"Police officers need to be accountable, and so do the rest of us."
Hawaiian-born Shane Dorian, the second-best big-wave surfer in the world if we’re to accept the notion that Kai Lenny is untouchable, has waded into the furore surrounding the fatal shooting of a black teenage girl by a cop in Columbus, Ohio, last Tuesday.
Ma’Khia Bryant, who was sixteen, was shot in the back by a cop as she screamed “I’m gonna stab the fuck out of you, bitch,” and attempted to drive her eight-inch blade into a girl in a pink tracksuit, and while her daddy kicked hell out of another girl on the ground.
According to CNN, the fight was between Ma’Khia and two other former foster children over a “messy house and unmade bed”.
In a recording of the 911 that got the cops there in the first place a female voice says, “Get here now! We got…girls here trying to fight us, trying to stab us, trying to put her hands on our grandma. We need a police officer here now.”
As it has with other police shootings of African-Americans, mainstream media went full-throttle on the race card, cops got a blood-lust for hunting blacks etc. The basketball star LeBron James added a little of his own fuel to the fire when he tweeted, “You’re next” alongside a photo of the cop and an emoji of an hourglass.
Now, Shane Dorian, who is forty-eight and who was the world number four in 2000, has gone to Instagram to tell his almost half-a-million followers,
“Would not want to be a police officer these days. Thankfully this officer was able to save this girl’s life. The media is so offed with this stuff. Pushing a narrative that brings them ratings. Police officers need to be accountable, and so do the rest of us. Breaking the law should have consequences fo police officers, and for the rest of us.”
Alongside a CNN logo, Doz writes, “Sketchy media outlet.”
Fair comment, I’d suggest.
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No worries champ …. hope you got your fair share .
Hi LGR … has the South Shore started to light up ?
Just wondering if the map of tassie hat wearing political activist switched over to passive resistance , would he / she / it become
The Vagina Hat Sat On The Mat ? While humming this tune from the Cramps
We can’t have pistols without a special endorsement on your normal firearms licence in NZ but it doesn’t stop the scumbags and gang wankers having them.
I have rifles and shotguns like you, which are far more effective than some dumb fuck gangster with a handgun held sideways…
Actually I think we can all say that all cops would have shot someone trying to kill someone else with a knife… It’s kinda their job, you know, “protect and serve.”
She never said she was a Marxist though, that is the point. She has learned from Marxist teachings but that doesn’t make someone a Marxist. Name calling or labelling is done to discredits one’s work. There is one person who claims to be a Marxist and it isn’t Cullors.
None of this has to do with the subject at hand. Which further proves my point that you are using this to discredit the work of BLM.
I’m pretty sure only one founder is a self proclaimed Marxist and she isn’t the one buying the house so ya it does sound like a talking point to try and discredit them.
She got a deal with a major studio (warner brothers I think), has been a best selling author as well. Do you look up anything you read or do you just regurgitate talking points?
They learned from the Revs Jesse and Al.
Jesse got his son a lucrative Budweiser distribution in Chicago along with a lot of “donations”…which you and I would call extortion…from Fortune 500 companies for himself.
And Al…well Al extorted enough money that at one point he owed the Feds seven figures in back taxes.
He’s still in arears today.
Meanwhile, Milan lost 3-0 to Lazio.
rough.
It’s just black people trying to become white
I think you have completely missed the point of the entire movement, which is not shocking given your posting history.
So let me help you out.
People are fed up with Cops killing black people at a disproportionate rate. Not only that people are sick of being killed by cops all together, regardless of race.
Nobody should be supportive of police violence, police are not meant to be executioner, we have the courts for that. Our Police force is over militarized and lacks proper training.
You’re not confused by any of that, you’re confused why black people are now shedding light on something that has been going on forever. Which is Police react extremely different towards people of color.
Do you know how many unarmed black people were killed by police last year?
TEN.
That’s a Friday night in Chicago or Baltimore..
Nice whataboutism attempt…
What does that have to do with police killings? Not only that your number is off.
Police kill on average 1,000 people a year.
Here’s the problem you refuse to acknowledge…
13% of the population is committing 50% of the violent crime.
When young black men don’t respect each other then why should decent society respect them?
I mean…killing a 7 year-old black girl at a McDonald’s drive through?
That’s your problem but addressing means addressing the systemic ignorance in the black community and the racism of Leftist politicians who need to control them.
Allow me to use your logic for a second, nearly all school shooters are white kids, therefore all white kids should be assumed to be mass murderes because they are the ones that commit the most school shootings/mass murders.
Now back to your blatantly racist and inaccurate points:
White people – 60% of the population 45% of violent crimes
Black people – 13% of the population 33% of violent crimes
DOJ – https://www.bjs.gov/content…
Because some black people are violent all of them should be killed at the hands of the police? Doesn’t make much sense seeing how more white people are violent yet are 3x less likely to be killed.
I don’t even know what you are trying to say about “addressing systemic ignorance?” Is that a veiled attempt to say all black people are stupid?
How are leftists politicians controlling them?
“ How are leftists politicians controlling them?”
Clearly you don’t know who LBJ was nor know anything about his Great Society.
There’s a famous quote from him that you should look in to.
HAHAH did you just hit me with a “do your own research?”
The great society didn’t control anyone, not only that the programs of the great society were expanded upon by Republican presidents after him.
Are you done moving the goal posts of the argument or do you want to keep this going?
Didn’t control anyone?
Seriously?
Clearly you don’t understand the concept of money equalling power.
And yes, big business most certainly benefits from the endless supply of cheap labor.
Cheap labor that has their entire existence (food, shelter, etc.) subsidized by government welfare.
I’m always amazes me that people don’t understand that the welfare state was designed to keep people voting Democrat.
Public housing has become a multi generational entitlement…why would the residents vote against it?
Again…go look up the famous LBJ quote.
I think you ought to look up which states use the most government welfare, you’ll be surprised to see that they are predominantly Republican. Another swing and a miss.
It’s also extremely odd that you equate big business with Leftist, when big business is not a Leftist ideal.
The left wants to increase labor costs, not decrease.
California ($100+ billion) and NY ($60+ billion) spend the most on welfare and it isn’t even close.
FL ($27+ billion) and Texas ($35+ billion) have higher populations than NY and both spend significantly less. In FL’s case then spend less than HALF of what NY does.
I didn’t equate big business with Leftists unless we’re talking the censorship zealots in Big Tech.
I did equate big business with a desire for cheap labor and Leftists are more than happy to oblige that request.
Look at the states most dependent on welfare. They are predominantly Republican.
https://wallethub.com/edu/s…
The reason FL and Texas spend less is due to cost of living and nothing to do with the welfare state you allude to. There’s a correlation between a state’s cost of living and its welfare spending. Spending also does not equate to dependency.
You 100% did, I asked how leftists controlled black people and those were the reasons you listed.
Leftists are the ones pushing for higher minimum wage, how the hell can you come to the conclusion that means they are for lower labor costs?
Republicans are also responsible for some of the largest business bailouts in history, aka welfare for rich. If you’re against welfare for the poor you should be against welfare for the rich too. Somehow I doubt you are.
You know why NM is at the top of your list, right?
Meanwhile, suggesting that Alaska’s $2B in welfare spending is somehow a “gotcha” to California’s $100B in spending is absolutely ridiculous.
Do you know why “expensive states” spend more on welfare? To keep people there so they keep voting for their enablers.
That’s entirely my point of how welfare is a vicious cycle of keeping people impoverished in order to maintain voting blocks.
You also know that the bank bailouts were almost all paid back, right?
How much have lifetime welfare recipients paid back to taxpayers?
Those are some baseless acquisitions.
Spending has nothing to do with the % of the population that is receiving welfare.
Bank bailouts were not paid back, neither were the GM bailouts.
Derek, there is absolutely nothing about the headline nor article you photo’ed/Shane posted that is anything “shady” or “clickbaitey.” Were you to be in the States now rather than commentating on what seems to be a quite ignorant man’s social media post, you’d know this story has been treated with FAR more complexity than you and Shane are acknowledging. Unless one simply read an initial headline (black person shot by cops) then ran outside head-aflame and throat at full angry screech, then returned to read actual full account; then you’d have to see that Shane’s argument is an obvious straw man: because the media has not reported it in their typical clickbait manner. Not fucking remotely. Do yourself a favor and read the very fucking headline of the CNN report that Shane, genius he must be what with all that oxygen deprivation training and all, attempts to take down. Nice try with the windmill to fight here, Shane Quixote. It ain’t real, and your own fucking post sorta proves it. Super cool knee-jerk tho and a great way to take everyone’s eyes off the real fucking issues in America of race and class and guns and mental health and cops.
They may not “always” stop them but at least try. Take the race out of it for a second, do you want cops first choice to be lethal force? I for one do not.
Yes, I, along with 99% of other rational thinking humans, want cops to shoot knife wielding people that are trying to murder other people. “Tackle her?” Seriously??? I’m sorry JK, but what are you even talking about?
I’m talking about how every other Police force in the modern world is able to handle knife wielding suspects without murdering them.
Wow. I’m sorry for getting involved in this discussion… Best of luck to you!
No.
A website with a comment section does not a social media outlet make.
Is this the other side of being “woke”? Or is it the same thing?
This is wonderful advice, but a shit haiku. 5-7-5 goddammit.
Where is the story about world #3 big wave surfer and deep breathing Mark Healey’s conspiratorial views on the world? Gotta watch his stories, but there is some gold there for sure.
Not so silent though….
That’s but one part. You can’t “turn off” your colleagues, the news, adds on buses etc.
Can we just go back to an age when we could have robust debate, disagree with one another, yet somehow inhabit the same universe? Seems impossible at the moment.
But yes, the natural world is wonderful – if you can escape the Gumby Apocalypse.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
THE BASED HAVE HAD ENOUGH AND ARE COMING OUT OF THE SHADOWS.