The Buffalo video shows a 75-year-old man approach police officers
enforcing a curfew. They then move forward, pushing him back and causing
him to fall over and hit his head.
As he lies on the ground, blood is seen pouring from his ear.
The man was taken away in an ambulance and was later found to have suffered a severe head injury.
An
initial statement from Buffalo Police Department said the man had
"tripped" and fallen during a "skirmish involving protesters",
compounding outrage at the incident on social media.
Not a cop moves to help the poor bloke, and it's not like they'd be
left short-handed if a couple of the bastards had stooped to check his
vitals and so forth. Busy, taking back the streets.
Donald Trump calls on Governors to dominate the streets.
Just doing as requested, Sir
police in Arizona released details of the killing of another African
American, Dion Johnson, in Phoenix on 25 May, the same day as Floyd. Johnson
was shot dead by state troopers after being found "passed out in the
driver's seat" of a car which was partially blocking traffic, a police
statement said.
"During the trooper's contact with the suspect,
there was a struggle and the trooper fired his service weapon striking
the suspect," police said.
The statement was only released after Johnson's family was offered audio of the police dispatch
- Donald Trump said he would send in troops if states did not deploy an "overwhelming" law enforcement presence
- He said Washington DC would be subject to a "strictly enforced" 7:00pm curfew
- Mr Trump spoke only minutes after police fired tear gas canisters to disperse protests across the street from the White House
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I've watched the first one a few times now and one officer, very briefly, moves to check on the man they've just felled, and is immediately pulled back by a (senior?) colleague, who gets on the radio. Wouldn't look good if they were filmed fussing over someone, right? Might look like they were responsible, or had a duty of care. Know your enemy, officer? Guess that would be all of us, if the opportunity arises.
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The US is a very sick society. One poor old bloke. Could have been me. But this is the country where Madeleine Albright said "the deaths of half a million Iraqi children was worth it". I hope they burn the place down and kill each other.
They don't look much like "citizens in uniform", do they?
Trump is getting beyond a joke now too. Enough. But madly the Democrats have once again picked the only candidate he can possibly beat. Insanity.
Looks like they are trying very hard to do just that, mr mike. It seems like civil war to me, but I suppose the outcome isn't in any doubt as the apparatus of state has all the weapons and all the kit and POTUS is egging on the Governors to brutally suppress the protests - he's even called some protesters "terrorists" and we know how he deals with "terrorists".
I hope it wouldn't happen on our streets, mr verge, but I suspect it already has, albeit not on this scale.
First, the virus, then the riots.
Have you come across Connie Willis' "Doomsday Book"? It simultaneously charts the spread of a pandemic in the imagined near future and the progress of the Black Death in 14th Century Oxford. Highly recommended, multiply award-winning, written in the last decade of the twentieth century. And then there's Margaret Attwood's Handmaid's Tale, describing a post - civil war America in the near future, in which a fundamentalist military regime has gained total control. The two script writers of the American Apocalypse - Willis and Attwood.
The U.S. has always had its futurists, warning and chronicling Ruin, for all the good it does them.
The moronic inferno it is indeed, as the writers have known and called it for a while. It's desperately sad to see. I do not know Connie Lewis, Mrs I, and will look her up.
I don't altogether despair of a nation that produced the mesmerisingly difficult and joyous Wallace Stevens, and so many other superb writers, artists and scientists.
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour by Stevens has always been a favourite of mine and I find the last three lines enormously consoling, especially now. Mr I was suspicious of the poets but the best poets are always suspicious of themselves, so there we are.
mr bb - Connie Willis, and it is a lot of words - I listened to her on Audible, while gardening or walking.
Thank you for telling me about Wallace Stevens - I'm astonishingly ignorant and hadna come across him, but now I have, thanks to you. Here are the last three lines of the Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour:
"Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough."
That is, indeed, enormously consoling.Thank you.
Now, you may think, and, you did, actually, just say - that mr ishmael was suspicious of the poets. I have just measured it, and there are six foot four inches of poetry on mr ishmael's bookshelves. And not, I hasten to add, all Kipling. Kipling accounts for a mere two inches. When mr ishmael thundered "How dare there be poets", I think that was political rhetoric rather than a positional and personal statement. In fact, he was proud that two of his close friends were, and remain, Poets.
Citizens in uniform, mr mongoose? Why, no - Robocops. And if you remember the film, the poor bastard that was bionicised into Robocop was himself a victim of the State that turned him into a peacekeepingwarmachine. They are all victims in the United States - can we spare any pity for the weaponed, uniformed, riot-shielded, rednecked-bullyboy jerks who attacked a 75 year old protester, knelt on the throat of a black man not resisting arrest, smashed in a car window in order to taser the occupants who had done nothing wrong, shot an unarmed, sleeping man at the wheel of his stationary car.... Well, they all had mothers - they were all loved once,they have all been stripped most cruelly of their humanity by a State that has turned them into unthinking, unfeeling Robocops. It is when they realise what has been done to them, when they make common cause with those they are paid to oppress, when they lay down their riot shields, that the Glorious Day draws near and Trump and his Establishment have reason to tremble.
Nah - windy, Sixties rhetoric, that, innit?
He's still stone-mad, though, Trump.
I never really doubted it, Mrs I.
Indeed, mrs i, there really isn't any point having habeas corpus or trial-by-jury if you have the The Health Protection Regulations 2020. The Riot Act was a gentle cuddle in comparison. That precise bit of legislation having been repealed, I suppose, is cause for celebration but seeing as we have all been under house arrest for near ten weeks, I think we should celebrate gently the coming release. The fuckers can and do do what they want when they want but this is getting ridiculous.
By the by, I don't really have a lot of sympathy with folk who get smacked when they go out for a ruck. The entire hoohah is anyway a confection aimed at denying the Orange One his re-election. Not that that is not a good idea - the denial, that is - but can we not be honest what we are about? The US media is spending the anger and lockdown frudtration of (mostly) young people without a care that a bunch of them will get hurt or perhaps imprisoned. That is all grist to the media mill. I am sure that btw the US justice system and the brutality of Robocop fall more heavily upon the black than the white but that is more a measure of poverty than prejudice. As someone almost said on the lantern the other day "who do you expect for $25,000 a year - Socrates?" There is a level of deception and cynicism at play with which I am uncomfortable.
How about "Poor lives matter"?
The Health Regulations make the utterly unspeakable Hopeless Hancock the most powerful man in this country since Cromwell. Hopefully someone will bring a suit for corporate manslaughter over the care homes; that`ll wipe the authoritarian smirk off his face. Johnson is palsied through post viral fatigue and Raab too terrified and Bulb Head Cummings will be doing the dirty. On those who sense Johnson is weakened, like Hunt; on the forthcoming inquiry and on those who ' made the clinical decisions ' ( quote from Gove) to send the untested elderly back into care homes.
Protesters in Bristol toppled the statue of seventeenth century slave trader Edward Colston and dropped it in the docks. Not a worshipful brother officer to be seen. A few weeks ago if you`d sat on a bench in Queen Anne Square you`d have had more of the bastards than the miner`s strike descending on you.
The revolution will be televised, not this fuckin time it won't. The live feed via Ruptly has allegedly been cut, we will only receive the official 'peaceful protest' version from the PBC.
It's gonna get tasty.
Then of course with our stricken Prime Minister absent from the job we will get the much anticipated GNU, Hunt, Starmer, Davey haha.
Always worth watching Russia Today to get an alternative to the PBC's anodyne reporting, mr inmate,and the widespread ownership of camera phones ensures that the truth cannot be swept under the carpet. In the US, Robocop has been killing black citizens on a daily basis, forever and getting away with "he tripped" "unfortunate accident" "violent and resisting arrest" - but that is no longer possible as these atrocities are filmed by concerned citizens and uploaded to Facebook and Youtube. So Governors and Mayors and Police Chiefs have had to learn a new language of regret, contrition and have had to take lessons in sounding genuine.
You are quite right, mr yardarm, the coronacrisis legislation, to which I posted a link a while back up the road, (but here it is again, in case anyone missed it
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/coronavirus)
has ensured that the Executive has all the powers it needs to control the population during the pandemic - I wonder if it will be repealed should the virus fade into the disease background of our lives? Never waste a good crisis, so maybe it will remain in place. The legislation has also removed all those civil rights and liberties that we thought we had, that we thought were an inherant, intrinsic, undivisible part of being British. A bit of a worry.
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