Secret Democratic Party Memo on Black Lives Matter (BLM)
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It seems that you are getting confused with the difference between a racist, expecting different actions\support\concern for people of one (or more) race(s) over others, and a person who believes in equal treatment for all people regardless of race, but instead based on a persons individual needs.
Someone trying to defend "support" for people based on their race rather than their individual need would therefore fit within the "racist" classification.
Speaking against or attempting to reduce institutional racism isn't giving anyone special treatment, nor is expecting police to treat the people they encounter in a respectful manner regardless of their racial background.
The burden,however, is to demonstrate that there is, in fact, institutional racism...You can't, for example, compare how the police from one city\state PD treat people in their area, compared with another group in a different city\state, as they are different institutions - Same "industry", maybe, but not the same institution.
Similarly, the respect with which Police interact with members of the public also needs to be shown TO them by those they interact with. If they approach someone who believes in following the law (where possibly), that person is likely to be generally welcoming in their demeanour (maybe upset if having been caught doing something wrong), however if the person they approach has been brought up to believe "police are bad", or to not follow the law (or who sees that type of action being "gloryfied", then their demeanour will be hostile, which is reflected in how they are likely to be treated.
As I understand it, in the USA, the police are generally from the community\city, and so would be aware of how they are likely to be treated (based on experience) by people inside the community, and so their approach would be similar...Expecting "the other side" to change their behaviour when "your side" won't just entrenches this. Lead by example, or don't complain about being treated as you treat others. The "special treatment" of which you are envious is likely the result of the years of mutual respect, not the loathing for the police which some communities display.
Again, do the "black communities" do anything to welcome the police, treat them as equals, or show them any respect, or do they instead treat them is an inferior manner to that which they treat members of their own community? If someone treats another as "inferior", or are hostile towards them, why should they expect any other type of responce. This isn't a colour related issue, it's a behavioural\environmental one.
As an example: If people in these "occupied" areas (your claim) saw police walking past, would they say "hello", make some snide remark/insult, or stop talking while they walked nearby? Then consider how people in areas with "special treatment" (again, your words) would respond? Further, how would people in the "occupied" areas respond to someone who simply said "hello" to the police?
I don't have time to educate you on this matter because I have to be up in 7 hours for work, but I intend on replying to this when I have time to give it the time it deserves.
I suggest, if you have the time (my sympathy if you also are in the middle of a >50 hour work week) that you educate yourself on the history of policing in America and the history of relations with black and other minority communities. Blaming the community entirely for why police aren't trusted makes it clear that you're highly naive on this topic. Among things, many communities are largely policed by outsiders, in many regions slave patrols are the origins of their police forces and a long history of abuse and civil rights violations informs the distrust communities have.
I don't wish to offend by suggesting that it would be racist to entirely ignore and refuse to recognize those perspectives but it most certainly would be and I'm not intending on insulting you by pointing this fact out.
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In a social media message posted Wednesday, addressed to “Comrades in the struggle,” CHOP organizers declared their “project” concluded, and urged demonstrators to leave by Wednesday night.
More than a dozen businesses inside CHOP zone, on Seattle's Capitol Hill, file 56-page class action lawsuit against the City of Seattle. They're seeking unspecified damages, to be determined at trial.
“(T)his lawsuit is about the constitutional and other legal rights of plaintiffs – businesses, employees and residents in and around CHOP – which have been overrun by the city of Seattle’s unprecedented decision to abandon and close off an entire city neighborhood, leaving it unchecked by the police, unserved by fire and emergency health services and inaccessible to the public at large,” the lawsuit says.
The plaintiffs allege that city leaders provided the demonstrators with barriers, public restrooms and medical supplies – in effect supporting the occupation of the neighborhood and hindering the efforts of local businesspeople, employees and residents to reach their buildings, receive deliveries and provide services, the Seattle Times reported.
The CHOP zone has also worsened conditions for elderly and disabled people in the area, the lawsuit asserts, according to the newspaper.
“The result of the City’s actions has been lawlessness,” Calfo Eakes LLP, the law firm representing the plaintiffs, told the Times in a statement. “There is no public safety presence. Police officers will not enter the area unless it is a life-or-death situation, and even in those situations, the response is delayed and muted, if it comes at all.”
Source: Seattle CHOP zone prompts lawsuit from businesses, residents
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MORE CHAOS IN CHOP
One man has died and another remains hospitalized in critical condition Monday following the latest shooting near Seattle's Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP.
The encampment has become more difficult to manage, drawing violence and a large homeless population since the onset of the occupation three weeks ago.
Organizers on Sunday said they’re seeking to move into the abandoned East Precinct, where most protest leadership have already taken up shelter, as part of an effort to secure their best bargaining chip in convincing city officials to act on police reform and other demands, the Seattle Times reported.
Negotiations between city leadership and organizers over the weekend did not prove fruitful, as hundreds of protesters have reportedly refused to leave the Capitol Hill area.
Source: Latest Seattle CHOP shooting sees one dead, another in critical condition
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How about all lives matter. Life is the first basic human life. Otherwise, we wouldn't be here. I think it's ironic how BLM is willing to take money from a guy who supports an organization that was built on racism and eugenics. I call them Soro's Slaves.
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Would you be willing to expand on this?
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Just a reminder: under international law, an occupying power has no right of self-defense, and those who are occupied have the right and duty to liberate themselves by any means possible.
All Lives Matter is an empty platitude used to undermine the push for black people to have their lives respected the same as everyone else.
Black Lives Matter is not “Only Black Lives Matter”, it is “Black Lives Matter As Well“.
George Soros is a wonderful human being who has given 80% of his wealth to charity to support justice, education, health, and independent media. He has been the target of a large number of nasty attacks by unhinged far-right conspiracy theorists because he is Jewish. I would be very careful about believing hyperbolic stories about him, there is an awful lot of antisemitic garbage out there which has no basis in fact.
Seattle residents said Sunday that despite rumors that the city was going to reclaim the “occupied” area known as CHOP, little has changed on the ground and the “security” at the protest zone has actually gotten more “contentious” with residents who live nearby.
“They won’t let people in the neighborhood sometimes at night,” Matthew Ploszaj, who lives there, told KOMO News. He told the station that he supports the Black Lives Matter movement, but said it is a “terrible precedent” that “any political message can come in and occupy a neighborhood.”
Mayor Jenny Durkan said last week that the city is working with the community to bring the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” zone to an end and that police soon would move back into a precinct building they had largely abandoned in the area.
Durkan also vowed to address some of the protesters’ demands, including investing more in Black communities, reimagining policing in cooperation with community leaders, and pushing for accountability measures and statewide reform of police unions.
The KOMO report indicated that any city action would be a Herculean task. Some entrances there have been fortified with rebar and about 70 concrete barriers.
Michael Solan, Seattle Police Officers Guild president, told Fox News on Saturday that business owners and residents there are effectively being held hostage.
"There were some city entities, as far as heads, that went into the area yesterday to try to remove some of the boundary areas -- as far as blockades -- and they were met with resistance. Armed people flocked into the area and prevented those city entities, those agencies to get the job done," he told “Cavuto LIVE.” "So no, this has not been solved. It's deeply troubling still."
Source: CHOP’s ‘security’ growing more ‘contentious’ with nearby residents: report
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Barriers being removed from CHOP.
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As protesters and armed anarchists seized control last month of a swath of Seattle's downtown that includes a police station, dubbing it Capitol Hill Organized Protest, the local and mainstream media largely echoed elected leaders by insisting it was a peaceful protest – until people started getting killed.
The spin by the Seattle Times and national outlets that covered it belied the violent and dangerous origin of the area that began on June 8, when Seattle police abandoned their own station and allowed self-described anarchists to create a "police-free" zone. On Wednesday, police went back in and finished clearing out the area, after multiple shootings, an alleged rape and at least two murders.
“CHOP violently seized six blocks of downtown Seattle, guarded the area they stole with semi-automatic rifles and appointed a leader who called himself a warlord and the media spun it as a fun time with ‘free snacks,’” Washington Times columnist Tim Young.
Since it was established, there have been at least four shootings, two of which left a 19-year-old and a 16-year-old dead in separate incidents. Seattle police made more than a dozen arrests after Mayor Jenny Durkan declared the gathering an unlawful assembly – a far cry from how it was originally portrayed by the media and by Durkan herself.
Source: Media narrative of peaceful Seattle CHOP zone turned upside down as mayor sends in police to stop violence
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