What even the fuck...?

[The Feral Underclass]

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[Palmares]

Unless they were in a choke hold...

[Bala Perdida]

Racist pieces of shit. It might be out of context, but that sign/shirt combo is reassuring that it's not.

[BIXX]

In new York a while back there was another case where a man was choked to death (I think he was black, I'm trying to remember from what my dad told me). After the court decision that should have established president was handed down (later successfully fought, I believe) a group of officers starting making shirts that said "smoke em not choke em" or something to that effect.

[motion denied]

red terror is a necessity

[Tim Cornelis]

red terror is a necessity

Because of three middle aged idiots?

[motion denied]

Because of three middle aged idiots?

because of that too

[consuming negativity]

Because of three middle aged idiots?

there's some pretty significant grey hair there

i wouldn't really consider 50+ middle aged

[PhoenixAsh]

It is not three men. And it is becomming a wider sympthom.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2881588/I-breathe-100-police-supporters-storm-New-York-City-sick-t-shirts-mocking-Eric-Garner-s-words.html

Here is a feel of the demo:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/i-can-breathe-cause-i-dont-steal#.su3mnq9j0

[Sasha]

What Cop T-Shirts Tell Us About Police Culture: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/what-cop-tshirts-tell-us-_n_3479017.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/what-cop-tshirts-tell-us-_n_3479017.html)

[Lord Testicles]

It seems like it's not only these idiots who've had this idea:

http://www.vocativ.com/culture/society/breathe-easy-dont-break-the-law-t-shirt/

[PhoenixAsh]

and then there is this: http://gawker.com/illinois-woman-applies-for-i-cant-breathe-trademark-t-1673128124

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

there's some pretty significant grey hair there

i wouldn't really consider 50+ middle aged

I would say middle age is around fifty. And yeah, a lot of middle-aged people have greying hair. Hell, I have grey hairs and I'm 25.

I also don't see why people are surprised. I mean, I can get the outrage, but did people expect anything else from the cops?

[Redistribute the Rep]

I also don't see why people are surprised. I mean, I can get the outrage, but did people expect anything else from the cops?

I don't think these people are even cops, they're holding a sign that says thank you to the cops, which I took to mean that they themselves aren't cops. Correct me if I'm wromg though.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I don't think these people are even cops, they're holding a sign that says thank you to the cops, which I took to mean that they themselves aren't cops. Correct me if I'm wromg though.

Oh yeah, I didn't notice the writing below the sign. Again, though, I can understand that this is an ugly side of class society and that people are scandalised, but white supporters of cops acting in a racist manner is... well, to be expected.

[PhoenixAsh]

It is absolutely predictable this would happen.

If you see how the unions acted in a recent rallymeeting..and the mayor praising the cops for showing restraint in the recent protests and calling the NYPD the finest police force in the country because of that restraint...in the face of politicians warning their half-black children to stay away from cops and watch out for them....

It is easy to see how this situation will not change anytime soon and will require and necessitate long term opposition movement.

[The Intransigent Faction]

red terror is a necessity

More and more it's apparent that the contradictions of capitalism alone will generate crises, but it will not necessarily bring socialist revolution (it may even bring unabashed fascism). Even if socialism is inevitable, by the time the short-sightedness endemic to this system isn't enough to restrain class-consciousness it may well be too late.

It's not a dichotomy between "do nothing but wait for the system to collapse on itself" and "red terror", but knee-jerk reactionaries of which these three are emblematic are not generally going to be convinced by rational arguments nor by the continually worsening situation of the working class.