Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 http://www.wzzm13.com/news/crime/shots-fired-at-berrien-county-courthouse/269776304 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2991 Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 I have gained respect for Carmelo Anthony after reading this. I expect many fingers in ears about this but really hope some of the rhetoric thumpers comprehend the message. My first thought when I heard about the shooting of Alton Sterling last Tuesday was: OK, here we are again. Then after reading about the killing of Philando Castile the next day, and the shooting of police at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas the day after, the domino effect of violence left me paralyzed. I felt in my heart it was time to put something out there and call on my fellow athletes to band together. I had to say something. I just didnt know what. Every time something like this happens, people rush online to Twitter and Instagram to share their opinions. Everybody says the same thing but we never get anywhere. At first I wasnt going to post anything because I wanted to get all the information first. I slept on it overnight and woke up in the middle of the morning to a nagging voice: What am I going to say? I didnt want it to be the same things as everybody else: #AltonSterling, #PhilandoCastile, #DallasPoliceShooting. When I chose to speak out, it was a matter of being honest, speaking from the heart about whats going on and calling on my colleagues to step up, get out there and put pressure on the people in charge to not let this happen anymore. No more hashtags. Do athletes have a responsibility to stand up? I dont want to put it all on athletes. I believe all people need to rise up and make their voices heard. But I do think that athletes have the biggest reach, especially now with social media and all the people that follow us. We have one of the biggest platforms to speak out, one where people pay attention to what we have to say, whether its everyday civilians or those in positions of power. We have that influence. Its just a matter of if we want to use it or not. Everybody uses it for different reasons. But at a time like this, you have to put aside the politics of business and whether a sponsor or somebody from a company that you represent is going to call you about it. If youre a human being, this affects everybody. Whether youre the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or youre a mailman or youre homeless, this affects you. No athlete should think: If I speak up, Im going to lose an endorsement or a sponsorship. Because if thats the case then you have to question the kind of people that youre doing business with and ask yourself where their heads and morals are at. So what next? I dont have the answer. Nobody does. But what we can do is start bring a continuous awareness and keep this conversation going. We cant keep riding on this merry-go-round where tragedy happens, its all over TV and social media, everybody talks about it, then in three and four days its over with. In three weeks Ill travel to Rio with the United States Olympic team to perform on a global stage. I havent spoken with my team-mates yet about the opportunity before us and how we can take advantage of it, because at the end of the day I want it to be genuine. If you dont feel like you want to make a statement or make a stand, then dont do it. You shouldnt feel forced to do it. You have to want to do that. For me, I do feel like this is a platform where we should we as athletes, we as Americans use it for something. Whether we make a statement out there or send a message, we can show the world that were united. Whatever way we want to do it, this is a chance to do something meaningful before an audience of billions. I dont know what that something is yet, but we still have time to figure it out. But how can we make a change back home? You can start off small. If everybody just focuses on their own community, then were making progress. We cant try to solve all the issues at once. Weve just got to zero in on our own individual communities and once we build that up and that becomes stronger, then I think everything will settle down and be cool again. There needs to be a mutual respect from both sides: between the police officers and the people in the streets. We have to reintroduce that respect factor into our local communities because theres no respect from either side anymore. We all know our history, especially when it comes to sports and activism. We know Ali. We know Jim Brown. We know Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. But over the years as athletes started making more money, they started thinking: I dont want people to talk bad about me for talking politics. But this is not really about politics. Theres nothing political about taking a stand and speaking on what you believe in. The teams and the support systems around athletes urge them to stay away from politics, stay away from religion, stay away from this, stay away from that. But at certain times youve just got to put all of that aside and be a human being. That time is now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 This loon has at least temporarily derailed his own cause, since the shootings there has been very little focus on the police brutality here, instead there is a wave of support for the police, this country has an obsession with anyone in uniform, but this has inflated it exponentially, now people are lining up to deliver boxes of donuts to police departments in thanks and support for their service. Talk about destroying your own bandwagon. The donuts will have ill effects on their reaction times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31195 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 17 people shot in a nightclub in Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22145 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 FFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46024 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Happened after an argument in the car park apparently. Sounds like it was just bellends with guns rather than any terrorist nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21984 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Happened after an argument in the car park apparently. Sounds like it was just bellends with guns rather than any terrorist nonsense. "Bellends with guns". Another good band name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7169 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Ft Meyers Beach, spent a week there once. Really weird people, I hardly met anyone who had been born there, most had migrated from other states Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35571 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Ft Meyers Beach, spent a week there once. Really weird people, I hardly met anyone who had been born there, most had migrated from other states That's Florida for you. The amount of transient types you meet is weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46024 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Aye it's full of retired criminals and old people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46024 Posted July 31, 2016 Share Posted July 31, 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/31/austin-shooting-multiple-victims-reported-in-texas Another day, another death toll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-prisons-corrections-corporation-inmates-investigation-bauer Recommended read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3965 Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-prisons-corrections-corporation-inmates-investigation-bauer Recommended read. Hence this https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/18/justice-department-says-it-will-end-use-of-private-prisons/?utm_term=.fa3a40f6e585 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Massive expose of the corruption inside the Chicago police department https://theintercept.com/series/code-of-silence/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7169 Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 The Media reckon this hurricane could be the worst to hit Flordia in a lifetime. I've got friends stuck there in Orlando Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31195 Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 They're a lot safer than those in Haiti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31195 Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Or are they? https://twitter.com/Unnamedinsider/status/784178393222881281 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 33829 Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 The Media reckon this hurricane could be the worst to hit Flordia in a lifetime. I've got friends stuck there in OrlandoIn laws just got back today, had to postpone their flight home and were on a hotel curfew. (Not sure if the last bit was for their safety or the safety other tourists in Florida). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/rewrite-the-protests-at-standing-rock-751440963846 Pretty good self-critical monologue for MSNBC. You don't normally see the US media be so scathing about their own history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31195 Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oregon-standoff-refuge-not-guilty_us_5812858ce4b0990edc303679 So it appears that claiming to have guns and being photographed with guns isn't enough to get you convicted of possessing firearms in Murica. (If you're white). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 337 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38136658 Another attack on students at a Uni campus in America. My cousin's daughter is a student at this Uni and her mam has been frantic all day as she was at lectures elsewhere and didn't know what was happening at Columbus. How many more times are we going to see this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 3107 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 It'll never stop. It's a part of life now unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5295 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 A Somali refugee... not a great time for someone of that background to do something like this. More fuel for the anti-immigration fires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31195 Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 So despite a video clearly showing the officer shooting the man in the back as he was running away from him, one juror still refused to find him guilty. Unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22145 Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 He's lying face down, not moving, after the copper unloads into his back and the first thing they worry about is cuffing him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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