Crackas don't count

When Rodney King was beaten in southern California, it made headlines (and rightly so – those pigs had no right to beat someone like that.  All they had to do was restrain and arrest him).

What of course made the incident so potent was the claim of racism (the cops were white, Rodney King was black).  I think it's safe to say there was an element of racism involved, but the main crime was the beating.

Fast forward a couple of decades or so and something similar happens in northern California.  A man is viciously beaten with batons in San Francisco after having led police in a car chase from a neighboring county.

The man was a criminal (he had stolen the car, had rammed police cars and injured a deputy, and there were drugs and a semi-automatic handgun in the car).  Clearly this person was not some aspiring doctor trying to turn his life around (gnome sayin’?).

This story did not make national headlines.  There were no protests (odd considering the recent slough of cases concerning ‘police brutality’).  The news stories I read did not mention the race of the person.  Therefore, I can only assume that the man who was beaten was white.  His name also suggests this (Stanislav Petrov).

If the man is white, then it’s no wonder this story did not make more headlines – it doesn’t fit with the media’s narrative that ONLY black people are abused by cops.

The silence is deafening.

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Sources:

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/S-F-may-charge-Alameda-County-deputies-in-beating-6796225.php

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/21/us/stanislav-petrov-alameda-county-sheriffs-video/

Giant Losers (San Francisco sucks)

Sports fans are known the world over for their obscene displays of elation or anger.  This time it happened in San Francisco (the same city that gives refuge to people like Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, whom I will write about in another post).

The San Francisco Giants were duking it out with the Kansas City Royals. Long story short: Giants win, San Franciscans riot.  I thought they had gotten it out of their system in 2010 when decades after moving from back east they finally won against the rangers (or at least in 2012 when they won again against the tigers). But no, they're just savages to the core.

Grown men playing with balls and sticks - who knew a kid's game would drive people crazy!

So you've been out on the streets since 5a.m?  So have the hookers.

Wet dream come true (again)

 I guess bandit masks are de rigueur . . .

Okay let's dispense with the pleasantries - on to the rioting!!

If you were to exchange that goofy sports gear with a cap and gown (and diploma), and change the background, this might be something worth hugging about.

PANDA-monium ensues

Pinche AT&T! But maybe all this teargas will improve my reception.

Oh, oh - here comes La Chota . . .

Just like a typical foggy San Francisco day

This looks like 22nd and Mission (except maybe 30 years ago when it was a dump)

This guy looks like that tattoo on the rioter's neck (above)

Now the cops are rioting

no toxic flame retardant on this couch, baby! eco-friendly all the way in the city by the bay

Khaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!!

spider fan, spider fan, does whatever a spider can

Trayvon Martin and Sanford, FL (or really, California)

Trayvon Martin had been on suspension from school the day he died.  Apparently, drug residue had been found on his person.  Also, allegedly, he had been suspended before.

It was unclear why he wasn't at home.  One news story claims he was walking to his father's neighborhood in order to stay with him and to 'stay out of trouble'.  Not sure why his father didn't just pick him up after work or whatever.

Unfortunately for him, he walked through the wrong neighborhood. He was shot to death by a local resident named George Zimmerman (a half-white, half-hispanic male).

Versions are fuzzy and contradictory. Zimmerman claims Martin attacked him so he shot Martin in self defense; Martin's family claims Zimmerman attacked Martin and shot him in cold blood as he (Martin) tried to run away.

Whether Trayvon Martin was actually a criminal or not is irrelevant to this point.  We have recorded audio footage wherein the police specifically tell George Zimmerman NOT to get involved or approach Martin.  They told Zimmerman that they (the police) would handle it.  Zimmerman didn't listen, got into a scuffle with Martin, and now Martin is dead.

This whole incidence, in my opinion, was a misuse of the so-called "stand your ground" law.  That law was meant to protect you if your life happened to be in danger. It was not meant for you to go looking for trouble, getting in over your head, and then claiming "self-defense".

If Martin had not been suspended he might still be alive. If Martin hadn't been involved in drugs he might have not been suspended in the first place.  If Zimmerman had just kept his fat ass away and listened to the 911 dispatcher Martin might still be alive.  And, assuming Zimmerman was telling the truth (we'll never know), Martin might still be alive had he not attacked Zimmerman.  There are lots of 'ifs' in this tragedy.

Predictably there were nationwide protests.

Even though the Trayvon Martin killing occurred in Florida, that did not stop residents all the way on the other side of the country in California from rioting.

Thankfully, these demonstrations were tame compared to those that occurred in Ferguson, MO and Baltimore MD for Michael Brown and Freddie Gray (respectively).

As if traffic wasn't bad enough in San Francisco - now you got some fat bitch 'sieg heiling' in front of your car, while a "creepy azz cracka" with a camera is trying to look inside your window.

A disgrace to punk rockers everywhere: A Crass fan trips and falls over his own Doc Martens in Los Angeles.

BART (bay area rapid transit) police car smashed in Oakland. The rioters "protesters" must have confused Trayvon Martin with Oscar Grant.  These people be racist and shit acting like all black people look alike - gnome sayin'?  Sheeeit.

Oakland

Not sure what the empty storefront did to deserve such a blatant act of vandalism. Or maybe he's part of Oaktown's Glazier's Union Local 169 out to create more jobs - but I doubt it.

Dogwood Restaurant in Oakland.  It's an uphill battle trying to bring some class and cash into this perpetually ghetto town. Gnome sayin'?

Is it just me, or is that a creepy-ass haircut?