So is ANTIFA replacing Muslim terrorists as the threat of the day in the US? If so, then you guys went from fighting a huge, active threat in Nazi Germany, to standing off against a huge but mostly inactive threat that was Soviet Communism, to getting occasionally poked by and overreacting to Muslim terrorism, to now…

...the union told them it was getting too expensive to pay for lawyers, thus going forward the union wouldn’t pay for lawyers when cops got charged with assaulting people during a protest.

On a similar note, why does the US Army name its helicopters after nations it tried to genocide? The Boeing “Apache,” the Lockheed “Cheyenne,” the Bell “Arapaho,” etc. Even the famously irony-deficient Germans didn’t fly around in Gotha “Gypsies,” Junkers “Jews,” and Heinkel “Homosexuals.”

Yes, voting only gets you half way there, good voting puts in place politicians who will work with you and will respond to concerns. You still have to voice those concerns and work with them though, pulling a lever every 4 years is just the very bare minimum.

It all comes across as kind of banal; no one used the n-word, no one swung any batons or fired any rubber bullets, the aggressiveness from Officer Redacted was low-key and the other officers were professional and maybe even polite. But in the end, you were still taken to jail because they refused to believe or…

The song and video reminds me of Busta Rhymes’ “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See,” also from the same year.

I only started visiting Deadspin about 3 years ago and haven’t seen many of that kind of behaviour, though there were mentions of it, in Drew Magary’s “mea culpa” in one of his weekly funbag openings for example. I got the impression many of them grew out of a lot of that dumb stuff. And Alex Pareene from Splinter was…

I wish my parents had a talk similar to the one suggested in the video when I was a kid; not about race but about the police. I was 4 when marshal law was imposed in communist Poland for a year and a half; I remember TV images of tanks on the street and overheard the adults talking about the riot police beating and…

Hey fellow Kinja poster whose name also starts with Woke, I coincidentally also came here to say the same thing. The first two paragraphs here summarize Stingrays well:

The new Deadspin confuses me. They have articles that I guess you could call well-intentioned and progressive/left-leaning; many of them a lot less shitty than the one Michael wrote about above, like for example the one about Jeremy Roenick’s reaction to the George Floyd murder video, or their reaction to NHL’s…

You guys have laws down there that say it’s OK to run over rioters when you could have just slowly reversed or even very slowly moved forward? Like a “stand your own truck” kind of law?

but it’s hardly inconceivable because, say it with me, the cops are infiltrated by neo-nazis who pursue an agenda of industrial-scale violence against black people to be achieved through political subterfuge

Absolutely. There’s an order to these things: “first they came for that group and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t part of that group, then they came for the next group etc, etc.” Maybe it’s not structured and ordered like in 1930's Germany, but basically if you let them get away with that crap against the most…

It’s probably not just anti-mob concerns anymore, I’m guessing a lot of cops would quit their jobs if they had to live where they work. For all the crap we see them doing on video, cops do also make a lot of legitimate arrests against real criminals and they don’t want to run into those criminals months later while…

I really hope recent events change things for you guys and don’t become just similar entries on list a few years from now. Maybe it’s easy for me to say sitting up here in quiet Canada but yeah, reap.

I don’t like how “violence” now includes “property crime.” I remember how this wasn’t the case, and I’m not that old. “Violence” was something you could only do against another person, while property could only suffer “damage” or “destruction.” So the police were “violent” against George Floyd, but the…

Typo here:

I dislike Trump as much as the next person here, but as far as crimes against the World (vs crimes against Americans), he’s been just average. Not a lot worse than Obama, a lot better than Bush.

I feel like this will make it LESS likely for the police or a prosecutor to charge someone like her with anything. How about just making the penalty for false police reports a little more severe and enforce it more often.

But what exactly were the implications for Daniel Pantaelo? He got fired, he sued the NYPD for getting fired, he may even get a job as a cop again somewhere. This shit won’t stop anytime soon.