BLM peaceful protests in the UK

[EazyDuz]

Seen on social media, the two major cities I live close to will be doing peaceful protests for black lives matter.
End well this will not. Who in their right mind, who knows anything about recent news in the USA, would think it is a GOOD idea to host any kind of protest right now?
It has nothing to do with this country, all it's going to promote is looting and black vs white violence, especially with all the pent up frustration of lockdown.

What a world we are living in
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[WD Forte]

Well I hope this leads to some rioting
cos I need a new telly and toaster.
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[Lord Percy]

Yeah I agree it's just stupid.

There definitely are some race (NOT necessarily racism) issues in this country, the abstract kind i.e. "why are a disproportionate amount of non-white communities worse off", but nothing like what we see coming out of America.

It annoys me how American protests make their way over here so fast. What further annoys me is how a lot of these protesters will be the same folk who complain about the Americanisation of British politics.

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[Riejufixing]

[Lord Percy]

Then I'm the worst kind of person

[Polarbear]

Rightly or wrongly we have this view of American society as racist.

Rightly or wrongly we have this media fuelled view that cops in the US go out of their way to kill blacks.

Without supporting what the cops did there is this statement in a news article.

He moved to Minneapolis after being released from prison and was known as a "gentle giant" who was trying to turn his life around.

He was in jail for armed robbery. It's amazing how many (dead) criminals are 'lovely people who wouldn't hurt a fly'.

I can't see what else the authorities can do. Cop is going to be prosecuted for murder and will be found guilty whatever simply because they have to throw him to the wolves.

https://news.sky.com/story/who-was-george-floyd-the-gentle-giant-who-loved-his-hugs-11997206
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[stinkwheel]

Makes me wonder, is there an actual real physiological issue with large/overweight black males that makes them particularly prone to airway obstruction when positioned face down with their hands behind their back?

This is not the first case with a strikingly similar narrative of a particularly large black guy being cuffed face down, complaining he "can't breathe" and expiring. Knee on the back of the neck notwithstanding.

Could it be similar to what happens in cot-death? Might even lead to broader insights.

If there is an issue, they need to find out and review what they are doing in terms of restraint techniques.
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[RhynoCZ]

[chickenstrip]

So if the guy hadn't been black and fat, there would have been no problem with the cop placing his knee on his neck to hold him down?
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[Jmoan]

I'm sure the rabble peaceful protesters will be observing social distancing in order to avoid the coronavirus outbreak, won't they?

[chickenstrip]

[MarJay]

I'm not sure that it's all sunshine and roses Stateside. This is not us being fed with some weird propaganda.

If you're a black male in the US you've got a 1 in 1000 chance of dying because of police action. If you're white it's some stupidly low chance.

There are some accepting people in the US. There are some racists, but when you reduce the entry requirement for the police, you make it a bit of a boys club... It's not a good sign.

I read an article about the US air force recently, and it said that if you are not a Christian and you are in the US air force, your chances of career advancement are basically zero. This is not legal as far as the constitution goes, but you wouldn't find that over here. Yet, it does happen. It's unfathomable, but it does. Americans are fiercely tribal and do like their own little boys clubs. I'm not saying this is the same issue, but it's indicative of a cultural thing. I also think that the overt patriotism jingoistic thing is a kind of educative tool to brainwash citizens into following certain directions, and it has negative consequences which they don't see as they are deeply inside it all.

It's the same with firearms laws. They can't see that doing a bit of firearm control would massively reduce gun crime, suicide and accidental shooting injuries, but their culture is so different as to accept that as almost normal.

The US may *seem* similar to the UK, Europe, Aus, Canada and so on, but they do have some very deep rooted and very covert cultural differences that do take a bit of looking to see.

I for one have no doubt that there are groups of police over there who do band together, who are racist, who do behave in a way to target certain minorities, just as I'm sure it's the case here. The difference is it seems to be much more prevalent and almost socially acceptable over there.

Again, I could be wrong. I'm a white middle class straight cisgender man so I realise the massive irony of me declaring the UK better than the US in that regard, but nevertheless that's the conclusion I seem to draw.

Not saying we're perfect, far from it, but we don't tend to shoot first and as questions later, and when it does happen it's front page news.
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[Fisty]

All lives matter, regardless of race.

Except BodyTard. His life does not matter.
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[The Artist]

[Rebel]

Well the US may be stuck with low IQ, Israeli trained goons, but at least we have an apolitical, impartial and robust police force that won't be intimidated while asserting the rule of law.
Oh, wait..

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZpP_4GXsAINHnA?format=jpg&name=small