Racism in Southern America..

[Captain Turdseye]

That’s mental. 
 

Imagine what this country would be like if every fucker had a gun. Doesn’t bear thinking about. 

[VladimirIlyich]

58 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

That’s mental. 
 

Imagine what this country would be like if every fucker had a gun. Doesn’t bear thinking about. 

It would probably be just like America.

[easytoslip]

Surely Africa is the most racist country, has to be up there. 

Our Jim was the Union man when he was down here driving the buses, a lot of his mates are Indian and sound, but this little Sri Lankan was treated like shit by them, he represented him when he filed a complaint, no one would talk to him. 

Is it because he was Tamil I wonder? 

 

[easytoslip]

20 minutes ago, easytoslip said:

Surely Africa is the most racist country, has to be up there. 

Our Jim was the Union man when he was down here driving the buses, a lot of his mates are Indian and sound, but this little Sri Lankan was treated like shit by them, he represented him when he filed a complaint, no one would talk to him. 

Is it because he was Tamil I wonder? 

 

Continent, countries within that is. 

[Dougie Do'ins]

Ahmaud Arbery: Biden demands justice for Georgia killing of black jogger

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52557609

[VladimirIlyich]

11 hours ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

Ahmaud Arbery: Biden demands justice for Georgia killing of black jogger

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52557609

I knew a pick up truck would be involved. The icon of the USA's Redneck.

This was murder but being an ex cop this fella will either get off or a lenient punishment. Also,if the Grand Jury is anything like some of the cases in a recent Netflix series it will be made up of half of the ex cops friends!

[Anubis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-us-canada-52585505?__twitter_impression=true
 

They look like a pair of upstanding chaps...

 

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Ahmaud Arbery: Father and son charged with murder of US black jogger

08 May 2020

Family photo

Ahmaud Arbery

A father and son have been arrested and charged in the US state of Georgia for the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man.

 

Gregory McMichael, aged 64, and Travis McMichael, aged 34, were detained on Thursday by the state bureau of investigation.

 

Both were charged with murder and aggravated assault, investigators said in a statement .

 

Mr Arbery, 25, was jogging in February when he was confronted by the pair.

For more than two months, police did not charge the McMichaels, who are white, until the shooting gained widespread attention in the national media and provoked outrage.

 

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced late on Thursday that both men had been taken into custody. The bureau said the father and son followed Mr Arbery and confronted him with two firearms, and the younger McMichael shot and killed him.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation

Travis McMichael (left) and Gregory McMichael were detained on Thursday

How did Arbery die?

Mr Arbery was out running in the coastal city of Brunswick early in the afternoon of 23 February. Gregory McMichael told police he saw Mr Arbery and believed he resembled the suspect in a series of local break-ins.

 

Mr McMichael and his son armed themselves with a pistol and a shotgun and pursued Mr Arbery in a pick-up truck. Gregory McMichael told police he and his son said "stop, stop, we want to talk to you" and claims Mr Arbery then attacked his son.

 

Video footage of the incident appears to show Travis McMichael firing a shotgun at point blank range at Mr Arbery and the victim falling to the street, in the Satilla Shores neighbourhood.Georgia

man seeks justice

Mr Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, said police told her after the shooting that her son had been involved in a burglary before the incident, but the family say they do not believe the keen jogger had committed a crime. He was unarmed and carrying nothing.

 

A number of calls were made to police around the time of the confrontation, according to a CBS News report. In one 911 call, a neighbour said a black man was seen at a home under construction in the area. When asked what the man was doing now, the caller said "running down the street".

 

Mobile phone video of the shooting incident has now emerged. The footage, apparently filmed by another man in the neighbourhood, appears to show the McMichaels waiting for Mr Arbery as he jogs down the road in broad daylight.

The 36-second clip was shot from a vehicle following the pick-up truck said to be involved in the incident.

 

Mr Arbery is seen jogging and then approaching the stationary pick-up from behind. He then tries to bypass the truck and is seen struggling with a man carrying a shotgun - believed to be Travis McMichael. There is muffled shouting and shotgun shots.

 

A second man is standing in the bed of the pick-up - understood to be Gregory McMichael. The second man is then shown with a pistol standing alongside the other armed man with Mr Arbery no longer in view.

'Lynched before our very eyes'

The victim's father told PBS Newshour on Thursday that his son exercised in the area daily and stayed across the street at his mother's house. "I don't know why they racially profile him and done him like that," said Marcus Arbery, "because all he did is work out and ran and just took care of his body, because he had dreams now."

 

Asked about the suggestion that his son could have been implicated in a burglary, Mr Arbery said that was "just a lie and a cover-up".

 

"The video speaking everything for itself," he said. "Check that lynch mob out."

 

The family lawyer, Benjamin Crump, said the footage showed a "horrific execution". The attorney also claimed Gregory McMichael was not initially charged because he had worked as a police officer and a detective for the local district attorney for more than 30 years.

 

The shooting has led to a wave of outrage from national figures, including presidential candidate Joe Biden and basketball star LeBron James. Mr Biden said Mr Arbery had been "shot down in cold blood" and "essentially lynched before our very eyes".

 

"This family and the country deserves justice and they deserve it now. They deserve a transparent investigation of this brutal murder. But our nation deserves it as well. We need to reckon with this, this goes on. These vicious acts call to mind the darkest chapters of our history," Mr Biden said.

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

It's an insane story absolutely disgusting. The police were more interested in how the footage became public.

 

This story aside there should be world wide protections put in for whistle blowers. They should be encouraged.

[TheHowieLama]

10 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

 

This story aside there should be world wide protections put in for whistle blowers. They should be encouraged.

Of course there should be. Reality is - most folks in power have stuff they want to hide.

[Dougie Do'ins]

 

[Bjornebye]

Vile horrible bastards 

 

 

 

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

So just shoot random black people and if your lucky their past might justify you murdering them.

[TheHowieLama]

The guy who videoed this has now been charged

[SasaS]

Confusing thread, who calls American South southern America?

 

Every time it gets bumped I think what have the boys in Brazil been up to now.

[TheHowieLama]

2 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Confusing thread, who calls American South southern America?

 

Every time it gets bumped I think what have the boys in Brazil been up to now.

Busy culling the herd.

[Anubis]

14 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

The guy who videoed this has now been charged

What’s he been charged with?

[SasaS]

4 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Busy culling the herd.

Well, the beaches were a bit overcrowded.

[TheHowieLama]

2 minutes ago, Anubis said:

What’s he been charged with?

Out in the streets they call it murder

[Sugar Ape]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/21/ahmaud-arbery-william-bryan-killing-filmed-arrest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[TheHowieLama]

4 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Well, the beaches were a bit overcrowded.

People can question the US or the UK's response but that fella there is purposely offing folks.

[Anubis]

6 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Out in the streets they call it murder

Sorry, I hadn’t realised Bryan was alleged to have been involved with the other two. I thought he was being hailed as the guy who provided the prosecution with evidence.

[TheHowieLama]

1 minute ago, Anubis said:

Sorry, I hadn’t realised Bryan was alleged to have been involved with the other two. I thought he was being hailed as the guy who provided the prosecution with evidence.

He was. This makes a little more sense in terms of why the video was leaked much later - I have a feeling he was scared he was going to be disappeared.

[polymerpunkah]

It looks like--though I can't find the link where I read it last night--that at some point he prevented the victim from escaping.

 

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In the Glynn County police incident report on the shooting, Gregory McMichael told an officer that at one point Arbery "began running back the direction from which he came and 'Roddy' attempted to block him which was unsuccessful." It's the only mention in the police report of any potential involvement by Bryan.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ahaud-arbery-video-murder-arrest-1.5579499

 

 

[Bjornebye]

This is in Central Park apparently. I know its not 'southern' America. 

 

 

 

This racist animal beating cunt is now playing the victim card because she had had people calling her a horrible evil cunt. 

 

[Bjornebye]