Colin Kaepernick's choice to not be politically correct got conservatives outraged.
Conservatives used to get riled up when political correctness was running amuck. They want to be free to call the first Black president a NIGGER. They want to "Make America Great Again". They want to "take their country back".
Hell conservatives don't believe the narratives of "Hands Up Don't Shoot" or "I Can't Breathe".
Now they're outraged when a person of color refuses to use political correctness when it comes to pledging allegiance to his country.
Now they're screaming for him to lose his NFL deal. A freedom of protest and freedom of speech issue runs into the forefront of this ugly campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
The calls for him to be fired out the cannon are becoming today's fodder. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick lit a shit storm by refusing to stand for the national anthem. He said that he can't support a flag that continues to oppress Blacks and people of color.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."
He is upset over the recent police shootings of unarmed Black people.
Man burns Kaepernick's jersey for click bait.
Colin became the most vocal voice in the NFL to support Black Lives Matter, an activist group that calls for police reform in the Black community.
The group is controversial. Many conservatives dismiss this group as anti-White and anti-cop. The alt-right (white extremists, conservative agitators and Republicans) have tried to brandish this a "hate group". They even tried to infiltrate local BLM groups to instigate violence for click bait.
Former San Francisco 49er Jerry Rice blasted him for his stance. He posted on social media saying that "All lives matter. SO much going on in this world today. Can we all just get along. Colin, I respect your stance but don't disrespect the Flag."
People blasted Rice for bringing up "can we all get along". It was the message of Rodney King, the late civil rights activist who was beaten nearly dead by the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department.
The officers getting off the attempted murder charges sparked the LA Riots.
Even the Republican nominee Donald Trump said that Kaepernick should go to a country that works better for him.
Obviously, he meant continent because Africa is has 54 countries and the ignorant believe Africa is a country.
Obviously a WHITE EXTREMIST created this because no right minded Black person would try to stir racial fears.
The idiot's defense rests its case today. Now it will land in the jury and the verdict will come.
You really got to handed to those in the junk food media! They really want to see Black America really act a fool in the cities.
Seriously, me and S. Baldwin have realized that the political left and right have both did a shoddy job in handling this. They've really screwed up on facts and they've all thrown the blanket accusations at the victim and the accused.
They've come to the conclusion that this tragic shooting in Sanford, Florida will spark race riots if the decision doesn't favor the family of Trayvon Martin.
An unarmed teenager and a neighborhood watch volunteer sparked massive outcry in America.
Whether convicted or not, this man's life is going to be just like another Floridian who got famous for murder. Casey Anthony was acquitted in the murder of her daughter. She is now in hiding and cautiously living her life with bodyguards in tow.
A 5'11" teenager who was on an errand run and 5'8" neighborhood watch volunteer on an errand run as well.
The volunteer sees the teenager go through a part of a gated community and it was raining. He calls the police and places a call to describe who's he's following. He believed that the teenager was "up to no good" and "acting like he was on drugs or something". He decides to follow him. While the volunteer follows the teenager he loses track of him. The dispatcher is telling him to "not to do that". The volunteer says okay.
The volunteer was armed with a Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm semi-automatic pistol. The teenager was holding a phone, an Arizona Watermelon fruit punch and pack of Skittles.
While on the phone, the teenager was talking to his friend and wondering what's going on with this guy following him?
The victim's family and the accused lives have forever been changed. They've become the instant celebrities due to the media's coverage of them.
The conservative media are hoping that that idiot would be acquitted in the murder of Trayvon Martin.
Much hearsay from those in the media claim the prosecutors didn't do enough to prove that the idiot was the agitator in the altercation. The conservative media is only focused on one man who claims that he say Trayvon Martin beating down on that idiot in a "MMA" style attack.
A dead body can't tell a story!
Many think that due to the fact that it's the idiot's word against the "dead" body, it's pretty much a wrap for the defense. We don't know what was said between the victim and the idiot.
Somehow we're suppose to believe this guy because he's alive and the guy he's shot is dead.
A dead body can't tell a tale.
Still how desperate we've become. The conservatives and liberals have singled out Black America as the ones prone to violence.
Let's take a trip back to April 2013. Wasn't that incident in Boston caused by White men? Yeah, you're probably saying since their Muslims, they're not White. But they look White and acted "WHITE".
Oh, what about that incident in December 2012?
Wasn't that caused by a White guy? I mean all those innocent children and educators were gunned down by a White guy. I bet that you're saying that he's had mental issues, right?
Okay, this idiot on trial is WHITE. I don't give a fuck about him being half-Hispanic and his family. He identifies himself as part of the WHITE community. He doesn't care about Hispanics or Latinos.
His brother proved that point when he took to Twitter.
The idiot and his wife lied about how much they've got in order to release him on bond. They're facing the judge on that issue soon.
Look I am going to be upfront with you on the issue of race riots. I mean it could happen! But I doubt it. There's more important things to do then burn a city down! I would rather this becomes a rally cry to boot the Republicans and their conservative allies out of Washington, DC and every locality in the nation. Seriously, I would love to see each Republican governor or lawmaker sent their walking papers. I rather see us move our voices at the ballot box, instead of a weekend or an indefinite stay in the iron college. Seriously, I have better things to do than ruin my community over a verdict.
When conservatives were saying that Barack Obama was going to lose in 2008 and 2012, they've said there will be race riots. He won. No race riots!
When Oscar Grant was killed by Johannes Mehserle, a BART transit cop, it sparked protest and rioting.
Yeah, that stuff happens. And yes, it could happen if that idiot is found not guilty.
Still I am certain that our society shouldn't be riled up by the decision.
The Martin family could sue the idiot for what he's got. Obviously, there will be a civil trial if this idiot is acquitted of second degree murder.
Because this idiot was reckless in his decision to exit his vehicle to confront an individual. He knew the police were on their way. Why would he have gotten out of his car to follow someone?
CNN reports that Florida authorities have a message as the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial looms: raise your voice, not your hands.
Anticipating that the outcome of the very public, and racially-tinged, case is likely to disappoint one swath of the population or another, law enforcement agencies have set up a response plan.
Part of it is a public service announcement that the Broward County Sheriff's Office released this week.
In it, a black teenage boy and a Hispanic girl urge viewers to "stand together as one. No cuffs, no guns."
Zimmerman is a white Hispanic who is on trial for last year's shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a black teen, in Sanford city. Sanford is in Seminole County.
He is charged with second-degree murder, and says he acted in self-defense. Prosecutors are arguing he profiled the teen.
What if? If Trayvon Martin was White and that idiot was Black, this would have been an "open and shut case". It would be plastered on all conservative/white supremacists websites about "BLACK ON WHITE" crime.
Millions of Americans have already made up their minds about what should happen. And no matter how the verdict falls, authorities worry passions will be inflamed.
That's where the video comes in -- a plea not to resort to violence.
"Freedom of expression is a constitutional right," the sheriff's office said. "While raising your voice is encouraged, using your hands is not."
In the video, the boy says, "Let's give violence a rest, because we can easily end up arrested."
The girl adds, "Let it roll off your shoulders. It's water off your back, don't lack composure. Because in one instant it could be over."
The case has triggered a nationwide debate about Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, race and racial profiling.
"People care about gun rights. People care about race. People care about children. People care about the right to defend yourself," said CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin. "And this case has all of them wrapped up together, and that's rare."
Zimmerman's lawyer, Mark O'Mara, told CNN's "Piers Morgan Live" that regardless of the outcome, his client will forever be looking over his shoulder:
"First of all, my client will never be safe, because there are a percentage of the population who are angry, they're upset, and they may well take it out on him," he said. "So, he'll never be safe."
Matt Drudge and the his cabal of racist jackasses click to the story. Add their usual word salad of insults towards Blacks, Hispanics, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, and you got a real swingers party.
The last time a riot broke out in a city and the media covered it was the costly and yet deadly Los Angeles riots of 1992. I am guessing that conservatives are trying to get the ball running on this story. Unfortunately, the media is covering that white guy who shot up a suburban movie theater. The Drudge Report and likely a conservative agitator will address this as the LA Riots in the age of Barack Obama.
By Doug Irving, Eric Carpenter, Sean Emery and Micheal Mello of the Orange County Register are covering the riots and they've reported that a handful of citizens were arrested after a melee broke out in the California city of Anaheim. Police officers shot an unarmed person and I am assuming that the U.S. Justice Department and FBI are looking into the matter.
Remember that conservatives and White supremacists are rooting for an all out race war. They want the Blacks and Hispanics/Latinos to get riled up and destroy property. In turn they can claim that it's those evil traitors (uh, the progressives, the Democratic Party, President Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Nancy Pelosi) rooting on chaos while "patriots" like Mitt Romney and Darrell Issa are willing to help these "folks" get off the dependency of government.
They've reported that more than 20 people under arrest, police reported restoring order Wednesday morning after a fourth day of clashes between officers and protesters angry over two fatal officer-involved shootings in Anaheim last weekend.
At least five people were reported hurt in the unrest, with crowds setting fires, smashing windows and throwing rocks and other projectiles at officers in riot gear who fired non-lethal rounds at demonstrators refusing to disperse.
One person was taken to a hospital after being struck in the head with a pepper ball fired by police. Two Register reporters were injured – one was hit in the head with a rock and the other hit in the foot with a projectile. Both will get medical attention today.
A police officer suffered a minor arm injury, said Sgt. Bob Dunn, an Anaheim police spokesman.
Manuel Diaz, 25 was gunned down by the Anaheim Police. He was a petty criminal a citizen that was unarmed when the police confronted him. The officers claimed that he held something in waistband and they opened fire.
Additionally, one person was injured during a fight among protesters.
Police battled "pockets of unrest" in downtown Anaheim late Tuesday night, hours after a large crowd attempting to get inside City Hall broke into violent protest.
About 20 minutes before Tuesday's 5 p.m. City Council meeting, a 200-strong crowd tried to get inside the packed City Hall.
They were rebuffed by police officers who cited fire standards and would not let anyone else into the crowded council chambers, where the council held its regular meeting and talked about what the crowd was upset about: two police shootings over the weekend.
A half-dozen officers blocked City Hall's entrance, while the crowd gathered around and hurled obscenities.
As the crowd pressed closer, officers with helmets and batons came out the front door and pushed the protesters back, angering them.
After several minutes, some protesters called for everyone to hit the street.
For the next five-hours-plus, the tug of war between protesters and police persisted.
The crowd marched along Anaheim Boulevard to Lincoln Avenue, going into the street and blocking traffic.
Some pounded traffic signs and pulled trash cans into the street, while others pulled back the cans. One man with a bullhorn shouted how the protest was to be peaceful. A boy spray-painted a utility box. Some protesters grabbed sand from flower beds and a traffic cone and threw them at officers.
Anaheim police were assisted by officers from Garden Grove, Tustin, Brea, Fullerton and other agencies.
About 7:40, police lined across Broadway and in front of City Hall in riot gear. The crowd, now 500 strong and peaceful, stood about. Women with strollers came out to take a look. A church handed out fliers, "Jesus loves you. Come to our church."
At 8 p.m., police from a helicopter's speaker told the crowd to leave the Broadway/Anaheim Boulevard intersection or face arrest. Few, if any, budged.
Authorities announced a dispersal order at Anaheim and Broadway shortly before 9 p.m., then released pepper balls at the feet of the protesters, prompting the crowd to move rapidly away.
Some regrouped nearby, while others scattered throughout downtown.
Police took at least five people into custody, one for resisting arrest, said Sgt. Bob Dunn. A fight between demonstrators left one person "significantly injured," but the victim is expected to survive.
Rocks were thrown at police throughout the protests. Officers deployed bean bags and pepper balls.
Numerous trash bin fires in nearby neighborhoods were reported throughout the evening. The crowd also broke windows to some downtown businesses, including a Starbucks.
Earlier in the evening, four or five men were seen filling 1-gallon glass bottles with gasoline and placing rags in them at an Arco Station at Anaheim Boulevard and Broadway, said Jon Dunton, a legal representative for the business. Police were called and directed employees to shut down the pumps.
While the number of protesters decreased throughout the night, police said those who remained were "intent on causing trouble."
"They seem to be destructive," Dunn said.
Police expected to remain on alert throughout the night. By 10:30 p.m. the large groups had dispersed, but there were more than 100 scattered protesters causing "pockets of unrest" in the downtown area, Dunn said.
"We hope to restore order by the morning," Dunn said.
Tim Pool, an independent journalist who goes by Timcast on Ustream and Twitter, did a live webcast from the Anaheim protests.
On his webcast, at least six fires could be seen within about 45 minutes. The fires were in a trash bin, on the side of roads and alleys and inside a garbage can, which melted. He also witnessed a woman being struck in the legs.
Pool stayed behind police lines for most of the night, but when he veered out, he was fired upon with pepper balls and impact rounds, despite showing a press pass, he said. As of 10:35 p.m., he was unable to get back to the action.
Earlier in the day, the Anaheim Police Association said that the Anaheim officer who fired a fatal shot at an unarmed man this weekend saw some kind of object in the man's waistband and feared it was a weapon.
The association's account, and a $50 million lawsuit filed by the man's mother, offered new details about the shooting that killed 25-year-old Manuel Angel Diaz. An attorney for Diaz's mother said he was shot in the back, then fell to his knees and was shot again in the head.
Police have described Diaz as a known gang member and said he fled on foot down a residential alleyway when officers approached him Saturday afternoon. They have declined to speak in any more detail about what led to the shooting.
The next day, an Anaheim gang officer shot and killed another man, Joel Mathew Acevedo, 21, in an unrelated incident. Police also described Acevedo as a known gang member and said he opened fire on officers during a foot chase.
The back-to-back shootings have sparked several demonstrations.
"The community is scared and angry," said Joanne Sosa, who helped organize Tuesday's protest. "We don't want violence, we just want those people (in City Hall) to know things need to change."
Diaz was talking with friends when police confronted them, according to an attorney representing Diaz's mother in her lawsuit against the city. All three ran, and two officers chased Diaz, attorney Dana Douglas said in a statement.
One of the officers had recognized Diaz as a known gang member and saw him holding a "concealed object" in his waistband with both hands, according to the police association. He ignored their orders to stop running, then pulled the object from his waistband and turned toward the officers, the association said.
"Feeling that Diaz was drawing a weapon, the officer opened fire on Diaz to stop the threat," the association said in its statement. Anaheim police said after the shooting that Diaz was not armed; the association declined to say what the object that the officer reported seeing was.
The attorney for Diaz's mother called that account of the shooting an "absolute fabrication." She said Diaz was shot in the back and the back of the head, so it would have been "physically impossible" for him to have turned toward the officers. She also said no witnesses she interviewed had seen Diaz turn.
A city spokeswoman did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Douglas said she also filed a formal claim for damages against the city, a precursor to a lawsuit in state court.
The day after Diaz was killed, a gang investigator patrolling a nearby neighborhood saw a stolen vehicle and tried to pull it over, according to the police association. The driver instead led officers on a short pursuit and crashed; three people got out and ran.
One of them, Acevedo, turned during the chase and fired a handgun at an officer, the police association said.
The officer returned fire, killing him. A handgun was recovered next to his body.
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Court records show that Acevedo pleaded guilty in 2010 to resisting a peace officer and in 2009 to street terrorism and receiving stolen property. Diaz pleaded guilty in 2011 to drug charges and in 2008 to having a firearm on school grounds, with a street-gang enhancement, records show.
The two shootings in two days brought to six the number of officer-involved shootings in Anaheim so far this year; five were fatal.
Officers fired bean bags and pepper spray into a group of protesters that had gathered near the scene of the Diaz shooting Saturday. A police dog also escaped its handler and charged into the crowd.
"It's wrong what the police are doing. It's like it's 'shoot to kill' now," said Pauline Miltimore, who joined Tuesday's protest outside City Hall and said she was Acevedo's cousin. "Even if it doesn't make a difference, I have to (protest). It broke my heart when I found out."
The FBI is reviewing whether a civil-rights investigation is warranted after the two shootings, spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. City leaders have also invited the state Attorney General's Office and the U.S. Attorney's Office to investigate.
The District Attorney's Office is investigating both shootings, which is standard protocol for officer-involved shootings.
The hallmark of the infamous Los Angeles riots has died today. Rodney King was recently promoting his book reflecting on the tragedy.
According to news sources, King was found dead in his pool by a female friend.
Twenty years ago, King a motorist under traffic suspension was pulled over by four Los Angeles County deputies and then was beaten after disobeying orders. The incident was caught on camera, sparked national outrage and
put King at the center of heated debate about the state of race
relations in America.
In his memoir, "The Riot Within: My Journey From Rebellion to
Redemption," published earlier this year, King detailed the high-speed
chase that led up to his beating on March 3, 1991 and how he went on to
receive a $3.8 million settlement from the city of Los Angeles. Most of
the money was lost, however, to bad investments, including a hip-hop
record label he founded.
The 1992 riots, which were set off by the acquittals of the officers
who beat King, lasted three days and left 55 people dead, more than
2,000 injured and swaths of Los Angeles on fire. At the height of the
violence, King pleaded on television the famous question: "Can we all get along?"
In the two decades after he became the central figure in the riots,
King was arrested several times, mostly for alcohol-related crimes. He
later became a record company executive and a reality TV star, appearing
on shows such as "Celebrity Rehab."
In an interview earlier this year with The Associated Press, King said he was a happy man.
His last appearance was on The Alan Colmes Radio Show. Alan Colmes appears under Westwood One and Fox News Radio Network, video courtesy of Fox News.
