Good they can fuck off. Don't let them come back. If they can't see how wrong that was, they shouldn't be police in the first place.

The whole police system needs to be rebooted bit by bit, city by city. I am actually somewhat hopeful that can happen, because America is set up to be able to do that. They're already moving towards it in Minnesota.

NFL: "We admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest"


After some players made this video calling them out (including Patrick Mahomes, the face of the league)

Fuck the NFL, they had chance after chance to make it right and actively went in the other direction.

Fuck Buffalo’s ERT.

I agree but it shouldn't ever be too late to try to change. If we don't let someone who fucked up try to make up for it, what are we even trying to do?

The fact that they literally admitted they were wrong is a pretty huge thing, and if they hadn't said that, people would have every right to be all over them about any other statements made.

They still need to follow up of course, and deserve to be called out if they don't, and action should be taken by players and fans if they don't. But if they do, things are starting to change a bit. These small steps add up.

First thing they need to do is get more black people in management, both in the league and in teams. The players are 70% black, but league management is obviously not.

The NFL only cares about making money. They have no issues exploiting the US education system and taxpayer funding, or employing spousal abusers, animal abusers and rapists.

At best they're doing this to try to keep the players happy since they realized a large number of the players are black and they don't have much of a product to sell without them.

Went to the BLM protest in Nanaimo. The crowd was way bigger than I expected. everyone was wearing masks. A lot of great speeches and some sad stories.

The sign I made. (black and red)

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I agree, but every corporation only really cares about making money. What can be done with that money? Also NFL is a cultural influencer in America (don't know how else to put it, that sounds weird but I think you get what I mean). They made it "OK" to oppose peaceful protesting, and are now saying how wrong that was.

I mean it's not like "we won, let's all go home now" but I think this was a positive sign in the right direction. Those need to be pointed out too, otherwise we'd just be talking about the police brutality on protesters, and violent looters over and over again that surround this whole thing.

Jordan pledged $100 million to racial equality education charities, which is surprising since he's always remained low key

NFL can suck a fucking dick. As underscore said, they look the other way when it comes to animal abuse, rape, domestic violence, racism, while vilifying non violent protest, and completely ignoring the health issues that the players suffer due to them pumping them full of drugs to make it through a game and ignoring TBIs in the game. As soon as they realize their greed is going to cost them 75% of their "employees" they shit their pants and pretend to care. Bunch of fucking cunts.

So if someone broke in and stole their tape collection, who would they call? Klein Lyons?

Regarding the NFL, I hated that it was a tax exempt entity but they gave up that status only 5 years ago...

Colin Kaepernick is the new Nelson Mandela. His down on one knee is now THE symbol of the movement! Let's see if he becomes the next NFL commissioner.

Calling the cops on something like that is pointless. I didn't even call last time something like that happened at our store.

The commissioner in major sports leagues is basically the main representative of the team owners. Kaepernick is like the last guy the owners would want as commissioner.

It’s a disingenuous move to try to regain the fan, sponsor, and player support they’re losing from this.

As you said in your other response, it’s all about money. Okay, sure, I guess them changing their stance is better than not, but that doesn’t make it any less of an obvious and disingenuous play.

https://9gag.com/gag/aR7ep15
FailFish

I suspect you're right, and I'm just trying too hard not to be cynical.

It's much easier to see when Amazon puts out a BS statement... With this, I see someone reacting to the actual people who work for them.

they really need to start cracking down on 911 calls, it can get people killed

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...2ywz0THH6UE6DA

I have to say, I'm quite proud of most of the posters on RS in this thread here, overall it seems that most people here are on the right side, and that's extremely encouraging. There are a couple pricks here, but they appear to be the minority.

Big ups to you all FeelsGoodMan

Had a lengthy discussion last night with a friend of my wife’s who came over for a bbq

We had some opposing views and early into the debate I felt like not pursuing it as some of her points I felt like we were not going to get passed but we continued the discussion over about 40 minutes or so. She was quite informed and had a lot to say and by the end we both took a lot from each other’s opinions.

Really thought of this thread as we chatted and by the end of it she definitely gave me a lot to think about and really made me think about how I can actively change the way I think about things/people/circumstance etc.

Might be just because everyone that came over was seemingly starved for human interaction but it felt like a very valuable conversation.

Behind a pay wall

It isn't for me? But here's the article:

And here's the IG post https://www.instagram.com/p/CA0y00hF...mpaign=loading

I hope more people post their support here. I know there are people lurking, you can see them right there in the "viewing this thread" list, and posting in other unrelated threads. There are hundreds of old members who never even log in anymore.

Why is it important to pitch in with a post?

The "couple of pricks" need to know they're on the wrong side, and how wrong they are. I mean I suspect there's some trolling going on too, but they need to know that "for the lulz" is not a good reason to be a dick either.

I'm not saying everyone needs to respond to them directly - quite the opposite actually. But posting more info showing why they are so wrong is important. Like posting the latest news, sharing positive changes being made. Or posting more evidence of systemic racism that people aren't even aware of (by, up until now, no fault of their own).

The very fact that Canadians can feel like they can say "this is too stressful, I'd rather not pay attention to it" is a massive privilege in itself. And BTW Canada isn't much better. Not many countries are, when it comes to this stuff.

The two cops who pushed that 75 year old man have been arrested

'Breonna's Law,' aimed at regulating no-knock warrants in Louisville, passes Public Safety Committee

They still need to make sure the cops that shot her are no longer, and can never be cops again.

Amid protests, Colorado lawmakers introduce bill to address police use of force policies

Mandatory bias training for police passes Michigan Senate

San Diego police end use of carotid restraint, effective immediately

LA Mayor Slashes LAPD Budget As Calls To ‘Defund Police’ Slowly Pick Up Steam

Lawmakers Begin Bipartisan Push to Cut Off Police Access to Military-Style Gear

New York is starting to defund their police force too. Others will follow. This should allow for a proper reset of police enforcement throughout the US. Hopefully Canada follows this lead as well.

Oh my fuck that was the first time I saw that video. The amount of blood that just poured out of his ears gave me full body goosebumps.

The worst part of that story is how the official report said he “tripped and fell” until the video evidence came out.

nothing has changed

Plus one of the cops immediately goes to check on him and gets pulled away by another cop.