Comments on: How the Chauvin Trial Will Go, and other matters of White supremacy https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/03/10/how-the-chauvin-trial-will-go-and-other-matters-of-white-supremacy/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 07:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Jeffh https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/03/10/how-the-chauvin-trial-will-go-and-other-matters-of-white-supremacy/#comment-925571 Wed, 21 Apr 2021 07:35:23 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33743#comment-925571 Justice was served, although I know that there will be appeals. The bottom line is that Chauvin was clearly guilty of culpable, negligent homicide. The force rendered against George Floyd was profoundly disproportionate, with four policemen present, and Chauvin acted clearly out of a deeply-rooted form of racist power and privilege.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/03/10/how-the-chauvin-trial-will-go-and-other-matters-of-white-supremacy/#comment-925517 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:59:36 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33743#comment-925517 Well I’m surprised — pleasantly — at the verdict. The prosecution used data and experts to make its case, the defense fell back on “ooohh, black folks are scary and evil and dangerous” and brought in a guy who’s reliability is already under serious attack in a case out east. It’s always worked for them in the past (rickA bought that and ignored evidence right from the start, but that’s how he rolls) and I expected it to work again.

Now we begin the stage of appeals. The system grinds on.

]]> By: DeSantis2024 https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/03/10/how-the-chauvin-trial-will-go-and-other-matters-of-white-supremacy/#comment-925228 Sat, 17 Apr 2021 23:27:03 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33743#comment-925228 In reply to Jeffh.

Do you ever make comment that has an actual argument?

]]> By: StampOutRacism https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/03/10/how-the-chauvin-trial-will-go-and-other-matters-of-white-supremacy/#comment-925217 Sat, 17 Apr 2021 20:59:32 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33743#comment-925217 In reply to Lionel A.

See what I mean about this Limey racist? Lionel wants to post his racist bell curve bullshit and then cries like a little pussy when it gets taken down.

]]> By: StampOutRacism https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/03/10/how-the-chauvin-trial-will-go-and-other-matters-of-white-supremacy/#comment-925216 Sat, 17 Apr 2021 20:57:09 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33743#comment-925216 In reply to Lionel A.

Typical English racist pussy. The ONLY reason Lionel is talking about this is because the family was black. The implication being that only white people like Lionel should have guns.

Disgusting!

]]> By: Lionel A https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/03/10/how-the-chauvin-trial-will-go-and-other-matters-of-white-supremacy/#comment-924518 Mon, 12 Apr 2021 11:13:09 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33743#comment-924518 Facebook and page abuse undermining democratic movements including in the USA.

Page abuse is related to what Russia’s Internet Research Agency did during the 2016 US election, when it set up Facebook accounts purporting to represent Americans and used them to manipulate individuals and influence political debates. Facebook called this “coordinated inauthentic behavior” (CIB) and tasked an elite team of investigators, known as threat intelligence, with uncovering and removing it. Facebook now discloses the CIB campaigns it uncovers in monthly reports, while removing the fake accounts and Pages.

Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens

If I made a post about this on my FB page I wonder how long it would stay up. I have already seen other posts disappear before my eyes, one on the disparity between the figures for pregnancy deaths between white and non-white women, this beneath a post discussing the doctored by Downing Street report on racial and inter-ethnic disparities in general.

Big Brother is watching.

]]> By: Lionel A https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/03/10/how-the-chauvin-trial-will-go-and-other-matters-of-white-supremacy/#comment-924343 Sat, 10 Apr 2021 14:49:51 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33743#comment-924343 Yet another reason for increased gun control in the USA, this after more recent mass shootings.

Police believe an infant was fatally shot on Friday by his three-year-old brother after the older boy got a hold of a gun inside a Houston apartment.

The infant was shot in his abdomen on Friday morning, said Houston assistant police chief Wendy Baimbridge.

Baby dies in ‘tragic’ shooting by three-year-old brother, Houston police say

The adults concerned should have any fire arms licenses revoked.

Several adults who were inside the apartment drove the eight-month-old boy to a hospital, where he died.

]]> By: Lionel A https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/03/10/how-the-chauvin-trial-will-go-and-other-matters-of-white-supremacy/#comment-924342 Sat, 10 Apr 2021 14:44:28 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33743#comment-924342 Meanwhile, ambulance chasing lawyer amongst those donating to white supremacy terror groups.

The anonymous donations included $1,000 from an email address associated with Gabe Carrera, a Florida-based personal injury lawyer who bills himself as the attorney who rides.

Proud Boys and other far-right groups raise millions via Christian funding site

Another lawyer giving lawyers a bad name.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/03/10/how-the-chauvin-trial-will-go-and-other-matters-of-white-supremacy/#comment-924265 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 12:37:17 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33743#comment-924265 We all know rickA’s “drugs killed that scumbag, chauvin had nothing to do with it” line is simply his usual racist bullshit. Finally that line of crap is getting called out more widely.

https://www.vox.com/first-person/22373806/george-floyd-trial-derek-chauvin-minneapolis-black-lives-matter

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/03/10/how-the-chauvin-trial-will-go-and-other-matters-of-white-supremacy/#comment-923644 Fri, 02 Apr 2021 17:28:33 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33743#comment-923644 In reply to Dean.

Jeffh;

That is a strong statement. With that said, it’ll still be a long slog to get a conviction, even though it is highly deserved. A good many people believe (as rickA illustrates every time he posts) that Black men are all violent, drug-addled criminals who don’t deserve to be treated like humans. You see that in the approach the defense has taken in their description of George Floyd and the “mob” that supposedly posed a threat to the officers. (Note that the evidence shows the “mob” to be a few people who were asking the police to get off Floyd’s neck, nothing more.)

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