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    Baltimore Riots

    2 Questions 1) Does American ID, Drivers licence or student ID have a race identification? 2) IS the "One drop rule" still active?
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    Baltimore Riots

    The riot clearly had a high majority of black people
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    Baltimore Riots

    I think the consecutive cases of miss conduct of police officers and the behavior of the judicial system in US shows issues way deeper than racism itself. Shows a dangerous fragility in the judicial system, the lake of capacity to address and punish a crime committed by a policemen is far more dangerous than the crime itself because open the doors to what one day was a mistake made by a single men become something mundane, become the reality of what black people face. The issue here isn't just racism, is the lake of ability to address and control racism. You can't control a racist person but a Government can control a racist system. The fact the system isn't color blind is far worse than the racist cop because is like the justice system itself gives the cop their blessing to be racist. In another words, the problem isn't the police is the entire justice system. Every cop is in the line of fire, I respect the police because is not easy to be one. Specially in a country where so many people have legal weapons and you can buy basically any armory you want for a decent price, in another words when a police approaches a suspect the chances of the suspect having some sort of weapon isn't low. That video @Evil posted of the cop shooting that kid is shocking in so many ways. Is shocking they didn't wait more than 2 seconds to shoot and is also scary to think those cops have in many ways a reason to be afraid because a person can actually buy legally any weapon there for that civilian cold easily be holding an actual gun. The thing that shocks me the most is how the media presents the case and how society behaves in US. As much as the system is corrupted, society is also guilty of lake of conscience because they address the matter as a problem of "black people" basically discarding those people are first and most of all US citizens. Isn't a problem of the blacks is a issue that belongs to everyone, how on earth a police can be so unprofessional and poorly trained? How the cop can fear so much random civilians they shoot first and ask later?
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    Baltimore Riots

    Initially you compared to France and UK that's why I mentioned SA because is more equivalent since the UK police is consider one of the most, if not the most, efficient in the world. Well, you also compare to Russian police so....
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    Baltimore Riots

    Don't take it personally babe, @Evil is a bitch to everyone equally, unlike US police who discriminates black people. Edit: you should watch this, maybe will give you a perspective from their point of view
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    Baltimore Riots

    What I see as a discussion is the level of stress of a cop in a country where any citizen can buy a grenade or a AK-47. Don't you think the fact a civilian can have a superior gun to the one the cop is holding makes them act before they think? I'm not justifying in any way the police actions, you're right only one can be fixed and ain't the spine. Just raising a discussion over the fact you can actually go to a store and buy right now a gun and that may be one of the reasons the police in US is so aggressive.
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    Baltimore Riots

    You're such a bitch tbh. She doesn't have a " really disturbing mindset that is sadly pervasive" maybe the country she lives the police isn't a piece of shit? Have you thought about that? I know the police in my State, the military one, has no respect for anyone, doesn't even matter the social status or skin color. Police brutality is no strange to me because I attended several protests where the police throw pepper gas and shoot with rubber bullets in everyone, even young teens and elderly people....fuck they shot by mistake the owner of a Bank and a judge. Shot journalists , med students, lawyers.... so I can understand that dude running away I guess in Sweden shit like this doesn't happen, maybe that's why she doesn't understand why a grown men would run like a gazelle when he saw a police officer or wont understand why those people are so full of rage and enraged
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    Baltimore Riots

    Whenever I watch "prank videos" where someone is touching people physically, maybe tries to touch a male's beard or pick someone's nose. Then most white males seem to oddly enough let a stranger with a camera come up to you and touch their beard/nose, whatever. While most black males seem to tend to get aggressive really quickly and fight back. Not sure how the edit the videos though and how many clips they are actually recording. The same applies to American TV-series like COPS. You opened a can of worms with that comment, but there are several studies that support what you said.
  9. I never should watched this, should come with an addiction warning. Is freaking amazing and hilarious #addicted #Rupaulforlife
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    Baltimore Riots

    How much is too much? So many cases of police brutality against black people caught (literally) on camera. There has to be a limit for "isolated cases" of brutality ending in cold blood murder.. "What is happening isn't violence is fury. Isn't an act of rage, is an act of outrage. Isn't indecent , is a scream for decency" The sentence above was how the anchor of the second most watched TV news opened his dialogue about the Riots in Brazil in 2013. He was talking about the clash between people and the police in Rio and São Paulo. I think his sentence and definition fits Baltimore. Those people broke that city down in a act of fury, revolt, disgust. An outrage that became anger, not anger that became an outrage. Is shocking the amount of videos getting out there of police brutality leading to death against black people in US Police brutality is nothing knew to me, everyone hates the police in Rio. That's the difference I guess, the police here doesn't discriminate the brutality and excessive force, they ask later so they end up beating the son of millionaires the same way they beat the black boy in the slums. In US seems to be concentrated in a group. By now we should have at least a good amount of videos of the police being brutal to white folks too, but nothing comes up. Is US really that racist?
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    Baltimore Riots

    Thoughts on Baltimore Riots? CNN What we know: Gray was arrested on a weapons charge in a high-crime area of Baltimore known for drugs. He "gave up without the use of force," according to Baltimore Deputy Police Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez. An officer apparently took his Taser out and was prepared to use it on Gray, but he never deployed it, Rodriguez said. And none of the six officers involved in the arrest describe using force against the 25-year-old. Gray was placed inside a police van and was able to talk, said Rodriguez, who described Gray as upset. "And when Mr. Gray was taken out of that van, he could not talk, and he could not breathe," according to Rodriguez. What we don't know: It's unknown what caused the spinal cord injury that led to his death a week after the arrest, and it's also unknown what, if anything, happened inside the van. The knife What we know: Court documents allege that Baltimore Police Department Officer Garrett Miller arrested Gray after finding a switchblade in his pocket. The Gray family attorney called the allegation a "sideshow." Gray was carrying a "pocket knife of legal size," attorney William Murphy told CNN. Police never saw the knife and chased Gray only after he ran from them, the attorney said. The court documents also say that Gray "fled unprovoked upon noticing police presence." "The officer noticed a knife clipped to the inside of his front right pants pocket. The defendant was arrested without force or incident," the documents say. "The knife was recovered by this officer and found to be a spring-assisted, one-hand-operated knife." Maryland law makes it illegal to "wear or carry a dangerous weapon of any kind" -- including switchblades -- "concealed on or about the person." What we don't know: It's not clear that simply having a knife is a crime, said Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. "It is not necessarily probable cause to chase someone. So, we still have questions," she said. What can be seen on the released video What we know: Segments of cell phone video shot from two different positions appear to begin after Gray has been arrested and show officers dragging Gray, who is handcuffed, to a van. He can be heard screaming. "He was dragged a bit," said Rawlings-Blake, "but then you see him using his legs to get into the van, so he was able-bodied when he was in the van. And we know that when he was finally taken out of the van, he was unresponsive." Officers placed more restraints on Gray inside the van, police said, while surveillance video recorded him conscious and talking. That was at 8:54 a.m. At 9:24 a.m., police called an ambulance for Gray. Police say Gray requested medical attention, including an inhaler, and an ambulance later took him to the University of Maryland Medical Center's Shock Trauma Center. Baltimore's mayor, for one, thinks the arresting officers made "a mistake" by not requesting medical attention immediately after Gray asked for it. What we don't know: It's unknown why Gray screamed, and the video doesn't capture the entire incident, start to end. It's unclear what happened between 8:54 a.m. and 9:24 a.m. And it's unclear why police didn't call for an ambulance sooner. SOURCEhttp://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/22/us/baltimore-freddie-gray-what-we-know/index.html
  12. The question is: how many Ambien's she took before the interview...so many "uhmmm" " hummm""
  13. Lana is looking like a middle aged Colombian house wife. Nothing against the Colombian part, the problem is the middle aged house wife part. That Franciscana sandal tho...nightmares
  14. It's the same team that did the movie doc about Senna, which was really good doc but also very sad. We all gonna sob watching this , aren't we? Took me a while to listen to Amy again, I got kind of angry at her because she was incredibly talented, humble and so young and didn't care enough for herself. Obviously is a irrational feeling since Amy had a disease and lost all control but until today she's that one you know? Why nobody helped her ? was also something I questioned a lot, then you grow up and see that Amy didn't help Amy, it's life, in this case a waste of life.
  15. What's new babe? Are you ever happy?
  16. This is great, Really nice paring tbh. Now only if she #CUMETOBRAZIL
  17. I don't trust OverratedOncé and hubby Jay Z on anything. This is an obvious money laundry isn't? Like for real....release a product that's exactly the same of another very successful product with exclusive over Beyoncé and him that combined don't sell half of Taylor's or Katy's albums is kind of a flop from the start.
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    MARINA (and The Diamonds)

    My reaction was something like this
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    Azealia Banks

    This listening to the song and seeing the video is like a bad trip She looks fabulous tho, what this bitch does to make her skin like that? I want whatever she uses Seriously is illegal how good AZ looks on camera When the entire interview will be out @@naachoboy?
  20. I felt sleep after the first minute. Kendull has at least a little bit of "life" in her. This entire family is funny in the most sarcastic way, like they should be called Carcrashtrians. Her lips and her chin are so messed up, I blame her Pimp Mum and the doctor that operates a minor and turns her into that
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    MARINA (and The Diamonds)

    I'm so excited to see her at Lolla this weekend!! It's the concert I'm looking for the most. Saturday come to me you beautiful! Multishow Channel live streams the festival on TV and sometimes they live stream also through their youtube channel, so if you want to watch her tune up on saturday. This is another live stream link on their website that will be working saturday and sunday. Marina will be playing 8:15pm to 9:15pm (axe stage)
  22. In times of feminism and human rights this doc and what it represents and the consequent ban should be discussed. The doc is quite bizarre because is brutally honest, just saying before you watch. Basically this link was the only one I could find since was banned and taken from youtube and several other online media sources. I saw on BBC a couple weeks ago (cabo) , was supposed to pass here on open TV but it didn't duo the ban. The defense lawyers are going to make you sick and want to cut their balls away with a kitchen butter knife India's Daughter BBC Documentary was banned from airing in India and from every Social Media The story of the brutal gang rape and murder of 23-year-old medical student Jyoti on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012, and the unprecedented protests and riots which this horrific event ignited throughout India, leading to the demand for changes in attitudes towards women. The film examines the values and mindsets of the rapists, and interviews the two lawyers who defended the men convicted of Jyoti's rape and murder. Was produced by BBC (Storyville) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nU-hhFk2w0 Defense Lawyer interview * "We have the best culture. In our culture there isn't place for a women Interview with the victim's friend who was on the bus with her and was brutally beat before been drop from the moving bus About the case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OguN9qO7eXI India’s Daughter touches on all the issues raised by this case, from the Indian justice system’s record on rape to women’s rights to poverty to the death penalty. Unfortunately, there is only so much that can Udwin can cram into the space of an hour and some issues are merely mentioned, such as female foeticide or acid attacks. There is so much to discuss and debate here that only a whole series could really do justice to this topic. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/indias-daughter-tv-review-the-delhi-bus-rape-documentary-is-about-womens-rights-around-the-world--not-just-in-india-10086668.html Why some Indians want to 'Ban BBC'The BBC Storyville film 'India's Daughter' focuses on the brutal gang rape and murder of a student on a bus in Delhi, an incident which reverberated around the world and led to widespread protests about the safety of women in India. A court in Delhi has blocked the broadcast of the film in India, and Indian home minister Rajnath Singh has promised an investigation into whether "norms have been violated" for the filming. Just like on mainstream media, the debate on social media is focused on an interview with one of the four rapists sentenced to death for the crime. In the interview, he expressed no remorse and blamed the victim for fighting back. On Twitter and Facebook, those opposing the documentary has been tweeting #banBBC - the hashtag has been mentioned more than 13,000 times in the last 24 hours. A few others have been using the hashtags #boycottbbc, #banbbcasap and #banbbcinIndia. "Does rape happen only in India? It's an attempt to malign India on a global platform. We must stop it," said a tweet which was shared almost 200 times. "The BBC is doing what western media does best - glorifying and making a celebrity out of a psycho rapist," remarked another user, while another tweet said, "Britishers have left India six decades ago, but their political legacy still rule this country?" Anshul Saxena, who has posted an open letter using the tag #banBBC, says he is hurt by the BBC's decision to air the documentary. "This kind of journalism only spreads a wrong anti-social message towards women. A criminal is a criminal; one cannot learn from him," he told BBC Trending. Prominent activist Kavita Krishnan wrote on Facebook: "I am concerned at the sheer confidence with which a single film, made by someone with scant familiarity with the daily decisions, dilemmas and struggles of India's activists, can claim to set the agenda for change in India... Already, the film has sent a message that due legal process can be given short shrift and junked, for the noble agenda of exposing a 'rapist's mind' to the world". While much of the anger has been directed at the BBC's social media accounts, not all the tweets using the #banBBC tag have been against the broadcaster. "Fact: A critical documentary can't hurt India's "image" remotely as much as a knee-jerk government ban on it can," tweeted a columnist, while another post said: "India is suffering from the ostrich syndrome. Head in the sand and pretend no one can see it. That no-one is raping women in India". The 'banBBC' tag was not the most popular to emerge from this controversy. There was also #NirbhayaInsulted (The victim was called "Nirbhaya," or "the fearless one" by the media) and #DontRapeAgain. The two tags were used more than 51,000 and 24,000 times respectively and have also been widely used by Indian news channels Times Now TV and Zee News. The reactions to the documentary have not been restricted to Facebook and Twitter. Although the BBC has only broadcast the documentary in the UK, versions of it uploaded by YouTube users have been widely shared in India. YouTube said in a statement that it had complied with a request to take down a page hosting the documentary, but users quickly posted other links to versions of the film. Great blog from a Indian women perspective I Am Not India's DaughterReflections on a banned documentary about the gang rape in my hometown of Delhi source
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    Azealia Banks

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