Riot 4: Rocky Vs. Ivan

It is far from over broski. We're still only in tip of the iceberg territory.

remember the part where the DHS guys said that during the riots they have observers that spot the people committing a crime (like assaulting an officer or throwing the fireworks etc) then they monitor their movement then apprehend/arrest them when its more safe to do so

And the growing crowds in Portland has OFA written all over it. Now they aren't protesting police anything or BLM, they're literally just being mobilized to make a scene for bad Trump PR.

They do that in addition to/as a cover for grabbing randos walking down the street

If that is so, it won't end well for the career protesters, period. They'll all be siting in jail waiting for their turn with the free ACLU lawyer while the rest of us go back to actually important things in life.

if a person is walking away from a very large angry gathering wearing full black + a helmet from 12am-6am then you're not a rando

Uh yes actually you are. Literally. If you're in a group and it turns into "a riot." You're not guilty of anything.

Theyre using fear to suppress citizens rights.

Which rights?

waiting for the new york times to come out with the article~

"The police are not here to create disorder, the police are here to preserve disorder."

And if there is no riot the federal officers will start one.

apparently the charred remains of someone was found in a pawn shop in Minneapolis thanks to the riots ~ guess we support burning people alive now. Kinda like what the are trying to do to that courthouse with all those agents inside

No matter what actions the rioters take (not calling them protesters any longer being that the actual police brutality protesters went home long ago) these guys will defend it. They could carry a lifeless baby on a stick through the streets and they'd find meaning in it.

Bottom line, they are stuck in the, "Oh this is all for a good cause..." argument mentality. They seem to think people causing damage and physical violence isn't really causing damage or violence, because they've just been justifying it in their heads for weeks now, and they fear if they now admit "Ok, it's now become pointless" that means they are somehow admitting the whole thing was pointless.

The whole thing wasn't necessarily, "pointless." It's just, activists never know when to say when because it's in their nature. It's like job justification. If they ever admit whatever they were bitching about for decades actually gets fixed or better yet CAN'T get fixed, because you cannot change human nature, they'd have to put their signs down and actually join the rest of us in the sane world.

This one is actually a bit surprising, a judge actually siding with police these days.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/federal-judge-blocks-seattle-ban-on-police-use-of-tear-gas/281-59e1ef7d-a7af-4b97-8f11-bfdeee816138

Seems like there was a shooting in Austin last night during the peaceful protests. Crowd was marching and chanting in the street, car drove into them, opened fire. There is already one video out, gunshots are extremely loud.

Local article

This is the video, I'll put it in a spoiler tag, you don't see the victim get shot, but like I said, the gunshots are very loud.

to be clear ~


Does that automatically warrant for the person to shoot? Maybe not. Maybe the person felt threatened too. Let the police figure it out

https://www.wafb.com/2020/07/24/ae-loses-its-audience-after-canceling-live-pd/#:~:text=JACKSON%2C%20Miss.,the%20same%20period%20last%20year.

probably should've looked at the demographics before they made their decision

https://www.yahoo.com/news/minneapolis-residents-forming-armed-neighborhood-124508528.html


wonder if reducing police funding or having leaders in govt calling for police to be abolished along with negative portrayals of police in the news for 2 months has anything to do with encouraging people to commit crime because they know that many officers are discouraged to do their job or there is an increased response times. You'd imagine that total crime would be lower during the lockdown of the pandemic, so why is gun violence increasing?

IDK if Minneapolis is among them but in many jurisdictions police ate having "sick outs."

Poor little snowflakes get PTSD because they are no longer allowed to shoot "suspects" in the back.

I wish this was merely invective.

More like "why should I bother protecting these *** if they are going to demand my resignation and put me in jail for saving their *** and property?"

Assaulting non violent protestors, or even rioters, seems to be doing little to protect property.

As to *** ...

Except they don't.

You seem to paint a picture using a broad brush. There are more civilians who assault other civilians than police assaulting civilians. It can't even come close to comparision.

There are more people who assault other people per day than police who assault civilians per year.

It's actually sad that you think that police do nothing but murder and assaults...

You look up non sequitur in the dictionary and your arguments should be posted as examples.

18 rioters arrested, facing charges

Of course, some people are going to claim it was all unorganized, even though it was highly organized...

Also, more evidence that these protesters are highly organized

A good protest should be organized.

I have been in way too many that weren't and quite a few that were.

:P

He is just trolling. It's going nowhere.

tbf tho ~ if protesters are preparing shields, gasoline and molotov cocktails they're looking for a fight not a protest. Unless you think that's normal armament for a protest that's suppose to be peaceful

https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1287921895686303745

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/509257-wall-of-moms-black-lives-matter-sue-trump-admin-over-portland

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/24/judge-federal-agents-portland-reject-381381

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/dhs-agent-in-portland-protesters-seek-to-embarrass-defeat-trump-catatonic-with-hate