Minneapolis police kill black man #RIPGeorgeFloyd

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the militarization of local police forces on full display as heavily armed cops and armored vehicles patrol the streets and crack down on protests over the killing of George Floyd, Sen. Brian Schatz on Sunday said he plans to introduce an amendment to end the federal program that permits the transfer of excess military equipment to police departments across the nation.

“I will be introducing an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to discontinue the program that transfers military weaponry to local police departments,” the Hawaii Democrat tweeted late Sunday.

Julián Castro, the former Housing Secretary, applauded Schatz’s proposal, warning that “as long as our police arm up like a combat force, they’ll act like it.”

President Donald Trump in 2017 rolled back Obama-era limits on the 1033 Program, which authorizes the Defense Department to send military equipment and weapons to local police departments. As NBC reported at the time, “Congress created the program in 1990 during the height of the war on drugs for federal and state law enforcement agencies, and it was expanded seven years later to include all law enforcement departments.”

“Since the program’s inception,” NBC noted, “more than $5.4 billion in equipment has flowed to police.”

The response by local law enforcement to the nationwide uprising that followed Floyd’s killing has heightened scrutiny of the 1033 Program, with lawmakers and activists warning that access to military hardware has made police behavior toward protesters even more brutal and violent.

“Militarizing local police forces doesn’t make our communities safer,” tweeted Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Philip McHarris, a PhD candidate in sociology and African American studies at Yale University, wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Post last week that “police departments have come to resemble military units, contributing to deadly violence disproportionately against black Americans.”

“The cycle of police brutality sparking unrest, and that unrest being met by the militarized police is increasingly familiar in modern American society,” wrote McHarris. “Tough-on-crime policies and militarized police departments have paved the way for increased police contact and tragic violence. Reducing the capacity for police to engage in routine and militaristic violence is the only way to break recurring cycles of police killings and the militarized response that protests of them are often met with.”

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

This shyt still hurt watching that strong grown ass man scream for his mama

I will never forget those words, man

And he moms passed away 3 years ago...

 

[Sghost597]

Something just seems scummy with the long wait to bring up charges , an army to protect the house, incompetent county autopsy, and murdere's wife filing divorce before going into custody. I'm glad their was a 2nd autopsy done, because that 1st one just doesn't seem right.

The divorce protects all of the Murder's assets. She'll get everything. It was deliberately planned. This is a game of cards and things to appear to fall in a planned out method.

I promise you that they plan on that murder charge to not stick in court. We'll be lucky to get manslaughter.

 

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[BXKingPin82]

I signed up to this site so that I could follow the Michael Brown protests back in 2014 as it seemed to be the only place that wasn't overwhelmed with racist garbage.

I remember that month like it was yesterday. I remember exactly how tense it was even though I was nowhere near Missouri.

This is different. It feels so different. This whole quarantine coupled with the unemployment numbers and police shootings makes me feel like something massive is going to happen or come from this.

yeah.
this is some next shyt.
its like one thing after another.
this is OD fukk shyt.
like, yo! powers that be...

can we recover from the last shyt?

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

now the controversy is that apparently the Chief was supposed to retire in a month anyway ..so that this is just an early retirement on the low

Politics is such a dirty game lol

 

[BiggWebb79]

Dude tries to take atm on bus

Like a scene from Barbershop

 

[Kokoro]

 

[Patrick Kane]

Getting a little active in Philly

 

[Kokoro]

now the controversy is that apparently the Chief was supposed to retire in a month anyway ..so that this is just an early retirement on the low

Politics is such a dirty game lol

And he’ll probably still keep his pension too smh

 

[Ron Mexico]

to that sista

 

[Adebisi_Said]

Dude tries to take atm on bus

#99. Gotta be Newark.

Anthony Anderson and Lahmard Tate would be proud.

 

[God Almighty]

 

[Rice N Beans]

Brehs in DC need to get the guillotine out.

 

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — David McAtee, the owner of YaYa's BBQ in western Louisville, was shot and killed by law enforcement officers early Monday morning, an incident that's now under state and local police investigation.

McAtee was known as a "community pillar," said his mother, Odessa Riley.

"He left a great legend behind. He was a good person. Everybody around him would say that," she said. "My son didn't hurt nobody. He didn't do nothing to nobody."

Riley was among the hundreds who had swarmed the corner of 26th and Broadway on Monday where Louisville police and National Guard personnel were breaking up a "large crowd" that had gathered in the parking lot outside a Dino's Food Mart, according to law enforcement officials.

LMPD Chief Steve Conrad said in a statement on Monday that someone shot at officers and both officers and soldiers "returned fire." The identities of the suspect and the law enforcement officers who returned fire have not been released.

McAtee's barbecue business is next to the Dino's Food Mart parking lot where the shooting took place around 12:15 a.m. Monday.

His identity was confirmed to The Courier Journal Monday by his nephew.
Who was David McAtee?
McAtee, 53, operated a barbecue business at one of the West End's most popular corners, especially on the weekends.

“I’ve been doing this for about 30 years, but I’ve been here for two," he told West of Ninth, a photo blog by Walt and Marshae Smith, in a February interview. "This location is the one of the busiest locations in west Louisville. I always wanted to be in this spot, and when the opportunity came, I took it."

McAtee said he hoped to one day buy the lot at 26th and Broadway, and build a brick-and-mortar restaurant.

"I gotta start somewhere, and this is where I’m going to start," he said in February. "It might take another year or two to get to where I’m going, but I’m going to get there."

Those who spoke with The Courier Journal said they knew the chef as someone who would cook at several community events across the area's nine neighborhoods.
"Mr. McAtee would help us with Californian Day for at least 15 years, if not longer," Greg Cotton, Jr., who lives in Middletown, said in an interview Monday. "He was one of the ones who would donate all his time and all his food; everybody could just come up and take it and he wouldn't charge because it was for the neighborhood."

McAtee's mother and his nephew told The Courier Journal that he was known to feed police as well. The two said he would give law enforcement officers free meals.

"He fed them free," Riley said. "He fed the police and didn't charge them nothing.

"My son was a good son. All he did on that barbecue corner is try to make a dollar for himself and his family," she added. "And they come along and they killed my son."