News and Media Reports

**MTWilliams911** · 01-15-21 15:53

Originally Posted by Niteluvr [View Original Post]

Personally, I think we older white dudes are the ones getting trafficked.

This is my winner for the best post in a year or more. Yes, WE are being trafficked, too good!

**Niteluvr** · 01-15-21 03:58

Originally Posted by Ozymandias [View Original Post]

Trafficking is perfect right now because it plays into the whole "patriarchy" thing: "oh no, old white dudes are slipping it to the asian hotties!

Personally, I think we older white dudes are the ones getting trafficked.

**Ozymandias** · 01-14-21 23:10

Originally Posted by TheWiseacre [View Original Post]

A nice rundown of how crazy it all is:

https://reason.com/2020/02/02/massage-parlor-panic/

Between June 1 and September 15, 2019, a Google Alert on the phrase massage parlor yielded stories about more than 95 cases involving suspected sex trafficking and/or prostitution at massage businesses. This figure almost certainly dramatically undercounts these stings, because not every such operation makes the news, gets indexed by Google Alerts, or uses the phrase massage parlor. Still, the results were striking.

The raids went down in urban, suburban, and rural parts of 31 states across the country. But no matter the location or context, the vast majority of those arrested or charged were Asian women. Of 102 identified suspects, 76 were listed as Asian or had typically Asian names.

Of the 97 cases in which this information was given, the average age of those arrested or indicted was 49.8 years. About 80 percent of suspects were in their 40s or 50s, with just two in their 20s and none in their teens.

You know, it's the zeitgeist. As Rosanna Rosanna Danna (allusion for my fellow greybeards) says, "it's always something. ".

Basically, at any time you need a money driver for the nonprofit sector, whether it's Sally Strothers tearfully maneuvering her whale-like form next to some starving children and asking you to sponsor a child, or what's her name (I'm bad with Greek names) and the trafficking.

Trafficking is perfect right now because it plays into the whole "patriarchy" thing: "oh no, old white dudes are slipping it to the asian hotties!

Granted, my dick has colonized so many pussies of color it's practically wearing a linen suit and Panama hat, but pretty much those legs all spread of their own volition (or at least to the sight of dollars, baht, pesos, etc).

Anyway, it's an invented crisis. If you want to witness its power, go find a picture of some barely legal Asian village girl (Cambodian should work), write up a story about how she was trafficked and wants to go to school, and run a GoFundMe for, say, $2500. I bet it has a good chance of scoring a hit. People love that stuff!

The particular beauty of "trafficking" is that it plays into the hand of law enforcement (who can use it to replace some of the drug offense which are disappearing) and politicians (on either side of the aisle, because "think of the children!' will never get old.).

O.

**JunkSecond** · 01-12-21 20:53

Originally Posted by LuvThemTugs [View Original Post]

https://www.cbs46.com/news/police-cr...eaf0bc8fa.html

"There is a lot of trafficking going on and this is exploitation," said Camila Zolfagahari executive director of Street Grace.

"It is amazing what is on there and it is horrific," said Zolfagahari.

Seems like Ms. Zolfagahara is overstepping Street Grace's mission statement of ending child trafficking by harassing Asian grandmothers using tips to feed their families in their home country.

https://gov.georgia.gov/camila-zolfaghari

A self declared "human trafficking expert. " Does that mean she has a PhD in Pimping?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/camila-zolfaghari-a5561620

**Niteluvr** · 01-12-21 20:03

Originally Posted by LuvThemTugs [View Original Post]

https://www.cbs46.com/news/police-cr...eaf0bc8fa.html

I would love to confront this bish, force her explain her words and provide proof: "There is a lot of trafficking going on and this is exploitation," said Camila Zolfagahari executive director of Street Grace.

**The Wiseacre** · 01-12-21 16:52

Originally Posted by MartyBass864 [View Original Post]

If you think the average patrol officer does not know where. The hot spots are for drugs or prostitution, you are mistaken. But in order to prove their case the cops need evidence. They have to prove a criminal violation occured. We all know and they all know what goes on in the massage places and back rooms at strip clubs, they don't focus on it because it takes a lot of investigation for very little results. See the robert kraft case. At most the place shuts down and moves. The demand will always be here.

A nice rundown of how crazy it all is:

https://reason.com/2020/02/02/massage-parlor-panic/

Between June 1 and September 15, 2019, a Google Alert on the phrase massage parlor yielded stories about more than 95 cases involving suspected sex trafficking and/or prostitution at massage businesses. This figure almost certainly dramatically undercounts these stings, because not every such operation makes the news, gets indexed by Google Alerts, or uses the phrase massage parlor. Still, the results were striking.

The raids went down in urban, suburban, and rural parts of 31 states across the country. But no matter the location or context, the vast majority of those arrested or charged were Asian women. Of 102 identified suspects, 76 were listed as Asian or had typically Asian names.

Of the 97 cases in which this information was given, the average age of those arrested or indicted was 49.8 years. About 80 percent of suspects were in their 40s or 50s, with just two in their 20s and none in their teens.

**MartyBass864** · 01-12-21 16:40

If you think the average patrol officer does not know where. The hot spots are for drugs or prostitution, you are mistaken. But in order to prove their case the cops need evidence. They have to prove a criminal violation occured. We all know and they all know what goes on in the massage places and back rooms at strip clubs, they don't focus on it because it takes a lot of investigation for very little results. See the robert kraft case. At most the place shuts down and moves. The demand will always be here.

**Game Cock Too** · 01-12-21 13:14

Originally Posted by MartyBass864 [View Original Post]

Martin approached Zimmerman. Martin struck first blow. Martin had the opportunity to get away from Zimmerman, but Martin elected to confront and strike Zimmerman. Trayvon messed around and picked the wrong one. I am thrilled Zimmerman successfully defended himself. Martin had a working cellphone (he was on the phone with the almost no English speaking fat chick) he didn't call the cops because he didn't feel threatened.

I don't know about you, but I'm glad that a whole lot of people WEREN'T shot and killed at the Capitol Building. It would have been awful. But according to your thoughts on justice, a lot those protester should have been shot and / or killed. "The protesters approached the security forces. The protesters struck first blow. The protesters had the opportunity to get away from security forces, but the protesters elected to confront and strike the officers. The poor lady that was shot messed around and picked the wrong one. The officer successfully defended the Capitol, himself, and those inside. ".

**LuvThemTugs** · 01-12-21 11:43

https://www.cbs46.com/news/police-cr...eaf0bc8fa.html

**Sgt Lurker** · 01-10-21 09:02

I said before, my skin is as white as they come but an Atlanta Cop almost pulled a gun on me. Almost midnight on Stewart Ave and I had dropped my DL between the seat and the door and I am trying to find it while talking to the cop. He already had my Army I'd and my car had Army baes sticker but it made him nervous. He stepped back put is hand on his gun and told me a near Drill Sergeant voice to put my hands on the wheel. I do not care for people making a truth out of a "What If" scenario.

Originally Posted by PunkedLife [View Original Post]

That is the difference between our kinds though. At least one. You see as a black man, you get this lesson earlier in life and don't make mistakes like reaching for things or putting your hands in your pocket. And while I know that keeps you from getting shot it usually applies to minorities. And also social status. If Brad pit gets pulled over and reaches in his car ain't no cop going to get antsy. But I bet you Jay z did the same then he just might get shot. So the neighborhood does play a part in it. White boys commit crimes too and that's why that female cop reacted like that. But also a lot of them just have that mindset that you obey them or else. They or else can be your life. I watch a lot of videos on YouTube where people go out of there way to get into a confrontation with cops just to flex their rights. Many times they are in the right as far as the law goes and do at times educate the cops. They refuse to show identification unless a crime is being committed. And they dona lot of little things that I know many people in the hood, mostly black and Hispanics but also some white guys don't have the luxury to dispute. We aren't complaining or calling these white dudes racists because most of the time if they live in the hood they pretty much in the same position and the cops treat them so. Cops do abuse their power. And they do that shit ALOT. The media and the mass really do at times present misinformation and people want to point these things out. Cool. But also point out all the evidence that shows cops extorting citizens, raping prostitutes or regular women at times, belittling people and treating them like dirt, falsifying evidence and sending innocent people to jail for decades or longer, etc etc. How do we know about these things? There are instances where abusers get caught after years of fucking people over or now that there is always someone filming you might get lucky and catch an officer planting drugs in a car or threatening a woman or a man for sexual pleasure and other things. You think the ones that get caught are the majority? No that's a small percentage of corruption. And we are fucking tired of it. That's the main thing people need to realize. Don't think so small minded. Don't focuson just one thing or disproving every little thing the media pushes. At least you have personal experience. So many others live their lives with their white or wealthy privilege and they are clueless to WTF is going on around them. Or worse they don't give a fuck.

**Sgt Lurker** · 01-10-21 08:58

Originally Posted by ParrotScope [View Original Post]

Exactly man. Zimmerman was out of line for what he did. PERIOD. Walking in the woods is not a damn crime, and doesn't entitle anyone to follow you with a gun. Stalking and harassment is a crime. Which is what Zimmerman did to trayvon. Bottom line, trayvon should have been LEFT ALONE.

Zimmerman broke no law except in your own mind. But even if he did, you say 2 wrongs makes a right? Trayvon should not have attacked Zimmerman.

**MartyBass864** · 01-09-21 21:55

Martin approached Zimmerman. Martin struck first blow. Martin had the opportunity to get away from Zimmerman, but Martin elected to confront and strike Zimmerman. Trayvon messed around and picked the wrong one. I am thrilled Zimmerman successfully defended himself. Martin had a working cellphone (he was on the phone with the almost no English speaking fat chick) he didn't call the cops because he didn't feel threatened.

**Niteluvr** · 01-09-21 21:19

Originally Posted by ParrotScope [View Original Post]

Exactly man. Zimmerman was out of line for what he did. PERIOD.

Walking in the woods is not a damn crime, and doesn't entitle anyone to follow you with a gun.

Stalking and harassment is a crime. Which is what Zimmerman did to trayvon. Bottom line, trayvon should have been LEFT ALONE.

I personally never liked Zimmerman. Don't know everything about the situation between himself and Trayvon Martin, but I got the impression that Zimmerman thought of himself as a badass as he wanted to be a cop but didn't qualify. Then he get himself a job as a security guard, buys a gun and tries to play badass in an attempt to satisfy his personal insecurities. If Trayvon Martin had lived and been able to testify, we might have seen Zimmerman sent to prison.

Either way, I don't think Zimmerman has many friends (I wouldn't want him as my neighbor) and will have to keep a low profile for the rest of his life. He can certainly never open a business with his name on it.

**TooHotForYou** · 01-09-21 20:04

Originally Posted by SgtLurker [View Original Post]

The cops are always telling people not to take action themselves. Here is a news flash, if someone breaks into my house and I am able, I will call the police, inform that I have an intruder and that I am armed. Then, if the perp or perps put me in a bad situation inside my own home, I may very well blow their brains out. But that is different, George Zimmerman never touched Trayvon until Trayvon attacked him. George was not breaking any law, Trayvon chose to react by breaking the law.

Did you even hear what George said to the dispatcher when he called 911 on Trayvon before the fight? George was profiling Trayvon and using an excuse that the neighborhood he lived in had been getting robbed a lot to call the cops on him and follow him. That is what you call being way too into something that is none of your fucking business.

**PunkedLife** · 01-09-21 13:53

Originally Posted by JunkSecond [View Original Post]

Punked, again, nothing personal but the media narrative on many recent events, not just Jacob Blake, is based on cherry picked facts and very biased. If you really dig deep you may find that being pulled over for "nothing" rarely happens in these situations. What you also may find is that small things like a burned out taillight or expired tags escalate quickly for no good reason. The media keeps talking about "no justice for the murders" of Jacob Blake, George Floyd, Trevon Martin and Michael Brown. From what I have found and read, all of those individuals made poor choices that substantially contributed to their own death. Are the people with their fingers on the trigger completely blameless? Not in my opinion, as in hindsight, I can Monday morning quarterback an outcome that could avoid the death of many of these individuals. Thinking about the two kids in this name list is especially difficult. At the end of the day the problem is that the responding officers and people involved are forced to make split second life changing decisions while the rest of us have hours if not days to review video and first person accounts of events. No matter your opinion of who is "right or wrong" in these situations, I like to think that we all can find unity in agreement that if the individuals involved made different choices those departed may yet still be with us today.

I am white. When I was young and dumb I got a new license plate in the mail but couldn't put it on because my old one was rusted tight. I got pulled over for expired tags in a one traffic light town, gave the officer my license and papers, explained what was up, told the officer my new plate was in the back seat and turned around to get it. What I didn't see was his rookie partner behind the car. She drew and started yelling when I turned around. He didn't know what she saw and drew on me too. I was paralyzed with fear and a mouse fart away from having my brains decorate the inside of my windshield. When I figured out shit was going down and heard their instructions, I "dropped it" "slowly put my hands behind my head" "exited the vehicle backwards" "leaned over the hood and slowly put my hands behind my back. " I was cuffed, searched and ordered to "not move" while his partner searched my car and found "the object" I was holding which was a grocery bag of snacks and my new tags. They stepped away but I was close enough to hear them. They basically had a sigh of relief, told each other what they saw, agreed there was no weapon and then my I'd and papers came back clean. Even then his partner was still worked up, he told her to go put something in the trunk and take a moment to decompress. He then explained what happened and let me go without even a warning and told me that if I ever get stopped again, never ever take my hands off the steering wheel. I have been stopped twice since then without issue. Bad things happen to people who do dumb shit and can't follow simple instructions. I consider myself fortunate to only make one mistake that day. As I drove away I saw where his partner had puked up her lunch behind the cruiser. Looking back on events that happened 22 years ago, with much personal growth and maturity, I don't blame them. I also realize they may have been just as scared as me. I am so embarrassed about this, I have never told friends or family it even happened.

The Walter Scott shooting is one that personally bothers me. He was pulled over for a burned out tail light. He had no registration or insurance and a wavering story of who owned the car he was driving. He also had an outstanding arrest warrant for failure to pay child support. Despite all the flags both people act respectfully, at first. He gave his drivers license to the officer then decided to make a run for it when the officer was running his info.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/0...e-shooting.cnn

Another video starts when the officer catches Mr. Scott. It's not clear what happens but there is physical contact between the officer and Mr. Scott as Mr. Scott resists arrest and runs away, again. The officer claimed Mr. Scott grabbed his taser. The officer fired 7-8 times at Mr Scott as he was running away, killing Mr. Scott. The media made a slow motion frame by frame analysis that shows what appears to be the officer's taser be thrown behind him during the struggle. The officer appears to pick up the taser and lay it beside Mr. Scott's body after shooting him. Of everything that happened, that was the focus of the majority of the news that played on endless repeat.

I believe that of all the shootings with high media coverage that have occurred IMO this is the one that most closely fits the sensational headlines of "white cop shoots unarmed black man as he runs away. " As you can see there is much more to the story than the headline, but many fail to look beyond as the media continues to hammer this point, over and over and over again. Did Mr. Scott grab the officers taser? Did the officer not see it fly behind him and think Mr. Scott ran away with it? Is it even justifiable to shoot someone who has a taser? All good questions that will likely never have an answer we all agree with. When putting myself in this situation, I would like to think that with Mr. Scott being 50, even if he had my taser, I would have decided to chase him down again instead of shooting him. But again, Monday morning quarterback after days of thought vs the entire thing taking six seconds to unfold. The same "what if" could be pondered if Mr. Scott had decided to not run and be taken into custody on an outstanding warrant. Regardless of any of our opinions of "right or wrong" Mr. Scott is dead. Officer Slager ultimately took a plea deal. Violation of civil rights and obstruction of justice. He received a 20 year sentence. His wife was 8 months pregnant when the shooting happened. All of it was avoidable if those involved had made different choices. The whole thing is heartbreaking when you think of the families impacted.

Circling back to the media, when this shooting happened you couldn't find a news source that did not have constant coverage until the next big thing. There are only a few stories of the sentence and it was a mere bullet point in the nightly news, and no mention afterwards. If the media is really seeking justice for black deaths why is this outcome not celebrated and used as a positive example of what should happen in a civilized society? If you ask me, I think there are plenty of racial tensions for some very valid reasons in this country and the media is more interested in stoking that fire and inciting riots than constructively working towards solutions of real problems.

And just so you guys know, I am not some weirdo with an obsession of researching white cops shooting black men. I volunteer as a mentor for an African American Male Initiative program. When these events happen and my kids want to talk I skip the headlines, watch the videos with them and just talk with them about what they think, how they feel and ask them how things could have been different. I have had these discussions far too frequently, and can only offer hopes and prayers that we all start changing our behaviors for the better.

That is the difference between our kinds though. At least one. You see as a black man, you get this lesson earlier in life and don't make mistakes like reaching for things or putting your hands in your pocket. And while I know that keeps you from getting shot it usually applies to minorities. And also social status. If Brad pit gets pulled over and reaches in his car ain't no cop going to get antsy. But I bet you Jay z did the same then he just might get shot. So the neighborhood does play a part in it. White boys commit crimes too and that's why that female cop reacted like that. But also a lot of them just have that mindset that you obey them or else. They or else can be your life. I watch a lot of videos on YouTube where people go out of there way to get into a confrontation with cops just to flex their rights. Many times they are in the right as far as the law goes and do at times educate the cops. They refuse to show identification unless a crime is being committed. And they dona lot of little things that I know many people in the hood, mostly black and Hispanics but also some white guys don't have the luxury to dispute. We aren't complaining or calling these white dudes racists because most of the time if they live in the hood they pretty much in the same position and the cops treat them so. Cops do abuse their power. And they do that shit ALOT. The media and the mass really do at times present misinformation and people want to point these things out. Cool. But also point out all the evidence that shows cops extorting citizens, raping prostitutes or regular women at times, belittling people and treating them like dirt, falsifying evidence and sending innocent people to jail for decades or longer, etc etc. How do we know about these things? There are instances where abusers get caught after years of fucking people over or now that there is always someone filming you might get lucky and catch an officer planting drugs in a car or threatening a woman or a man for sexual pleasure and other things. You think the ones that get caught are the majority? No that's a small percentage of corruption. And we are fucking tired of it. That's the main thing people need to realize. Don't think so small minded. Don't focuson just one thing or disproving every little thing the media pushes. At least you have personal experience. So many others live their lives with their white or wealthy privilege and they are clueless to WTF is going on around them. Or worse they don't give a fuck.