CONSOLIDATED - Police-related violence / shooting threads

[Sir Slash]

Yeah right now BLM is mad at the ISIS for up-staging their injustice, with their injustice.

[Boggit]

Ey Boyz, we gotz da Waaagh! on our side, we ain't losin' ta no humies


...OrcLivesMatter ^-^

Don't you mean Black Orc Lives Matter?

[JasonPratt]

Lots of nothing about it in the news so far. Phew.

Unless the Cleveland shootings last night as supposed to be part of it.  :'(

[bayonetbrant]

3 officers dead in Baton Rouge

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/17/us/baton-route-police-shooting/index.html
http://www.wbrz.com/news/3-officers-dead-after-shooting-near-brpd-hq

more officers hurt


This is *not* going to end well for those going after the cops.  BR is a pretty redneck town with a lot of guns and a lot of people who support the cops.  If someone decides to start a race war, the numbers - and arsenals - are not on the side of the black community.

[Gusington]

Holy f'ck.

[bayonetbrant]

Mod hat on  C:-)

Please, keep this thread respectful and we'll keep it out of RPFW. 
If it gets too testy, we'll toss it into the pit.

[Gusington]

Horrible that a combined thread is needed for this for multiple cities.

[bayonetbrant]

3 officers dead in Baton Rouge

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/17/us/baton-route-police-shooting/index.html
http://www.wbrz.com/news/3-officers-dead-after-shooting-near-brpd-hq

more officers hurt


This is *not* going to end well for those going after the cops.  BR is a pretty redneck town with a lot of guns and a lot of people who support the cops.  If someone decides to start a race war, the numbers - and arsenals - are not on the side of the black community.

I know that part of town really well, too, since it's right near where my grandparents lived (back when they were alive). 
There's a big park on Goodwood that I used to walk to from their house to go kick around a ball or just hang out to get out of the house for a bit.
I learned to drive a car (rather than a go-kart) in a parking lot of the Episcopal Church at Airline & Jefferson Hwy, right down the street from the BRPD bldg.
Those neighborhoods they're locking down are the ones I know best in the area.

[bayonetbrant]

Horrible that a combined thread is needed for this for multiple cities.

Agreed, but felt best to contain them since they'r all linked at this point.


I can understand where some of the grievances are coming from, but I'll say this - over the long run, a nationwide violent confrontation is not going to end well for the protestors; it' just basic math.

[Gusington]

I am just wrapping my brain around the idea that this is spreading...news talking heads are saying that this ambush looked very organized. Frightening.

[MikeGER]

I am just wrapping my brain around the idea that this is spreading...

the shit really hit the fan when some "rednecks"posse  (maybe even off duty, retiered, or former cops among them) somewhere start taking out some well known local black gang homies (those with a known long criminal record but no sentence) in revenge and 'to deliver a strong message', because the President and the media don't as always in the following days....

[JasonPratt]

When I read Mike's escalation hypothesis, my gut reaction was, "GREAT! WHERE DO I SIGN UP!?"

Which is the dangerous allure, of course.  :(


On a better note, nearby here in central West TN some black churches (both dedicated to St. Paul coincidentally, although one is Baptist and one is CME) have been working on more peaceful demonstrations; including one recently in the small town of Medina (or maybe Milan, I forget which), which showed support for local police. The next one, in Jackson (the only metro city in West TN aside from Memphis), is borrowing the Black Lives Matter tag but combining it with All Lives Matter; and the intended point in both cases is to demonstrate cooperative solidarity by non-criminals (whether police or citizen) with each other against criminal abuse (whether police or citizen -- in other words, against gang crime, too, and the usual black-on-black violence around it). I suspect, although I don't know for sure yet, that my brother's church, located just off the court square in Jackson (and diagonally across a street crossing from the NAACP building), will be involved in it. (But he and his family will be out of state when it's going on.)

I hope things work out, although they're close enough to Memphis to potentially draw more of the kind of people who tried to tip over a semi-tractor trailer (with the driver still inside) to block a federal highway bridge overnight so they could leave to go party on Beale St. 

[Sir Slash]

Cue All-Father Obama to preach the Word.

[Gusington]

^He's speaking on this later.

I have to admit that I am personally a little more nervous than usual because I have been doing traffic/guard duty a lot this year for the Guard and mostly on my own, although yesterday I did have a partner because it was his first time working that detail.

Granted we are on an active military base (hard target) but we DO NOT have the training to respond to a random attack. I've asked my SGT and my LT to always have us paired up but have got mostly silence on it other than helping out the new guy yesterday. I do not like to think I have a target on my back.

Just venting here.

[Nefaro]

Cue All-Father Obama to preach the Word.

With his track record on such things, it'd be best if he didn't say a damn word.