I don't even have words. The brutality of people for no reason. The police state. What is this world coming to? That Flint sheriff is a hero though. We need more people like him. Amazing what a little compassion can do.
Don't get the people cheering on the abusive power trips of officers. They're scum and more likely to engage in crimes while in the 'police' force. In all, no one was killed...BOTH SIDES, successful riots. Going to have to wait a 2 weeks to see how many contracted the virus while out there. And if you don't think Trump had a hard on watching all this chaos you haven't really been paying attention to his entire up bringing.
Georgetown Law professor Paul Butler, author of Chokehold: Policing Black Men, noted the reactions of some police this week was different to the response to demonstrations against coronavirus restrictions in Michigan last month. "Unarmed people, many of whom are people of color, protest police brutality and are met with police brutality — flash grenades, tear gas, and rubber bullets," he told Vox. "But when armed, mainly white protesters storm the Michigan state capitol, the police just let them be."
I don’t support looting and continued destruction. I don’t support the tactics the police are using to try and control the situation either no one really wants to attack a police officer . The riot gear , tear gas , flash bangs ... it’s like stirring up a hornets nest . They are encouraging people to hit back . The protests need to be peaceful and organized , but thinking strong arm tactics is a good idea ..... well , it explains why we got here . had the looting never happened would police be as aggressive ? They can say no , but I think we are rightfully skeptical of anything they say right now . all around shitty situation , I’m surprised and disappointed how many cities violence has broken out in
The antifa is the boogey man trump and repugs will be touting. Be on the lookout. Drinking game - take a shot every time a repug says ' antifa'
It’s like the episode in the Wire where the cops act like the hoppers by jumping Westbrook, I mean Brodie, after he hit a cop.
Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge What was your first reaction when you saw the video of the white cop kneeling on George Floyd’s neck while Floyd croaked, “I can’t breathe”? If you’re white, you probably muttered a horrified, “Oh, my God” while shaking your head at the cruel injustice. If you’re black, you probably leapt to your feet, cursed, maybe threw something (certainly wanted to throw something), while shouting, “Not @#$%! again!” Then you remember the two white vigilantes accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery as he jogged through their neighborhood in February, and how if it wasn’t for that video emerging a few weeks ago, they would have gotten away with it. And how those Minneapolis cops claimed Floyd was resisting arrest but a store’s video showed he wasn’t. And how the cop on Floyd’s neck wasn’t an enraged redneck stereotype, but a sworn officer who looked calm and entitled and devoid of pity: the banality of evil incarnate. Maybe you also are thinking about the Karen in Central Park who called 911 claiming the black man who asked her to put a leash on her dog was threatening her. Or the black Yale University grad student napping in the common room of her dorm who was reported by a white student. Because you realize it’s not just a supposed “black criminal” who is targeted, it’s the whole spectrum of black faces from Yonkers to Yale. You start to wonder if it should be all black people who wear body cams, not the cops. What do you see when you see angry black protesters amassing outside police stations with raised fists? If you’re white, you may be thinking, “They certainly aren’t social distancing.” Then you notice the black faces looting Target and you think, “Well, that just hurts their cause.” Then you see the police station on fire and you wag a finger saying, “That’s putting the cause backward.” You’re not wrong — but you’re not right, either. The black community is used to the institutional racism inherent in education, the justice system and jobs. And even though we do all the conventional things to raise public and political awareness — write articulate and insightful pieces in the Atlantic, explain the continued devastation on CNN, support candidates who promise change — the needle hardly budges. But COVID-19 has been slamming the consequences of all that home as we die at a significantly higher rate than whites, are the first to lose our jobs, and watch helplessly as Republicans try to keep us from voting. Just as the slimy underbelly of institutional racism is being exposed, it feels like hunting season is open on blacks. If there was any doubt, President Trump’s recent tweets confirm the national zeitgeist as he calls protesters “thugs” and looters fair game to be shot. Yes, protests often are used as an excuse for some to take advantage, just as when fans celebrating a hometown sports team championship burn cars and destroy storefronts. I don’t want to see stores looted or even buildings burn. But African Americans have been living in a burning building for many years, choking on the smoke as the flames burn closer and closer. Racism in America is like dust in the air. It seems invisible — even if you’re choking on it — until you let the sun in. Then you see it’s everywhere. As long as we keep shining that light, we have a chance of cleaning it wherever it lands. But we have to stay vigilant, because it’s always still in the air. So, maybe the black community’s main concern right now isn’t whether protesters are standing three or six feet apart or whether a few desperate souls steal some T-shirts or even set a police station on fire, but whether their sons, husbands, brothers and fathers will be murdered by cops or wannabe cops just for going on a walk, a jog, a drive. Or whether being black means sheltering at home for the rest of their lives because the racism virus infecting the country is more deadly than COVID-19. What you should see when you see black protesters in the age of Trump and coronavirus is people pushed to the edge, not because they want bars and nail salons open, but because they want to live. To breathe. Worst of all, is that we are expected to justify our outraged behavior every time the cauldron bubbles over. Almost 70 years ago, Langston Hughes asked in his poem “Harlem”: “What happens to a dream deferred? /… Maybe it sags / like a heavy load. / Or does it explode?” Fifty years ago, Marvin Gaye sang in “Inner City Blues”: “Make me wanna holler / The way they do my life.” And today, despite the impassioned speeches of well-meaning leaders, white and black, they want to silence our voice, steal our breath. So what you see when you see black protesters depends on whether you’re living in that burning building or watching it on TV with a bowl of corn chips in your lap waiting for “NCIS” to start. What I want to see is not a rush to judgment, but a rush to justice.
Just as a reminder. https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-trolls-senate-intelligence-committee-hearing-2017-11 Through online manipulation bad actor nations like Russia are likely creating the online organizing to create a “both sides” controversy to destabilize our country further. Sure we don’t need Russia or others interfering to fight with each other but keep this in mind as we see online propaganda to serve the interest of further pushing the US into an autocracy and away from Democracy.
Bar: unreliable narrator Cops: there are thousands of police departments in the United States. Which ones? Protestors: there are about 50+ protests around the country right now. So which protestors? Antifa: which individual spokesperson? Is there a face we can attach to as a leader or a group of leaders? Knowing the history of false flag antifa incidents and many fake antifa social media accounts created by right wing trolls, anything that "antifa" claims is suspect as it isn't some organized movement.
Police brutality more media enemy of the people stuff share it: firing something at innocent person on their porch: cop appearing to be enjoying himself today: https://v.redd.it/jjclrdzp8x151 cop shooting something at guy for saying "**** you": https://v.redd.it/zepg0b43ly151 cops breaking supplies for peaceful protestors: https://v.redd.it/v8x8isj0xz151 nypd driving into protestors: https://v.redd.it/mztm15kh00251 cops shoving an old dude to the ground: https://v.redd.it/bluggpblrz151 police actively seeking out fights compilation: https://v.redd.it/m82yxl4qh0251 cop driving at people aggressively on a campus: https://v.redd.it/ngxvkoro60251 cop shooting rubber bullets at people watching from apartment: police shooting the press with rubber bullets: https://v.redd.it/o3v8ps7rat151 police arresting a CNN reporter: https://v.redd.it/yce9bpk8mo151 police doing a drive-by pepper spraying photographer being pepper sprayed: https://i.redd.it/4ix8f3j6dy151.jpg guy with hands in the air gets his mask ripped off and pepper sprayed: https://v.redd.it/wlx0gyoe21251 lady who was coming home with groceries who got a rubber bullet to the head: https://i.redd.it/ns0uj557x0251.jpg reporter blinded by rubber bullets: https://mobile.twitter.com/KillerMartinis/status/1266618525600399361?s=19 reporter describes getting tear gassed: https://mobile.twitter.com/mollyhf/status/1266911382613692422 couple getting yanked out of their car and tased for violating curfew: https://mobile.twitter.com/GAFollowers/status/1266919104574865410?s=19 young woman gets shoved to the ground by officer: https://mobile.twitter.com/whitney_hu/status/1266540710188195843?s=20 reporter sheltering in gas station is pepper sprayed: https://twitter.com/MichaelAdams317 reporter trying to get home gets window shot out: https://twitter.com/JaredGoyette/status/1266961243476299778 cops come at a guy for filming a police car burning: https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1266953514242228229 photographer arrested: https://youtu.be/9wgkGLmphLE Columbus police assaulting protestors: https://twitter.com/KRobPhoto/status/1266796191469252610 congresswoman sprayed with pepper spray during protest: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/30/politics/joyce-beatty-ohio-pepper-sprayed-columbus-protest/index.html 7 protesters fired on with rubber bullets: https://v.redd.it/tal1ncha4o151 cops pepper spraying a group of protestors without provocation https://v.redd.it/0dxnkso0a1251 young child allegedly pepper sprayed: https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/v...ce-of-child-pepper-sprayed-in-seattle-protest horse tramples young woman, police investigating: https://www.click2houston.com/news/...ce-horse-tramples-woman-during-houston-rally/ cop pushes protestor with his bike https://twitter.com/ava/status/1266797973834395648?s=20 Reuters reporters detail being shot at with rubber bullets: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-as-police-disperse-protesters-idUSKBN237050
Sure makes sense... glad to see Biden and all the leftwing celebs bailing out the right wing white nationalists. Get real. This was lead by BLM and socialist anti-trump white people showed up to get in on the fun. Were there some white nationalists there? Probably, but to say they are a big part of this is a joke. Most of those rioters/looters were young and the statistics by FAR show those age groups to be more left wing/ socialist.
