And didn't smash anything.
Didn't start fires.
Didn't steal stuff
Didn't harm employees
Left even cleaning up after themselves lol
Does it? Cause it seems strange they can be heard in the footage yelling "Fuck CNN"
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Didn't start fires.
Didn't steal stuff
Didn't harm employees
Left even cleaning up after themselves lol
The very fact they stormed a government building while armed and did not provoke a violent, if not lethal, response is in my view fucking damning. If idiots armed with shotguns attempted to storm NSW parliament I would expect Special Operations Group to cut them down where they stood.
Sorry that's my fault: NSW Parliament is the Government main building for the State of NSW. It does not refer to the Australian Parliament House, located in Canberra. My point is it doesn't matter in my view if they're attempting to storm a vehicle licensing center or the seat of the sovereign; it is an armed assault by extremists and should be dealt with like one.
Except that would have gone down badly. The idea of only responding to actual violence seems to have meant the situation lead to not trouble in the end.
Yes, it would have gone badly - mainly for the untrained and uncoordinated idiots who thought they could march in to a building with weapons they had no right to be in en-masse at that time. The de facto response to an armed group seizing a building should be the one the British used when the Iranian Embassy was occupied by terrorists.
because they killed people and took hostages not stood round like idiots doing nothing like lemons for a few hours then walked out.
Still should have been led out, in cuffs, by a fucking SWAT team at minimum.
They stormed the governor's office with guns. The police were busting out riot gear against people with signs in the street. There is very clearly two classes of response and it doesn't seem to be linked to threat.
Why when you can just visit their homes and pick em up later when they're alone and there is less risk?
Police were busting out the riot gear because Police kind of knew they'd face the brunt of the anger in this case.
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From watching this on CNN.. 4 white people running out of a Starbucks looting it in LA. A STARBUCKS. Leave it to white people to loot a Starbucks during a protest. They do not even have good coffee, why would anyone want anything out of there? Well okay one of them had milk.. so there's that. With so many unemployed right now needing milk might actually be reasonable. Though it is possible they are using it for burns.
I appreciate what you say. You dont need my forgiveness, or to do better, I love this place in part for the disagreement. It might not come through in the constant arguing, but I do hold most people here in reasonably high regard, you included. Thank you for being here.
When's the right time? Anytime that it isn't the wrong time, I guess. The anthem kneeling was something I argued with friends and family about. People saw it as disrespect, I tried to explain that of course they appreciate the flag and anthem or it wouldn't be seen as a powerful message. That message didn't land, and the initial leader of that action didn't help his case much with words. And when it stopped bringing up discussion of the issue and turned into it's own issue, it became the wrong time.
And like now. Protesting this killing was great, then people started burning things, so now it's the wrong time again for other cities to have protests in solidarity with a riot. Wait for the literal smoke to clear. Its l like separating to corners in boxing, when things degrade we need to step back and catch our breath. Anytime is the right time until things degrade and people hurt their own cause by pushing harder against someone already locked into fighting.
But like, even if everyone trying to do right made every right decision, it would still not be a solved problem. Racial bias is going to exist likely effectively forever, against the best wishes of good people. No actions, no legislation will be able to prevent every tragedy like this one. Human nature defies clean answers to eternal problems like racism, murder, or abuse of power. We can do better. I'd say we do better now than a century ago. We progress. And progress doesn't have a finish line, you just keep working at it forever.
Well I guess fuck the governor. Probably should pay for some McMercs if you want protection.
Check this out. Reporter comes in to see whats happening and a cop in riot gear just comes up and starts blasting them with rubber bullets without saying a word.
Yea I saw that too, A lot of this, you have a bunch of cops being chill then out of nowhere you get these arses that are proving they have no business having a badge at all.
Check this out. Reporter comes in to see whats happening and a cop in riot gear just comes up and starts blasting them with rubber bullets without saying a word.
Police to open investigation after video shows Memphis officer shoving woman to ground
The video seems to show an officer knocking down a woman who was standing near demonstrators at the Midtown police precinct on Union Avenue.
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Then I am reminded of everyone I grew up that I knew with that became police officers. They were really the worst of the worst, breaking into people's houses and garages, attacking people, messed up on drugs cutting people with razor blades at a party.. yea.. There are a lot of people who have badges that NEVER should have been allowed to in the first place. We really need to start with job vetting, pay and training or this is never going to get better. It is a terrible job with horrible pay and even worse conditions. That is part of why it attracts people who only want the job to be able to legally hurt people and that is a big part of the problem here.
Some conservative's wet dream of Real American Family Values I would assume.
It may not be precisely what it appears to be, but it's weird enough that it almost has to be real.
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