Will Hollywood wake up to the consequences of what they portray and promote?...


Brooklyn Nine-Nine: New episodes 'in the trash' after George Floyd death
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... The actor and America's Got Talent presenter also recounted his own dealings with the police, saying police officers had pointed guns at him, mistakenly, before he became a well-known face. "It's something that every black man has been through and it's hard to really try to get other people to understand," he said...

... 'Glorification of police corruption'

Meanwhile, more than 300 black artists and executives - including Michael B Jordan, Idris Elba and Viola Davis - have signed an open letter calling on Hollywood to invest in black communities and stop the "glorification of police corruption" on screen...

... "The way that Hollywood and mainstream media have contributed to the criminalisation of black people, the misrepresentation of the legal system, and the glorification of police corruption and violence has had dire consequences on Black lives," it read...

... the worldwide movement is a chance for deep and meaningful change...

Here's hoping for some positive change.

Can we also pull Hollywood away from glorifying guns and the long out-dated Wild West?...


All only in the USA?

Stay safe!
Martin

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A cop on cop shooting
https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2020/06/23/suspect-fires-through-windshield-at-pasadena-police-in-video-of-fatal-shooting/

There is that of course. But what struck me was the fact that he had spent a year in jail on a wrongful arrest YET still went to the assistance of a police officer & save him from a terrible death.

Also. what a dig at the bent racist boys in blue.

Not all doom & gloom

Rescuing an injured officer after a car crash is great. But it's a shame that it takes a positive action like that to bring the rest of the story into the public eye.

Mr McLee ... spent a year in jail related to a March 2016 fight outside an American Legion bar.

He had rushed to the bar in Dunbar, Pennsylvania, after his sister called saying she needed a ride home because a fight had broken out. When Mr McLee arrived, he disarmed a man who was standing in the car park with a gun, before throwing the weapon aside.

At least one trooper fired shots at Mr McLee as he fled. The trooper said Mr McLee pointed a weapon at him twice, but security footage showed McLee disarming the man, discarding the gun quickly and fleeing when shots were fired.

Bad arrests happen all-too-easily in the heat of the moment.

But what the h**l was the court system doing? The courts are supposed to weed out the bad cases. A year in jail for something that was recorded on tape? Sheesh.

Perjury?

Smells very fishy, very old left out in the sun fishy.

"Love the smell in the morning"

Or Mungo eating dinner in Blazing Saddles?

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L Chris Stewart, a lawyer for Mr Brooks’ family, said the officer who shot him should be charged with “an unjustified use of deadly force, which equals murder”.
“You can’t have it both ways in law enforcement,” Mr Stewart said. “You can’t say a Taser is a non-lethal weapon … but when an African-American grabs it and runs with it, now it’s some kind of deadly, lethal weapon that calls for you to unload on somebody.”

Another murderer in uniform

For once a back shooter can't gather enough perjuring brethren to make it go away.
The perjuring brethren.

Extremely necessary and ordinary police action

He got up from a park bench, looked at officers and “let go a massive intestinal wind apparently with full intent,” they said. “And our colleagues don’t like to be farted at so much...

#1 - Don't eat beans is Austria :-D
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Or drink cheap gassy lager?!


Absolutely hilarious!

Reminds me of a Monty Python sketch... (Just add a fake French accent!)


Stay safe!
Martin

(Edit: spelling)

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Extremely necessary and ordinary police action

In Sweden we have Fartkontroll

Well by that "logic" anyone should be allowed to shoot anyone else on the grounds that they are potentially preventing some future crime. At least in Minority Report they had to demonstrate their precognitive power beforehand...

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As some will have noticed this thread was locked yesterday. This was down to the amount of baiting and rising to the bait displayed by posters.
If there is ANY repeat of this the thread will vanish for good, and people will be banned, this is the only warning you will get.

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