Weekly Death Blog (7/2-7/8) · 5:09am Jul 9th, 2016
Here are the notable deaths for this past week from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.
Attention: Due to highly charged events over the past week in America, special attention will be paid in this blog to a series of senseless murders in three American towns over the course of three days.
I can't promise I will give the same treatment to every police-involved shooting that happens from now on, because the sad fact is there are just too goddamn many of them and a lot of them slip past me, but this has been the kind of week that shames our entire nation.
July 2:
- Michael Cimino, 77, American screenwriter and director (The Deer Hunter, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Heaven's Gate).
July 5:
- Alton Sterling, 37, African-American, murdered by police.
July 6:
- Philando Castille, 32, African-American school nutrition worker, murdered by police.
July 7:
- Five Dallas, TX police officers were murdered by shooters during protests over the two murders listed above.
- John McMartin, 86, American actor (All the President's Men, As the World Turns, Sweet Charity), cancer. (death announced on this date)
wow police man they'll kill us without hesitating in all seriousness man does this mean something big gonna happen i hope not
4079442 Im not well informed about the shootings but... This is the kind of thing that causes me to get narrow-minded. I have never been able to understand how someone that got accepted in the police or even more got allowed to carry a weapon could be incompetent and unable to deal with a situation for it to end in a civilian getting killed
4079515 um did you downvote me if so was it the beginning if so im very sorry
4079516 i didnt down vote you
4079522 hmm than someone else did oh well it only makes me stronger
4079515 It isn't incompetence that's the problem. It's racism and racial profiling. "Oh my god, he's black, I'd better shoot him before he shoots me!" THAT is the problem.
4079539 sorry i wasnt as direct but that is kinda what i mean, when this happens they usually defend the police inocence with incompetence but the real incompetent is the people that allowed them in the police because ¿what they were even doing working in the police?soo it isnt just the guy that killed or injured someone but their bosses and close workers that i cant understand
4079979 Yeah. -_- The same people who had that "What do we want? DEAD COPS!" chant going. Some people should not try to represent the whole. -_-#
Most police shootings of black I believe stems from steroid use. I mean have you noticed how many of the most recent shootings the officer looks really puffy. Like they are on steroids. We all know steroids can cause an increase in testosterone which can also lead to more violent reactions to things. My two cents.
4080384 That's stupid. Stop being stupid.
4080394 Wow, your information on everything is wrong.
Going to assume for a minute you mean "Black Lives Matter" as a whole are criminals and not the two murder victims. Because while one of the murder victims was committing a class A misdemeanor at the time of the incident, the other was just getting his ID out of his pocket as requested by the officer after being stopped for a broken taillight.
Now, as to Black Lives Matter...
Don't listen to Rush Limbaugh. They're hardly a unified coalition of ANY kind, and anyone can claim to be part of Black Lives Matter. Saying you're part of Black Lives Matter doesn't mean you speak for everyone who rallies around the cause. The shooter in Dallas (and there was ONLY ONE SHOOTER) acted alone, independently, and nobody expected that to happen. Nobody.
Within any activist group, within any political group, there are moderates and there are radicals. The radicals, unfortunately, generate bad press for the entire group, when they're usually an excessively vocal and destructive minority that do not share the true views and values of the majority.
From now on, get your shit straight, don't talk out of your ass, and for the love of God don't listen to people who talk out of theirs.
4080612 I don't recall posting a blog outright stating that, but if I did--and I'm not saying I didn't, I'm saying I don't remember it--it was probably right around the time of those "we want DEAD COPS" rallies (plural). Which was a difficult time when it was hard to sympathize with the movement as a whole.
R.I.P to those people. Citizens and police should be trying to get along better, the cops who were at the peaceful protest rally did a good job there. I do feel sorry for the guys who were killed earlier this week by the police.
4080569 What I meant to say is that I'm against Black Lives Matter because they're advocating violence and being attention whores. Sorry if I didn't come out right but that's what I feel about them.
It's also the cop's fault for not doing their jobs properly; which makes the situation even worse.