George Floyd/Black Lives Matter Protests

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

The defence they will go down the line that the officer shot the offender because he is a highly aggressive subject. Following him running away in possession of a taser they feared for the safety of the public. 
 

As soon as the guys back is turned and hes running away he’s no longer a threat, i dont think that defence will work in any way, but in a trial by jury you get some mental verdicts.

[Detournement]

A very good twitter thread about the continuing legacy of racist imperialism in the upper echelons of the Tory party and British society. 

 

[Venti]

37 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Thought it was about protecting the statues.

SPAD sounds like it's and organisation from Brass Eye.

[Miguel Sanchez]

2 hours ago, NotThePars said:

Been laughing like a drain at Raab's take a knee comments. We really put the dumbest guys in the country in charge.

"Speaking to Julia Hartley-Brewer on talkRadio, Mr Raab said"

[Theroadlesstravelled]

54 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Thought it was about protecting the statues.

‘Sturgeon must condemn’.

Classic.

[milhouse]

I'm all for the following (who isn't?)

- people not being treated badly by the cops because of their race

- people being prosecuted for dishing out racist abuse 

- investigating historical figures and revealing them as nasty scumbags if they were nasty scumbags. However I'm not going to accept any personal responsibility for the actions of historical nasty scumbags.

However, it's easy to go on TV and scream "we need to stop racial inequality!", but I havn't heard anyone actually drill down into actions that results in this outcome. Positive discrimination is illegal in the UK. 

[MONKMAN]

I can say with almost certainty that anyone who actively describes themselves as a member of the PUL community, is an utter scumbag. 

[Johnstoun]

They reacted to an inflammatory gesture by beating up minorities? Seems normal.

[Brother Blades]

SPAD sounds like it's and organisation from Brass Eye.

Is SPAD not the group that Hugh Grant joins in About a boy?

[throbber]

 

[Gaz]

Surely not even they believe they're there for the statues?

[Del79]

Greggs being open will probably reduce the number of people there by 60%.

[pub car king]

3 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

As soon as the guys back is turned and hes running away he’s no longer a threat, i dont think that defence will work in any way, but in a trial by jury you get some mental verdicts.

And that's what they will count on. 

[Herman Hessian]

2 hours ago, Brother Blades said:

Is SPAD not the group that Hugh Grant joins in About a boy?

not sure - but it'll set the alarm bells ringing for P&B's (disproportionately high) number of train-driving participants...

[MONKMAN]

Greggs being open will probably reduce the number of people there by 60%.

There’s a Greggs about 30 yards from where they’re standing.

[Theroadlesstravelled]

1 hour ago, Gaz said:

Surely not even they believe they're there for the statues?

They already watched Rangers die and did nothing. They're not going to let the same thing happen to their statues.

[topcat(The most tip top)]

For good protestants they do seem very keen on the farcically exaggerated reverence of statues

[greendot]

[marty_j]

SPAD sounds like it's and organisation from Brass Eye.

Signal Passed At Danger if you work on railway

[The_Kincardine]

21 hours ago, MixuFruit said:

 

Anyway the orange order and its fellow travellers are a fascist organisation that should have been proscribed many years ago.

OK so I had to bite - though I tried not to.

I've never read or heard anything from the OO in Scotland by way of publications, speeches, its constitution or discussions/pronouncements/statements in local or county lodges that have been remotely fascistic.

Clearly you have so please share what you know.