Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The willow is too close to the house.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Cancel the cowardly WaPo and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Let’s finish the job.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

Maybe you would prefer that we take Joelle’s side in ALL CAPS?

Let me file that under fuck it.

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If A Brutal Attack At A McDonalds Isn’t Filmed, Does It Really Count?

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Five teenage girls are now in police custody after a vicious beating that took place in a Flatbush, Brooklyn McDonalds. The focus of the attack, a teenage girl who apparently went to Erasmus High School with the suspects, suffered a concussion, bruises and contusions. The attack was so brutal that it’s not only causing arrests, but community action:

A prayer vigil is being held Monday outside the Brooklyn restaurant. Community activists are holding the vigil for peace and to denounce such violence. “Yeah, this was the call to action – to say enough is enough,” community advocate Tony Herbert said. Herbert recently announced a new task force called “One Family, One Community.”

But let’s not forget why this is getting attention in the first place–the viral videos that came out of the event where it shows multiple people filming and watching the attack but doing NOTHING to intervene.

Team Blackness also discussed updates on the police shootings in Ferguson, San Francisco cops caught being racist, and a even more cop-related sadness.

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  1. 1.

    EthylEster

    A couple of comments….

    1. No link to the story about Brooklyn McDonalds attack.

    2. No date give for this attack. Journalism 101: what, when, where is ESSENTIAL to ANY story…but where is missing.

  5. 5.

    oldster

    “the viral videos that came out of the event where it shows multiple people filming and watching the attack but doing NOTHING to intervene.”

    I don’t know how much I condemn those people.

    I mean, if I saw some guy beating on a girl in a MacDonalds, I would probably feel an obligation to intervene. I would wade in and at least try to distract the dude or talk to him or if it comes to it, get involved physically. That’s all provided that he’s not crazy or armed, and provided that my intervention stands a reasonable chance of improving the situation for the victim.

    But if I see the cops hitting some girl then I know that the *are* crazy, they *are* armed, and my intervention will do *nothing* to improve the situation for the victim. It won’t do her any good for me to get my head busted. And if I step in, they may bust her head twice, just to teach us both a lesson.

    The cops are out of control and crazy. It is going to take a whole lot to rein them in. Videoing does more, right now, then “interfering with an arrest,” “resisting arrest,” “assaulting an officer,” and all of the other made-up shit they are going to charge me with if I try to intervene.

    It sucks, but that’s where things stand right now.

  8. 8.

    pluege

    But let’s not forget why this is getting attention in the first place–the viral videos that came out of the event where it shows multiple people filming and watching the attack but doing NOTHING to intervene.

    combine that with open carry goonology and dang, dontcha know it, we’re right back to dueling shoots-outs in the streets with a herd of morons standing around watching for entertainment.

  10. 10.

    oldster

    @b-more: @b-more:

    My fault–I totally misunderstood.

    But note that the first words of the post are not that the five girls are the perpetrators, but that there was a beating, and five girls are in custody. I assumed that meant that the five girls had been beaten while being taken into custody.

    My mistake.

  11. 11.

    C.V. Danes

    Aniah Ferguson, 16, who police believe was the ringleader of the brawl, was the first person to be arrested in the incident which came to light via a YouTube video last week.

    Ferguson has 10 prior arrests, including one for an assault as recently as last month. Authorities said she beat up her 64-year-old grandmother, stabbed her brother with a kitchen knife and injured a police officer during an arrest for violating an order of protection.

    All that by the age of 16.

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