George Floyd’s legacy under siege as racial justice efforts lose ground, memorials removed

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, May 26, 2025 7:44 AM

And I will be the first person to tell you that I hate, hate, hate being the one to come to the police force's defense, but you also need to at least be able to empathize with what they go through every day, even if you haven't ever and won't ever walk a mile in their shoes.

Pretty sure this cop didn't realize it was going to be the last day he said bye to the wife and kids over a routine traffic stop...

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, May 26, 2025 8:47 AM

If you get yourself pulled over for any reason, here's your checklist.

1. Wallet in your hand or at least out in the open where the officer can see everything if you didn't have enough time to already remove your license and registration out of it.

2. Window down, even if it's fucking snowing outside and blowing in your face.

3. Both hands on the wheel, with your wallet or identification ready to hand them.

4. Give as friendly a "Hello Officer" as you can muster.

5. When they ask you if you know why they pulled you over, you simply say "No" and let them do all the talking.


You wouldn't even believe some of the things I've gotten away with in my youth simply by showing this level of respect for the badge and giving them a pure non-stressor of a pull over. Some cops will even go out of their way thank you for that.

Bonus points if you were close to an off ramp (if on the expressway) and you slowly drive to it and only pull over and come to a stop once you've gotten clear off the shoulder of the highway and the cop doesn't need to worry about opening their door with people zipping past them at 80MPH. Also good practice is to pull over in any random parking lot or side street that you can if you're on a busy street in the neighborhood.

This is all courteous behavior. Not just for the cop, but for everyone else who's going about their day and isn't going to be put out by another dumb shit that blocks up half the 2-way by pulling over in the street. This is showing that even in a stressor event like being pulled over, the person that they are pulling over still has enough going on upstairs where they're thinking of people other than themselves. Officers notice things like this. Not all of them, but a good deal of them do.

I've been pulled over in the area of 30 to 40 times in my life.

Only for not wearing a seatbelt the last 15-20 years or so, but plenty of times for speeding and even a few times where they caught me drinking and driving, dead to rights. I never got a DUI charge, and even when I was caught speeding fast enough it would have been considered a felony charge leading to my car being impounded, the cop was nice enough to say I was only going 82 which meant I "only" had to pay a $412 ticket and another $50 to reinstate my license. (An event that I'm grateful for in retrospect, since that was the last time I have ever been pulled over for speeding).

Outside of the seatbelt tickets which I always seem to end up paying for, but ain't that big of a deal, I usually was let go without a ticket.

Before anybody tells me that this was my white privilige, they should probably ask themselves how they behave themselves when they are pulled over.


Because the one time a lady officer caught me on a bad day for having a vehicle sticker that was expired, that one ended up with the full $110 ticket after 3 other squad cars arrived for backup. Lucky for me I knew what my stupid ass did and I shut the fuck up and calmed down before that turned into something it never should have turned into. And me being the hot-head that I am, it very well could have. I even... *gag*... apologized to her.

Anybody who knows me knows that there's no place I find less comfortable than that of being in a submissive position to anybody. I know more than most that behaving yourself when you need to isn't always the easiest thing to do. But when those lights come on behind you, after you're done praying they weren't for you after finding out that they were indeed meant for you, you snap right out of whatever reverie lead you to these current events. And you immediately bury any false pretenses that you're anything more than a mongrel for the next 15 minutes. Just keep in mind the whole timer how uneasy the next few months or years of your life might be if you can't swallow that pride and be polite, take your lumps and get on with your day.

Even if that means you wer

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, May 26, 2025 10:51 AM

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If you get yourself pulled over for any reason, here's your checklist.

1. Wallet in your hand or at least out in the open where the officer can see everything if you didn't have enough time to already remove your license and registration out of it.

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I've been pulled over in the area of 30 to 40 times in my life.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, May 26, 2025 11:32 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If you get yourself pulled over for any reason, here's your checklist.

1. Wallet in your hand or at least out in the open where the officer can see everything if you didn't have enough time to already remove your license and registration out of it.

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Not a good idea. This may have worked in the past, but cops are smarter now.
You might think it is obvious you are grabbing your wallet as you are trying to outthink the cop, but they might be anxious about that Glock you are pulling from your shorts.
Better to wait for them to tell you to roll down you window, and when they want your DL, tell them about it. "My wallet is in my back pocket - mind if I dig for it?" Let them tell you what they want you to do, let them be in command of the situation.

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I've had that average just in some years. I worked a job where I barhopped 20-30 bars per night, 4pm-midnight or bar time. Driving at night will get you pulled over, even with the company logo on the vehicle.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, May 27, 2025 4:03 AM

Awwwwwww.... would you look at this article out of MSNBC today.

From their "Opinion" section.

You know goddamned well after reading the headline below this would never have been thrown into their "Opinion" column heap 6 months ago in the world that no longer exists...



America made a promise after George Floyd’s murder that Congress hasn’t kept
American policing continues to embrace racial profiling, gives officers latitude to be aggressive and generally shields them from liability.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/george-floyd-death-anniver
sary-congress-police-reform-rcna208268

Shut the fuck up, race grifter. You are one of the biggest representations of the racial problems currently in America. THE PROBLEM IS YOU.

Ask real black people in real black communities what they think about defunding police and all the other bullshit YOU have put them and their neighborhoods through in the last 5 years. Nobody gives one single fuck what the rich head of the NAACP tweeting from the safety of his mansion inside his gated community has to say about shit.

All you've done since George Floyd's death is make life worse for black folk in this country while lining your own fucking pockets.

You need to go.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 12:11 AM

How George Floyd dragged America to the right

Five years on, the rioting and lawlessness inspired by his death have utterly discredited the BLM movement.

by Wilfred Reilly

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George Floyd died five years ago today, his movement only more recently.

It is no exaggeration to say that his death was one of the most important moments in recent Western history. The viral video showing Floyd having the life choked from him by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin led to a wave of protests, riots and so much more. His death may have been more complex and multi-causal than initially seemed to be the case. However, there was no room for nuance at the time: the national consensus was that a black man had been publicly lynched by a white police officer, a supposedly common occurance.

The event that triggered a whole summer of Black Lives Matter protests occurred on the evening of 25 May 2020, when Floyd was arrested for buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 note in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He fell to the ground as Chauvin, along with other officers, tried to put him into a police car. Chauvin pressed his weight on to the back and neck of the prostrate Floyd, who stopped breathing after six minutes and later died in hospital. In April 2021, Chauvin was convicted of murdering the 46-year-old Floyd, largely on the evidence of phone footage taken of his arrest by bystanders, and sentenced to more than 20 years in prison. In 2023, the US Supreme Court rejected the last of Chauvin’s appeals. Two of his colleagues were also imprisoned.

For many Americans, Floyd became a symbol of waning, but real, problems. Indeed, he became a martyr for the cause of racial justice, his name invoked alongside that of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. Thousands attended his funeral in Texas, including actors Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum. The Democratic mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, wept while touching his casket. At least three larger-than-life statues of Floyd now exist, including a six-foot bust on a pure white marble base, which currently sits in the centre of New York’s Union Square. The spot where Floyd fell is now a permanent memorial, designated as George Floyd Square.

After Floyd’s death, prominent lawyers wrote books arguing that thousands, or tens of thousands, of innocent black men are killed by policemen, vigilantes or squalid living conditions every year. They joined a collective pledge to stop what they called a ‘genocide’. A national campaign was launched against the presumed epidemic of crime and violent harassment directed at black Americans by whites. Supposed racial profilers, such as ‘Barbecue Becky’, ‘Pool Patrol Paula’, ‘Coupon Carl’ and many others became household names.

‘Scholars’ like Ibram X Kendi and Robin D’Angelo made the temptingly simple argument that all gaps between racial groups must represent ‘systemic’ bigotry. On the strength of such insights as this, Kendi was given more than $45million in donor money in 2020 to fund his Centre for Antiracist Research at the prestigious Boston University.



But within a remarkably short period of time, nearly every major claim made by BLM activists during the ‘racial reckoning’ was exposed as nonsense. Very few innocent and unarmed black men are killed by US police, certainly not the thousands per year or even hundreds per day regularly cited by the media. In the year Floyd died, the total number of males killed by police who were both black and unarmed – according to the excellent database set up by the Washington Post – was 18. Last year, it was 10 – a remarkably low number for a country with a population of 340million, in which three million people die each year.

As I have often noted before, patterns of inter-racial crime rarely fit the mainstream narrative. In a typical year, the violent inter-racial crimes that involve a black perpetrator and a white victim, or a white perpetrator and a black victim, make up only three to five per cent of the roughly 1.2million annual serious crimes recorded by the Department of Justice. Furthe

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