Meanwhile, in Missouri...

**icarusfall** · 07 Jul 2016, 06:17 PM

You guys, shit be fucked up.

**GohanX** · 07 Jul 2016, 07:29 PM

You ain't kiddin

**icarusfall** · 07 Jul 2016, 08:08 PM

2 more.

http://filmingcops.com/cops-shoot-un...on-the-ground/

http://www.latimes.com/local/califor...nap-story.html

The second because he wouldn't stop for a completely unmarked car. Saving us from the dangers of burnouts.

**Josh** · 07 Jul 2016, 08:11 PM

I'm afraid a whole lot of people killed by police at once is what it's going to take.

**GohanX** · 07 Jul 2016, 08:23 PM

That dude in the second link got killed for doing exactly what I would have done if I were followed by a strange car. Damn.

**Fe 26** · 07 Jul 2016, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by Josh

If you give a cop all these cool toys, and dress them up like a soldier they're going to want to act like a soldier, even if they're not trained like a soldier.

I'd just want to go camping in the mountains and eat roasted hot dogs

But I'm not an asshole

Well, not that kind of asshole

**Fe 26** · 07 Jul 2016, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by icarusfall

2 more.

http://filmingcops.com/cops-shoot-un...on-the-ground/

http://www.latimes.com/local/califor...nap-story.html

The second because he wouldn't stop for a completely unmarked car. Saving us from the dangers of burnouts.

Something like that happenned to my mom, a cop sat under a bridge with his lights off and we came through going like 3 or 4 over and he just pulled out and drove for a while

About 5 minutes later he turned his lights on and when he came up to the car he was just flipping his shit because she didn't pull over before he turned the lights on

Where do they find these people?

**icarusfall** · 07 Jul 2016, 10:34 PM

Real talk:

I'll never know what it's like to be brown.

I'm sarcastic. A bit of a misanthrope. Politically unhinged. Knuckle tattoos. Nearly everything that makes someone an "other." But, my skin color lets me get through the day without much struggle. I've been singled out. Chased. Had a gun in my face. But I walked, or ran, and lived to be a jerk another day. I'm, honestly, not a great person most of the time. I can't change the way my mind works, but I can hide behind being white, and some semblance of middle class. I've been in situations that should have ended with a bullet in my chest. But, I'm privileged to have stayed alive.

I take pleasure in social chaos, because I know it's not about me. As much as I support violent political action, I know that my personal risk is little. I may get thrown in jail, but I'll also get to go home.

I don't harbor any misplaced guilt about the life I was given, but I feel sadness for my brothers and sisters who don't have the luxury to be who they are. Whether, black, brown, gay, trans, or any other "Other," I get to mouth off and be whoever I want - because I know I'll make it home. Many of you don't have that luxury. Pulled over for a tail light? Other than cops making me nervous, I have nothing to worry about. I'll pay a $50 fine, and go about my day. Some of my friends have to worry if this is the time they don't make it home.

I can't change the world, or the way it works. It's not for me to lead the fight - because I have nothing to lose. Tell me what you need, and how I can help. Because, although I'd love to throw a molotov cocktail, this isn't about me. All I can say to my friends in this struggle comes from a child: "I'm right here with you." I can't finish the quote, because I don't know if it'll be OK, but I hope it will. Hope for you is, sadly, all I got.