Police Brutality Protests Thread

[Kara Spengler]

Are those rounds designed to deform and tumble once they hit pavement? It seems like quite a risk if they maintain their energy once they ricochet.

Something made of rubber would lose a lot of energy on initial contact then fighting gravity to ascend again.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Tonight's DC atrocities should be starting in the next 30 minutes.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I’m not sure how to process this thread. It‘s an interpretation of Trump’s intentions behind the bizarre Bible stunt and who it was aimed at:

The Christians Who Loved Trump’s Stunt

The president’s photo op outside St. John’s Church was emblematic of his appeal to the religious right.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Romana]

And from latter on on that thread:

 

[Pamela]

What gets ignored while talking heads blabber:

 

[Isabeau]

 

[detrius]

And from latter on on that thread:

Did Laura Ingraham just take a picture of her booze?

Y'know, bottles usually don't just ~stand~ in the middle of a sidewalk on a busy street - someone's bound to kick it over sooner or later, or move it to the side. So ~someone~ placed it there rather recently. Was that her brandy?

 

[Sredni Eel]

It's official: All 50 states have protests going on tonight.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

So, basically, he's their anti-Christ..... and they are all antichristian. For they do not follow the words of their Christ, but go against them.

The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are…

www.poetryfoundation.org

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Kara Spengler]

If that does not say us what does?

 

[Kara Spengler]

LOTS of protesters in dc tonight. So much for it wanting to play big bad stwong man and stopping things, the result was basically throwing fuel on the fire.

 

[Soen Eber]

Donald Trump Warns Supporters Could Riot if He Doesn’t Get GOP Nomination

This is from 2016. It's obvious he's had this idea of riots for electoral gain for a very long time. Supress enough urban votes in swing states and he's got his 2nd term, without doing a thing, with no risk of getting caught.

He is not a normal politician, he thinks in terms of Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot. It CAN happen here.

 

[Eunoli]

He is not a normal politician, he thinks in terms of Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot. It CAN happen here.

If we manage to get past this point in time, I don't think the military presence will go away. Its going to get bloodier and its going to become more and more clear that he's moving toward a true dictatorship. With the corona spikes we're going to get from this plus the complete lack of social distancing in certain places - plus the increased crime we're going to see as people grow desperate without work or cash, I see a dark future right now. I will be surprised if we get to vote in November at all.

 

[Eunoli]

On a brighter note - this is a much better look for this church than yesterday's:

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I’m not sure how to process this thread. It‘s an interpretation of Trump’s intentions behind the bizarre Bible stunt and who it was aimed at:

You guys might as well be living on a different planet than us, be careful in trying to destroy us, don't be genocidal you need us for the world to function the way it has and all your creature comforts.

QED​

 

[Roxie Marten]

Survived the protest. pretty low key event, the cops where mellow
Confronted two idiots carrying AR 15 rifles
They said "they saw someone packing in the crowd" It wasn't that big of a protest.
Now i look back at it and think "Jesus are you crazy, confronting guys with guns"
Any way time to scrub the sharpie off my arm, we were told to write the important numbers on our arms in case the cops took our phones.
I am no longer a protest virgin

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Survived the protest. pretty low key event, the cops where mellow
Confronted two idiots carrying AR 15 rifles
They said "they saw someone packing in the crowd" It wasn't that big of a protest.
Now i look back at it and think "Jesus are you crazy, confronting guys with guns"
Any way time to scrub the sharpie off my arm, we were told to write the important numbers on our arms in case the cops took our phones.
I am no longer a protest virgin

Handy protest items: a bandana and a bottle of water. Bandana xan be a bandage or if you soak it with the water good for wrapping your face and breathing amidst tear gas. Learned from some 60 year old lady in Caracas, a many times protester. She had a whole protest bag of stuff, first aid items were involved, I don’t remember everything.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]