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    Hi JS,
    Lovely to speak to you, I too have been to America a number of times, definitely fewer than you. As to the 'colour of the gangs' there was only one colour of those that worked, and that was black in Charleston, overseen by a white man. I had an experience there, my mates went to the the movies, I decided to go to a bar, only eighteen but no ID asked for, happy days. It was not for a while that I realised it was a 'black' bar, which I think took a while for them to accept me, then a white New Yorker walked in, he was an electrician working down south on a long contract, As a New Yorker he was not fazed at all, after an hour or so the regular clientele accepted we were not undercover cops and a good time was had by all, although why they thought a fresh faced Englishman would be used undercover baffles me even now.

    Your comment as regards Breonna's partner I shall now address, the information concerning this tragedy is a conglomeration from CNN, The New York Times and the BBC, all available on tinternet. The police believed that Breonna's partner, Kenneth Walker, was dealing in drugs, intelligence had suggested that his car had been parked outside a known drug dealer number of times, and that was the basis for the raid. According to the NYT the police were investigating two men , who were selling drugs 'that was far from Ms. Taylor's home. But a judge signed a warrant to search Ms. Taylor's home because they believed someone had used her home to receive drug 'packages'. Three police officers broke into the flat, in Plain clothes and without body cams, they say they called out 'Police', Walker says they didi not.
    What I would like to know is what do they think Breonna was doing to justify eight bullets in her body? What sort of Country allows paramilitary police to fire so many rounds for a drug investigation, a police state, that is what. Best wishes
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    #9 Certain parts of history are conveniently overlooked John to suit current agendas. The Portuguese who had charts and maps of Africa 100 years before any other European country were the instigators of the African slave trade. Their charts and maps were closely guarded secrets and it is only after Portuguese pilots (navigators) were captured in wars with Spain that these things came to light and everyone jumped on the bandwagon. Slavery in Africa had been going on long before Portugal entered the scene, with African rulers selling their subjects to Arab traders, who were prolific slave traders, lets not forget the Barbary pirates raiding the coasts of Northern France, the South coast of Ireland and the West cost of England and abducting hundreds of Caucasions, male and female for slavery. Also forgotten is that Britain was in the forefront of abolishing slavery led by one certain William Wilberforce who spent years trying to abolish it, finally succeeding circa 1830.

    I spent years working on AID programs in Africa and in some teams had many people of African descent who couldn't wait to get back to their 'roots' thinking they were going to be welcomed by their 'brothers' with open arms, it didn't happen and after a few weeks on site they couldn't wait to get back to Europe and a normal life. Also if African States stopped spending so much money on military hardware to wage internal conflicts they could feed their own people very well and have productive nations

    I can never understand why BAME members state that they cannot get good jobs and there is a glass ceiling for them, the President of the USA was black, high Court judges are black, Chief of Staffs are black, Chiefs of Police are black, how high do they want to go. Hundreds of Baseball players, Football players, athletes, actors, pop stars, musicians, surgeons, professors, the list is endless are black, so where is the lack of opportunity or the glass ceiling, seems to me it is self imposed.

    I am not a racialist, never have been, a shipmate was a shipmate regardless of creed or colour, something we learned from our first step on walking up the gangway.

    No doubt I can expect a few exocets, so be it

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    John, I would like to now the crime George Floyd, Committed it must have been something bloody awful to be murdered by a police officer while three others looked on.
    {terry scouse}

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    Apparently, allegedly using counterfeit money to buy a pack of cigarettes ?

    K.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Keith at Tregenna View Post
    Apparently, allegedly using counterfeit money to buy a pack of cigarettes ?

    K.
    OHHHHHHHHHHH Well Keith, That explains why the death penalty, I should have been hung years ago.
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    We warn here on the packet "SMOKING KILLS - QUIT NOW"

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    It was alleged that George Floyd went into a store, drunk and bought cigarettes with a forged $20 bill.
    The Police were called and he resisted arrest. that is why they had him on the floor.
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    Why were there no Protests in UK when two black African men hit Lee Rigby with their car, then hacked him to death trying to cut his head off. No Marches, No Looting, No shops , homes or cars burning.
    One of them later in Gaol; gets into a fight, loses two teeth and is Awarded £20,000 for it. who said , crime does not pay.

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    Brian, Lee Rigby was unfortunately in the wrong place at the wrong time, It could have been any fusilier those two scum bags who murdered him just wanted to kill a British soldier, I am not condoning it by any means but its a little different than being murdered by a police officer who was clearly a racist. For spending a forged bank note. The two who killed Lee Rigby where shouting at crowds of people and police...……… Adebolajo and Adebowale ran him down with a car, then used knives and a cleaver to stab and hack him to death. The men dragged Rigby's body into the road and remained at the scene until police arrived. They told passers-by that they had killed a soldier to avenge the killing of ******s by the British armed forces.
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    Apart from the obvious problems they have in the states re race relations they have other problems apart from colour. They have a section of the public of all colours who have a a tendency to violence to achieve their own targets. I remember well , being in Baton Rouge also prior to his circuit of the Southern States being in a pub, and a general prospectus of its clients was that if Kennedy ever crossed the Mason Dixie line that he wouldn’t be going home again. That opinion turned out to be correct. JS
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    People who deliberately pass forged notes usually hand over large denominations in payment for low value goods so that they maximize the return e.g.$50 note for $5 item = $45 profit.
    He would be at it all day to make a few bucks passing low value notes.
    I am not taking any sides, but he may have innocently had a duff note in his wallet unknowingly, that could happen to all of us., but either way, to end up dead is taking things too far.

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