George Floyd Murder by Cop

[Roranora]

Brink? It's happening.

pfft, we just bashing up storefronts and dealing rubber bullet headshots right now

wait for it to start for real

[Cail]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...e-trump-296238

Only Republican senator I’ve seen so far saying Trumps photo op wasn’t a good idea.

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) decried the violence that had been seen on previous nights in Washington but voiced strong support for the constitutional right to protest.

“I’m against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop,” Sasse said in a statement that made no explicit mention of Trump but said that all public servants “should be lowering the temperature.”

Michael Reagan, son of the late former president Ronald Reagan, also weighed in, tweeting that if his father had walked across the street to St. John’s, “he would have been walking across to pray, not for a photo op.”

“Trump could learn some lessons,” Reagan wrote, also noting that his tweet “may piss off some Trump supporters.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/power...bbd_story.html

[Aerin]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/power...bbd_story.html

Glad to see more

[Cail]

Glad to see more

1 more lol

[Corrderio]

Geesh even Trump's side think he dun fucked up? Quite an oof.

[Yabby]

Hard to get mad at the President for doing what the full Republican party has been doing for the last 20 years.

[Cail]

Geesh even Trump's side think he dun fucked up? Quite an oof.

Thats a negative ghost rider. Its like 5 people.

https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1267603645643796485

[Corrderio]

Thats a negative ghost rider. Its like 5 people.

https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1267603645643796485

Aww fuck.

[Gadritan]

pfft, we just bashing up storefronts and dealing rubber bullet headshots right now

wait for it to start for real

Cops are starting to be shot and killed now too. Like 6 or 7 that I've heard so far. It's ramping up unfortunately.

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[Aerin]

One of the reporters on Fox News was just saying and that General Milley (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) and Defense Secretary Mark Esper didn’t know about Trumps plans until they happened. And that Milley deliberately stepped away from the photo op.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national...hurch-photo-op

[tyven]

Cops are starting to be shot and killed now too. Like 6 or 7 that I've heard so far. It's ramping up unfortunately.

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This is America, we should be better than this. Hopefully those numbers start to skyrocket

[BerenTebogo]

This is America, we should be better than this. Hopefully those numbers start to skyrocket

[BerenTebogo]

I thought a lot last night on the relation between previously organized and structured gang activity and the late night looting and rioting and 12 hours later I still feel pretty good about it for major cities like LA NYC CHI etc.

There's already decades-long pervasive gang activity that makes use of groups of young kids selling drugs on the corners of poor neighborhoods or running organized pickpocket / tourist theft that brings in hundreds of thousands of dollars every year just from stealing and selling the stolen merchandise. Those operations have clear organizational structures and are built around the idea that getting arrested and doing like 2 years for robbery or B&E is a badge of honor and you'll have an extended family in prison, etc.

This is all just the reality of life.

IMO it is entirely reasonable that the looting / rioting in major cities, much of which is organized and efficient, is just temporarily redirected gang activity co-opting the message of the protests
in the case of the black community these people are already killing each other over 1-2 blocks of territory to sell drugs on and every few years there are spikes of violence as local regimes change. the idea of co-opting and distorting a positive message for their own agenda to these people is something that probably doesn't even warrant a second thought.

So while the media and government cry about ANTIFA, KKK, PROUD BOYS, etc. - and those people definitely are out there - I think they're actually probably a really small portion of the bad actors. Extremists are rare, or they wouldn't be extremists. Organized crime in major cities in minority neighborhoods is not rare. It's not ideological. It's business. And this is a prime business opportunity.

We've all seen The Wire. That is the reality in a lot of cities in this country for a lot of people.

[Fondue]

this guy thinks the looting is organized

[Yabby]

[BerenTebogo]

Yeah we haven't seen cars circling the block dropping off and picking up people as they run out of stores with merchandise in rotations every single night for the past 6-7 days. Definitely not. Nope.

[Xno Kappa]

One of the reporters on Fox News was just saying and that General Milley (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) and Defense Secretary Mark Esper didn’t know about Trumps plans until they happened. And that Milley deliberately stepped away from the photo op.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national...hurch-photo-op

Milley definitely but I know for a fucking fact Esper was 100% aware of it lol.

[Zealot]

At least one other attorney I know who lives in Chicago has said that the neighborhood gangs they all know have only become more organized in the last week, but have also been driving out other violent actors from their territory, so they're in the awkward and probably dangerous position of relying on gangs for security.

[Xno Kappa]

I got a very generous job offer today with the OIG for the DC government. I’m fucking outta here lol. There’s gonna be a ton of shit coming down the pipeline in the next few months from the DoD and I want none of that smoke.

[Zealot]

Nice! I went private sector 3 months ago and even my stressful days have been amazingly better than when I was working for the feds.