Adding to the farce of it all - CNN's camera is still on as it makes its way through the police station.
Protests following the killing of George Floyd
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He obviously had it coming, he had the audacity to be black.
Arresting reporters 
Couldn't make this sh*t up.
Couldn't make this sh*t up.
Don't forget that he's an enemy of the people (mainstream media).
Donald Trump has been conditioning his base for civil war ever since he got elected, basically. People lose their shit when his rise is in any way compared to the rise of fascism, but the "enemy of the people" stuff is right in, as is talking about the lying press (Hitler literally talked about the Lügenpresse).
Did it hot mic anything juicy?
Would love to see the social media posts of the arresting officers, their immediate bosses, & maybe one layer higher. It would be enlightening.
No. They ended up cutting away before the reporters started saying anything private after they were released.
Like something out of a movie shot
Don't think he's consciously trolling. His posts are simply full of right wing ideology & talking points, as can be seen on various subjects from politics to history to philosophy.
This CNN cat is being exceedingly nice about this situation. Props to him.
Which is stupid, really.
It isn't racist nor racially motivated to refer to people setting fire to a city, rioting and looting stores as thugs. If you described that situation to random people and asked them to use a word to describe those responsible I'm extremely confident that thugs would top the list.
Besides, when you watch the videos there's an awful lot of white people on the streets too.
Like something out of a movie shot
Power to the people. Love the fact it’s a multirace riot. It’s not a black protest, it’s a Human protest.
Dog whistles are super effective aren’t they?
Whether you choose to accept it or not the word thug carries very specific connotations in the US. The word isn’t used by accident.
Very much so.
What other word could he have used? Hooligans? No matter what word he used it would be claimed to be racial.
It's quite silly that in a tweet sent out by the president of the United States suggesting he will give the order to shoot people that "thugs" is the thing being dissected.
You live here?
Did you type the first draft of this post in crayon? You are bloody bonkers.
You can just step back and acknowledge that you’re not aware of the weight the word carries in America and accept that there might be more to it than you initially realised. It’s ok.
It’s literally what a dog whistle is.
I'm aware of what the word carries when it's inaccurately used within the context for no other reason than the targets happening to be black. That isn't the case here.
How understanding of you.
Yes it is.
Compare that tweet to his response when the white guys armed themselves to the teeth and stormed government buildings.
Come on, you can't possibly be this naive. There's one all-caps word in that tweet, and it's THUGS. Given that Trump is racist, which he is, and given that he's played on alt-right and even white supremacist dog-whistles before, it's not just any old random word.
Full video is even more damning. Does anyone think the police would have behaved the same if it wasn’t a network that Trump paints as an enemy of the people?
It actually is the case, the goal was to make the subject racial by using the term thug he brings a "colored" image. If it was a "white" context, he most likely would have call them liberals and pointed the finger at democrats.
The reason you can't compare is he's politically aligned with those in that situation thus he was never going to refer to them as thugs despite that being exactly what they were.
He also called Mueller's lawyers "thugs" and as far as I'm aware not one of them was black.
White people discussing semantics in situations like these are so tiring.
That's the point of a dog-whistle, though. It's not a word or phrase exclusively used for racism, which is why it's so effective at letting racists go "look, I wasn't being racist!"
Yes, it quite literally is semantics. Don't you think it's valuable to know that the president of the US was talking to his racist supporters? Words have meaning, and they matter.
Wow. Just, wow. You simply couldn’t be more incorrect on this if you needed to be.
They know, they don’t care.
Better this way. Absolute maximum exposure.
it was to ascertain whether there was any form of existing animosity between them mate. It turns out they had worked together in the past so I’d bet money that the officer was using this to settle an old score.
This looks like pre determined murder to me. He had every intention of ending that poor mans life from the moment he placed his knee on his neck/throat.
These riots are just the tip of the iceberg if that cop doesn’t end up facing murder charges.
Certainly the word "thug" has no racial connotations in the UK. Despite the etymology of the word being linked to an Indian cult of robbers and swindlers in the time of empire.
The football thugs of the 70's and 80's were almost entirely white.
The football thugs of the 70's and 80's were almost entirely white.
Quite possible...
Fine, objective debating technique there. Don't expect to be taken seriously.
You're absolutely correct which is why I said that when it's used inaccurately within the context and the targets just so conveniently happen to be black it's almost certainly racially motivated. This isn't one of those situations. This situation is literally applying the bloody definition of the word 100% accurately.
Trump is a cnut and I'm sure if the snide posters above who are passively-aggressively talking shite without quoting me and implying that I'm some kind of Trump fanboy would go back and look at my posts they'd see I'm so incredibly far away from being aligned with Trump, the alt-right, white supremacy or any other kind of shite.
On this one issue I simply don't see the issue with describing people rioting and looting as "thugs". It's honestly no deeper than that.
The idea that we can dismiss everyone involved in rioting and looting as ‘thugs’, aside from the dogwhistle racism, requires a huge abandonment of the true context and system that is driving this outburst
Fingers crossed. That was attempted murder.