Racist Police Response to Ferguson Protests

[BVS]

So what I'm gathering is that if it wasn't CVS it's not a violent crime equated to rape, is that about it?


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[PhilsFan]

Originally Posted by wolf

I thought you were responding to my question of whether a CVS store had been burned down after a sporting event. Yes, I realize people throw rocks, start fires in the road and may damage a car or two, but was a CVS store ever burned down because someone's team either won or lost a sporting event? You responded with a link to my question so I was looking for a picture of a burning CVS store or a report of a CVS store being burned.

What fucking difference does it make what the brand of the store is?


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[DaveC]

I honestly think wolf must be a CVS employee (nothing wrong with that if so, I just wish they would put their cards on the table). It's the only legit reason I can possibly think of for he/she to be so concerned about it being a CVS to the point of emphasizing it multiple times in every post. It makes zero sense otherwise.

[bobsaget77]

Al Qaeda never blew up a CVS
Baltimore Riots > 9/11



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[Headache in a Suitcase]

Originally Posted by DaveC

Spoilers if you haven't seen The Wire:

The Baltimore Riots Destroyed A Store From ‘The Wire’

Was it a CVS? If so, fuck that.

[LemonMelon]

I think we may have a dark new Interference meme.

[PhilsFan]

Originally Posted by DaveC

I honestly think wolf must be a CVS employee (nothing wrong with that if so, I just wish they would put their cards on the table). It's the only legit reason I can possibly think of for he/she to be so concerned about it being a CVS to the point of emphasizing it multiple times in every post. It makes zero sense otherwise.

No, he's just one of these types who takes everything literally and loves to get lost in semantics arguments in order to ignore the broader forces at work. Like a phoenix, he rises from the ashes yet again.

[Galeongirl]

I'm glad it isn't just me who didn't understand why the emphasis was on this specific store. I was starting to feel bloody stupid for not understanding this lol.

[deep]

Originally Posted by deep

I find zero justification for this person dying from being arrested by the police.
I do believe it happened when he was in the control of the police. They are responsible.
.

This whole thing never added up.

I think the police, effectively murdered him. Caused his death.


He sees the cops, takes off running. They catch him, hog tie him and put him in the back of the van. Cops drive around for awhile stop and put someone else in the back of the van with him. When he is finally taken out of the van he is fatally injured.


Reminds me a bit of a scene from The Shield. Vic Macky puts a gang guy in a container, and then puts an enemy gang member in the same container and closes the door.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by Galeongirl

What's the significance of this CVS store? Isn't any kind of burning cars/buildings and looting pretty damn comparably bad? Why is this worse because it's a CVS(whatever it is?)?

Saw the video of the mother dragging a looter out of the crowd by his ears. Some great parenting there!

It shows a more significant and dedicated form of violence. Setting a fire in the street, bashing in car windows or even setting a car on fire on the street is one level of violence. But to destroy a large structure like a CVS store, looted and burned, is on another level. People were in the store when the event happened as well, while most of these cars that were set on fire were unoccupied or windows to a store bashed in after a sporting event had already closed for the night.
Show me a store CVS or similar in size, that had people in it when it was attacked, looted, and set on fire, after a sporting event.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by bobsaget77

Al Qaeda never blew up a CVS
Baltimore Riots > 9/11



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They also never set little fires In the middle of U.S. streets, threw rocks at windows and Policeman in the U.S., set parked cars on fire, because their favorite sporting team won or lost a game.
They did attack some large buildings in the U.S. like the World Trade Center when at full capacity has over 50,000 people working there and the Pentagon which also has tens of thousands of people working there. So they are on a whole other level than the CVS burners and looters.

[anitram]

This was in the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, so may not count for wolf, as we all know that Canadians are much more violent than Americans but anyway:

Windows were smashed in a bank and various businesses along the West Georgia corridor, some of which were also looted. Riot police eventually managed to push the rioters away from Georgia, onto Granville Street and Robson Street, where the rioters then caused further substantial damage, breaking the windows of several shops and looting. Some of the stores affected were Future Shop, Sears and Chapters bookstore.

FYI - Future Shop is the equivalent of Best Buy (in fact Best Buy has bought them all out) and Chapters would be like a Barns & Noble.

[gump]

I mean, maybe wolf was concerned about CVS's past record, guys.

CVS Pharmacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Homeless man strangled for shoplifting

On May 8, 2010, a homeless man named Anthony Kyser was strangled to death by a CVS store manager after allegedly stealing toothpaste and crayons. Surveillance footage from an alleyway near the store was captured which shows the alleged shoplifter being forced to the ground and killed by the store manager, Pedro Villanova. Though the death was ruled a homicide by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office, no charges were filed against the manager, the authorities having ruled the incident an "accident." No investigation was made into the off-duty county officer who was on scene, but did nothing to stop the attack. U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, who spoke out in 2010 against the way Kyser's death was handled, stated "... we have video that shows emphatically that he was lying on the ground and some people strangled him, kicked him and choked him and at the end of that episode he lay still, he was killed, right there on the spot." The video shows a police officer arrived on the scene moments after the incident occurred; however, no first aid was given to the victim. Kyser's parents filed a lawsuit claiming that the CVS manager assaulted and battered their son and that the store is responsible for that manager's actions. The lawsuit, seeking $400,000 in damages, remains pending in Cook County Circuit Court.

[bono_212]

Originally Posted by anitram

This was in the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, so may not count for wolf, as we all know that Canadians are much more violent than Americans but anyway:



FYI - Future Shop is the equivalent of Best Buy (in fact Best Buy has bought them all out) and Chapters would be like a Barns & Noble.

Doesn't count. It was just windows.

[Irvine511]

i can appreciate the symbolic difference between torching a police car and torching a CVS.

[anitram]

Originally Posted by bono_212

Doesn't count. It was just windows.

Um...

various businesses along the West Georgia corridor, some of which were also looted.

[PhilsFan]

I'd be more upset if it was a local business. Who gives a shit about CVS?

[anitram]

wolf kind of strikes me as a typical Republican - they are excellent at steering the conversation away from the real issue. For example, we aren't talking about police mistreatment or racial inequality, we are now bogged down in discussing how large a store has to be before it's comparable to CVS.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by anitram

This was in the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, so may not count for wolf, as we all know that Canadians are much more violent than Americans but anyway:



FYI - Future Shop is the equivalent of Best Buy (in fact Best Buy has bought them all out) and Chapters would be like a Barns & Noble.

Ok, but I'm not seeing any stores being burned with employees and customers inside? I think there is a difference between breaking into a store and looting it when no one is inside as opposed to burning and looting a store that has employees and customers inside. In the first instance, no one is there, in the second, peoples lives are at risk.

There were 19 structure fires in Baltimore, including CVS. How many structure fires did Vancouver have? Maybe I'm wrong, but from what I have read, what happened in Baltimore is on another level than sports team rioting.

[BVS]

Originally Posted by wolf

Ok, but I'm not seeing any stores being burned with employees and customers inside? I think there is a difference between breaking into a store and looting it when no one is inside as opposed to burning and looting a store that has employees and customers inside. In the first instance, no one is there, in the second, peoples lives are at risk.

There were 19 structure fires in Baltimore, including CVS. How many structure fires did Vancouver have? Maybe I'm wrong, but from what I have read, what happened in Baltimore is on another level than sports team rioting.

You don't think burning cars put people's lives at risk? You are truly being purposely obtuse.

No one is supporting these riots, but one is due to legitimate anger and one is because a team won. Quit trying to focus on the size or how many. They are both violent and uncalled for but one is swept under the rug and you are part of that problem.


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