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Saints captains: We need a true public reckoning over the way police treat Black people
Posted on 4/2/21 at 6:02 pm
Posted on 4/2/21 at 6:02 pm
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Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the tragic murder of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is currently on trial for the murder of George Floyd, a Black man who died after Chauvin pinned him to the ground for 8 minutes and 46 seconds by placing his knee on Floyd’s neck. We are 13 months removed from when a retired police officer and his son killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, and seven months since a Kenosha police officer shot Jacob Blake seven times as three of his children watched from his car’s back seat.
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Across the country, legislatures are in session and elected officials are considering legal restrictions that would improve our system of policing, limit its harm, and demonstrate to the public — specifically, the communities most impacted by police violence and surveillance — that lawmakers are committed to achieving a more fair and equitable criminal justice system.
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Kentucky may punish the mere act of insulting a police officer. Some states are considering bills to allow bystanders to use serious force against protesters they “perceive” as using threatening behavior — an expanded form of the harmful and unequally applied stand-your-ground laws. The message from these laws is clear: People with power would rather silence and punish protesters than address the reasons people, and especially Black people, are continuously taking to the streets in the first place.
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Drew Brees is retiring quarterback of the New Orleans Saints. This column is coauthored by New Orleans Saints Terron Armstead, Demario Davis, Malcolm Jenkins, Cam Jordan, Alvin Kamara, Thomas Morstead and Craig Robertson.
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Posted on 4/2/21 at 6:17 pm to LSUZombie
They're right.
We need to demand the resignation of racist officials. Like the architect of the crime bill. And dirty prosecutors. And small town mayors who tore down black people's homes. And governors who blocked access to sickle cell treatment.
We need to demand the resignation of racist officials. Like the architect of the crime bill. And dirty prosecutors. And small town mayors who tore down black people's homes. And governors who blocked access to sickle cell treatment.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 6:22 pm to LSUZombie
They’re right
Posted on 4/2/21 at 6:24 pm to LSUZombie
Posted on 4/2/21 at 6:31 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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We need to demand the resignation of racist officials.
Starting with the Racist-in-Chief!
Posted on 4/2/21 at 6:40 pm to LSUZombie
Sounds like they’re going about voicing their concerns in the proper way. Nothing unreasonable in that article.
I’m sure there will be some sky-screamers here shortly, though.
I’m sure there will be some sky-screamers here shortly, though.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 6:43 pm to LSUZombie
Posted on 4/2/21 at 6:51 pm to LSUZombie
Cool...while they're at it they might want to do something about the way opponents treat them in the playoffs.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 7:34 pm to LSUZombie
Some people's children
Posted on 4/2/21 at 7:50 pm to LSUZombie
Racist this, racist that. If you’re unsure about something or losing an argument? Call them racist! When will it all end?
Posted on 4/2/21 at 8:34 pm to LSUZombie
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Saints captains: We need a true public reckoning over the way police treat Black people
Well at least this statement is correct. Police need to drop the hammer on criminal blacks. Just in their own city, blacks are 99% responsible for the number of homicides (many against whites), carjackings, armed robberies, aggravated batteries, thefts, and drug law violations. Clean this shite up police. No breaks, lock more of them up.
ETA: Blacks also need to treat the police and others better. shite goes in and shite goes out..not sure what they expect to happen.
This post was edited on 4/2/21 at 8:39 pm
Posted on 4/2/21 at 8:49 pm to LSUZombie
Until they do something worth a frick in the playoffs, I ain't listening to any of these mother frickers.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 9:02 pm to LSUZombie
#freelattimore
Posted on 4/2/21 at 9:57 pm to LSUZombie
I hope Chauvin walks. Going to be a complete shitshow. 
Posted on 4/2/21 at 10:34 pm to LSUZombie
Screw those delusional idiots
Posted on 4/2/21 at 10:40 pm to LSUJD_04
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Racist this, racist that. If you’re unsure about something or losing an argument? Call them racist! When will it all end?
It’s like making yourself puke on your opponent in a fight you know you’ll lose. There’s no defense.
Posted on 4/2/21 at 11:01 pm to LSUZombie
How about address the elephant in the room and explain how 15% of the population commits the highest percentage of violent crimes. Maybe it's not the system.
This post was edited on 4/2/21 at 11:09 pm
Posted on 4/3/21 at 3:31 am to LSUZombie
I agree. If they can show me a cop, politician, or law that is plainly and undoubtedly racist in such a way that it negatively affects black Americans, I'll be right there with them in hoping something is done about that. Until then, I'll keep pointing to other issues that they and the media seem to willfully ignore. Like the number of black children born out of wedlock and raised in a single parent home, a culture that glorifies violence against women, guns as a cure all for any situation, and dealing drugs in a gang as a viable life choice.
This post was edited on 4/3/21 at 3:20 pm
Posted on 4/3/21 at 4:07 am to LSUZombie
I watched less Saints football the last two years than I ever have in my life. It was much easier to do than I had previously expected. With Brees now retired it will be even easier to cut them out entirely if necessary. The lecturing from people who are clearly not intellectually qualified to be lecturing on complex sociopolitical issues is not something self-respecting people are going to subject themselves to indefinitely. Sports is for entertainment and these guys aren't paid millions of dollars because their intellectual prowess affords them unique clarity on race, crime, governance, or any subject whatsoever outside of playing football.
These are adults playing a child's game and believing that their celebrity as athlete entertainers gives them some unique perspective or moral vantage point. It doesn't. And Drew Brees is such a coward and slave to his own financial interests. There is really no other way to interpret his newfound pandering after his retard teammates shitted all over him for daring to challenge their bullshite theatrics.
These are adults playing a child's game and believing that their celebrity as athlete entertainers gives them some unique perspective or moral vantage point. It doesn't. And Drew Brees is such a coward and slave to his own financial interests. There is really no other way to interpret his newfound pandering after his retard teammates shitted all over him for daring to challenge their bullshite theatrics.
Posted on 4/3/21 at 5:40 am to LSUZombie
Perhaps they should focus more on not choking in the playoffs
fricking amateur hour from these clowns who probably couldn’t tell you what 6x7 is without a calculator
fricking amateur hour from these clowns who probably couldn’t tell you what 6x7 is without a calculator
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