demographics of TPQ's readership. I know I read it and I've never called myself an Irish Republican.

      At the same time I don't think he answered your question directly. He responds by explaining the risks that cops face, whereas your question is whether he thinks such risk being posed in the first place is justified.

      I have answered Barry's question lots of times. And it isn't up to me to justify the attempted murder of DCI Caldwell. That's for whoever planned, carried out, and was logistically involved in the act to do.

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    3. Above comment was to Barry/On the....NOT Barry/Anthony...(in my defence I'm having a spliff Quillers....)

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    4. Frankie his question is very direct. He is asking if you support the killing of PSNI.
      If you do I do not expect you to confirm it here and have the cops hounding you.
      If you don't then a simple 'no' to his question would wholly suffice.
      Any seeming reluctance to give a firm 'no' legitimately allows inferences to be drawn.

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  30. Anthony,

    Frankie his question is very direct. He is asking if you support the killing of PSNI.

    Again, I don't want to see anybody murdered but do I support the RUC MK2...NO. Never have and never will. If anyone wants to sign up and join them, it's their life, not mine and they know the risk....As long as there is a British presence on the island of Ireland then there will be people who will take up arms against them. I had that drilled into me growing up in Ardoyne as a pup.

    If you do I do not expect you to confirm it here and have the cops hounding you.

    I'm not bothered about the RUC Mk2 hounding me..The only thing I am guilty of is practicing my freedom of speech and freedom of thought....My only crime is sometimes I enjoy having a spliff while I pick on my guitar listening to Hank Williams sing I'll never get out of this world alive

    If you don't then a simple 'no' to his question would wholly suffice. Any seeming reluctance to give a firm 'no' legitimately allows inferences to be drawn.

    What Barry wants me to do is condemn Irish Republicans---Barry take a long walk from a short plank because I won't. I didn't do it before I was a Quiller, I have never done it while a Quiller and I have never done it outside the TPQ...

    Back on track. I believe the Minneapolis Four deserve a re-trial and are victims of a miscarriage of justice....

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