The streets today
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the Revolution is being televised.
The Bill of Rights: A Transcription
Note: The following text is a transcription of the enrolled original of the Joint Resolution of Congress proposing the Bill of Rights, which is on permanent display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum. The spelling and punctuation reflects the original.
National Archives (www.archives.gov)
Charter 08 (Chinese and English Text)
The following translation was retrieved from the New York Review of Books Web site on December 17, 2008. The Chinese text was retrieved from the Independent Chinese Pen Center Web site on December 17, 2008.
CECC (www.cecc.gov)
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Oh wow I just got an email from Pence. Well not exactly.
vice.president@whitehouse.gov... Deferred: Connection timed out with whitehouse.gov.
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Small town police chief killed.
Small-town police chief killed as officers in 3 cities wounded during violence at George Floyd protests
An officer in Las Vegas reportedly was on life support after being shot.
ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
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I believe that all four of the officers involved in the death of the citizen that started all this, should be charged, not just one.
That being said, the reaction is completely over the top and against justice as they are mostly hurting their own community. What a bloody waste.
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@mike amos said:
I believe that all four of the officers involved in the death of the citizen that started all this, should be charged, not just one.
Agreed. You have to however keep in mind what the Police have to deal with on a daily basis, with much the same excuses to gain some advantage and possibly escape or attack the Officer.
@mike amos said:
That being said, the reaction is completely over the top and against justice as they are mostly hurting their own community. What a bloody waste.
Yeah it's ugly. Locally many of the protests is accompanied by pillaging and looting, sometimes over self-inflicted problems. Early on in the lockdown many schools were burgled, equipment stolen and quite a few schools burned down - for no apparent reason. Not long after the people protest because the children don't get proper schooling and can't get work that would sustain them.
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"Agreed. You have to however keep in mind what the Police have to deal with on a daily basis, with much the same excuses to gain some advantage and possibly escape or attack the Officer".
I get what you are saying and have been in a similar position while not for as long a period. The job jades/exhausts people to insulate them from the things they see and at that point a seemingly intelligent, normal human being puts their body weight on the carotid of a person on the ground. 10 to 15 seconds of occlusion results in a much lowered level of consciousness and reduced respiratory effort, that officer knelt on that persons carotid for seven minutes or five minutes longer than he was conscious. Many officers have seen what he saw and worse and not done that. This is not the first episode of this type of insult to a controlled prisoner either, training SHOULD have taken place to make officers aware of the methods that can be used to control a suspect or prisoner and kneeling on the jugular for any length of time is not included. Three other officers allowed it to happen through apathy or group ties and that itself is a problem as well as a strength. With it the social and moral breaks we all have can be responsible for all kinds of excesses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment this proves the consequences of our moral judgement being impaired.
Basically put, there was no need for the man to die, he did not have to break the law and the officer could have let up well before he did. Two wrongs do not make a right and no, I am not perfect.
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