Yeah it sucks how many redneck idiots there still are in a nice place like Oregon.
The people behind the violence in the American protests of George Floyd.
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hanimmal
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Another branding exercise of white people LARP'ing in the park as their favorite Nazi vs Anti-Facsist propaganda gang names.
These idiots watched too much tv growing up.
Russian TV is pushing the narrative still.
With little kids playing around in the park these dicks are larp'ing as nazi's.
These idiots watched too much tv growing up.
Fogdog
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Proud Boys have been reserving the park on Friday for the past few weeks.
Police declare riot after opposing groups fight at Oregon City park
The incident happened at Clackamette Park.
That will end when Proud Boys are designated a terrorist organization.
Props to the antifascists who made their little party uncomfortable.
Next time, if you have an idea, run it through the test before you embarrass yourself.
hanimmal
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"More than 7,000 deaths" from police crashes 1996-2015. We need to do better. Drones > Cop cars.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/07/darnella-frazier-uncle-killed-police/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/07/darnella-frazier-uncle-killed-police/
Darnella Frazier, the teenager whose cellphone footage of Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd last year sparked a racial reckoning in the United States, said Tuesday that her uncle was killed in a car crash involving a Minneapolis police vehicle that was pursuing a robbery suspect.
Leneal Lamont Frazier, 40, was in his car when it was struck by Minneapolis police while they were in a high-speed chase with another vehicle on the north side of the city. The victim, who was later identified by Darnella Frazier as her uncle, was not being pursued by police, authorities said.
“MINNEAPOLIS police Killed my uncle. … Another Black man lost his life in the hands of the police!” she wrote on Facebook. “Minneapolis police [have] cost my whole family a big loss … today has been a day full of heartbreak and sadness.”
The Minnesota State Patrol announced that it is investigating the incident. As part of the inquiry, the force will look into whether the police car followed department policy and activated its emergency lights and siren during the chase.
“When completed, the State Patrol [will] turn its findings over to the county attorney for review,” Bruce Gordon, a spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, told The Washington Post.
Around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, police were pursuing a driver in a stolen vehicle who had been linked to several robberies and carjackings, Minneapolis Police Department spokesman John Elder said to The Post. As officers attempted a traffic stop, the driver fled, police said, leading to an eight-block pursuit on a residential road.
When a police car entered the intersection at 41st and Lyndale avenues north in the Camden neighborhood, the vehicle collided with a car that Darnella Frazier says was driven by her uncle. Three cars were involved in the wreck.
Resident Michael Ganzer told WCCO that the crash “shook” his house as he was watching television.
“It was just a big, loud bang,” he said.
Leneal Frazier was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A photo shared by his niece on Facebook shows his mangled Jeep after it crashed into a tree.
The officer involved in the crash was also taken to a hospital but was later released with non-life-threatening injuries, Elder said. The suspect being pursued by police, who was not involved in the crash, remained at large as of early Wednesday.
Leneal Frazier’s daughter, Lanesha Frazier, told KMSP that her father was on his way to see his girlfriend at the time of the crash.
“This is not fair, not right,” she said. “I didn’t expect that to be my father.”
Although there are stoplights at the intersection, police would not say who had the right of way at the time of the crash.
More than 7,000 deaths were the result of fatal crashes during police pursuits between 1996 and 2015, according to a 2017 report from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics. Seventy-two happened in Minnesota during that time period, the report found.
Darnella Frazier was 17 when she recorded the video that captured Floyd under Chauvin’s knee, showing Floyd’s dying moments as he pleaded for his mother near the Cup Foods convenience store in May 2020. The video from Frazier, who later testified in Chauvin’s trial, significantly contradicted the initial police account, which asserted that officers “noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress” after they handcuffed him and that he died in a hospital after being taken there by ambulance.
The video, which was described by one legal analyst as “the strongest piece of evidence I have ever seen in a case against a police officer,” sparked outrage in Minneapolis and around the world. Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter in April and sentenced to 22½ years in prison last month.
Frazier, who was awarded a special citation by the Pulitzer Prize board last month for “courageously reporting the murder of George Floyd,” said she was shattered when she found out her uncle had died. She questioned why police were involved in a high-speed chase on a residential road.
“We went to the spot he was killed at and put beautiful flowers and candles, but even that’s not enough to bring him back,” she wrote. “It’s not fair how the police can just go around killing people.”
She shared a GoFundMe page created to help pay for her uncle’s funeral expenses. He had six children and one grandchild, according to the fundraising page, and was remembered as a “protector” who loved family, friends and barbecuing.
His sister, Cheryl Frazier, is also looking for answers.
“He was a very good person. He would help you if you needed help. He’ll give you the shirt off his back if he had to,” she told WCCO. “He was always that type of person.”
Amia Lovelady, who said her mother was his girlfriend, said she did not know he was the one who died until hours later.
“It’s just so sad because we literally just talked to him. It’s just so crazy,” Lovelady told KMSP. “The car was just so smashed.”
In her Facebook post, Darnella Frazier shared a photo of her uncle as well as an image of an exchange of text messages between the two in which her uncle said he missed her and loved her. She wrote that had she known that their most recent time together at the beach would be their last, “I would’ve hugged you so much longer, told you I love you way harder.”
“It’s just hard for me to accept I won’t see you again,” she wrote.
hanimmal
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Nice to see some more of that white supremacist graffiti finally getting removed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/charlottesville-robert-e-lee-statue-removed/2021/07/10/dbf689c4-df4e-11eb-ae31-6b7c5c34f0d6_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/charlottesville-robert-e-lee-statue-removed/2021/07/10/dbf689c4-df4e-11eb-ae31-6b7c5c34f0d6_story.html
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Nearly a century after it was first erected, and almost four years after it prompted a deadly weekend of violence, the statue of Robert E. Lee sitting on horseback in downtown Charlottesville was hoisted into the air Saturday and carted away on a truck.
The removal had been a long time coming.
“I don’t have much to say other than this is well overdue,” said Zyahna Bryant, who started a petition while in high school in 2016 to remove the statue. “This should have happened a long time ago.”
After the Charlottesville City Council voted to remove the statue in 2017, a group of residents sued, prompting a years-long court battle over its future.
Later that summer, white supremacists descendedon the city in defense of Confederate symbols. One man drove his car through a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
How a rally of white nationalists and supremacists at the University of Virginia turned into a “tragic, tragic weekend.”
The Lee statue had been the subject of anguish and tension in the community, vandalized with paint and graffiti and caught up in legal battles — even over whether it could be shrouded in black cloth after Heyer’s death. Conservative lawmakers hosted rallies there, and as a candidate for the presidency, Joe Biden discussed the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally as he kicked off his campaign.
On Friday, the city of Charlottesville announced it would remove the statues of Lee and fellow Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson. Officials said the statues will be placed in a “secure location” on city property before the council votes on their future.
Early Saturday morning, a green crane lifted a pair of workers onto the side of the Lee monument, where they tossed red pulls and chains in front of and behind the statue.
They wrapped the ropes around the horse’s legs, preparing to hoist the figure upward. As they lifted the statue into the air just after 8 a.m., a small crowd of residents cheered from the side, watching Lee and his horse float away from the stone pedestal that had held them since 1924.
Lena Jones, a 63-year-old health-care worker and lifelong Charlottesville resident, said she wanted to be part of a positive development in the city’s history — even if she was sorry it had taken so long.
“We just don’t need things in Charlottesville to intimidate some people,” she said, “because we all have to live together.”
A few feet away from her, Kevin Cox, 68, said he was excited to see Lee placed on a tractor and taken away.
“It symbolized one thing when it was put up, and it came to symbolize a more intense concentrated version of the same racism.”
As the truck began rolling away from the park, people began celebrating even more loudly.
“Roll out!” one man yelled.
“Don’t forget the base, too,” another added.
About two hours later and three blocks away, William Taylor raised his camera to snap pictures of the Jackson monument as workers chipped away at the base.
“I want to keep this thought forever,” the 54-year-old custodian said. As a crane grabbed the approximately 7,000-pound bronze figure, Taylor said he could feel a similar kind of weight being lifted off his shoulders.
A friend of Heyer’s, Taylor said he had spoken to her the day before she was killed. So he knew he had to make the hour-long drive hour from Nelson County to watch the monuments come down.
As the Jackson statue was strapped onto a flatbed with thick yellow bands, Taylor kept snapping photos. He said he would share them with his sons, Xavier, 18, and Rico, 2, to show how the city had righted the wrongs of August 2017.
“I’m feeling a little relieved, but there’s a long way to go,” he said. “This is just the beginning of what needs to change in our society.”
srh88
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Trump Jr is a builder? Lol
UncleBuck
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Saw him up on the roof doing step flashing last week