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(Twitter)   Memphis police officers beat a man to death. One of them even took pictures of their victim to send to friends. The state legislature is now taking immediate action in response by trying to eliminate civilian oversight   (twitter.com) divider line
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2023-02-09 1:47:39 AM  
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2023-02-09 5:51:00 AM  
For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.
 
2023-02-09 6:34:26 AM  

NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.


Good to know.  GA has the same problem, with Atlanta and Athens being blue blobs, surrounded by red waves of MAGATs.  And now, our jerk governor has a shot on the
national stage because he got reelected.

Hope the media in TN has better luck influencing the pols than here in GA.
 
2023-02-09 7:21:28 AM  

cherryl taggart: NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.

Good to know.  GA has the same problem, with Atlanta and Athens being blue blobs, surrounded by red waves of MAGATs.  And now, our jerk governor has a shot on the
national stage because he got reelected.

Hope the media in TN has better luck influencing the pols than here in GA.


Yesterday, the AJC had a story about the Buckhead city initiative, and I couldn't help but notice that the main advocate for the existence of Buckhead city is some rep from LaGrange, which is about 90 minutes away.  There is no one in government from Buckhead who actually wants this.  It's just some Republican state initiative to fark with Atlanta because.... because fark libs, that's why.
 
2023-02-09 7:24:11 AM  

NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control. Black people

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FTFY.
 
2023-02-09 7:24:51 AM  
To TN state lawmakers thinking this is a bully of an idea...

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2023-02-09 7:25:19 AM  

NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.


It's the same in MO, with our state house doing everything they can to make sure St. Louis and Kansas City stay powerless to fix their own issues.
 
2023-02-09 7:27:49 AM  

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2023-02-09 7:34:46 AM  
Well, we didn't have any of these police brutality problems before we had these oversight committees.
 
2023-02-09 7:36:24 AM  
I always hope that somebody has the nuts to track down the sponsors of these bills and ask them on camera to justify it to the public in light of recent events.
 
2023-02-09 7:38:55 AM  
Having lived in TN for a decade, I can say with absolute conviction that I have zero hope for the future of the state. Two and a half big-ish cities are bearing the weight of a whole lotta proudly ignorant sons of the soil types that really don't feel the need to evolve. It's too hard to aspire to grow and to be better. Best to be racist, book burning yokels like the rest of the holler, lest Lurlene down at the food city think you're "uppity".
 
2023-02-09 7:40:04 AM  

NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.


I grew up in Memphis, and my folks still live there so I'm there all the time, and I'm not sure painting Memphis (and CERTAINLY not Nashville) as 'progressive' is anywhere close to correct.  The word is POOR.  You have POOR, not progressive.    Both towns are run by puffed up (VERY Republican) rednecks with armies of lawyers ready to sue anyone they don't agree with into submission, there's no 'progressive' to that sausage making process.    And by the way, their approach has been slowly failing since the 80's, but they are all too dumb to have any alternatives, so they keep on going down a failing path.   As for Memphis cops, they have always been assholes.  They were always corrupt, one of my high school experiences was getting caught with weed the cops took and smoked while laughing at us.  And the cops hate the population there, just in general.  The city is run by gangs, and the cops resent it, so they get violent when they get someone alone who annoys them (unfortunately, this fellow).  The reality is, downtown Memphis is overrun by bike/4wheeler gangs they are afraid of.  If this guy was on a 4 wheeler with a crew, he would have been ignored (although it sounds like he was one of the 'Hellcat Menace' people on the highways, a whole different problem they have of idiots with 200mph cars in traffic).     Tennessee is a warning about putting Republicans in office, and we should all point and laugh.
 
2023-02-09 7:42:16 AM  

NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.


Live in Memphis. Can confirm.
 
2023-02-09 7:46:07 AM  

Gunboat: NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.

Live in Memphis. Can confirm.


I'll amend to take into account chitienz's comments. It's poor and black and hated by the legislature bc it's black.
 
2023-02-09 7:46:28 AM  

NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.


So it's basically like every other "red state." The farking idiotic racist bumpkins living in the middle of nowhere destroy the cities on purpose because Those People live there.
 
2023-02-09 7:47:40 AM  

chitlenz: NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.

I grew up in Memphis, and my folks still live there so I'm there all the time, and I'm not sure painting Memphis (and CERTAINLY not Nashville) as 'progressive' is anywhere close to correct. [...]


Gonna interrupt you midway and observe that NotCodger's key words are probably "compared to".
 
2023-02-09 7:52:09 AM  

pheed: NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.

It's the same in MO, with our state house doing everything they can to make sure St. Louis and Kansas City stay powerless to fix their own issues.


I think that most if not all states are seething snakepits of Republiscum with a few blue islands of civilisation under constant siege from the embittered, hostile countryside.
 
2023-02-09 7:52:16 AM  

brainlordmesomorph: Well, we didn't have any of these police brutality problems before we had these oversight committees.


According to "Big Sherm" of the Twitterverse, your assessment, no matter how sardonic, your assessmemt is correct:

@BigSherm1968
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@SekouFranklin
If we hadn't turned against our police so much that so many of them quit and caused the hiring standards to be lowered, these lowlifes who beat Nichols to death never would have qualified to be policemen."


its ugly
 
2023-02-09 7:52:39 AM  

starsrift: chitlenz: NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.

I grew up in Memphis, and my folks still live there so I'm there all the time, and I'm not sure painting Memphis (and CERTAINLY not Nashville) as 'progressive' is anywhere close to correct. [...]

Gonna interrupt you midway and observe that NotCodger's key words are probably "compared to".


Ok fair enough, compared to like, Pidgeon Forge (which STILL has a Trump store, ffs) sure, but TN has been deep red since the 80s except for like Herendon in Memphis (a man who's legend lives on in infamy in his own right), and like the Fords (which... just holy shiat).  So yes, compared to the rodeo clown show East of Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville can kinda be seen as progressive...
 
2023-02-09 7:56:20 AM  

chitlenz: starsrift: chitlenz: NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.

I grew up in Memphis, and my folks still live there so I'm there all the time, and I'm not sure painting Memphis (and CERTAINLY not Nashville) as 'progressive' is anywhere close to correct. [...]

Gonna interrupt you midway and observe that NotCodger's key words are probably "compared to".

Ok fair enough, compared to like, Pidgeon Forge (which STILL has a Trump store, ffs) sure, but TN has been deep red since the 80s except for like Herendon in Memphis (a man who's legend lives on in infamy in his own right), and like the Fords (which... just holy shiat).  So yes, compared to the rodeo clown show East of Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville can kinda be seen as progressive...


What about Asheville?
 
2023-02-09 7:57:04 AM  

RasIanI: chitlenz: starsrift: chitlenz: NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.

I grew up in Memphis, and my folks still live there so I'm there all the time, and I'm not sure painting Memphis (and CERTAINLY not Nashville) as 'progressive' is anywhere close to correct. [...]

Gonna interrupt you midway and observe that NotCodger's key words are probably "compared to".

Ok fair enough, compared to like, Pidgeon Forge (which STILL has a Trump store, ffs) sure, but TN has been deep red since the 80s except for like Herendon in Memphis (a man who's legend lives on in infamy in his own right), and like the Fords (which... just holy shiat).  So yes, compared to the rodeo clown show East of Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville can kinda be seen as progressive...

What about Asheville?


Oops - thats NC, my bad....but its the same region, still
 
2023-02-09 7:57:28 AM  

chitlenz: starsrift: chitlenz: NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.

I grew up in Memphis, and my folks still live there so I'm there all the time, and I'm not sure painting Memphis (and CERTAINLY not Nashville) as 'progressive' is anywhere close to correct. [...]

Gonna interrupt you midway and observe that NotCodger's key words are probably "compared to".

Ok fair enough, compared to like, Pidgeon Forge (which STILL has a Trump store, ffs) sure, but TN has been deep red since the 80s except for like Herendon in Memphis (a man who's legend lives on in infamy in his own right), and like the Fords (which... just holy shiat).  So yes, compared to the rodeo clown show East of Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville can kinda be seen as progressive...


Pigeon Forge is a weird place. My sons both live in that area, and a lot of the people in Town are fairly progressive. They know tourism is what drives their economy there and Dolly don't take no guff when it comes to being neighborly.
Now, get outside town a few miles, and the family trees stop forking.
 
2023-02-09 7:58:58 AM  

Gordon Bennett: pheed: NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.

It's the same in MO, with our state house doing everything they can to make sure St. Louis and Kansas City stay powerless to fix their own issues.

I think that most if not all states are seething snakepits of Republiscum with a few blue islands of civilisation under constant siege from the embittered, hostile countryside.


Not New Mexico.  There might be a lot of Texas wannabees here, but northern New Mexico is a rural Democratic holdout.
 
2023-02-09 7:59:03 AM  

RasIanI: RasIanI: chitlenz: starsrift: chitlenz: NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.

I grew up in Memphis, and my folks still live there so I'm there all the time, and I'm not sure painting Memphis (and CERTAINLY not Nashville) as 'progressive' is anywhere close to correct. [...]

Gonna interrupt you midway and observe that NotCodger's key words are probably "compared to".

Ok fair enough, compared to like, Pidgeon Forge (which STILL has a Trump store, ffs) sure, but TN has been deep red since the 80s except for like Herendon in Memphis (a man who's legend lives on in infamy in his own right), and like the Fords (which... just holy shiat).  So yes, compared to the rodeo clown show East of Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville can kinda be seen as progressive...

What about Asheville?

Oops - thats NC, my bad....but its the same region, still


I live in Asheville, and it's very similar. The State Republicans shiat on us pretty regularly.
It's such a hellhole, the population is exploding!
 
2023-02-09 7:59:10 AM  

Gunboat: Gunboat: NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.

Live in Memphis. Can confirm.

I'll amend to take into account chitienz's comments. It's poor and black and hated by the legislature bc it's black.


And it really is unfortunate.  It's such a cool foodie town, and I really never appreciated the music until I left.   I hate that when I go back now, my friends think it's just normal to get robbed occasionally or have your car stolen.  I mean, wtf?   And for real, the I240 hellcat problem is farking dangerous.  I had a guy doing probably 190 pass me in the emergency lane one night on Sam Cooper.   I was told (by a restaurant owner friend of mine in town) that the Memphis cops won't police the highways and are forcing SC and Highway cops to do it, because its so dangerous with the new 'Stand you ground' rules in the state.  Just to recount, that's stoned idiots with legal guns and 200mph cars, and a rule in the state that says 'if someone pisses you off in your car, shoot them'.
 
2023-02-09 8:02:10 AM  

NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.


The real split in the US is urban versus rural.
 
2023-02-09 8:08:10 AM  

dracos31: I live in Asheville, and it's very similar. The State Republicans shiat on us pretty regularly.
It's such a hellhole, the population is exploding!


So its interesting, we too live near Asheville, so I kinda have lived both places.  Its the fundies (the Cove people, and like Hendersonville) that make up the red parts of Asheville, but the town itself is pretty diverse compared to living in Memphis.  South Memphis feels like a barely contained jailhouse riot at the peak of summer, it can be actively dangerous to be in certain neighborhoods, and I've never felt that way about Asheville really.  It has its bad parts, but nothing like parts of Whitehaven or Orange Mound.  And yeah, the legislature keeps getting elected by Trump loving farmers, so nothing ever changes, but Cooper has done a good job with industry and at least Raleigh has reached some level of neutrality towards social issues (nothing really radical since the attempted bathroom law that dipshiat Berger was slinging a few years ago).
 
2023-02-09 8:13:41 AM  
The real joke is that civilian oversight of police, where it exists, is about as toothsome as end-stage Phyllis Diller. It's a total facade.

Maybe Memphis has been handling it differently though I doubt it.

Regardless, typical move by TPTB. Cops kill somebody? We better not have the citizenry ever finding out about all the dirt they do...
 
2023-02-09 8:23:17 AM  

chitlenz: dracos31: I live in Asheville, and it's very similar. The State Republicans shiat on us pretty regularly.
It's such a hellhole, the population is exploding!

So its interesting, we too live near Asheville, so I kinda have lived both places.  Its the fundies (the Cove people, and like Hendersonville) that make up the red parts of Asheville, but the town itself is pretty diverse compared to living in Memphis.  South Memphis feels like a barely contained jailhouse riot at the peak of summer, it can be actively dangerous to be in certain neighborhoods, and I've never felt that way about Asheville really.  It has its bad parts, but nothing like parts of Whitehaven or Orange Mound.  And yeah, the legislature keeps getting elected by Trump loving farmers, so nothing ever changes, but Cooper has done a good job with industry and at least Raleigh has reached some level of neutrality towards social issues (nothing really radical since the attempted bathroom law that dipshiat Berger was slinging a few years ago).


The only "bad" parts of Asheville is really around Pack Park and the River Arts District, and that's mostly just the large amount of homeless in the area.
We live just South of the City near the airport, and it is INSANE the amount of new construction going on. Apartments are filling as fast as they can build them for ridiculous prices, and houses are even worse. My neighbor's house is up for sale, smaller than mine but built the same year, and they are asking 2%0 over what we paid less than 5 years ago for ours.
 
2023-02-09 8:30:05 AM  
"Slap in the face..."

*twitch*
 
2023-02-09 8:31:40 AM  

dracos31: The only "bad" parts of Asheville is really around Pack Park and the River Arts District, and that's mostly just the large amount of homeless in the area.
We live just South of the City near the airport, and it is INSANE the amount of new construction going on. Apartments are filling as fast as they can build them for ridiculous prices, and houses are even worse. My neighbor's house is up for sale, smaller than mine but built the same year, and they are asking 2%0 over what we paid less than 5 years ago for ours.


The NYT I think was talking about rural (which, let's be honest, Asheville is compared to like Philly or something) cities running out of housing at any price as people embrace remote work, and I believe it.   I feel like I'm watching development close in around our farm at a frightening place, and I'm glad we have a bit of a buffer between us and our neighbors.  But yeah, pricing on anything involving land flat enough to build on has gotten stupid.
 
2023-02-09 8:31:50 AM  
could never understand why bonnaroo was in this POS state. driving in to that festival was always sketchy as hell. cops everywhere, burn in hell placards etc etc
 
2023-02-09 8:42:34 AM  

Rapmaster2000: cherryl taggart: NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.

Good to know.  GA has the same problem, with Atlanta and Athens being blue blobs, surrounded by red waves of MAGATs.  And now, our jerk governor has a shot on the
national stage because he got reelected.

Hope the media in TN has better luck influencing the pols than here in GA.

Yesterday, the AJC had a story about the Buckhead city initiative, and I couldn't help but notice that the main advocate for the existence of Buckhead city is some rep from LaGrange, which is about 90 minutes away.  There is no one in government from Buckhead who actually wants this.  It's just some Republican state initiative to fark with Atlanta because.... because fark libs, that's why.


Oh, that thing has been bouncing around almost from the time Buckhead was annexed into the City in 50s. It isn't ever going anywhere because of how all the metro municipal bonds are interlocked, but there are always a couple of loudmouths wanting to happen in the hopes of bankrupting Atlanta (and taking MARTA, Fulton, and DeKalb Counties with it.).
 
2023-02-09 8:46:45 AM  
Motherfarkers being wrong about everything is farking exhausting.
 
2023-02-09 8:47:18 AM  

kindms: could never understand why bonnaroo was in this POS state. driving in to that festival was always sketchy as hell. cops everywhere, burn in hell placards etc etc


Oh it's a music state, and Bonnaroo and the Beale Street fest are 2 positives.  Apparently to make country music and blues you have to be miserable, so everyone votes Republican, thus the paradox of good music and white trash revivals in the same space.   And alcohol, always alcohol.
 
2023-02-09 8:58:24 AM  

kindms: could never understand why bonnaroo was in this POS state. driving in to that festival was always sketchy as hell. cops everywhere, burn in hell placards etc etc


It was cheap and centrally located. And the USA hadn't completely lost their s*** in 99 or 2000.
 
2023-02-09 9:49:16 AM  

chitlenz: starsrift: chitlenz: NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.

I grew up in Memphis, and my folks still live there so I'm there all the time, and I'm not sure painting Memphis (and CERTAINLY not Nashville) as 'progressive' is anywhere close to correct. [...]

Gonna interrupt you midway and observe that NotCodger's key words are probably "compared to".

Ok fair enough, compared to like, Pidgeon Forge (which STILL has a Trump store, ffs) sure, but TN has been deep red since the 80s except for like Herendon in Memphis (a man who's legend lives on in infamy in his own right), and like the Fords (which... just holy shiat).  So yes, compared to the rodeo clown show East of Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville can kinda be seen as progressive...


I am from Northern Appalachia (Maryland) and spent 3 months east of Knoxville.  I was amazed at the difference 450 miles made.  It made my red part of a blue state seem down right progressive.
 
2023-02-09 9:59:03 AM  
Our streets won't be safe unless the cops are allowed to kill Those People with impunity.

Also: Why don't Those People trust the cops?
 
2023-02-09 10:00:56 AM  
If no one is looking then there is nothing to see.
 
2023-02-09 10:21:53 AM  
Weird how every state in the South is doing something to increase the oppression of Black ppl & other minorities all at about the same time.
 
2023-02-09 10:27:31 AM  
Photographs to celebrate horror has a lengthy, appalling pedigree. At the lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco in 1919, not only were photographs taken, they were turned into post cards. People would find themselves in the panorama -- around 10,000 of Waco's finest  were present at the lynching -- and circle themselves when they sent them to friends. Then they would write stuff like, "Waiting for the barbecue!"
 
2023-02-09 11:09:29 AM  

brainlordmesomorph: Well, we didn't have any of these police brutality problems before we had these oversight committees.


And we'd see even less of it if they got rid of them bodycams.
 
2023-02-09 11:44:59 AM  
Abolish the police.
 
2023-02-09 11:50:17 AM  
Something I love about Portland, Oregon is that when things like this are proposed, the city burns, forcing the powers that be to back down and negotiate.

You might want to learn how to fight for your rights at this point, red state chicken-shiats.
 
2023-02-09 12:17:19 PM  

chitlenz: a rule in the state that says 'if someone pisses you off in your car, shoot them'.


Wait, what?
 
2023-02-09 12:24:28 PM  

NotCodger: For those not familiar with Tennessee, the legislature hates Nashville and Memphis because they are very progressive compared to the rest of the state. The legislature is like a bunch of MTGs, but without her self-control.


*waves*
 
2023-02-09 12:50:43 PM  

rzrwiresunrise: Weird how every state in the South is doing something to increase the oppression of Black ppl & other minorities all at about the same time.


That's just because they do that all the time.
 
2023-02-09 12:51:49 PM  

rzrwiresunrise: Weird how every state in the South is doing something to increase the oppression of Black ppl & other minorities all at about the same time.


Arkansas is currently bellowing "hold my beer!" as SHS and the Derpislature are about to go full Trump on state law. If you want to know what the next horrors are for blood-red states, keep your eyes on here.
 
2023-02-09 12:53:43 PM  
"This is a slap in the face to Tennesseans concerned about police accountability in the wake of the killing of Tyre Nichols."

The point, let me show you it.
 
2023-02-09 2:16:44 PM  
I'm just thankful that the officers were black, or else things could have gotten super peaceful.
 
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