Police Brutality Protests Thread

[Isabeau]

This after a bus driver refused to drive a bus the police had commandeered to fill with “prisoners”.

 

[Isabeau]

RIP USA

 

[Lexxi]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

RIP USA

Gonna be a wild summer. Stay safe y’all. You too Isabeau . When America sneezes, yanno.

re: safe. Including if you’re out there demonstrating like a motherfucker.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

RIP USA

We've been through worse things. We'll survive this. What I'm not sure about, though, is whether we will ever get better or heal from this.

 

[Scylla Rhiadra]

Meanwhile, in Canada . . .

We don't need to worry about America sneezing. We've got our own disease.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/regis-paquet-balcony-toronto-1.5588318

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Rapper Killer Mike pleads with Atlanta demonstrators to "burn" systemic racism, not the city

"We don't want to see one officer charged," Killer Mike said. "We want to see four officers prosecuted and sentenced."

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

How Violent Protests Change Politics

A politics professor at Princeton discusses civil-rights-era protest tactics, what violent protests have meant for elections, and whether Donald Trump is a figure of disorder.

www.newyorker.com

 

[Arkady Arkright]

Unavalilable, what was it about, please ?

 

[Kara Spengler]

Fuck you for calling me a liberal -I'm a leftist, damnit.

And I'm in favor of letting the people being targeted -and killed- by police brutality be the judge of how far is "too far".
Meanwhile:
Drone Video Shows Massive Scale Of Riots In Minneapolis

That being said I am of two minds about this. Normally I would be all in on riots. However right now it also has the result of spreading the virus, including to people who are more vulnerable.

 

[Kara Spengler]

That's where the problem lies; because objectively it IS a racial issue, between the state and specifically black citizens. And while our particular authoritarian police system is definitely a danger to everyone, it is not as much, or the same kind, of a danger to white people as it is to black people.

The police are certainly a problem. Every time I start leaning towards 'it is just a few bad apples' a really bad one emerges. I wonder how their system could be completely reformed without problems like racial bias?

 

[Kara Spengler]

Who Exactly Is Doing the Looting, and Who’s Being Looted?

Right now is a particularly bad time too with historic unemployment.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Right after cnn? Those police certainly do not know how to handle such a situation. In DC there are protests every weekend for different things so, while we have bad cops, we do not have stupid ones.

 

[Kara Spengler]

We've been through worse things. We'll survive this. What I'm not sure about, though, is whether we will ever get better or heal from this.

There will still be a country (or countries) here. There are good odds it will not be called the US though.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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Young white guys, their motives and affiliations unclear, joining the protests and setting out to damage property in Oakland, Philadelphia and elsewhere.

People are speculating they may be members of the "Proud Boys" and similar organisations, deliberately out to cause trouble and provoke police violence.

 

[Kara Spengler]

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Young white guys, their motives and affiliations unclear, joining the protests and setting out to damage property in Oakland, Philadelphia and elsewhere.

People are speculating they may be members of the "Proud Boys" and similar organisations, deliberately out to cause trouble and provoke police violence.

From past protests most likely they are agitators out to look the protestors look bad. They could be antifa, but I equate the two for most purposes.

 

[Isabeau]

Unavalilable, what was it about, please ?

I think it was another example of police action in the riot. Some of the tweets, when they get too much attention are sometimes deleted because the poster doesn’t want so much attention. Sometimes they give/sell the rights to news agency. I saw many tweets yesterday, so it’s hard to remember which one...

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I think it was another example of police action in the riot. Some of the tweets, when they get too much attention are sometimes deleted because the poster doesn’t want so much attention. Sometimes they give/sell the rights to news agency. I saw many tweets yesterday, so it’s hard to remember which one...

I couldn't swear to it, but I think when I saw your post originally it was a clip, widely shared on social media generally, of the cop firing something (not a bullet -- teargas, baton round, or something) at the journalists covering the protests in (I think) Louisville.

(I may be mistaken about Louisville -- it's on my mind at the moment because someone close to me lives there),

 

[Lexxi]

I think it was another example of police action in the riot. Some of the tweets, when they get too much attention are sometimes deleted because the poster doesn’t want so much attention. Sometimes they give/sell the rights to news agency. I saw many tweets yesterday, so it’s hard to remember which one...

The clip that is gone was like and not like my clips above that show protesters and cars interacting. Mine showed protesters almost getting into fights with people in cars, but shaking hands instead or pulling other protesters away. Yours should a car drive up with people in the road. It idled for a moment or two, then it almost hit a couple of protesters, then ran over one (I know I saw that particular Twitter clip somewhere, but it might not have specifically been what you had up - I do know it was a bad interaction with a car and protesters because I was going to comment that we keep posting similar though slightly different (or more than slightly different) posts roughly at the same time).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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