UN urges US to tamp down use of force by officers in Portland, warns of ‘human rights violations’

[Steve-French]

Old enough to clap them cheeks

 

[all caps]

Fake violence and fake riots seem like a trojan horse to me.

 

[TheComebackKid]

I don't know what the left's perspective is but I know how relationships and partnerships work. And they don't work when one part of the partnership or the relationship starts overtly pushing around the other party. Soft power is a thing for a reason. Only fools use the stick when they have access to a carrot.

Yes but relationships are based on shared values and shared goals. If others goals and values conflict with ours should we be compromising those things in the name of "global leadership"? Or is our values and goals as a nation paramount?

 

[freakroor]

When they stick it to china, india, pakistan, middle east with vicious and merciless impunity, then they can come at the free world about riots etc.

but but but , what about all those other countries? they’re worse!

please. thats a toddler’s excuse.

personally i’m glad these cops are getting called out by the UN for possible human rights violations.

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

America has a bunch of oil and human rights violations now. Maybe America can invade us to spread our democracy to ourselves.

 

[Deleted member 159002]

Yes but relationships are based on shared values and shared goals. If others goals and values conflict with ours should we be compromising those things in the name of "global leadership"?

No. Mixing dogshit and ice cream leaves you with something that probably tastes a lot more like dogshit than ice cream.

 

[Deleted member 539235]

how has this not been posted yet?

 

[Rocco Siffredi]

“There have been reports that peaceful protesters have been detained by unidentified police officers and that is a worry because it may place those detained outside the protection of the law and may give rise to arbitrary detention and other human rights violations,” Liz Throssell, a U.N. human rights spokeswoman, said at a news briefing in Geneva on Friday.

Police said crowds of people have thrown Molotov cocktails, lit fires in parks and in trash cans and released hundreds of gallons of water from fire hydrants during the nightly protests, which have been going on for nearly two months following the death of George Floyd in May.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/un-us-force-officers-portland-human-rights-violations

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/world/americas/united-nations-portland-protests.html

So the federal government stepping in after billions of dollars of damage being done is a human rights violation, but yet they are silent about all of the shit that goes on in China? That doesn't make sense at all.

I urge the UN to fuck off and die

Go ride china's nuts all the way to the concentration camps

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

In 2015 right wingers made up conspiracies that Obama was gonna invade American cities with secret police and lock up citizens.

In 2020 right wingers cheer Trump's secret police invading American cities and locking up citizens.

 

[Headkicktoleg]

If they are arresting people throwing Molotov cocktails, it is not a human rights violation.

If they are detaining protesters who are not doing anything violent (which they have been reported to do) it is a human rights violation. It's literally unconstitutional.

This shouldn't be hard for anyone to understand. If you don't respect the constitution here then I don't want to hear about your gun rights.

Being in a riot is rioting.

 

[blaseblah]

Being in a riot is rioting.

We appear to be talking past each other. The person in this article was not rioting. He was walking down the street when feds in an unmarked van took him off the street to an undisclosed location.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/17/portland-protests-federal-arrests/

This is unconstitutional. This is a human rights violation. If you can't respect the constitution when it comes to protesters I don't want to hear about your rights.

 

[The Stoat]

It's time for law enforcement to use force. That's as far as I can probably say on this forum. You can't be destroying govt. buildings attacking cops.

 

[Fugazy]

The context of what Jesus was fighting against matters.

Pulling Jesus as some gotcha card against all conservatives is lame and reductionist. It isn’t only conservatives who are against the destruction that is happening.

Also, if you deep dive into this line of thought, you’ll see that the people who use this as a “Trump card” of sorts are admitting that the protests are not in fact “mostly peaceful”, which then fully undermines them. They admit that they are destroying property of fellow citizens, which is the opposite of what you want to do when you are “fighting the power”.

 

[Ichibanner]

The UN can eat a d*ck. They can't even keep people from beheading each other in third world countries while UN soldiers sit holding machine guns and man APV's.

Burning shit to the ground and assaulting others isn't a human right.

 

[Ichibanner]

Old enough to clap them cheeks

You can booty clap? Ewwwww.......

 

[ShinkanPo]

Maybe you're thinking of Gengis Khan?

Genghiz Khan is Gay!

 

[Islam Imamate]

So the federal government stepping in after billions of dollars of damage being done is a human rights violation, but yet they are silent about all of the shit that goes on in China? That doesn't make sense at all.

Earlier this month, a dozen United Nations experts quietly issued an unprecedented and devastating assessment of the Chinese government’s counterterrorism law. Their critique highlights the way this law is being used to justify gross violations of basic rights and freedoms in Xinjiang, the western region of China. Chinese authorities have arbitrarily detained at least one million Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims there on vague national security grounds.

The assessment is not limited to cataloging highly abusive policies in Xinjiang, such as the government’s branding of religious observance as terrorism, mass detentions of people without due process, or the similarly arbitrary collection of biodata. The UN experts’ analysis strikes at the very core of the government’s justification for the repression of Xinjiang’s Muslims, warning that “disproportionate emphasis placed by the authorities on the repression of rights of minorities risks worsening any security risk.”

The experts concluded that not only does the counterterrorism law flout international human rights standards, but also that anyone affected by these policies – presumably including all those held under them – should have their rights immediately reinstated. The experts offer a stark indictment of the government’s disrespect for human rights: that such practices “deeply erode the foundations for the viable social, economic and political development of society as a whole.”

https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/11/14/unprecedented-un-critique-chinas-xinjiang-policies#

 

[Steve-French]

https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/11/14/unprecedented-un-critique-chinas-xinjiang-policies#

Fair enough, but read the first sentence of your article. Earlier this month, a dozen United Nations experts quietly issued an unprecedented and devastating assessment of the Chinese government’s counterterrorism law.

Also where were they when China was caught trying to cover up the Corona virus before it spread to the rest of the world; or how about when they were unnecessarily profiling Black people over the corona virus back in May?

In early April 2020, Chinese authorities in the southern city of Guangzhou, Guangdong province, which has China’s largest African community, began a campaign to forcibly test Africans for the coronavirus, and ordered them to self-isolate or to quarantine in designated hotels. Landlords then evicted African residents, forcing many to sleep on the street, and hotels, shops, and restaurants refused African customers. Other foreign groups have generally not been subjected to similar treatment.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/05/china-covid-19-discrimination-against-africans

 

[Zazen]

In 2015 right wingers made up conspiracies that Obama was gonna invade American cities with secret police and lock up citizens.

In 2020 right wingers cheer Trump's secret police invading American cities and locking up citizens.

They've completely turned 180. Everything they once believed out the window to "own the libs" meanwhile we have an eviction crisis which is almost never brought up by them.

 

[Fugazy]

but but but , what about all those other countries? they’re worse!

please. thats a toddler’s excuse.

personally i’m glad these cops are getting called out by the UN for possible human rights violations.

But, what if there are no human rights violations occurring?