realdlhughley on Instagram: "“Protect and Serve”… more like Torture and Lynch AT WILL!! This is a perfect example of how corrupt the “American Justice” system is. The men that carried out these HEINOUS CRIMES are THUGS AND CRIMINALS with the legal authority to do so with impunity. @pushingblack On January 24th, Six YT officers in Braxton, Mississippi turned off their bodycams before illegally entering a home without a search warrant. A federal lawsuit reveals what happened. The officers claimed they were responding to a drug report, but when there were no drugs to be found, these cops didn’t stop. Instead, they proceeded to torture Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker. They shocked them over and over with their tasers, beat them and kicked them. They waterboarded them. They even tried to rape the men with a sex toy. Throughout the night, they tried to force a fake confession out of the men, hurling racist slurs and accusing them of committing “racial violations” like dating YT women. They threatened to kill the men, holding their guns to their heads repeatedly. • At 11:40 PM, Deputy Hunter Elward placed his gun in Jenkins’ mouth and shot, shattering his jaw and irreparably damaging his tongue. He stumbled out of the house and fell to the ground and was just left there with no assistance for 20 minutes. Eventually, EMS showed up. Jenkins survived the life-threatening injuries, but his tongue had to be removed and he is now unable to speak. Both men are facing unspeakable trauma and will have a battle to find peace in their minds after being subjected to what can only be described as racial terrorism."
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  • Dankenstein@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I’d recommend people do whatever it is that they want to do, given that they understand the dangers.

    I would like to own a firearm, not for my safety so I’d probably keep it at the gun range, but I know that I am not mentally stable so I don’t go and get a firearm, I could but nothing anyone will say is going to stop me if I actually wanted to buy one.

    My recommendation for people to arm themselves isn’t going to encourage to or dissuade anyone from doing so. They already fear for their lives and they have a right to own them so who am I to say that that shouldn’t? Jesus Christ?

    You sound like my mother.

    • balerion@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      My recommendation for people to arm themselves isn’t going to encourage to or dissuade anyone from doing so.

      Then literally why say it?

      they have a right to own them

      Yeah, and maybe they shouldn’t. There’s lots of dangerous shit you have no right to possess. Guns should be in that category. And for the record, I don’t believe the government should be sending armed people to enforce shit either.

      You sound like my mother.

      Smart woman.

      • Dankenstein@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Where in my original comment did I say that, in general, I recommend that people purchase firearms?

        Even if they shouldn’t, that’s what the government is for, not me. Exercise the rights you have, you nor I have the authority to tell people otherwise.

        Anything else is fascism and I’d rather not be hypocritical in my beliefs.

        • balerion@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          1 year ago

          You heavily implied that people of color, at least, should purchase firearms.

          What? When the government tells you what your rights are that’s good and normal, but when a random person tells you what your rights are that’s fascism? Nothing about that makes any sense at all.

          • Dankenstein@beehaw.orgEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Heavily implied? So you’re assuming that I’m making a generalization without actually having made said generalization?

            • balerion@beehaw.orgEnglish
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              1 year ago

              sigh

              Alright, what WAS I supposed to take from your post if not “minorities should arm themselves”?

              I will also note that you did not initially deny that you had been making such a recommendation.

              • Dankenstein@beehaw.orgEnglish
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                1 year ago

                Why should I have to deny anything when I fully believe that this line of questioning was pulled out of thin air? I’ll note, that you did not simply ask if this is the generalization I was making and the these statements make very little sense.

                What part of “people not needing to purchase firearms because of hate and discrimination being ludicrous” is hard to get? Obviously, not everyone needs to have a firearm but to say to someone that things like racial discrimination are not reason to arm yourself is ludicrous.

                Shit, people will walk into an LGBTQ+ friendly club and start shooting.

                • balerion@beehaw.orgEnglish
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                  1 year ago

                  you are saying that discrimination is a reason to arm yourself. people are being discriminated against. therefore, you are saying people should arm themselves. what about this is so hard to understand?

                  • Dankenstein@beehaw.orgEnglish
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                    1 year ago

                    Apparently it is hard for you to understand that not everyone generalizes populations to such an extreme extent as you.

                    You’re assuming the meaning of the statement and all you had to do was ask for clarification but I suppose you never really wanted clarification.