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Hamilton wins hectic Tuscan GP; demands justice for Breonna Taylor

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By JEROME PUGMIRE

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It's good that the sporting authorities nowadays allow sportspeople to speak up about injustices that are far more important than sport. Thirty years ago I protested against Apartheid in South Africa at a sporting event. I was banned.

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I’m starting to like the cut of this fellow Hamilton’s jib.

He’s clearly a great driver and he winds right wingers up.

I think F1 is on DAZN. Time to tune in I think.

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Hmmmmm : ) And people were angry that Hamilton wouldn't boycott races. This is why. If he wins, the media focuses on him and he can say what he wants. People wouldn't listen to him if he wasn't a champion and wasn't the current champion.

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I don’t know why this winds you up so much.

It doesnt. Im merely commenting on an article. Believe me, I see the absurdity in Hamiltons hypocrisy. Its kind if amusing, though pathetic .

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The entire Mercedes team takes the knee now.

Good. If it triggers the right, long may it continue.

Imagine being a mechanic or technician on that team. Not taking the knee is not an option!

Let it go. You’ve boycotted watching it. Try boycotting reading and commenting on it. You’ll give yourself an ulcer at rate.

I don’t know why this winds you up so much.

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The entire Mercedes team takes the knee now. Imagine being a mechanic or technician on that team. Not taking the knee is not an option!

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Convincing Hammertime yesterday.

Bottas threw himself against that wall, repeatedly. His time will come around, but not very often. He is given an impossible job to do, but he does it supremely well, surely pleasing his Mercedes team, who ignored his desperate appeal for tyres different to Lewis's.

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Now the Monte Carlo tax exile is flaunting his BLM tshirt on the podium just before spraying champagne and cavorting.

Don’t worry. You’ve boycotted watching it, haven’t you?

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Many are debating whether her death was "right" or "wrong", or whether the police were justified, or whether they should continue with the no-knock warrants.

But Osaka, Hamilton, and others are focusing on Taylor as an example of systemic racism.

I'm not convinced she was killed due to racism. Did the police knock on their door or the judge sign the warrant just because there were black people inside?

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I'm with Ohara.  But I am sure that this strong gesture will galvanise the US authorities into action.  As opposed to blur the focus on his own massively privileged position.

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Best race driver in history.

LOL!

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Good for Lewis. Best race driver in history. As a proud Black man, Lewis, along with Naomi-chan, are both telling the world loud and clear from their victory podiums : BLACK LIVES MATTER.

Say it for justice, Lewis - “Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor."

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Now the Monte Carlo tax exile is flaunting his BLM tshirt on the podium just before spraying champagne and cavorting.

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Breonna Taylor was not some innocent individual shot on the street but a confidante of drug dealers and criminals.

Why would a court judge sign a warrant for police to search her home?

There had to be evidence suggesting foul play.

Hamilton can support criminals and drug dealers as well as drug addicts all he likes as it is his right but there are other, more deserving causes out there.

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@risky, I never said she deserved it, I said it was a tragedy. Maybe you need a second grader to read it to you again. I’m not a fan of the no knock warrant, but a judge signed off on it. One of the other houses that was raided yielded 8 guns, I guess they were staunch supporters of the 2nd Amendment.

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The shooting of Breonna is a tragedy, but her own actions contributed to this. Never mind the fact that her boyfriend fired the first shot that wounded an officer. Her ex-boyfriend was a drug dealer. And instead of cutting ties with him she allowed him to have drugs sent through the mail to her address. She kept large sums of his drug money at her house and used this money to bail him out as well as another drug dealer. This is what put her house on the radar. Sad that she had a bright future but when you keep bad company bad things can happen.

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