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Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by dwizzed(m): 9:38am On Aug 27, 2020
EVEN after all the PROTEST FOR GEORGE FLOYD, then there's this one. WHAT IS WRONG WITH POLICEMEN all over the world, could it be that the profession is cursed?
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by MrAkata: 9:38am On Aug 27, 2020
TheSERAPH:
Nice. But this won't actually wake Jacob Blake from death. Life is a one time opportunity once that opportunity is lost through death, then comes Judgement. No one knows the time when death will come. The more reason you must follow JESUS, because in him is eternal life. Accept JESUS today, tomorrow might be too late

He's not dead , he's in critical condition
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by puremaker7(m): 9:40am On Aug 27, 2020
boxypane:
and some people will save close to 15 millín naira just to travel abroad and face this mess. Naija o, we die here.
where were you when a Nigeria police shoot at an unarmed 19yrs old guy just for impreginated a girl

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Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by Dande55: 9:40am On Aug 27, 2020
Patrioticman007:
Dump Trumpet called American black cousins Shit hole countries due to racism against black colours & some pigs are jubilating due to their hatred against one Nigeria & one Africa.
These pigs constitute the highest numbers of Nigerians in USA by the time Dump Trumpet starts flushing them down the shit holes, they will enter Sambisa forest & call it Dubai.
These lynching of blacks must stop
Lol. Ignorant you. Those were republicans being hanged. Lol

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Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by wiseone28: 9:41am On Aug 27, 2020
Nigerian lives matter

Make Buhari give us work
Nigerian youth now put hope on betting

Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by chloedogie(m): 9:42am On Aug 27, 2020
Alberta123:
I wonder why blacks are always aggressive knowing the history of the trigger happy white police.

The guy shot had a knife in his hand before attempting to get something in his car before been shot at the back after been ordered to stop .

The police man will be let go as he can claim self defense.


It's just a pity he lost his life over nothing.

Fucking listen to instructions from people with gun

How hard is that.

The police man is a psycho though. Shot him 7 times from the back.

Oga who told you he died? Or you have killed him yourself?
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by LORDKing001: 9:45am On Aug 27, 2020
90% of NBA players are black.. nice gesture from bucks
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by proeast(m): 9:45am On Aug 27, 2020
pmoye:
I totally agree with you.

It shocks me when Nigerians who feel much worse inhuman treatment at the hands of the Nigerian Police force now come out here expressing their resentment at police brutality in the US. In Nigeria these same Nigerians are abundantly willing to be degraded and dehumanized by the police...

They see fellow Nigerians being harassed, being extorted, being killed by the Nigerian police and they simply block their ears, invert their gaze, move on, and keep quiet about it all and going on later to share testimony of how they were not the victim of police brutality...

Yet when it comes to happenings in US we all cry more than the bereaved. Bunch of hypocrites. Amebos.




Don't mind the hypocrites. They will have mouth to talk about the one happening in far away America but won't even say or do anything to challenge the attrocities being committed by the police and army in Nigeria.

A similar or even worse incident than this occurred in Enugu few days ago, but they glossed over it, some even supported the killing of those people in Enugu but you see them coming here to say rubbish about what is happening in America.

Nonsense!!

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Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by Alberta123: 9:47am On Aug 27, 2020
chloedogie:


Oga who told you he died? Or you have killed him yourself?

He didn't die after 7 shots shocked shocked shocked
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by KarlWhyte(m): 9:48am On Aug 27, 2020
TheSERAPH:
Nice. But this won't actually wake Jacob Blake from death. Life is a one time opportunity once that opportunity is lost through death, then comes Judgement. No one knows the time when death will come. The more reason you must follow JESUS, because in him is eternal life. Accept JESUS today, tomorrow might be too late

He ain't dead oga...partially paralyzed..
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by chloedogie(m): 9:50am On Aug 27, 2020
Alberta123:


He didn't die after 7 shots shocked shocked shocked

He was taken in for multiple surgeries and the doctors confirmed to the family around 4am gmt this morning that he should be fine. If he was shot from the front, his corpse will be in the .morgue by now but from back, you have a better chances of making it.
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by ablemachine(m): 9:56am On Aug 27, 2020
USED AND MINT !!! How in the hell shocked

Paschallville:
I dont knw what is exactly wrong with police all over the world.


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Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by banhammy: 9:59am On Aug 27, 2020
So far Donald Trump still remain America President, racial abuse against black will be on high side.
Donald Trump himself is a racist. He hates black like shit.

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Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by NinjaMetahuman: 10:01am On Aug 27, 2020
dangermouse:
Not holding brief... Nigerian police is far worse. Far far worse.
when Nigeria police kill, there is outrage and no one defends the police and most times they get prosecuted..

When white police kill blacks in America, the white supremacists come to their defense while they give bullshit story about why he was killed.

And their white supremacists president goes on saying crapshit on Twitter.

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Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by Xisnin(m): 10:06am On Aug 27, 2020
seunny4lif:
Know the full story before commenting
The guy was just separating his neighbors from fighting and he has nothing to do with it.
People were even telling the officers that the guy only came to separate a fight as the guy was been called by the neighbors.
The officers have shock gun but the choose to shoot someone at the back 7 times?
You don’t know the rules of shoot a gun.
Never gun someone in the back rules of cowboys gun fights
You are right about his innocence.

However, his reaction shows that he doesn't really believe that US cops shoots
unarmed suspects at random.
This would be like an armed robber ordering someone to empty their pocket and
they are refusing. Of course, we know the armed robber is wrong but escaping
the precarious situation unharmed should be everyone's priority.

He might have thought he is on the right because he has committed no crime
and probably also consider that his kid are in his car.

But complying would only have led to his brief incareceration and release, no shooting.
I know we all want every policemen to behave professionally, but that is nearly impossible
especially in the gun-loving American society.

What is really more baffling in this situations is that no mention is made about the person
who dialled 911 even though they bear some of the blame.
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by adonisuwa(m): 10:08am On Aug 27, 2020
This ''Black lives matter'' Abeg time don't reach wen we go ask our self ''Nigerians live nor matter too'' The northeast has become a playground for terrorist. If Nigerian take the insecurity issues in the country like institutions in the US have done, I believe it would put a call to this sleeping Government.
#NigeriansLivesMatters .

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Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by Nobody: 10:11am On Aug 27, 2020
Paschallville:
I dont knw what is exactly wrong with police all over the world.


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ablemachine:
USED AND MINT !!! How in the hell shocked

have you heard of uk used.. can't you see how neat it is.. infact 70 percent of the fones in computer village being sold is uk used.. Americans knows how to handle a device that you wouldn't knw it have been used before. Its called Grade A.

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Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by lexy2014: 10:14am On Aug 27, 2020
TheSERAPH:
Nice. But this won't actually wake Jacob Blake from death. Life is a one time opportunity once that opportunity is lost through death, then comes Judgement. No one knows the time when death will come. The more reason you must follow JESUS, because in him is eternal life. Accept JESUS today, tomorrow might be too late

Jacob Blake isn't dead. Am sure some of d people who are protesting also believe in Jesus. And one of d commandments of Jesus is love your neighbor as yourself. These guys protesting are doing just that. 1 John 4:20-21
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by LordOfTheWeed: 10:14am On Aug 27, 2020
Alberta123:
I wonder why blacks are always aggressive knowing the history of the trigger happy white police.

The guy shot had a knife in his hand before attempting to get something in his car before been shot at the back after been ordered to stop .

The police man will be let go as he can claim self defense.


It's just a pity he lost his life over nothing.

Fucking listen to instructions from people with gun

How hard is that.

The police man is a psycho though. Shot him 7 times from the back.
May you never stop growing in wisdom bro.. .. .. This is one thing I've been talking about also, the blacks keep taking advantage of the #blacklivesmatter protest to misbehave and even provoking the white police more and more.. .. ..

Someone was pointing a gun at you shouting "stop moving" but you kept on walking to your vehicle to reach for something.. .. .. Though I'm not in support of the police action but what the nigggaarrr did was fùckin wrong!!! If he had also been rough-handled by the policemen while going to his vehicle, people would still be shouting that his human right was violated and so on.. .. ..
Had it been he had complied to the instructions of the police, that shii wouldn't have happened to him.. .. ..

And at the bolded, he's still alive
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by Nobody: 10:14am On Aug 27, 2020
Grandmeister:

Why do you even have to give the police a reason to shoot you in the leg in the first place?? Wisdom is profitable to the wise. Some of these guys are still green from the police academy. Why risk you life for a simple command?
The same way you excuse the assault and murders carried out by the military, NPF, SARS on innocent citizens is the same way you excuse what was a premeditated murder.
Same mentality. No need continuing this convo. Pray you don't lose a loved one to police brutality.

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Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by Superpower(m): 10:15am On Aug 27, 2020
TheSERAPH:
Nice. But this won't actually wake Jacob Blake from death. Life is a one time opportunity once that opportunity is lost through death, then comes Judgement. No one knows the time when death will come. The more reason you must follow JESUS, because in him is eternal life. Accept JESUS today, tomorrow might be too late
He is not dead
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by Dikebuka: 10:16am On Aug 27, 2020
anonymous1759:


The only reason This shiit keeps happening is because the system supports them just like it's in Nigeria. If some good examples has been set as deterrent this nonsense would have stopped.

I'm waiting for indi Trump to come and defend this one . Shooting someone 7 times it's Pure wickedness . One shot is understandable for self defense and it should be on the led or hand but 7 no justification when he's not confronting you with Gun.
once said Yankee police are more dangerous especially the racist ones those ones are after your life but Naija police are after money .

Once anything is being politicize it's difficult to stop the system no what to do but can't because they're also trapped in the same nest.

The USA government can never set capital purnishment for police brutality because they're racist hiding under the institution. Same way Nigeria politicians can't set capital punishment for Embezzlement.
Solution. Blacks should start protecting themselves against the white cop if these white cops knows their lives is in danger attacking a black man their head will factory reset same thing with southern Kaduna.

The killing is bad but don't rope Trump into that event.
Location of incident: Democrat State
Other News: Black People there are currently protecting their buildings from BLM protesters who want to loot and burn their business.

What happened there was really bad and demands justice be served but don't bring politics into it.
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by kunle75(m): 10:16am On Aug 27, 2020
donbachi:
The solution is 1 white police in company of 1 black police...all white police team is a black killer team.

unfortunately you don't see a lot of black in police force in the state,the reason i don't know.

But me i think its a systemic/institutional failure which required a holistic approach.
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by lexy2014: 10:16am On Aug 27, 2020
Paschallville:






have you heard of uk used.. can't you see how neat it is.. infact 70 percent of the fones in computer village being sold is uk used.. Americans knows how to handle a device that you wouldn't knw it have been used before. Its called Grade A.

70%? How did u come to that conclusion?
By d way, are Americans from UK?
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by muykem: 10:17am On Aug 27, 2020
Trump is a racist simple. When I said Trump statement that "when looting start shooting start" is to encourage more killing many people insulted me here. A good leader will first sympathise with victim and protesters, assure them justice then call them to order so miscreants will use advantage of the protest.
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by Superpower(m): 10:17am On Aug 27, 2020
NettyNelly:
What a disheartening treatment from the police. Seems The American police are copying from their Nigerian counterparts. The officer should face the consequences without hesitation.

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They are not copying anything.They have always been like that
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by Nobody: 10:17am On Aug 27, 2020
ogbiwa:
The NBA postponed Wednesday's three play-off games after the Milwaukee Bucks called off their fixture in protest at the shooting of Jacob Blake.

Blake, a black man, was shot seven times in the back by police on Sunday in Kenosha, Wisconsin near Milwaukee.

In baseball, three MLB games were called off after teams decided not to play, and five MLS matches have been postponed.

Tennis player Naomi Osaka pulled out of a WTA match on Thursday.

She tweeted that she would no longer play her semi-final in the Western & Southern Open in New York, saying that "as a black woman I feel as though there are much more important matters at hand that need immediate attention, rather than watching me play tennis".

The US Tennis Association, ATP and WTA subsequently announced it was pausing play at the Western & Southern Open on Thursday and would resume on Friday, adding that "tennis is collectively taking a stance against racial inequality and social injustice".

After boycotting their game against the Orlando Magic, the Bucks players released a statement that said: "Despite the overwhelming plea for change, there has been no action, so our focus today cannot be on basketball.

"When we take the court and represent Milwaukee and Wisconsin, we are expected to play at a high level, give maximum effort and hold each other accountable.

"We hold ourselves to that standard, and in this moment, we are demanding the same from our lawmakers and law enforcement.

"We are calling for justice for Jacob Blake and demand the officers be held accountable."

The Seattle Mariners announced they had decided not to play the second game in their MLB series against the San Diego Padres.

The decision was based on a unanimous vote from the players, Mariners player Dee Gordon tweeted.

The Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Reds also postponed their home MLB game scheduled to take place on Wednesday.

"The players from the Brewers and Reds have decided not to play tonight's baseball game," said a statement issued by the Brewers.

"With our community and our nation in such pain, we wanted to draw as much attention to the issues that really matter, especially racial injustice and systemic oppression."

California rivals the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers postponed their scheduled game and issued a joint statement that said: "Throughout our country's history, sport has been a powerful vehicle towards change.

"The Dodgers and Giants proudly join our players in the shared goal for a more equitable and just society."

Major League Soccer said the following matches had been postponed: FC Dallas v Colorado Rapids, San Jose v Portland, LAFC v Real Salt Lake, LA Galaxy v Seattle Sounders and Inter Miami v Atlanta United.

Milwaukee Bucks' senior vice-president Alex Lasry tweeted: "Some things are bigger than basketball. The stand taken today by the players and organisation shows that we're fed up. Enough is enough."

He added: "Change needs to happen. I'm incredibly proud of our guys and we stand 100% behind our players ready to assist and bring about real change."

After the postponement, a statement on behalf of the Bucks' owners read: "We fully support our players and the decision they made. Although we did not know beforehand, we would have wholeheartedly agreed with them.

"The only way to bring about change is to shine a light on the racial injustices that are happening in front of us. Our players have done that and we will continue alongside them and demand accountability and change."

Former US President Barack Obama, a dedicated basketball fan, tweeted his support of the walkout.

The Houston Rockets' game against the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Los Angeles Lakers' match-up with the Portland Trail Blazers were also postponed, and will be rescheduled.

The Lakers' LeBron James tweeted: "We demand change. Sick of it." Karl-Anthony Towns of the Minnesota Timberwolves added: "Shoot hoops, not people", while Denver Nuggets player Jamal Murray said: "We demand justice!"

Prior to the scheduled game, Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said: "Myself, my players and our organisation are very disturbed by what happened in Kenosha.

"It is a great challenge to have an appreciation and a desire to want change, to want something different and better in Kenosha, Milwaukee and Wisconsin, and then to go out and play a game."

NBA players are scheduled for a meeting in Florida later on Wednesday to determine their next steps, with NBA TV saying that some players are contemplating leaving the NBA bubble near Orlando.

Earlier in the day, NFL's Detroit Lions cancelled their practice session. Players then gathered in front of the team facility, holding signs which read: "We Won't be Silent" and "The World Can't Go On."

After the NBA walkout, the NHL are expected to hold a 'moment of reflection' before the games between the Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay Lightning in Toronto, and the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche in Edmonton.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/basketball/53926764
Democrat just dey setup Trump against black people using some white policemen. Obama is quick to say nonsense always.
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by Nobody: 10:18am On Aug 27, 2020
lexy2014:


70%? How did u come to that conclusion?
By d way, are Americans from UK?

uk used...is a term used to called foreign phones
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by lexy2014: 10:20am On Aug 27, 2020
Alberta123:
I wonder why blacks are always aggressive knowing the history of the trigger happy white police.

The guy shot had a knife in his hand before attempting to get something in his car before been shot at the back after been ordered to stop .

The police man will be let go as he can claim self defense.


It's just a pity he lost his life over nothing.
.

Self defense? Self defense in what way? Did Jacob Blake confront d officer or is there any evidence to that effect?

By d way, is Jacob Blake dead?
Re: Jacob Blake: US NBA, MLS, MLB Teams Call Off Games To Protest The Shooting by Dikebuka: 10:20am On Aug 27, 2020
What happened to the man is bad and should be condemned but for people writing here in ignorance.

The location is a democrat run state and has nothing to do with Trump..Each state have their own state police infact the national guard self have tried to intervene to ensure that people don't lose there business and buildings in the protest.

Protest is good but to loot and burn is very bad.. What is happening now on their streets is not protest but looting and burning.

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