D.M.T said:

I could give a fuck about the marketing. I like as many GMOs and chemicals as possible in my food. Still, Chipotle is not bad from time to time when I feel like paying extra money for someone to do what I could do at home.

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qman said:

"routinely carry out criminal acts against your own community for decades"

So where have the protests been "for decades"?

Or maybe the race pimps have just recently promoted this "hands up, don't shoot" nonsense since the Micheal Brown case, and the morons have fallen for it hook, line, and sinker.

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Even after Gates left the department, his imprimatur lingered. His successors spectacularly failed to tame the paramilitary culture that had ossified under Gates. The rank and file was in revolt, violent crime remained horribly high, and many within the department still believed that Rodney King deserved what he got and that Daryl Gates didn't.

It took an enormous effort to undue that mind-set. The first step was the Christopher Commission, a citizens group appointed by [LA Mayor] Bradley to examine the structure and operation of the Police Department in the wake of the King beating.

Under the chairmanship of attorney Warren Christopher, the group documented a pervasive pattern of excessive force by officers and the department's failure to rein it in. It recommended tough new standards of accountability.

In 2000, facing a lawsuit that would have been difficult to defend, the city entered into a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice that required sweeping reforms. The decree came in the wake of revelations that officers in the department's Rampart Division had engaged in a pattern of frame-ups, beatings and shootings by police officers.

In 2002, Mayor James Hahn hired reformer William J. Bratton as chief, driving a final stake through the heart of the culture Gates had embraced. It took eight years of hard work by Bratton, prodding from reform organizations such as the Advancement Project and the hiring of a diverse new police force to erase Gate's legacy and give the LAPD back to the people of Los Angeles.

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millzy said:

qman said:

"routinely carry out criminal acts against your own community for decades"

So where have the protests been "for decades"?

Or maybe the race pimps have just recently promoted this "hands up, don't shoot" nonsense since the Micheal Brown case, and the morons have fallen for it hook, line, and sinker.

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since the 1970 omnibus crime bill, which was largely passed due to stirred fears regarding the civil rights movements in addition to the rise of the 60's counterculture, as well as the inception of the drug war in 1972 and its exponential ramping-up through the present administration, and the start of the terror war in 2001, there has always been outrage towards the increasing power that street cops are being given from both within and outside of government and community circles. infamous LAPD chief daryl gates, whose career ironically took off after devising the concept of SWAT teams in response to the 1965 watts riots (among a few other incidents), resigned in the wake of his policies that brutalized black communities in pursuit of enforcing drug laws and disrupting gang activity, and the subsequent riots that followed the acquittal of the officers involved in the rodney king beating. but gates' legacy endured. joe domanick of john jay college elaborates:

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Even after Gates left the department, his imprimatur lingered. His successors spectacularly failed to tame the paramilitary culture that had ossified under Gates. The rank and file was in revolt, violent crime remained horribly high, and many within the department still believed that Rodney King deserved what he got and that Daryl Gates didn't.

It took an enormous effort to undue that mind-set. The first step was the Christopher Commission, a citizens group appointed by [LA Mayor] Bradley to examine the structure and operation of the Police Department in the wake of the King beating.

Under the chairmanship of attorney Warren Christopher, the group documented a pervasive pattern of excessive force by officers and the department's failure to rein it in. It recommended tough new standards of accountability.

In 2000, facing a lawsuit that would have been difficult to defend, the city entered into a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice that required sweeping reforms. The decree came in the wake of revelations that officers in the department's Rampart Division had engaged in a pattern of frame-ups, beatings and shootings by police officers.

In 2002, Mayor James Hahn hired reformer William J. Bratton as chief, driving a final stake through the heart of the culture Gates had embraced. It took eight years of hard work by Bratton, prodding from reform organizations such as the Advancement Project and the hiring of a diverse new police force to erase Gate's legacy and give the LAPD back to the people of Los Angeles.

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source.

and this is just one (famous) example that points to the fact that people have been pissed off about the way community police work has been done for a long time now. and they have been more than vocal about it. and with the ongoing terror war, the issue has expanded beyond minority communities into the lives of every american within the laws' reach. are there agitators stirring the pot along racial lines with these recent incidents? certainly. but that doesn't mean that the underlying issues, which affect nearly everyone now, don't exist. as i've surely said on here before, this issue is much larger than race, so to try to diminish it on the grounds of a few spurious claims by racial demagogues is simply impossible.

(edited for clarity.)

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XLCaps said:

I thought chipotle was a flavour, I didn't know when you guys mentioned chipotle multiple times around here that you meant a restaurant.

It sounds like shit.

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XLCaps said:

I thought chipotle was a flavour, I didn't know when you guys mentioned chipotle multiple times around here that you meant a restaurant.

It sounds like shit.

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sun_spots said:

XLCaps said:

I thought chipotle was a flavour, I didn't know when you guys mentioned chipotle multiple times around here that you meant a restaurant.

It sounds like shit.

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Chipotle is actually a jalapeno pepper marinated in adobo sauce, and it's fucking delicious.  They did name a mediocre restaurant chain after it, though, and they do sell lukewarm mediocre burritos and tacos.  The guacamole is pretty good, and the chips are excellent.  Overpriced for the quality, for sure, but okay.

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