Yes, but I favour baton sticks, pepper spray, rubber bullets and water cannons
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Its because I'm on the side of law & order.
That cop who killed Floyd should be charged with murder 1 and let the courts decide how many years in prison he gets.
This rioting, killing and looting is just gonna make everything worse
Las Vegas cop on life support after gunshot to head at George Floyd protest
https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/las-vegas-cop-clinging-to-life-after-he-was-shot-at-floyd-protest/
https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/las-vegas-cop-clinging-to-life-after-he-was-shot-at-floyd-protest/
Trump is making this worse.The whole Authoritarianism act isn't working and makes things escalate.
The next thing coming out of his mouth should be about helping to change or investigate inequality and injustice.
The next thing coming out of his mouth should be about helping to change or investigate inequality and injustice.
We don't know where it's going yet, Phil. Whether it will calm down in a day or two. Whether it will go full-on Boogaloo. If it goes full-on, what will happen. How it will effect politics in November and afterwards.
You buy the ticket and you get on the bus.....
This hasn't been this kind of a ride in US politics in over 50 years.
Rioting, looting and killing - yes
Peaceful protest - no, and there is a lot of attempts at peace protest but Trump doesn’t want to hear and police and military are just steam rolling through with no care to the peace that many are trying to bring.
FFS, new crews where getting hit with rubber bullets, a photo journalist lost her eye. And that is the side you are on? What the fuck did she do other then trying to her job?
Thats because after 7 straight days if rioting, looting, killing....etc Trump has to start putting his foot down.
And the only way to do that is through force
That was unintentional by the cops, and she shouldve worn safety glasses and/or a full helmet.
Like this reporter: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/nbc-cor...ks-while-covering-chaotic-protest-in-seattle/
I do understand some of the anger by black people in the US. I've seen racism first hand when I lived there and it was shocking.
But all they're doing now is creating more racists when they loot or burn down a store owned by white people (or heck, even Korean people).
Its becomes self-defeating and counter-productive
Ok, so this is who you support then?
https://twitter.com/EmiEleode/status/1267751135756144640
And what about the other media who wore helmets and IDed themselves and still got pepper sprayed and shot at with rubber bullets, arrested on live TV, etc?
They remove all the glass so looters wont cut an artery when they go in
It comes with the perils of the job. Reporters often get shot or killed in warzones as well.
They know the risks before they take on the assignment
Always an answer for something. No way that this and other recordings are not showing cops as agent provocateurs at all. Not proven at all. I wish I could find the link of the looter followed and shown to be a cop. I will edit this post with it shortly.
It is just so sad that we can see the fault in looting but you can’t see fault in the cops. Very closed minded.
I just can’t talk to a brick wall who is not willing to see fault in someone because of the uniform they wear. You talk about the cop who was kneeling on GF, but nothing about the other cops standing around him, and are fast to bring up the alleged $20. It is just so sad that society is still like this.
This is the reason we need peaceful protests.
EDIT: I can’t find the video. As soon as you search google with the word looter and cop, way to many results pop up. But in the video, a person is seen leaving, having just looted the store. Down the block a few ways, low and behold, a cop. Man I wish I could find it.
Not all cops are killers but not all protesters are looters. You can’t claim one as truth without claiming the other.
They ******* remove ******** all ********* the ********** glass ******** so ********* looters ******* wont ********* cut ******** an ********* artery ******** when ******** they ******** go ********* in
Got that folks?
There are a few dozen videos now of reporters showing credentials to the cops and still being beaten and / or arrested. It appears to be deliberate targeting.
That's a lot different that standing behind the front lines at Khe San and a stray ricochet blows through and cuts you down at random.
Somehow I don't think so this time. Is my sister scared living in St L?.... She's scared as fuck.
Does she still support the demonstrators?...... Yes. Things have got to change.
These are not demonstrators.
The demonstrators are the ones chanting and peacefully protesting.
These are thugs and hooligans, taking advantage of the situation for selfish, personal gain.
You know the difference when you see video of people breaking into store fronts and the actual demonstrators yelling at them to stop.
The demonstrators are the ones chanting and peacefully protesting.
These are thugs and hooligans, taking advantage of the situation for selfish, personal gain.
You know the difference when you see video of people breaking into store fronts and the actual demonstrators yelling at them to stop.
Exactly. A president who has disdain for media and now all of sudden, media is being targetted when reporting????? And people can’t figure out the deliberate nature of that.
Those lowlife assholes need some serious behavioural training, preferably administered by the Navy Seals.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gv0ru3/this_is_the_moment_it_all_happened/
Peaceful protesting vrs voilent police.
All they were doing is chanting, and police had to start spraying, throwing gas cans, etc.
Peaceful protesting vrs voilent police.
All they were doing is chanting, and police had to start spraying, throwing gas cans, etc.
America’s Pandemic War Games Don’t End Well
One simulation of an uncontrolled disease outbreak concluded with riots and the National Guard on the streets.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-pandemic-war-games-simulation-dark-winter/
On June 22, 2001, a group of well-known U.S. officials and a handful of senior policymakers gathered at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland for a senior-level exercise that simulated a biological weapons attack—an outbreak of deadly smallpox—on the United States. Designed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies (now called the Center for Health Security) and the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the day-and-a-half-long “Dark Winter” simulation was conducted to gauge how senior leaders would respond to such an attack and included such high-level participants as Sen. Sam Nunn (who played the president), former White House advisor David Gergen (the national security advisor), and the retired career diplomat Frank Wisner (the secretary of state). But Dark Winter has since become legendary in senior policymaking circles in Washington for a different reason: It has regularly been cited by its designers and participants as the clearest exhibit of the spiraling stresses, and potential social collapse, that could be sparked by a public health crisis.
One simulation of an uncontrolled disease outbreak concluded with riots and the National Guard on the streets.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-pandemic-war-games-simulation-dark-winter/
On June 22, 2001, a group of well-known U.S. officials and a handful of senior policymakers gathered at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland for a senior-level exercise that simulated a biological weapons attack—an outbreak of deadly smallpox—on the United States. Designed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies (now called the Center for Health Security) and the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the day-and-a-half-long “Dark Winter” simulation was conducted to gauge how senior leaders would respond to such an attack and included such high-level participants as Sen. Sam Nunn (who played the president), former White House advisor David Gergen (the national security advisor), and the retired career diplomat Frank Wisner (the secretary of state). But Dark Winter has since become legendary in senior policymaking circles in Washington for a different reason: It has regularly been cited by its designers and participants as the clearest exhibit of the spiraling stresses, and potential social collapse, that could be sparked by a public health crisis.
