We know that your imagination has no bounds on reasons to harm, kill or incarcerate black people

Honestly, when it comes to your posts, there just isn't much reason to try hard at all. The retorts fall directly into the responder's lap.

Literally terrified of garments with large pockets.

To be fair, I am afraid of kangaroos and most marsupials.

drive slowly around blind corners in the outback. yw.

If a kangaroo is on the road, it's best to get out of your car and challenge it to a boxing match.

FYP

Four of the seven guys who will be at the home 1/2 game tonight are technically black criminals, but their personal weed habit doesn't really affect anyone else. I know for a fact that most of them feel similarly about the situation in Milwaukee. The house we're playing at has to deal with just as many gunshots at night as I do.

technically criminals lol

paper shooting targets lol

old ladies should be careful with large purses at night. Cops like Inso might get scared.

I mean it's a good start, but the vast majority of people in prison are for violent crimes

40% of black males in Milwaukee did their prison time for drug charges.

Now, whether or not there were also other charges dropped via plea deal is another question, but I don't know about "vast majority".

49% of all state prisoners are in prison for violent crimes. Decriminalizing weed is a good step, but a lot of people pin a lot of hope on it as absolving injustice. In other words smoking weed doesn't hurt other people, black people were locked up for smoking weed, therefore by decriminalizing weed we're rectifying an injustice and the ones locked up for violence crimes are the ones who truly belong there.

But of course by serially defunding certain areas of Milwaukee and hording resources in the suburbs, some portion of those left behind became violent who otherwise wouldn't have been and the question then becomes, and it's not an easy one to solve, unlike decriminalizing weed, what do we do about violent felons if we want to get our incarceration rate down?

I think clearly you have to grapple with some of the causes of crime that can't be solved through criminal justice reform but through addressing economic and social inequality. But there's also an interesting report from the Brennan Center for Justice that argues that the number of people incarcerated for violent crimes could also be reduced with little impact to public safety.

i dont have to parse the data with a fine toothed comb to know that a significant portion of those "violent crimes" stemmed from or were the result of robberies, where the offenders would not have been out robbing people if their economic circumstances/situation had been different. and that goes beyond just having gainful employment to include things like having access to resources like mental health and substance abuse services.

When there are no choices, crime is a good choice. For example this thread:

something like that could end up making a world of difference to a kid who has never had anybody stick up/look out for him like that before. kids need to be taught right from wrong and given the opportunities to succeed, not branded and thrown in cells for poor decisions that mostly stem from neglect.

lol inso bringing hoodies back

My best guess as to what inso might be referring to with 'hiding guns in hoodies' was a trend among shooters and stick-up artists and the like to take a ridiculously big sweatshirt, cut off the sleeves, and hang a submachine gun around their neck. It has nothing to do with the hood, it's like the dudes in Westerns pulling guns from underneath ponchos as it's probably tricky to hide a mac-10 on your person.

This is probably too obscure even for the RW derposphere to pick up and run their telephone game on but because of this,

obv, it really sounds like a case of:

1. RWNJs find some tiny story about a hitter getting arrested hiding an uzi underneath an oversized sweatshirt.
2. A hoodie is a type of sweatshirt.
3. Trayvon was fond of wearing hoodies.
4. Black dudes hide guns in hoodies, apparently in their magical pockets or the hood part for some reason?
5. ...
6. Nobody profits.

This lady is hiding at least 3 derringers in her big-ass turtleneck:

You'd think the sword is the issue but this dude has a gatling gun between his legs:

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/...shooting-video

bystander video here- (warning: may be disturbing etc)

essentially from the video (which is shot on a cell phone from a 2nd or 3rd story window a block or so down the street), a couple of police units stopped a vehicle in the street at which time antwon and another individual get out and make a break for an adjacent alleyway, running in the opposite direction of any of the officers in the frame, and before they can even take 3 or 4 steps, at least one of the officers opens fire on them- you can see the moment antwon is struck in the back, he falls to the ground

Pa officer reportedly on his first shift, having been sworn in that morning. Car occupants were involved in a shooting and 2 guns in the car with back window shot out.

Repost in armed black teen shot by cop thread

What?

you see the teen was near a gun even though he didn't have one on him and something...something... voodoo...something... that counts as armed

Can you link the article that you saw that said they were involved in the shooting? Every article I saw seemed to say they were black kids in a car that may have matched the description of a car that may have been involved in a shooting somewhere else.

Considering the article posted here said the driver was released its HIGHLY UNLIKELY these kids were involved in the shooting.