Olympics!!!!!!

[grizzaholic]

Another person who will not be competing in Rio this year.

You obviously know how to get Andy and Bandl all wet...

[BDKJMU]

"Rio security push crumbles as murders, police killings rise

......Murders rose sharply in the first half of 2016,......

......Police, in turn, are increasingly under attack: 61 have been killed in Rio since January, the majority while off duty.......

.....The victims are overwhelmingly young, black men......

......Law enforcement experts say Brazil's worst recession since the 1930s is at the heart of the surge in violence in Rio. A financial crunch in the oil-producing state has put thousands of government workers' salaries and pensions on hold, police budgets have been slashed and daily announcements of layoffs have added to the angst.

Rights groups additionally blame a culture of combat still at the core of much of Rio's law enforcement, instincts more likely to emerge when officers feel under attack.

Cano says tourists coming for the Olympics will likely be spared the violence lived daily in the slums, though it periodically does spill into the city's tourist-friendly and affluent south. The 85,000 soldiers and police assigned to patrol the streets is a force double that of the 2012 Games in London.

"The big question is not the Olympics but what comes afterward," said Cano, who like many experts, believes that deeper cuts in police budgets are likely.

On a recent afternoon, two Associated Press journalists watched as half a dozen officers sheltered behind a cable car station shot it out with suspected drug traffickers in Complexo do Alemao, a sprawling cluster of slums in north Rio.....

....Amnesty International counted 265 such shootings last week...

The racial element of the violence is undeniable.

Black people are three times more likely to be killed by Rio police as whites, according to data from the state government's public safety department..... The rate of police killings here is almost 10 times that of the U.S....

In the first five months of 2016, the number of killings that cover all homicides, including slain officers, shootings at the hands of police and as a result of robberies, increased by 18 percent to 1,870 in greater Rio....
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rio-security ... 47954.html


They should put the Olympics in somewhere safer, like Baghdad...

[tribe_pride]

The Russians (minus the track and field ones) will be going to Rio the IOC just announced

[YoUDeeMan]

"Rio security push crumbles as murders, police killings rise

......Murders rose sharply in the first half of 2016,......

......Police, in turn, are increasingly under attack: 61 have been killed in Rio since January, the majority while off duty.......

.....The victims are overwhelmingly young, black men......

......Law enforcement experts say Brazil's worst recession since the 1930s is at the heart of the surge in violence in Rio. A financial crunch in the oil-producing state has put thousands of government workers' salaries and pensions on hold, police budgets have been slashed and daily announcements of layoffs have added to the angst.

Rights groups additionally blame a culture of combat still at the core of much of Rio's law enforcement, instincts more likely to emerge when officers feel under attack.

Cano says tourists coming for the Olympics will likely be spared the violence lived daily in the slums, though it periodically does spill into the city's tourist-friendly and affluent south. The 85,000 soldiers and police assigned to patrol the streets is a force double that of the 2012 Games in London.

"The big question is not the Olympics but what comes afterward," said Cano, who like many experts, believes that deeper cuts in police budgets are likely.

On a recent afternoon, two Associated Press journalists watched as half a dozen officers sheltered behind a cable car station shot it out with suspected drug traffickers in Complexo do Alemao, a sprawling cluster of slums in north Rio.....

....Amnesty International counted 265 such shootings last week...

The racial element of the violence is undeniable.

Black people are three times more likely to be killed by Rio police as whites, according to data from the state government's public safety department..... The rate of police killings here is almost 10 times that of the U.S....

In the first five months of 2016, the number of killings that cover all homicides, including slain officers, shootings at the hands of police and as a result of robberies, increased by 18 percent to 1,870 in greater Rio....
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rio-security ... 47954.html

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[Ivytalk]

"Rio security push crumbles as murders, police killings rise

......Murders rose sharply in the first half of 2016,......

......Police, in turn, are increasingly under attack: 61 have been killed in Rio since January, the majority while off duty.......

.....The victims are overwhelmingly young, black men......

......Law enforcement experts say Brazil's worst recession since the 1930s is at the heart of the surge in violence in Rio. A financial crunch in the oil-producing state has put thousands of government workers' salaries and pensions on hold, police budgets have been slashed and daily announcements of layoffs have added to the angst.

Rights groups additionally blame a culture of combat still at the core of much of Rio's law enforcement, instincts more likely to emerge when officers feel under attack.

Cano says tourists coming for the Olympics will likely be spared the violence lived daily in the slums, though it periodically does spill into the city's tourist-friendly and affluent south. The 85,000 soldiers and police assigned to patrol the streets is a force double that of the 2012 Games in London.

"The big question is not the Olympics but what comes afterward," said Cano, who like many experts, believes that deeper cuts in police budgets are likely.

On a recent afternoon, two Associated Press journalists watched as half a dozen officers sheltered behind a cable car station shot it out with suspected drug traffickers in Complexo do Alemao, a sprawling cluster of slums in north Rio.....

....Amnesty International counted 265 such shootings last week...

The racial element of the violence is undeniable.

Black people are three times more likely to be killed by Rio police as whites, according to data from the state government's public safety department..... The rate of police killings here is almost 10 times that of the U.S....

In the first five months of 2016, the number of killings that cover all homicides, including slain officers, shootings at the hands of police and as a result of robberies, increased by 18 percent to 1,870 in greater Rio....
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rio-security ... 47954.html


They should put the Olympics in somewhere safer, like Baghdad...

I'm betting that tickets to this fiasco aren't hard to come by.

[93henfan]

Actual quote from United States Olympic rower Megan Kalmoe:

I will row through shit for you, America.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2654 ... ou-america

[andy7171]

For clenzy,

[andy7171]

[andy7171]

These Olympics are going to be a train wreck.

[DSUrocks07]

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

[Ivytalk]

These Olympics are going to be a train wreck.

More like a shyt storm.

[SDHornet]

These Olympics are going to be a train wreck.

More like a shyt storm.

Or a shit lake.

[Pwns]

More like a shyt storm.

Or a shit lake.

How they can let the marathon swimmers swim 6 miles through that sewage is beyond me.

[93henfan]

Or a shit lake.

How they can let the marathon swimmers swim 6 miles through that sewage is beyond me.

They'll be fine. They've been training in the Anacostia.

[Ivytalk]

Or a **** lake.

How they can let the marathon swimmers swim 6 miles through that sewage is beyond me.

That's what happens when you let a Turd World country host the games.

[CAA Flagship]

Wall built to separate the 4th world slum from the 3rd world slum

[John Jamelske]

yes please

[tribe_pride]

Women's soccer starts today - U.S. Team to kick off at 6:00 EDT

[andy7171]

Wall built to separate the 4th world slum from the 3rd world slum

They did this in Beijing. Good for them.

[andy7171]

Women's soccer starts today - U.S. Team to kick off at 6:00 EDT

I don't think she's playing. I hope I'm wrong. Pretty sure she's a Zika-bailout.

Carly LLoyd is my new focus, she's got a kinda Lea Michelle look to her.

[tribe_pride]

Women's soccer starts today - U.S. Team to kick off at 6:00 EDT

I don't think she's playing. I hope I'm wrong. Pretty sure she's a Zika-bailout.

Carly LLoyd is my new focus, she's got a kinda Lea Michelle look to her.

Alex Morgan is there. Both Morgan and Lloyd scored yesterday in the 2-0 win. Morgan beat the NZ Keeper to the inside post (big no-no leaving that much of an opening to the inside post). Almost 2 different players offsides on Lloyd's goal but probably good no call by the ref.

[andy7171]

Nice.

[89Hen]

Wall built to separate the 4th world slum from the 3rd world slum

Hey, MW2 map!

[89Hen]

Pretty sure she's a Zika-bailout.

Speaking of which, WTF was with the crowd yelling ZIKA at Hope Solo? Yes, I get she posted a Twitter photo knida mocking the whole Zika thing, but do they not understand that it's an embarrassment to Brazil and not Solo? Hey, let's remind everyone that Zika is a problem here.

[tribe_pride]

Pretty sure she's a Zika-bailout.

Speaking of which, WTF was with the crowd yelling ZIKA at Hope Solo? Yes, I get she posted a Twitter photo knida mocking the whole Zika thing, but do they not understand that it's an embarrassment to Brazil and not Solo? Hey, let's remind everyone that Zika is a problem here.

If someone is mocking your country, you will boo them. Simple as that. Same as if there was an issue with that came up with the US and a foreigner mocked us, we would do the same.