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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 8:23pm



 haresfur wrote:


 KarmaKarma wrote:

Officer shot in the head in Las Vegas on life support


LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An officer who was shot in the head near the Circus Circus casino is on life support at University Medical Center, sources confirmed to KLAS.

The source said the officer was in a fight with a suspect when someone walked up from behind and shot the officer.



https://fox59.com/news/officer-shot-in-the-head-in-las-vegas-on-life-support/

 

I think we can agree that this is a bad thing
 
This is but ONE of the many officers seriously injured or killed in these riots.  Why isn't anyone here discussing that aspect, and what should be done with the culprits and enablers?

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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 8:18pm



 KarmaKarma wrote:

Officer shot in the head in Las Vegas on life support


LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An officer who was shot in the head near the Circus Circus casino is on life support at University Medical Center, sources confirmed to KLAS.

The source said the officer was in a fight with a suspect when someone walked up from behind and shot the officer.



https://fox59.com/news/officer-shot-in-the-head-in-las-vegas-on-life-support/

 

I think we can agree that this is a bad thing
KarmaKarma

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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 7:34pm

Officer shot in the head in Las Vegas on life support


LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An officer who was shot in the head near the Circus Circus casino is on life support at University Medical Center, sources confirmed to KLAS.

The source said the officer was in a fight with a suspect when someone walked up from behind and shot the officer.



https://fox59.com/news/officer-shot-in-the-head-in-las-vegas-on-life-support/

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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 5:47pm

 Steely_D wrote:
Angry/yelling/peaceful = protestors
Burning/destroying/stealing = looters.

Use the proper nomenclature to avoid all this confusing crosstalk about how protestors are stealing stuff. If they do, they’re not protesting; they’re looting. That makes them scofflaws and should be arrested. Protestors, though, are exercising their 1st Amendment rights and should be respected.
 
Obviously wrong (as is the subject) and rather black and white.

Rioting (and all that it might entail) is a form of protest.

Or take graffiti (vandalism)...
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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 4:26pm



 sirdroseph wrote:
 

This needs to be said early and often.

Angry/yelling/peaceful = protestors
Burning/destroying/stealing = looters.

Use the proper nomenclature to avoid all this confusing crosstalk about how protestors are stealing stuff. If they do, they’re not protesting; they’re looting. That makes them scofflaws and should be arrested. Protestors, though, are exercising their 1st Amendment rights and should be respected.
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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 4:01pm



 sirdroseph wrote:
There is a lot of disturbing evidence of outside influences inciting, setting off property destruction and even supplying weaponry in the form of rocks, bricks and so forth.  Not surprisingly, your political persuasion will usually indicate who one thinks is to blame, but I am here to tell you they all are.  The FBI, local police, White nationalist, Black separatist and Antifa all have motivation and means for this type of behavior with the shared goal of chaos, destruction or deflection.   They coordinate and travel to hot spots with the goal of using large group behavior and human nature to get the protestors or other members of the local communities to breakdown into mob mentality.   These are not the protesters.  We must not let them win.
{#Cry}
 

If you mean coordinate with each other, I disagree
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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 12:00pm

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One had to be pretty dumb to believe it anyway. What's next Anarchy Inc.?
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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 11:53am

Suspected Antifa Anarchist Accused Of Inciting Riots Turned In To Police By His Parents




A suspected Antifa anarchist accused of inciting riots in Pittsburgh was turned in to police by his own parents Monday evening. Brian Bartels, 20, is accused of inciting violent protests in the city on Saturday in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.

https://saraacarter.com/suspected-antifa-anarchist-accused-of-inciting-riots-turned-in-to-police-by-his-parents/

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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 11:48am

Peaceful Protests Over George Floyd’s Death Eclipsed by White Rioters
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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 11:25am



 sirdroseph wrote:
 KarmaKarma wrote:


 sirdroseph wrote:
There is a lot of disturbing evidence of outside influences inciting, setting off property destruction and even supplying weaponry in the form of rocks, bricks and so forth.  Not surprisingly, your political persuasion will usually indicate who one thinks is to blame, but I am here to tell you they all are.  The FBI, local police, 
 
We interrupt this paranoid rant to point out that you sir,  are an idiot.
Continuing:
 White nationalist, Black separatist and Antifa all have motivation and means for this type of behavior with the shared goal of chaos, destruction or deflection.   They coordinate and travel to hot spots with the goal of using large group behavior and human nature to get the protestors or other members of the local communities to breakdown into mob mentality.   These are not the protesters.  We must not let them win.
{#Cry}
 

Illinois man accused of passing out explosives at Minneapolis George Floyd protest
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-man-accused-of-passing-out-explosives-at-minneapolis-george-floyd-protest

 
Yea cause we know the FBI would never do anything to plant evidence or infiltrate.
{#Lol}
 
you mean the same corrupt fbi that tried to take down trump? never!

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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 11:21am

 KarmaKarma wrote:


 sirdroseph wrote:
There is a lot of disturbing evidence of outside influences inciting, setting off property destruction and even supplying weaponry in the form of rocks, bricks and so forth.  Not surprisingly, your political persuasion will usually indicate who one thinks is to blame, but I am here to tell you they all are.  The FBI, local police, 
 
We interrupt this paranoid rant to point out that you sir,  are an idiot.
Continuing:
 White nationalist, Black separatist and Antifa all have motivation and means for this type of behavior with the shared goal of chaos, destruction or deflection.   They coordinate and travel to hot spots with the goal of using large group behavior and human nature to get the protestors or other members of the local communities to breakdown into mob mentality.   These are not the protesters.  We must not let them win.{#Cry}
 

Illinois man accused of passing out explosives at Minneapolis George Floyd protest
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-man-accused-of-passing-out-explosives-at-minneapolis-george-floyd-protest

 
Yea cause we know the FBI would never do anything to plant evidence or infiltrate.{#Lol}
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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 11:00am



 sirdroseph wrote:
There is a lot of disturbing evidence of outside influences inciting, setting off property destruction and even supplying weaponry in the form of rocks, bricks and so forth.  Not surprisingly, your political persuasion will usually indicate who one thinks is to blame, but I am here to tell you they all are.  The FBI, local police, 
 
We interrupt this paranoid rant to point out that you sir,  are an idiot.


Continuing:
 White nationalist, Black separatist and Antifa all have motivation and means for this type of behavior with the shared goal of chaos, destruction or deflection.   They coordinate and travel to hot spots with the goal of using large group behavior and human nature to get the protestors or other members of the local communities to breakdown into mob mentality.   These are not the protesters.  We must not let them win.
{#Cry}
 

Illinois man accused of passing out explosives at Minneapolis George Floyd protest


https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-man-accused-of-passing-out-explosives-at-minneapolis-george-floyd-protest

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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 10:53am

There is a lot of disturbing evidence of outside influences inciting, setting off property destruction and even supplying weaponry in the form of rocks, bricks and so forth.  Not surprisingly, your political persuasion will usually indicate who one thinks is to blame, but I am here to tell you they all are.  The FBI, local police, White nationalist, Black separatist and Antifa all have motivation and means for this type of behavior with the shared goal of chaos, destruction or deflection.   They coordinate and travel to hot spots with the goal of using large group behavior and human nature to get the protestors or other members of the local communities to breakdown into mob mentality.   These are not the protesters.  We must not let them win.{#Cry}
black321

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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 5:58am

There appears to be some effort among the protesters, and not isolated to the fringe, that "non-violent looting" is an acceptable form of protest. The reasoning is something along the lines of black lives built those stores, buildings...we are taking/looting what white people take/loot each day.
The pacifist protest doesnt work...

While the non-violent/pacifist protests made not be done, they are working.
The looting seems more like revenge than protest/progress.
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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 5:57am



 cc_rider wrote:
 
I just commented elsewhere, but I'll do it again.  To all those saying Kaepernick was being disrespectful, please explain the difference here. 

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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 5:02am

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Posted: Jun 2, 2020 - 4:52am

Twitter suspends fake antifa account tied to white nationalists
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Posted: Jun 1, 2020 - 12:46pm

2011 England riots
"Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice."
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

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Posted: Jun 1, 2020 - 12:33pm

 Steely_D wrote:
Looting in my city today. Under curfew tonight. This was no protest, simply smashing of glass and theft/vandalism. On Twitter: "the city's full of racist white rich people." We'll ignore the irony of saying that the "white people" are racist.

You tolerate this shit only so far, and then they deserve consequences.

As the GOP would say of the folks trying to cross the border: you just needed to have followed the rules. We're a nation of laws.
 

senseless violence could have a delegitimizing effect

the real people protesting should do their best to prequalify the participants

organize peaceful protest without endangering others

then do your best to get to the negotiations with those that matter (decision makers)

it's a process, so let's get it started
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Posted: Jun 1, 2020 - 10:52am

R_P wrote:
Wasn't that a really bad and unpatriotic thing to do? Especially while on the clock?

Dude, the national anthem wasn't playing and nobody even brought a football. Nothing important was happening.
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