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“How they’re totally going to get away with it”
Such bullshit
I don’t think I knew how bad it was until blm and the videos that came out of that. Hopefully we’ll hit bottom with all of this racist and nazi shit.
Hi people that think maybe the headline gives enough info and it isn’t necessary to read the article! read the article!!! It’s so so so much worse than I anticipated.
three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi, received a group text message from another deputy on the same shift: “Are y’all available for a mission?”
The deputy, Christian Dedmon, informed his colleagues Hunter Elward, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke they were going to a property in Braxton, roughly 30 miles south of Jackson, to handle a complaint received by the office’s chief investigator, Brett McAlpin. The details of what prosecutors say happened that night were shared in a federal charging document.
McAlpin’s White neighbor had told him several Black men were staying at a White woman’s home there and reported seeing suspicious behavior.
And then…
Over the next two hours, Parker and Jenkins were subjected to grueling violence at the hands of the six White law enforcement officers, culminating in Jenkins being shot in the mouth.
AND THERE IS STILL MORE TO READ! and I skipped other horrible shit like how they were told to behave in front of cameras and “no bad mugshots” I haven’t even finished the article, what I’ve read so far is bad enough I have to send this now. Before other details send me into incoherent
ETA: it’s disgusting. I’m so done. This is worse than I ever imagined and tbh anyone who has commented so far I’m not sure they even read it because it is so so clear these officers were having a great time, with a group chat name and slapping them with dildos and oh it is SO SO SO blatantly racist
The officers then hauled the two men into the living room where all six men spewed racial slurs at them and accused them of taking advantage of the White woman who owned the house. They warned them to stay out of Rankin County and go back to “their side” of the Pearl River
AND IM STILL NOT DONE. I can’t finish this tonight. It is too horrible.
And they did it all happily thanks to qualified immunity… these fucking pigs
I want them to suffer but I think the bitch that called them needs serious consequences too. Absolutely no way she didn’t know on some level what she was doing.
(Nevermind I misread the details of who did/said what. The one thing I did remember correctly is the woman didn’t file a complaint just mentioned it to her neighbor who is the police chief.) I totally missed the the extra context of how it started.
I certainly wouldn’t expect that remark would lead to police breaking into the house in the middle of the night and torturing these men because it’s just so fucking extremely evil (and it was torture, I’d be amazed if they didn’t have PTSD) I HOPE she cares and feels guilt, but this whole story is some Tulsa and Emmett Till levels of brutality and racism.
That’s the most Mississippi thing I’ve ever heard today.
I’m over News trump has 6 less voters.
These people are fucking disgusting.
“Mississippi” and “sheriff” in the same sentence is always bad news.
Tbh I have to suppress the urge to make a switcharoo.
Conservatives should never be permitted to be in positions of power. It should be illegal for them to possess firearms.
Throughout history, every violent act of racism has come from conservatives. Every single time. Why do we allow them to hold positions of power? They are evil. Period.
I appreciate your anger
But you should be careful with absolute words like “every”. Wouldn’t want your message to be detracted by someone with a technicallity to fellate (someone like me except they disagree with you).
I agree. I typically avoid absolute terms, but I enjoy the arguments these statements invite from conservatives. Even when given such an obvious opening, they usually have a tough time arguing against it.
Going out of your way to pick fights makes you part of the problem.
Anger against conservatives is righteous anger and moral. Making verbal arguments is not “fights” as you are presenting it.
Picking fights is literaly the only way political change is possible. Being polite when political opponents are hostile on a philosophical level is counterproductive and self-destructive.
Sitting idly by makes you complicit.
The problem is not me picking fights with racists. That’s the symptom. The problem is the existence of racists and those who defend racists.
Not making absolutist statements does not make you idle. It is wrong and misleads impressionable people. Don’t lie to support your cause.
Memba when we asked England nicely to be our own country and it worked, then we eliminated slavery using only handshakes and gentlemen’s agreements, then there was no more racism but just for fun we passed the civil rights act not because we needed it but because it would be easy and we may as well write down the principles we all follow anyway
They are making it simple for all of them to be strapped. My daughter who is a liberal was handed a .22 pistol as a gift from her GOP father-in-law when she moved to Florida a few months ago. She was like okay, thank you I guess.
What sort of strategy have you discussed with your daughter about her safety and wellbeing? if you and her have a gun aversion, does she train in martial arts, or are you just taking a leap of faith because the chance of you or her becoming a victim doesn’t seem plausible to you? i want to understand if you and her truly feel that comfortable and safe. if so, hey, i pray that you never suffer a traumatic experience…to me your statement just seems like she was handed a seat belt and was like ‘im not gonna put my seatbelt on, its uncomfortable’ . i say this because i was a raised in a bar and i never saw a woman win a fight with a man hand to hand. Lastly, some of us live in shit holes and can’t leave. but we can make decisions that lead to us going home at night, carrying concealed is one of those methods, and i am very liberal. protection is not GOP exclusive. It’s just tainted by them.
Wearing a gun may give you some protection, but it also brings you a false sense of security and introduces countless new risks while negleting the source of the issue. If you’re actually living somewhere, where it’s “normal” to wear guns it’s a far better idea to just relocate. But then, many folks are just scared and don’t actually gain any increased safety from wearing a gun.
It’s a very real problem. getting a ccw is easier than getting a drivers license. depending on the state, not every place is the same. Living in Rhode Island? yeah having a gun felt passe. Here in Florida. The place is a 39 ring circus with no one orchestrating the show and crime solve rates are laughable at best. additionally. some towns, like mine. our police go home at 6pm…like wtf…our 911 goes to the ‘central’ city after hours which means police arrival times range between 40mins-1:30mins…up north they were sub 10mins tops and 24/7 police shifts. so its not lost on me, i just cant afford to live in a place like that anymore, sadly.
Everyone stopped caring about us after Biden got into office, this news will probably just get buried
I fucking hope not. I don’t think it’s that people stopped caring, the media stopped giving it airtime. But I’m not part of this marginalized group, I’m not black, so perhaps you have experience with individuals actually caring less and I don’t mean to discredit that! It would depress me a lot if that is reality though and I’d be very disappointed and disillusioned by allies. Trump was responsible for a lot of shit in America but police brutality against the black (and anyone brown tbh) communities has been in headlines since forever and BLM started during Obama didn’t it?
You hope not? I literally see no color anywhere in the Fediverse, just white people. It’s the same on Mastadon too. The racism was always here, Trump just amplified their voice, but now that he’s gone the masks have gone back on
I’m sorry I don’t understand the connection how a new growing website’s diversity or lack of reflects people stopped caring about injustices and brutality against marginalized groups. I do agree racism was always there.
I hope to see an article of this shit happening to these cunts in jail. Broadcast it to the world after the fact like abu ghraib.
Tired of seeing these fat sloppy rednecks get away with shit they need to be shook up and fucking frightened.
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