both WWE and AEW carried on, but it looks like WWE may have cut back on their ANTFIA inspired new stable Retribution from appearing on SmackDown last night (as of 4:30 Saturday morning) in the wake of the current event. the stable is full of mask wrestlers of both genders dressed up like rioters and anarchist and riot and assault the wretlers in the past month.
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both WWE and AEW carried on, but it looks like WWE may have cut back on their ANTFIA inspired new stable Retribution from appearing on SmackDown last night (as of 4:30 Saturday morning) in the wake of the current event. the stable is full of mask wrestlers of both genders dressed up like rioters and anarchist and riot and assault the wretlers in the past month.
They don't see any problem. They believe ALL protesters are anarchists. Trump keeps slamming the athletes who raise awareness on Social Injustice. Most of the anarchists are MAGA guys causing the chaos at peaceful protests.
Trump has a plantation mentality. He wants an ordered society where people know their place. That's what MAGA is all about. Slave owners had a great business model that created immense wealth for themselves. Trump likes stuff like that...
Wait a second! What does the continually updated online population count at the center of this dispute have to do with the Census, which is done every 10 years? I was always under the impression that the online counter was driven more by algorithms than by actual births and deaths, the occurrence of which drives the population one way or the other. While many births and deaths are entered into some sort of database within hours, many others happen in obscurity. So isn't the online count something like that 6+ Nielsen number you sneer at every time it's mentioned -- a placebo for the public to consume, with all the trappings of a significant statistic but ultimately a virtually meaningless guesstimate?
Oh my, is THAT what those masked performers in black are supposed to represent? I happened to catch a few minutes of a rerun of one of the WWE shows last week and saw a choreographed attack on some bearded dude (Strowman, I think?) with amazing recuperative powers, but didn't stay tuned after the commercial break to find out what it was all about. That's so typical McMahon, taking advantage of current events to fuel a storyline. He may be wise to tone this angle down, though, as real blood is being shed outside the WWE bubble, although the idea of Antifa as a wrestling faction does make me chuckle in the same way the Godfather and his "ho train" did back in the Attitude Era.
The Census Bureau does an annual sample-based update every year. This is the basis for interim data. The American Community Survey (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs) is the name of this service which comes in very accurately when compared with the actual Census.
The online data comes from a projection of the ACS based on mathematical trending to give instant data based on a random probability sample done each year to establish the annual data.
Further, a number of companies that do statistics for commercial purposes (like the annual Nielsen population updates that are based on new annual data each year) do estimates of population right down to the individual counties, towns and ZIP Codes. The data from such companies may actually be more accurate than the ACS, but still they are very close.
The moment to moment data is an instantaneous estimate based on data that is being worked on every day by the statistical folks. It even adjusts for such things as colder winters or hotter summers which are historically reference-proven and are things that affect population growth. They can even adjust for changes in birth rates when there is a large military deployment outside the United States!
The 6+ and 12+ ratings data is just as accurate... actually more accurate... than the 18-49 or 25-54 or other demos that advertisers look at. The thing that is "wrong" with those 6+ numbers is that they have little or no commercial value, not that they are inaccurate.
So there is very accurate data, updated very rapidly for marketing purposes and annually for many government purposes. However, certain government functions are based on the Census only as when the concept of measuring the population was developed, there were no "random probability samples" and all the other things involved in making 99.99% accurate estimates of the instantaneous population.
When you come right down to it, Trump's brand promise was to put white men back at their "rightful" place at top of the pecking order, and bringing back an early 50s Utopia.
Here is a link to the Pew Research process for estimating the number of illegal (non-registered) aliens. I'm not sure if we could have a more accurate system but it sure would not come from the Census.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-ta...-center-counts-unauthorized-immigrants-in-us/
My point was that the USA now contains more than 300,000,000 people and of those there are less than a few hundred police, at most, who are accused of inappropriate response within their official duties. Most of these events have extenuating circumstances which, coupled with the mille seconds that the average officer has to make a decision account for the result.
For instance, in the incident of the no-knock shooting which killed an EMT, there was adequate reason to issue the no-knock warrant; the police were expecting trouble and were prepared. After the police made entry to the apartment the 'boyfriend' fired at the police and they returned fire as would be expected. What remains to be determined is whether or not the police identified themselves beforehand and whether they are required to do that in a no-knock situation. Common sense tells me the boyfriend knew he was in trouble whether it was the police or a gang of dopers at the door and that is why he fired. No common person who lives a lawful existence would have fired - only the paranoid or the guilty.
Jacob could have quit resisting and followed the police orders. He was clearly in the wrong and apparently knew it - deciding it was better to flee than submit to arrest. According to the police report and comments of bystanders who watched the entire encounter the police attempted o arrest him. When he resisted he was thrown to the ground twice. When he still resisted he was tased one or more times. He broke away from the two officers and headed to his car (whether he had a knife at this point is being debated - there is video showing him carrying something in his left hand) but in any event he did have access to a knife on the floorboard of his car. At that point the police fired. You can argue whether or not 7 shots were necessary but the point is this result was provoked by him and had they wanted to kill him it would have been easy to shoot him in the head. Had he submitted to arrest he now would not be in a hospital with two useless legs.
To show you there are some Black people who recognize what I am talking about go to this Youtube video and listen to these two guys. Listen to the whole video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaToaXfcAHY
You might ask as I did, he was a felon convicted of raping a 14-year old girl. Why was he even out of jail?
You're right. He could have stopped resisting. Same with the black man killed in Atlanta. Same with the black man in Minneapolis. But the reason they don't is because there's a clear pattern of how police deal with black men as compared with white men arrested for the same thing. Watch this video:
https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with...e-killers-are-peacefully-arrested-90755653850
As the reporter points out, the white teenager shot and killed two protesters. He was willing to turn himself in. The police drove past him, uninterested. Imagine if he was black.
There is a lot of history here. A lot of black men have been beaten and killed by white police. This isn't the first time.
As to your question about why was he even out of jail? That's a completely different issue about the courts and jails.
George Floyd's alleged crime was passing a bad $20 bill. I still find it impossible to interpret what the police did as anything other than the result of racist fear of a large black man.
I'm white. Just last year, I was paying for a couple of items at a gas station/convenience store with a $10 bill when the clerk (also white) looked at the bill closely, looked at me, then looked back at the bill again and gave it the invisible-ink authenticity test. It failed. I had apparently given him a counterfeit bill. He politely informed of me of that, didn't sound an alarm, didn't call for police, didn't reach for a concealed firearm. I said "OK, I'll pay with a debit card, but can I have the bill back so I can check with my bank in the morning?" No, he said, he couldn't do that. Chain (Cumberland Farms) policy is to keep the fakes and turn them over to authorities.
End of incident. I left the store, out ten bucks, and drove home. But after George Floyd happened, all I could think was, "Hey, that's me. What would have happened to me at Cumberland Farms that night if I'd been black?"
Videos I have seen the last couple of days: A black man who was not resisting still being manhandled by police and a white man resisting, screaming "FU pig" and somehow not being shot 7 times.
Does racism still exist? I have a long time friend who happens to be black, and has a great job at a TV station in a large market. A few weeks ago she left the house she has owned for 30 years, walked past one of her nice cars to get into her other nice vehicle, with her TV station work badge and an installer asked "do you belong here"? So it's definitely not been eradicated.
Does racism still exist? I have a long time friend who happens to be black, and has a great job at a TV station in a large market. A few weeks ago she left the house she has owned for 30 years, walked past one of her nice cars to get into her other nice vehicle, with her TV station work badge and an installer asked "do you belong here"? So it's definitely not been eradicated.
"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
Mayor Richard J. Daley (1968 Chicago riots)
So now you're quoting from the most corrupt mayor in recent history?
One question.......why? He was only slightly more honest than the Liar-in-Chief.
Because in this case he accidently spoke the truth.
No, there are isolated incidents of police mistreating Black suspects - and the media really loves to stir things up by blasting those statistically few incidents far and wide.
I posted a link earlier to a Youtube video by two Black commentators. Both cited stats that two times the number of white suspects are killed by police than Blacks. They went further saying if police didn't have to fear a violent reaction by Black men they would not be so reactive.
The clear pattern here is that an incident takes place which is immediately followed up by angry and crying relatives accusing the police of mistreatment before a thorough investigation takes place. In most cases the perp instigated the violence. Next up is the lawyer testifying to the honesty of the perp and leaning heavily on "he dint do nothing". Then we have criminals and looters turn up the next evening to burn, loot and destroy.
As has been stated prior.....he did not turn himself in and when the police drove by him they were not aware of the shootings at that time.
No, it isn't. But each case should be decided on its own merit. As the Black guys in my video said "Blacks suffer about half the deaths at the hands of police that whites do".
My point, obviously, is that we need to look at the whole issue of policing from confrontation through the courts. This was preventable from start to finish, but I will ask again, if you were a cop in this situation what would you have done?
The Chicago police of those days were as corrupt as was that sorry excuse for a mayor.
That would make sense if there were the same number of white people as black people. Here's how the fact check site Snopes.com explains it:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/do-police-kill-more-whites-than-black-people/
I would not be a cop in this situation.
If you were a cop you don't have the option to decline a call for service.
I've chosen not to put myself in that position.
What these protests are about is to have more thought put into the people in those situations.
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They do that so he can hype it up & then accuse local officials & police of not doing their job
I've said this elsewhere & I'll say it here as well. what the media MUST re-train themselves into doing is DO NOT call rioters & other anarchists "Protesters" as THEY ARE NOT protesters. In today's day & age, use of words like those MATTER & HAVE CONSEQUENCES if misused
For Trump to talk "Law & Order" makes him A HYPOCRITE as EVERYONE knows he's not likely to LEAVE the White House the same way other Presidents who haven't been assassinated or (In Nixon's case, forced to resign in disgrace) have left as he's more likely to be led away in handcuffs than anything
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