[URL="http://wjla.com/news/local/man-attacked-over-black-lives-matter"]http://wjla.com/news/local/man-attacked-over-black-lives-matter[/URL]
[QUOTE]WASHINGTON — A decorated war veteran is recovering after a brutal attack Friday night. He says it happened at a McDonald's on 911 E St., N.W., D.C.
Chris Marquez says a group of rowdy teens came up and started taunting him.
"They asked me if I believe that black lives matter," Marquez said. "I felt threatened and thought they were trying to intimidate me, so I figured I'm just going to keep to my food, eat my food, and hopefully they'll leave me alone. And because I wasn't respond back to them, they were calling me a racist."
Marquez says he doesn't remember much about what happened next, but says the Manager told him the group followed him outside.
"As soon as I walked out of the McDonald's I got hit in the back of the head,or the side of the head. I just dropped to the ground, and he says I looked unconscious," Marquez said.[/QUOTE]
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he's the guy on the left
Fucking pieces of shit
They asked him if he believed in BLM, there's nothing to support they were apart of the organisation
still sucks tho
This isn't how you further your cause.
The BLM movement is literally the worst. At this point it's a thing to justify committing crimes and harassing people. At least some people seem to be using it that way.
Daft racists.
[QUOTE]The teens also robbed him of his wallet and credit cards. Marquez says they used the cards right after the attack.[/QUOTE]
Wow
It's funny to me how absolutely oblivious these people were to their own cause. By beating a white man they're clearly showing that white lives don't matter to them, the very accusation of many people opposed to BLM.
[QUOTE=Mabus;49755034]Daft racists.[/QUOTE]
"But racism = prejudice + power so they can't be racist!!1!"
I can never understand what kind of asshole would just go and beat someone. What is wrong with people?
[QUOTE=OvB;49755058]I can never understand what kind of asshole would just go and beat someone. What is wrong with people?[/QUOTE]
The crazy (or sad) part is that they probably thought they were doing good work for the movement by showing those racists who's really boss.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;49755015]They asked him if he believed in BLM, there's nothing to support they were apart of the organisation
still sucks tho[/QUOTE]
You don't need a BLM ID card and matching tattoo to be affiliated with an ideological movement.. Whether or not they were officially affiliated with BLM is irrelevant given that they were clearly motivated (at least in part) by the movement.
[QUOTE=srobins;49755107]You don't need a BLM ID card and matching tattoo to be affiliated with an ideological movement.. Whether or not they were officially affiliated with BLM is irrelevant given that they were clearly motivated (at least in part) by the movement.[/QUOTE]
No I'm pretty sure they were motivated just to mug someone. It's not as if these kinds of things never happened before BLM became a thing.
Fucking scumbags.
The sad thing is that when they get caught and locked up in prison some people will still see them as the victims
Why did you change the headline OP? Nothing suggests they were activists.
if they didn't want to draw negative attention to BLM then they shouldn't have mentioned the phrase during an otherwise routine mugging
[editline]16th February 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=RichyZ;49755278]people will pick and choose what they want to see in a movement
blm could have a peaceful protest about a clear case of police brutality with video evidence straight up showing a cop killing an unarmed surrendered man and most of fp will still try to support the cop[/QUOTE]
i really don't like the false dichotomy of BLM vs racists
i don't think it's out of the question to support black civil rights but to disagree with BLM's methods
[QUOTE=ThePanther;49755027]The BLM movement is literally the worst. At this point it's a thing to justify committing crimes and harassing people. At least some people seem to be using it that way.[/QUOTE]
It's not the worst though. You even said in the end of your post that "some people seem to be using it that way." which pretty much means that this isn't what Black Lives Matter is.
tbh this is the same logic that some of the more unsavory members use when talking about policing.
"Cops are literally the worst. At this point it's a thing to justify shooting unarmed black men and harassing fellow black men. At least some police seem to be using it that way."
[QUOTE=Raidyr;49755267]Why did you change the headline OP? Nothing suggests they were activists.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]An activist is a person who campaigns for some kind of social change. When you participate in a march protesting the closing of a neighborhood library, you're an activist. Someone who's actively involved in a protest or a political or social cause can be called an activist.[/QUOTE]
They actively mentioned BLM and actively attacked him
[QUOTE=RichyZ;49755278]people will pick and choose what they want to see in a movement
blm could have a peaceful protest about a clear case of police brutality with video evidence straight up showing a cop killing an unarmed surrendered man and most of fp will still try to support the cop[/QUOTE]
[quote]most of fp will still try to support the cop [/quote]
I really, really haven't seen this. FP dislikes BLM, but when it comes to cases where there is clear evidence the masses rarely continue to dogpile the group that they dislike if they're the ones that brought forward the evidence.
Plus, FP has a raging hateboner for the police
[QUOTE=Svinnik;49755302]They actively mentioned BLM and actively attacked him[/QUOTE]
These kids didn't participate in a march or campaigned for social change. They asked the dude if he thinks black lives matter then mugged him because they were going to mug him regardless of what he said.
No one else is reporting the suspects as activists so I think it's really dishonest for you to change the headline like that and try to portray something that obviously isn't true once you read the article.
End violence against blacks by inciting violence against whites.
:downs:
[QUOTE=Svinnik;49755302]They actively mentioned BLM and actively attacked him[/QUOTE]
If I mug a man while shouting "Salt March" does that make me a Salt March activist.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;49755267]Why did you change the headline OP? Nothing suggests they were activists.[/QUOTE]
They asked him if black lives matter and attacked him when he didn't respond because "he was a racist".
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;49755264]Another movement hijacked by idiots.
I'm sure at one point BLM had some sort of point, but not anymore. The same shit happened with feminism.[/QUOTE]
Its usually the same people involved.
[QUOTE=Lord of Ears;49755283]
i really don't like the false dichotomy of BLM vs racists
i don't think it's out of the question to support black civil rights but to disagree with BLM's methods[/QUOTE]
People like absolutes. Anti-BLM = racists, Anti-accepting millions of migrants = Nazi, etc.
[video=youtube;T2BmRFF_YC0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2BmRFF_YC0[/video]
This dichotomy is clearly based on nothing. Obviously you can cherrypick racists that hate BLM because they hate black lives but thats meaningless.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;49755310]i've seen a lot of people here refuse to acknowledged that black people are treated poorly compared to white people/anyotherrace by the cops even with overwhelming amounts of hard evidence proving otherwise[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=phygon;49755313]I really, really haven't seen this. FP dislikes BLM, but when it comes to cases where there is clear evidence the masses rarely continue to dogpile the group that they dislike if they're the ones that brought forward the evidence.
Plus, FP has a raging hateboner for the police[/QUOTE]
i just try not to generalize FP as a rule
i dislike BLM because they use gobshite tactics, but believe in the same cause as they do
[editline]16th February 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;49755318]If I mug a man while shouting "Salt March" does that make me a Salt March activist.[/QUOTE]
no, because the salt march was in 1930. i shouldn't have to explain to you why this is a retarded argument
A lot of dumb fuckin' people are doing a lot of dumb fuckin' things in the name of the "Black Lives Matter" hashtag, but the conditions that led to the nebulous ideology in the first place were not (and still aren't) without warrant. Some violent, racist mooks deciding to beat on strangers does not make the very real injustices faced by minorities in this country any less serious or any less worthy of consideration. I'm not criticizing anybody for saying they disagree with what they perceive to be BLM's tactics, or whatever, that's cool, but there are serious and proven problems in the socioeconomic fabric of our country that need to be mended, regardless of how aimless or misguided you may think some of the people or groups citing those problems are.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49755336]They asked him if black lives matter and attacked him when he didn't respond because "he was a racist".
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But that doesn't make them an activist. Also I'd wager they were going to mug him anyway and the whole "do you think black lives matter" and calling him racist were typical stalling tactics prior to a mugging.
[editline]16th February 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;49755426]A lot of dumb fuckin' people are doing a lot of dumb fuckin' things in the name of the "Black Lives Matter" hashtag, but the conditions that led to the BLM ideology were not (and still aren't) without warrant. Some violent, racist mooks deciding to beat on strangers does not make the very real injustices faced by minorities in this country any less serious or any less worthy of consideration.
What's frustrating is people saying "why do you think this helps your movement?" These people aren't in a "movement." They weren't acting as activists, they were just being thugs. The many people who have latched onto BLM as an excuse to be violent do not in any way discredit the things that minorities in this country are voicing outrage over. I'm not criticizing anybody for saying they disagree with BLM's tactics, or whatever, it's just worth mentioning that there are serious and proven problems here that need to be addressed, regardless of how aimless or misguided you may think some of the people or groups citing those problems are.[/QUOTE]
This story shouldn't even be about black lives matter. Some thugs who were planning a mugging used modern social commentary to bait and stall someone they had already marked.
The only reason we are talking about the tactics BLM uses and posting prior BLM protests is because of the OP's frankly dishonest reporting.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;49755426]A lot of dumb fuckin' people are doing a lot of dumb fuckin' things in the name of the "Black Lives Matter" hashtag[/QUOTE]
your post should cut off here, because that's all the general public sees or WILL see of BLM, because it takes time and effort to actually delve into the issues themselves, and the media only exists to amp the controversy for profit
this is the problem with huge, leaderless factions with no internal policing structure, they may stand for a holy cause but without direction they'll be severely misinterpreted
the only reason we're even talking about BLM right now and not inner-city crime statistics is because the muggers name-dropped BLM mid-act, which, if news reports on the event, as it did, will become a talking point, as we can see it has
It's especially ironic that he's not even White, he's Hispanic. And even if he did support BLM, I guarantee you he doesn't anymore.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;49755441]
This story shouldn't even be about black lives matter. Some thugs who were planning a mugging used modern social commentary to bait and stall someone they had already marked.
The only reason we are talking about the tactics BLM uses and posting prior BLM protests is because of the OP's frankly dishonest reporting.[/QUOTE]
You're just filling in the blanks to suit whatever you're narrative is. We really don't know.
Also, from a different article:
[QUOTE]Washington D.C. police said the suspects, all of whom are black, were three young men and one young woman. They said they aren't currently considering the incident a hate crime. [/QUOTE]
Hopefully this isn't true.
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