Well you can understand why they can't just let people run riot. I'm impressed that these people are braving the prospects of a beating and a criminal record for what they think is right. I'm far too middle-class and comfortable to go in for that sort of thing myself.
Protests following the killing of George Floyd
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Well you can understand why they can't just let people run riot. I'm impressed that these people are braving the prospects of a beating and a criminal record for what they think is right. I'm far too middle-class and comfortable to go in for that sort of thing myself.
Just seen it, I'm assuming he is used to racial profiling at that point to act this way then when they are trying to arrest him.
Seems confirmed that he was in the bunker on Friday, there are reports saying he was in it last night too but not confirmed.
I read that aswell. Donald will just blame someone else. Its never his fault. He is the most infuriating person I have never met. He really needs to be taken out and tarred and feathered. He is an absolute stain.
Sometimes something is too much for even the whites to do nothing about.
What chauvin did was too much, simply put.
You can only opress your citizen so far before they fight back
Yeah. I don't know the specific name of the person they are looking for but I assume it must be a common black name hence why he feels aggrieved and tells the officer that he looks like a "Jake".
I think you have to be careful with social media at the moment as lots of misleading stuff being floated around.
Some of the videos I’ve seen of the police brutality during these protests is insane. They’re fecking power mad and actively looking for ways to hurt people.
Trump and the right trying to spin it as a terrorist operation is fecking vile too. The world would genuinely be a better place if he died.
Trump and the right trying to spin it as a terrorist operation is fecking vile too. The world would genuinely be a better place if he died.
They've maneuvered themselves into a position where they have made it impossible to police America's largest cities at night (at least for the time being). As a consequence of that they have curtailed everyone's rights. That isn't down to the protesters, it's on the police themselves.
When has a president been in the bunker previously? I assume it doesn't happen often so just wondered what we could use to compare it with.
At lease we can all take joy in the fact that Trump must be really miserable these days. He can't play golf or leer at blonde teens and he has to attend numerous boring briefings and then answer questions to the press on loads of really hard stuff. I bet he fecking loathes the job currently.
They are a horrible administration. Arrogant to the last.
I get so fecking annoyed when I see the saluting army majors over coffins of young soldiers thanking them for their service.
What the feck are they doing in Afghanistan and Iraq in the first place? Them kids should be at home in college not muslim hunting in far away foreign lands.
I'd imagine the lack of control comes from the same place as the initial incident.
Twitter is obviously a cesspit but the responses to some videos of police brutality still surprise me. Lineker tweeted one of them shoving an old white man with a cane to the ground and rather than remarking on how obviously bad that is they post videos of looters.
POTUS says attack and they go at it. This worryingly all plays into his hands, wouldn't surprise me one bit to see him tweet support for vigilante groups.
These scumbags are despicable. Attacking a female shop owner
WTF, scumbags, where was the husband?
I read that it was September 11th, 2001.
Out they will come then with their arsenal of weapons and away we go into civil war. I fear this will get much worse.
The video is still funny af.
I don't think it makes any sense to judge this situation on some grand idea of what politics should be like. It is what it is, the spontaneous result of a long, long buildup.
There's no common political standard that can be implemented anyway, who's supposed to do that? This isn't organized top-down, there's no master plan, and no leader like MLK. Simply something that has been brewing for a long time blowing up in America's face. And with some force, naturally.
Channeling that into more institutionalized paths may happen later, if it happens at all. Until then, there will be a multitude of people with a variety of attitudes deciding for themselves, and what we're seeing is the result of that.
They are so dumb.
Trump: the capitalist anarchist.
He's afraid of a bunch of harmless protesters with bricks and cardboards?
20% = Ex Military
The 40% references an article that claimed 40% of all Police in the USA had some form of engagement with the armed forces. So that 20%, plus anyone that submitted an application, or failed a standard, or was Army Reserve linked etc.
My point was : The 20% number is vetted. The 40% was speculative but accurate to what it spoke to.
I'm going to be fair, and say that Trump probably didn't have much choice but to go to the bunker - security officials practically shove their employers away from possible harm at times like these.
Nope. That's american with cardboards. Even if they're armed with ar15 at worst it's the white house.
If I'm the president I'll go out on a front porch and calm them down. Not hunkering on a bunker and if a secret service told me to I'll fire them on the spot. You cant protect me from a mass of protester?
You would get shot then. Eventually.
Yeah hiding behind secret service advice isn't really a great look for the Commander-in-chief.
Then? What's the option? Never spoke or be seen in public ever again?
He has Twitter, so he can carry on tweeting his 'Bake 'em away, toys' rants to the world to his heart's content.
Plus, like the restarted football season, his people can pipe-in crowd applause so he still gets the ego fix from his rallies.
Jesus what a piece of shit. Two tweets about how sad she is about businesses but nothing about the murder.
It really is incredible. I've seen tons of comments which talk only about the looting. Like, dude, the actual issue here is police brutality!
Are you suggesting that the only two options is to walk out on front of thousands of angry protestors who have not been vetted or even searched, or never appear in public again?
Ok.
People like that will twist literally anything to suit them. It's sick.
Wow. Just shows there must be sure serious concerns regarding his welfare given the last time this happened the US was under attack from a terrorist organisation. Then again I guess he's trying to paint this in a similar light.
Imagine being the leader of a nation at a time of great anger, division, and sensitivity, and your message isn't one of unity but of paranoia, blame, provocation, and incitement of the very fault-ridden forces that are most at fault.
Bingo.
I can't believe all he had to say on twitter is "FAKE NEWS", can't get more tone-deaf than that.
'LAW AND ORDER!' translates to 'SIC THE DOGS ON THEM!'
Or you know staying in oval office instead of a nuclear resistant bunker?
I can just imagine the avid Trumper sitting at home.
Opens Twitter to see the president has tweeted "LAW &ORDER!".
A satisfied smile crosses his face as he thinks "Well done Mr. President, that should calm things down. What a perfect and profound response."
Why, are these people that we have conditioned to believe destruction to be the solution to every problem, trying to solve problems with destruction?
I've just had the unpleasant experience of reading about the agricultural strikes someone mentioned up-thread, regarding the 'effectiveness' of peaceful protesting. Here's some quotes from the employers, witnesses and associates: