Black Lives Don't Matter Squad

[indago]

From The New York Times 18 August 2015:
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As many as 20 officers — including members of a group known around the prison as the Beat Up Squad — repeatedly kicked and punched Mr. Harrell, who is black, with some of them shouting racial slurs, according to more than a dozen inmate witnesses. “Like he was a trampoline, they were jumping on him,” said Edwin Pearson, an inmate who watched from a nearby bathroom.

Mr. Harrell was then thrown or dragged down a staircase, according to the inmates’ accounts. One inmate reported seeing him lying on the landing, “bent in an impossible position.”

“His eyes were open,” the inmate wrote, “but they weren’t looking at anything.”

...He was taken to St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital and at 10:19 p.m. was pronounced dead.
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article (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/nyregion/fishkill-prison-inmate-died-after-fight-with-officers-records-show.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0)

[tailfins]

The problem with these kind of events, even if you're a hard-core racist, is that once these practices are acceptable for some, they later become acceptable for others. In other words, the practices later spread beyond happening to colored people.

[Noir]

The problem with these kind of events...the practices later spread beyond happening to colored people.

Really? Thats the problem?

[tailfins]

Really? Thats the problem?

So for you, that's not a problem?

[jimnyc]

This crap happens in prisons all the time and never a peep. There are also white people being beaten up and killed by blacks every day, and barely a peep. And blacks kill blacks like it's going out of style - do black lives not matter when it's a black person killing a black person? Why not go to Chicago with the black lives matter? Do those folks not matter?

[Perianne]

This crap happens in prisons all the time and never a peep. There are also white people being beaten up and killed by blacks every day, and barely a peep. And blacks kill blacks like it's going out of style - do black lives not matter when it's a black person killing a black person? Why not go to Chicago with the black lives matter? Do those folks not matter?

Not much. Most of them are gangbangers or drug dealers. Good riddance.

[jimnyc]

Not much. Most of them are gangbangers or drug dealers. Good riddance.

Oh, I agree. And the majority of folks being shot by police are also in such situations for a reason. It's just odd how these lives matter SO much, but only if it's maybe ONE person being shot by someone they don't like. But when dying in the tens and hundreds? No one seems to care. Odd that!

[Perianne]

Oh, I agree. And the majority of folks being shot by police are also in such situations for a reason. It's just odd how these lives matter SO much, but only if it's maybe ONE person being shot by someone they don't like. But when dying in the tens and hundreds? No one seems to care. Odd that!

It's Darwinism.

[tailfins]

Not much. Most of them are gangbangers or drug dealers. Good riddance.

You can see that mentality played out in Brazil. Brazil doesn't have a formal death penalty. Perps of heinous crimes lose protection of staff and the inmate is killed by other inmates. We are either a nation of laws or we are not.