Disturbing Video Shows Disabled Man Violently Attacked By Protesters. Now He’s Speaking Out. - "After Hawkins visited a local Arby’s restaurant and accidentally missed the street he was supposed to turn on, the video shows a group of protesters swarm the man’s car. Hawkins attempts to back up and leave the area but, instead, accidentally hits a wheel of a protester’s bike.That’s when the protesters trashed Hawkins’ car with him still inside, an attack which included the throwing of a bicycle at his front windshield, opening his car doors, and stealing goods from his truck. Moreover, according to ABC 6 On Your Side, police said the protesters “acted violently toward others who came to help the man and stop the violence.”Hawkins is not remaining silent about the attack.The victim described what happened during a Columbus City Council meeting on Monday and slammed the protesters for their violence and vandalism... The 58-year-old recalled protesting with his father, a union man, years ago. “We did not break one window, and we did not spray paint foul language, because this is our city,” he said. “If troublemakers don’t like it, they can leave.”"
Doubtless the fault of 'white supremacists'!
A Better World By Memes - Posts - "Singaporeans to blacks in US: Oh dear, oh dear. Gorgerous."
"Singaporeans to migrant workers in Singapore: You fucking smelly"
"Stop your bullshit preaching about racial injustice in other countries when we don't even practice it at home"
Whataboutery is good when liberals do it
Presumably OP doesn't know this happens to NS guys too
Shawn Lim - "We can be better and should be better when it comes to racism.Before we Singaporeans start using #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter to express our outrage at the killing of George Floyd, which is important don't get me wrong, perhaps we should take a good hard look at our own racism."
Apparently Singaporeans are homogenous and the ones who virtue signal about racism are the exact same ones who criticise foreign workers
Central West End couple explains why they pointed guns at protesters who demanded Krewson's resignation - "A husband and wife made national news when photos captured them pointing guns at protesters Sunday night outside of their Central West End home.During the protest, images and videos showed Mark McCloskey, 63, holding a rifle and his wife Patricia McCloskey, 61, pointing a handgun at the crowd of about 300 protesters around 7:30 p.m.The McCloskeys said they were “in fear for our lives” and that’s why they pulled the guns out.“It was like the storming of the Bastille, the gate came down and a large crowd of angry, aggressive people poured through,” Mark McCloskey said. “I was terrified that we’d be murdered within seconds. Our house would be burned down, our pets would be killed.”... The couple also claims to have received death threats from the crowd.“One fellow standing right in front of me pulled out two pistol magazines, clicked them together and said you’re next. That was the first death threat we got that night,” Mark McCloskey said.In a separate statement from their attorney, the McCloskeys said they support the Black Lives Matter movement and that “peaceful protesters were not the subject of scorn or disdain by the McCloskeys. To the contrary, they were expecting and supportive of the message of the protesters... Rasheen Aldridge helped lead the protest organized by a group called ‘Expect Us.’ He said protesters were peaceful and no threats were ever made.When asked why the group marched on private property, Aldridge said, “Just like in many disobedient protests, even in the 60s, you break laws, make people feel uncomfortable. We’re not doing anything where we’re hurting anyone or putting anyone in danger.”... Mark and Patricia McCloskey are personal-injury lawyers who work together in the McCloskey Law Center in St. Louis.According to their attorney, the McCloskeys “are lawyers whose professional careers have [sic] punctuated by their long standing commitment to protecting the civil rights of clients victimized at the hands of law enforcement. This commitment of time and resources to this cause continues today in the Isaiah Forman case.”... A petition is calling for the McClockseys to be disbarred for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon”
It's telling liberals were so upset over the Coronavirus lockdown protests which were 100% peaceful, but never mention the violence of so many BLM protests and dismiss or downplay any mention of their violence. Here their hypocrisy is even more blatant - they're so upset at the couple who defended their home when protesters broke into private property, but say nothing about the invasion (or even praise it). Ironically the McCloskeys were (the initial invasion) and are (liberal hatred) being hoist by their own petard
Missouri AG On Warrant Served On St. Louis Couple: Democrat Prosecutor Has History Of ‘Politically Motivated Decisions,’ Has Not Charged Those Who Attacked Prayerful Protesters - "a search warrant was served and at least one gun confiscated from the St. Louis couple who defended their home last month from an angry mob by saying that the Democrat prosecutor who was handling the decision has an alleged track record of making politically motivated decisions... “Under Missouri law, under the Castle Doctrine, the individual has really expansive authority to protect their own lives, their home, and their property, and I think the story here to watch is the local prosecutor, Kim Gardner,” Schmitt responded. “Kim Gardner has an abysmal record in prosecuting violent crime, has recently released and been complicit in the release of dozens and dozens of inmates who have been charged with violent crimes, and has a record of making politically motivated decisions not based on the law. So, this is certainly something to watch.”“One important factor here is this was a private street. This was not a public street,” Schmitt continued. “These individuals were on their way to the mayor’s house, actually, which has been vandalized several times. This was on a private street, and if you listen to the McCloskeys, they felt threatened, that they were going to be attacked, and that it was made known to them. They made known to the protesters and the people who came by that this was a private street, and they said they were going to murder them and come into their house, and so, as I said, the Castle Doctrine in Missouri is pretty expansive; it allows you to defend your life, obviously your family’s life, your home, but also your property, and this was on private property.”“It’s hard to get into the mind of Kim Gardner. As I said, she has a sketchy track record of making politically-based decisions,” Schmitt continued. “And I would also point out, Shannon, that this very same day—there’s been calls to change the name of St. Louis, which is ridiculous—and there were peaceful folks praying at the base of that statue who were assaulted, and those folks haven’t been charged with anything, so again, Kim Gardner’s track record is certainly suspect.”"
Will Chamberlain on Twitter - "In St. Louis, they won’t prosecute a mob of people who trespass on your property and threaten your home, but they will prosecute you if you dare defend yourself It’s not safe to live under Democrat rule"
Community groups demand firing of officer who fatally shot Ejaz Choudry in Mississauga - "When paramedics arrived, Choudhary says, they spotted his uncle's pocketknife — something he kept with him because he felt police "were out to get him."... Police have said they deployed a stun gun and fired plastic bullets with no effect. "When these had no effect, an officer discharged a firearm and the man was struck," the SIU said"
I saw many people condemning the police for firing on him. Apparently police have no right to defend themselves even after exhausting non-lethal options. Police lives don't matter
Kitchen Knives and Homicide: A Systematic Study of People Charged With Murder in the Lothian and Borders Region of Scotland - "A recent English study demonstrated high rates of kitchen knife use in homicides by mentally disordered offenders subject to independent inquiries. Everyone accused of homicide in Scotland undergoes psychiatric examination; all such evaluations in a Scottish region between 2006 and 2011 were systematically analysed to identify homicide characteristics. It was hypothesised that kitchen knives would be the commonest sharp instruments used, and would be associated with unplanned domestic homicide against known victims, with no independent association with mental disorder. Kitchen knives were used in 32 of 55 homicides: 94% of 34 sharp object homicides (p < 0.05). No independent association was found between kitchen knife use and planning, location, relationship, intoxication or mental disorder. Kitchen knife use in homicide appears to be a significant public health issue, and not only in the mentally disordered population. Research is recommended into kitchen knife use in non-fatal violence, and weapon control in populations at increased risk of knife violence."
I saw someone claiming kitchen knives aren't weapons
Mini AOC on Twitter - "My teacher caught me cheating on a test. She tried to give me a detention but I tackled her, took her chalk & gave her an F. She’s been suspended without pay pending charges. My classmates set fire to the library & are demanding that we defund the school to make learning safer."
Ally Henny - Posts - "I want white America to examine why, in the face of images of the brutal killing of Black people, the impulse is to “humanize” law enforcement by showing them dancing, praying, and anything else that’s “normal,” but they attempt to dredge up any and every negative thing from the murder victim’s past?Why is it that the focus immediately turns to “Chicago” (which is code for the mythical “black on black crime”) and other claims aimed to discredit the Black community’s collective experience?Why is it that white America will do everything in its power to make sure we know that cops are human, but will turn around and completely dehumanize the Black victim, protestors, and community?When I ask why, I’m asking a rhetorical question. The answer is white supremacy."
Those white supremacists must be very busy killing all those black people and framing other blacks for it
B.C. woman shot dead during police wellness check had just made fresh start to be with her child, family says - "Chantel Moore, a Vancouver Island woman who died after being shot in New Brunswick by police early Thursday, was kind, gentle and bubbly... the Edmundston Police Force said officers were called to do a wellness check on a woman in an apartment in the city. When they arrived, she emerged with a knife and attacked an officer, Insp. Steve Robinson told reporters on Thursday."He had no choice but to defend himself," Robinson said.Moore, a 26-year-old Indigenous woman, died at the scene."I'm pissed. I'm outraged," Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said Friday in Ottawa.Miller said that he watched several incidents involving police and Indigenous people yesterday in what he described as "disgust.""I don't understand how someone dies during a wellness check? Police serve Canadians and Indigenous peoples of Canada — not the opposite. These independent inquires need to bring justice," said Miller. His outrage echoes words from Indigenous leaders."It's shocking. It's appalling. Policing in North America has just so deteriorated to this point to where we are on the verge of civil unrest here," Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, said... "She was funny. Bubbly. She was such a little joker," said Melinda Martin, her half-sister from Port Alberni.Martin said she wants justice."She would never hold a knife," she said, sobbing."
If a "minority" attacks the police and the police defend themselves, this is racist. Maybe the moral of the story is to ignore calls from minorites
UC Berkeley History Professor's Open Letter Against BLM, Police Brutality and Cultural Orthodoxy - "I am one of your colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley. I have met you both personally but do not know you closely, and am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job, and likely all future jobs in my field.In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them. In the extended links and resources you provided, I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. The explanation provided in your documentation, to the near exclusion of all others, is univariate: the problems of the black community are caused by whites, or, when whites are not physically present, by the infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism into American brains, souls, and institutions.Many cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including from within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or ‘Uncle Toms’. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders. Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques.The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians. Instead, it is being treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its profound flaws, or its worrying implication of total black impotence. This hypothesis is transforming our institution and our culture, without any space for dissent outside of a tightly policed, narrow discourse.A counter-narrative exists... Overwhelmingly, the reasoning provided by BLM and allies is either primarily anecdotal (as in the case with the bulk of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ undeniably moving article) or it is transparently motivated. As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black incarcerated Americans. This proportion is often used to characterize the criminal justice system as anti-black. However, if we use the precise same methodology, we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black... I see my department uncritically reproducing a narrative that diminishes black agency in favor of a white-centric explanation that appeals to the department’s apparent desire to shoulder the ‘white man’s burden’ and to promote a narrative of white guilt.If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy. Even Jewish Americans are incarcerated less than gentile whites. I think it’s fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews. And yet, these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews. None of this is addressed in your literature. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and ad hominems. “Those are racist dogwhistles”. “The model minority myth is white supremacist”. “Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime”, ad nauseam. These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress discourse. Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing orthodoxy tactics they are, common to suppressive regimes, doctrines, and religions throughout time and space. They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department. Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM’s problematic view of history, and the department is being presented as unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position. Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position, which is no small number. I personally don’t dare speak out against the BLM narrative, and with this barrage of alleged unity being mass-produced by the administration, tenured professoriat, the UC administration, corporate America, and the media, the punishment for dissent is a clear danger at a time of widespread economic vulnerability. I am certain that if my name were attached to this email, I would lose my job and all future jobs, even though I believe in and can justify every word I type. The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people. There are virtually no marches for these invisible victims... The message is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and demands solution... No discussion is permitted for non-black victims of black violence, who proportionally outnumber black victims of non-black violence. This is especially bitter in the Bay Area, where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic proportions, to the point that the SF police chief has advised Asians to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors, as this attracts the attention of (overwhelmingly black) home invaders. Home invaders like George Floyd... The claim that black interracial violence is the product of redlining, slavery, and other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is for historians, therefore, to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn’t led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively. Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. However, both groups outperform white Americans on nearly all SES indices – as do Nigerian Americans, who incidentally have black skin. It is for historians to point out and discuss these anomalies. However, no real discussion is possible in the current climate at our department. The explanation is provided to us, disagreement with it is racist, and the job of historians is to further explore additional ways in which the explanation is additionally correct. This is a mockery of the historical profession... Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. This is grotesque given the fact that the American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run. Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades; the ‘systemic racism’ there was built by successive Democrat administrations. The patronizing and condescending attitudes of Democrat leaders towards the black community, exemplified by nearly every Biden statement on the black race, all but guarantee a perpetual state of misery, resentment, poverty, and the attendant grievance politics which are simultaneously annihilating American political discourse and black lives... The total alliance of major corporations involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning flag to us, and yet this damning evidence goes unnoticed, purposefully ignored, or perversely celebrated. We are the useful idiots of the wealthiest classes, carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other actual, real, modern-day slavers. Starbucks, an organisation using literal black slaves in its coffee plantation suppliers, is in favor of BLM. Sony, an organisation using cobalt mined by yet more literal black slaves, many of whom are children, is in favor of BLM... There also exists a large constituency of what can only be called ‘race hustlers’: hucksters of all colors who benefit from stoking the fires of racial conflict to secure administrative jobs, charity management positions, academic jobs and advancement, or personal political entrepreneurship. Given the direction our history department appears to be taking far from any commitment to truth, we can regard ourselves as a formative training institution for this brand of snake-oil salespeople... MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today. We are training leaders who intend, explicitly, to destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history. As the PRC, an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the US, I ask you: Is this wise? Are we really doing the right thing? As a final point, our university and department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd. Floyd was a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant stomach. He terrorized the women in his community. He sired and abandoned multiple children, playing no part in their support or upbringing, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer, a swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors. And yet, the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal, elevating his name to virtual sainthood. A man who hurt women. A man who hurt black women... No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites.No message will more surely devastate their futures, especially if whites run out of guilt, or indeed if America runs out of whites"
George Floyd, the hero that broke the camel's back
An athlete, a father, a 'beautiful spirit': George Floyd in his friends' words
Rockstar Games on Twitter - "Black Lives Matter. To honor the legacy of George Floyd, today, 6/4/20, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. ET, we will be shutting down access to our online games, Grand Theft Auto Online and Red Dead Online."
Woke Capital on Twitter - "You cannot play the games you paid for. Woke Capital can restrict access to goods and services you've paid for on a whim. Enjoy your Apple Music that won't stream music, your vidya that you can't play, your books that you can't read. Remember when we used to own things?"
GEORGE FLOYD IS A HERO - YouTube
I see some people claiming that no one is treating George Floyd as a hero
Jason Buttrill on Twitter - "When you click to donate to Black Lives Matter, it takes you to ActBlue. If donated money goes unclaimed, ActBlue disperses the money however they want. These are their top expenditures so far in 2020."
Garrett Gilchrist on Twitter - "It's amazing that Democrats had nearly a week to help Joe Biden articulate a position on this and his recommended solution is "shoot unarmed people in the legs""
Why police don’t aim for the legs - "By law, officers are trained and mandated to use the least amount of force necessary to effect an arrest and to do so safely. However, it does not mean officers should put themselves at a disadvantage or in a position where they could be injured or killed...
Shooting someone in the leg doesn’t mean he or she will stop shooting.
The same is true of someone who is shot in the arm or shoulder, or even in the chest. Shooting someone in the leg won’t necessarily stop him or her from standing, walking or even running. Shooting someone in the leg doesn’t even mean he or she will fall to the ground. And, it doesn’t mean the individual will stop feloniously aiming a gun at a police officer or an innocent citizen and pulling the trigger.Even so, if an officer did shoot someone in the leg, there is a chance it could sever the femoral artery and still potentially end that person’s life.
Officers learn how difficult it is to shoot accurately under stress...
Action is faster than reaction.
Since police react to illegal confrontations, they’re at a disadvantage. Rarely is an officer ready for a lethal confrontation, even if his or her gun is already drawn. Police are not the aggressors; they are the defenders. They have to perceive and process the threat and then act based on a subject’s actions. The reaction won’t always be a lethal option either...
Reacting to a threat decreases an officer’s effectiveness...
During actual officer-involved shooting incidents, officers only accurately hit moving threats 14 percent of the time at distance under 10 feet. On the corollary, attackers successfully hit officers 68 percent of the time within the same distance. At such rates, it’s fortunate that more police officers aren’t killed...
Law enforcement officers are taught to shoot center mass on a threat or target.
Those who shoot closer to the thoracic cavity on realistic-looking human targets and silhouettes score higher during live-fire training. Why? Because there is a higher likelihood that hitting a person in that area will stop him or her, but it won’t necessarily kill him or her.Moreover, the most obvious reason for shooting center mass is because that portion of the body is a larger target than, say, a leg.
It is incorrect to believe that if someone gets shot in the chest he or she will die...
Police are trained to stop the threat...
It is a myth to believe that a single shot from a handgun will stop someone.
Police are taught to keep shooting until the threat stops. Traditionally, officers will shoot twice and assess."
Black Lives Still Matter on Twitter - "To the leaders of Iran - DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS. Thousands have already been killed or imprisoned by you, and the World is watching. More importantly, the USA is watching. Turn your internet back on and let reporters roam free! Stop the killing of your great Iranian people!" - Trump
"Let me get this straight. To the leaders of another country you say "DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS ", but when it comes to American citizens you tell leaders of this country "When the looting starts, the shooting starts" We are "thugs" NOT "protesters"."
It's amazing how many people with Trump Derangement Syndrome are treating this as some sort of gotcha. At least it is revealing - these people really do see protesters and rioters are the same, and shows that claims that no one is supporting the rioting are mendacious (in addition to explicit messages of support like "burn it all down"); if you conflate the 2 and support 1, you support the other
Eric July on Twitter - "A white bar owner in Omaha shot and killed a black protester. He won't face charges."
"When you actually read the story, you see how this is such an irresponsible headline."
""A bar owner shoots a looter attacking him, ruled self defense". Better headline, without injecting race and actually using the real facts."
Self defence is racist
As George Floyd Video Makes MSM Headlines, Clip of Black Cop Violently Choking Young Man Practically Nowhere To Be Seen - "The underreported video shows a Jackson police officer, identified as Myron Smith by the Jackson Free Press, with his hands around an apparent suspect’s throat. The cop and the apparent suspect seen in the clip are both black... Many (including at least one lawmaker) have increased racial tensions in the aftermath of the George Floyd video by pointing the finger at the involved white officers.While no account of police brutality is welcome news, this video could present an uncomfortable truth for those looking to further divide the nation using race."
Ian Miles Cheong on Twitter - "Webster, MA police chief Michael Shaw surrenders to Black Lives Matter protesters. It's another struggle session."
New psychology research finds extreme protest actions reduce popular support for social movements - "New research indicates that extreme protest tactics tend to undermine a movement’s popular support in the United States by alienating both neutral observers and supporters. The findings have been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology... more extreme behaviors — such as the use of inflammatory rhetoric, blocking traffic, and vandalism — consistently resulted in reduced support for social movements.This was true even when participants were already politically or socially sympathetic to the social movement. “We found extreme anti-Trump protest actions actually led people to not only dislike the movement and support the cause less, but to be willing to support Trump more,” Feinberg said. “It was almost like a backlash.” The researchers also found evidence that extreme protest actions led to a loss of support because they were viewed as immoral. These perceptions of immorality were associated with reduced feelings of emotional connection and less social identification with the movement. The new study is in line with research that analyzed all mass uprisings around the world between 1945-2014, finding that nonviolent campaigns were more successful at bringing about large-scale political transformation than violent campaigns... " activists outraged by the status quo and/or believing that change is largely impossible may engage in extreme protest actions as a form of self-expression or even catharsis without any strategic calculations about the effects such behavior will have in the long-run. Similarly, even if a movement plans to not engage in extreme behaviors, a small number of dissidents in the group may incite extreme actions in others”... “The Activist’s Dilemma: Extreme Protest Actions Reduce Popular Support for Social Movements“, was authored by Matthew Feinberg, Robb Willer, and Chloe Kovacheff."
Liberals justify the riots and self-radicalise in their echo chambers at their peril
Peaceful protest is much more effective than violence for toppling dictators - The Washington Post - "Political scientist Erica Chenoweth used to believe, as many do, that violence is the most reliable way to get rid of a dictator. History is filled, after all, with coups, rebellions and civil wars. She didn't take public protests or other forms of peaceful resistance very seriously; how could they possible upend a powerful, authoritarian regime?Then, as Chenoweth recounts in a Ted Talk posted online Monday, she put together some data and was surprised by what she found. "I collected data on all major nonviolent and violent campaigns for the overthrow of a government or a territorial liberation since 1900," she says -- hundreds of cases. "The data blew me away."... that trend is actually "increasing over time," Chenoweth adds. "Nonviolent campaigns are becoming increasingly successful." Below is a chart of the successful campaigns from 1940 to 2006... "Researchers used to say that no government could survive if just 5 percent of the population rose up against it," Chenoweth says. "Our data shows the number may be lower than that. No single campaign in that period failed after they'd achieved the active and sustained participation of just 3.5 percent of the population." She adds, "But get this: every single campaign that exceeded that 3.5 percent point was a nonviolent one. The nonviolent campaigns were on average four times larger than the average violent campaigns."... Violent resistance movements, even if they do succeed, can create a lot of long-term problems. "It turns out that the way you resist matters in the long run, too," she says, explaining that her data suggest that countries with nonviolent uprisings "were way more likely to emerge with democratic institutions." They were also 15 percent less likely to "relapse" into civil war. After all, a nonviolent movement is often inherently democratic, a sort of expression of mass public opinion outside of the ballot box. A violent movement, on the other hand, no matter what its driving ideals, is all about legitimizing power through force; it's not hard to see how its victorious participants would end up keeping power primarily through violence, as well."
a href="https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/10-states-spend-most-least-090000541.html">States That Spend the Most and Least on Welfare - "The total spending on public welfare — which includes “cash assistance paid directly to needy persons under the categorical programs Old Age Assistance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families” and more — in the U.S. is more than $637 billion, according to the Census Bureau’s 2016 Annual Surveys of State and Local Government Finances."
America’s Policing Budget Has Nearly Tripled to $115 Billion - Bloomberg - "the cost of policing in the U.S. [was] $114.5 billion in 2017"
Some people claim that the US spends more on policing than public welfare. Yet by these measures, the US spends almost 6x as much on public welfare as on policing
BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, Thursday's business with Dominic O'Connell - "‘Many big American companies have expressed support for the protests that have followed the death of George Floyd while he was being arrested in Minnesota. They're also being accused of hypocrisy with some protesters pointing out that few of them actually employ black people in senior positions’"
Virtue signalling is not costless
BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, 'We are not going to reduce ourselves to being governed by the mob' - "‘The President has been very clear from the beginning that the, the killing of George Floyd was something that was a, was a tragedy. It was something that needs to be investigated. He called for the Department of Justice to launch a civil, a civil rights investigation days ago and, and we're waiting to see that but also it's something he said. We need to respect the rights of legal protesters, but also stand firm against those who are seeking to destroy private property, public property and cause injury to others.’
‘There weren't any words of healing were there? Not last night, not before that, not in the week since all of this began. Nothing to say to those who have gathered peacefully and who protested peacefully in so many places across America that he understands their pain and their anger.’
‘I absolutely disagree with that. He said that, over the weekend when he was at NASA, talked about the tragedy that happened to George Floyd and that how we needed to make sure that these kinds of things didn't happen again. He said tonight, that he stands with those who are protesting ill-, legally, who are professing their rights to, to protest and to voice, their displeasure. But you've got to do so in a legal way. And those who are trying to use this tragedy, to destroy public property, to cause physical damage. That's something where the government has a responsibility to stand up and to put away people’
‘His focus all along has been law enforcement hasn’t it? Calling, on on governors to use more force if necessary, now threatening to call out the military?’
‘Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Because we have, we are a, we are a nation of laws. And so for those people who are going to respect the laws of the nation to peacefully let their voices be heard, we will absolutely stand in solidarity with them and allow that to happen. For those who are going to destroy public property, who are going to cause physical damage. For those who are going to to flout the laws, then we're going to absolutely defend the laws and it's the responsibility of mayors, governors and ultimately, the President to stand and defend those laws and use whatever means necessary are to defend them… The President has said it and this country has said it very well is that the vast majority of the men and women who serve as police officers are doing the right thing, who are putting their lives on the line, to defend our communities, to defend our property, defend our lives. And for that small, very small percentage of folks who are exceeding their authority then they need to be dealt with. They need to be dealt with swiftly but they also need to be dealt with through the justice system. We are a country that is not ruled by mob law. We're a country that is ruled by the laws… They are being dealt with. You've got the, you've got the the officer right now in, with the George Floyd case, who is facing murder and manslaughter charges. Additional charges may be filed. But we are not going to reduce ourselves to be being governed by the mob. We, everyone has a right to their day in court, to have evidence presented against them. They are innocent until proven guilty. Let the courts work through that system, and then hold those responsible, accountable. And that's what's happening right now'…
‘Peaceful protesters were forcibly cleared outside the White House so that the President could then go to a church and, and hold up the Bible and use that as a prop.’
‘Well, I understand that that's the liberal point of view. That's your biased point of view. But what I'll tell you is that the very night before that, people standing in that exact same park set a historic church on fire. That was not a peaceful protest. And so it is absolutely the appropriate acts of the United States Secret Service and the police to create a perimeter around the White House to make sure that there is security, that we're not having our national historic sites set on fire. And as the, as the curfew that was being imposed in Washington, DC was coming upon us, they were moving the protesters further and further away. It is not unusual to move protesters or to move groups of folks away from our elected leaders even in times when we are not facing these kinds of things. And so that was the appropriate move to start to dissipate those crowds to start to reduce the likelihood that there was going to be further damage, violence, rioters and, and so what we think, right now, are the laws being enforced? And I understand that some people don't like that. But we've got to make sure that we're still a nation of laws’
‘This, this threat to deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them, is, is that something that he plans to do, imminently? If there are, if there are days more of unrest? Is that something that he plans to do? Straight away?’
‘Well, it's, it's entirely up to the mayors and governors. If they want to enforce the laws, protect their populations, protect their small business owners, whether they want to let the mob rule and set fires to our cities. This is not a law that has been not used before. George HW Bush used the same law in, during the, right after the Rodney King riots in the early 1990s. It was used dozens of times during racial unrest during the 60s and early 70s. That's what this law is for. So if mayors and governors who are elected to lead their cities, to protect their cities fail to do that, if they hamstring the police officers from doing their job to protect people, then it's absolutely appropriate for the President to step in to send the military to do the jobs that these liberal Democrat failures of leaders won't do for themselves.’
Michael Franks - "Now there’s a fucking FENCE surrounding CNN HQ in Atlanta to protect the building. MY IRONY METER JUST BROKE."
Walls work after all!
Meme - "Black lives matter"
"It's literally just a statement of fact. There's no hidden meaning. Anyone that feels discomfort from saying this just shows their deep seated hatred of this race."
"It's ok to be white"
*triggered*
WATCH: Girls Cleaning ‘BLM’ Graffiti Off Govt Building Scolded For Misusing ‘White Privilege’ - "While they are working to clean the building, a woman, identified as “Faith Alice Sleeper” on Facebook, rolls up in a vehicle to lecture them about their supposed “white privilege.”“Why are you guys removing ‘Black Lives Matter’ graffiti?” Alice asks the girls, videotaping the interaction from her vehicle.“We’re just trying to take care of the city”"
Why I, as a black man, will not be supporting BLM - "You don’t achieve equality in any aspect of life by taking privilege from one group and handing it to another. This over-compensation is similar to what we saw in the third/fourth waves of feminism when it became less about creating a balance between men and women, and more about remove men and replacing them with women, in order to ‘make up’ for years of inequality. It’s interesting that once we reach equality, these campaigns push further and take power for their own groups by marginalising their opponents.A cursory glance at the Black Lives Matter manifesto proves them to be far more than the anti-racist campaign group they attempt to portray themselves as. It’s evident that BLM is a socially Marxist political organisation intent on causing disruption to Western ideals.Taken directly from their website: ‘We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure’. Imagine campaigning against a stable, loving family structure that provides an advantage to the lives of young children. Like their aim to ‘dismantle cisgender privilege’, it may be a great soundbite for the woke, but what does it have to do with a supposed anti-racism movement?Vandalising the statue of Winston Churchill was a key moment over the past few days that highlighted the toxic nature of this campaign. Graffiti spray-painted on the side of a war hero saying ‘anti-fa’, as if the man responsible for Great Britain defeating fascism in Europe was somehow a fascist figure himself is ridiculous, their irony knows no bounds. Likewise, the toppling of Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol showed the movement up to be uncivil riotous thugs. This isn’t a Middle Eastern dictatorship; we don’t tear down public art because we disagree with it. Colston did a lot of good in his life, funding hospitals, schools and churches. He also did a lot of evil in supporting the slave trade.But judging historical figures by today’s progressive liberal standards is ridiculous because once you fall down that rabbit hole, there’s no coming back from it. If you dig deep enough, you’ll find something offensive in the past of every historical figure. Where does it end?This was further demonstrated by the tagging of ‘racist’ by Mahatma Gandhi’s statue. The very same chap who fought a successful non-violent resistance to British colonialism in India. Surely a natural ally of BLM? But Gandhi’s questionable opinions on hierarchical race structures put him in their bad books. No man is perfect, but that’s not what statues represent. We don’t commission statues to idolise people; we do so to remember our history"
Russia urges the U.S. to ‘observe democratic standards’ and respect Americans’ right to protest
SPOING
Beijing: The rights of minorities in the U.S. must be guaranteed - "Black lives matter and their human rights should be guaranteed, Chinese Foreign Ministry said"
SPOING X2
Pretend ‘Fortnite’ battle ends in felony charge for 10-year-old boy in Colorado - The Washington Post - "The gun was fake, but the felony charge filed against a 10-year-old boy was very real.Gavin Carpenter was pretending to be a character in the video game “Fortnite” on July 24, when he spooked a driver by pointing a toy rifle with an orange tip at the man’s truck... “Right now we are trying to install faith back into Gavin that you can trust law enforcement, because after all of this he’s scared to death of them”"
Too bad the kid is white, so the media and liberals can't blame racism and 'white supremacy'
Family of 17-year-old girl killed by Fullerton police files claim against city - Los Angeles Times - "The family of a 17-year-old girl shot and killed by Fullerton police after a traffic stop in Anaheim earlier this month has filed a legal claim against the city.S. Lee Merritt, the attorney for the family of Hannah Williams, said Friday that the claim — a precursor to a lawsuit — preserves the family’s right to sue for damages... Information provided so far suggests that the officer involved in the shooting failed to follow proper procedure during the stop that resulted in Williams’ death"
Race is never mentioned or an issue when white people get shot (cf Tamir Rice)
Maryland man fatally shot by police while asleep in his bedroom - "The Montgomery county police department said in a news release Duncan Socrates Lemp “confronted” police and was shot by one of the officers early on Thursday.But Rene Sandler, an attorney for Lemp’s relatives, said an eyewitness gave a “completely contrary” account of the shooting. She said police could have “absolutely no justification” for shooting Lemp based on what she has heard about the circumstances... The warrant police obtained to search the Potomac home Lemp shared with his parents and 19-year-old brother does not mention any “imminent threat” to law enforcement or the public, Lemp’s relatives said in a statement released by their lawyers. Nobody in the house that morning had a criminal record, the statement added... Sandler said the family believes police fired gunshots, not a flashbang or other projectile, from outside the home, including through Lemp’s bedroom window, while he and his girlfriend were sleeping. Nobody in the home heard any warnings or commands before police opened fire, she said."
Too bad he's white, so there're no riots, and people can't blame "white supremacy", and will continue to pretend this never happens to white people
Protesters across US attacked by cars driven into crowds and men with guns - "some armed individuals attending protests, identified as members of the “boogaloo movement”, have presented protesters with a troubling ambiguity.So-called “boogaloo bois” are members of a loose-knit, pro-gun, anti-government movement, which is preoccupied with what they believe to be a looming second American civil war."
When you want to abolish the police, encourage looting and have anarchy reign...
Now the very same people who called Trump a dictator for wanting to restore law and order will call him one for not preventing this
The George Floyd Riots: Where's Black Lives Matter When You Need Them? - "Ostensibly, the protests are about the alleged “epidemic” of “widespread” and “race-based” police brutality against blacks and the lack of confidence, in the case of Floyd, that justice will be done. The problem with these assertions is that they are false, not supported by the data.There is no “epidemic” of racist cops killing black suspects. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, police killings of blacks declined almost 80% from the late ’60s through the 2010s, while police killings of whites have flatlined. Meanwhile, in 2017, according to the CDC’s National Vital Statistics Reports, non-Hispanic blacks were eight times more likely to be a victim of a homicide (homicide death rate: 23.2 per 100,000) than non-Hispanic whites (homicide death rate: 2.9 per 100,000).The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young white men is accidents, like car accidents and drownings. The No. 1 reason for death, preventable or otherwise for young black men, is homicide, almost always at the hands of another young black man. In 2018, there were approximately 7,400 black homicide victims, more than half of the nation’s total number of homicides, out of a black population of 13%. Of that number, the police killed a little over 200 blacks, and nearly all of them had a weapon or violently resisted arrest. In recent years, the police have averaged killing about 1,000 Americans per year. Of that number, half are white and one-quarter are black, with the race of remaining suspects of another race or unknown. Of the approximately 1,000 killed by cops, less than 4% involve a white officer and an unarmed black man.Recent studies not only find no “systemic” abuse of black suspects by the cops, but if anything, cops are more hesitant, more reluctant, to use deadly force against a black suspect than against a white suspect... In Baltimore, where in 2015, a black man named Freddie Gray died in police custody, how could one, with a straight face, argue that resident blacks suffer from “institutional” racism? The mayor was a black female; the top two officials in the police department were black; the city council was majority black; the state attorney who brought the charges against six officers was black; three of the six charged officers were black; the judge before whom two officers tried their cases was black; the U.S. attorney general was black, as was the president of the United States. Institutional racism?Finally, why didn’t President Barack Obama’s administration deal with this alleged “systemic” or “structural” or “institutional” police brutality against blacks in his eight years in office? Meanwhile, over Memorial Day weekend in Obama’s adopted hometown of Chicago, 10 people were killed, and 49 were shot. In a city where roughly one-third of the population is black, 70% of the city’s homicide victims, according to the Chicago Police Department, are black.When and where do the protests begin?"
Black lives only matter when they can be used as a political weapon
Chicago’s most violent day in 60 years: 18 murders in 24 hours
Chicago alderman says city 'too afraid' to ask Trump for help to stop violence - "Alderman Anthony Napolitano, a former police officer, joined Fox & Friends Monday morning and said the city is desperate for assistance after Chicago officials reported at least 63 shootings and 12 deaths over the weekend... The president of Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police posted a letter to Trump over the weekend asking for help and slamming Chicago leadership, including Mayor Lori Lightfoot. "Mayor Lightfoot has proved to be a complete failure who is either unwilling or unable to maintain law and order here," John Catanzara said in the letter... Trump has repeatedly denounced the crime in Chicago and in other cities reporting similar crime, saying last week that it’s “worse than Afghanistan.”“When you have 88 shootings, that’s not even conceivable, that’s worse than Afghanistan. I hate to say it. That’s worse than any war zone that we’re in by a lot,” Trump said."
Manufacturer that burned as Minneapolis protests turned violent plans to relocate from city - "A Minneapolis manufacturing company has decided to leave the city, with the company’s owner saying he can’t trust public officials who allowed his plant to burn during the recent riots. The move will cost the city about 50 jobs.“They don’t care about my business,” said Kris Wyrobek, president and owner of 7-Sigma Inc., which has operated since 1987 at 2843 26th Av. in south Minneapolis. “They didn’t protect our people. We were all on our own.”... Two days after the riots began, Gov. Tim Walz described the city’s response as an “abject failure.” Walz ordered the National Guard into Minneapolis to restore order at the request of Mayor Jacob Frey... nearly 1,000 commercial properties in Minneapolis were damaged during the riots, including 52 businesses that were completely destroyed and 30 other locations that sustained severe damage. Owners and insurance experts estimate the costs of the damage could exceed $500 million. That would make the Twin Cities riots the second-costliest civil disturbance in U.S. history, trailing only those in Los Angeles in 1992, which were also sparked by racial tensions with police and had $1.4 billion in damages in today’s dollars."
Of course they will be called racist
Liberal logic: if you criticise the riots it shows you care more about property than human life. Apparently riots will bring George Floyd back
Chicago Mayor Begs Walmart, Other Looted Retailers Not To Abandon City - "While Chicago officials give slaps on the wrist to arrested protesters, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is begging Walmart and other major retailers who were hit by looting and vandalism to reopen their doors despite riots over the killing of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer who now faces charges for second-degree murder."
LGBT Organization Vandalized in DC George Floyd Riots - "The Pride At Work organization had parts of their building burned as the nation’s capitol was rocked by rioting. The building itself sustained significant damage in parts, as fires were set, windows were smashed, and politicized slogans were scrawled across the face of the structure...
'Our windows may be broken, but our resolve is not. We will rebuild as we continue the fight for racial, social, and economic justice. A building and it’s contents are just property. They can be replaced, but lives cannot.#BlackLivesMatter'"
So the language of the unheard is homophobic? Intersectionality! Or liberals can just blame the white supremacists who apparently are around every corner and hiding under every bed
79 Korean Businesses & Several Viet Businesses Looted and Destroyed - "Koreatown in Los Angeles was nearly untouched, largely due to the new generation of Rooftop Koreans standing guard and National Guardsmen"
Is the language of the unheard racist too? I saw people condemning Roof Koreans for being racist
VIDEO: Angry mom beats son suspected of rioting in Baltimore - "A suspected rioter in Baltimore got the smackdown of his life Monday by his mom on television.The mother saw her son on television throwing rocks at police, reports ABC Baltimore affiliate WMAR. That's when she'd had enough, dishing up a dose of discipline.The pair was identified as Toya Graham, a single mother of six, and her 16-year-old son"
Will Smith, Va., police chief, says rioters blocked firefighters from burning home with child inside - "Richmond, Virginia, Police Chief Will Smith choked back tears during a press conference in describing how rioters torched a home with a child inside and then blocked firefighters from responding."
'Eye-opening experience': Business owner and former firefighter raises $1M to rebuild Minneapolis bar - "A fundraising effort to help a black business owner and former firefighter in Minneapolis has surpassed $1 million, including with help from staffers for President Trump's reelection campaign."
Of course this says nothing at all about Trump. But if one of his campaign gives a cent to a non-kosher cause...
America on fire – and out of control - "This looting and destruction is shattering to the local community. Residents, many of whom are black and poor, will suffer most from the demise of shops and public facilities. Many of the businesses in these neighbourhoods are small and minority-owned. In this context, it is sickening to see leftists on Twitter providing convoluted justifications for the ruin following the rampages. ‘Property is insured and can be replaced. Lives cannot’, tweeted activist and writer Sally Kohn: ‘Check your priorities, America.’ As it happens, many of these black-owned small businesses do not have insurance, and full lives include people’s livelihoods, which have now been severely damaged. Floyd’s girlfriend, Courtney Ross, urged people to stop looting in his name, saying that Floyd ‘loved’ Minneapolis and seeing the city on fire would ‘devastate’ him. The descent into chaos in Minneapolis and other cities reveals two striking things about the crisis in America today. First, that there are significant numbers of people, especially sections of black youth, who have no firm stake in society. A range of public authorities, from Minnesota officials to attorney general William Barr, have suggested that out-of-state white radicals associated with Antifa were to blame for instigating the rioting. Those inspired by Antifa are definitely an element, and some videos showed black protesters pleading with them not to destroy stores or attack the police. But the focus on the minority linked to Antifa mainly serves to distract from a more homegrown problem – indeed, the vast majority of those arrested in Minneapolis were locals... That so many, including many young black people, were ready and willing to smash up stores and steal goods (and with glee in many cases) shows how thin the support for the rule of law and social order was before Floyd’s killing. That’s a bigger problem for public officials and other elites than they have reckoned with before now.The second, and related, revelation from the mayhem in the US is the lack of leadership and respected authority in politics and society. That starts at the top... But the more immediate leadership failure was local to Minneapolis. City mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota state governor Tim Walz had no clue how to respond to the first signs of rioting, preferring to hide from attention. Walz used carefully chosen woke language (‘I will not patronise you as a white man without living [your] lived experience’) and refused to condemn the rioting (‘The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish, unheard’). In an astounding move, Frey ordered the city’s Third Police Precinct to be evacuated, allowing the mob to burn it down. It was just ‘brick and mortar’, he dismissively said when challenged. The torching of the police station was highly symbolic, essentially signalling that officials no longer felt they had the moral authority to insist on order. It gave a green light to more rioting... neither Obama nor Biden could bring themselves to condemn the rioting, instead focusing on historic injustices. It took the black mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms, to say what her fellow Democrats were afraid to say: that the rioting was hurting the people they claimed to be fighting for. Bottoms’ excellent, impassioned statement, along with a message from the rapper Killer Mike (a fellow Atlantan), exposed the establishment Democrats as out-of-touch and patronising – they were clearly not aware that many black people did not support the rioters... With so many promoting a bleak outlook, it is easy to forget that nearly all Americans of all races agree that the killing of George Floyd was appalling and wrong. They know it was unjust. And at the same time, most Americans know that looting and rioting is bad. They don’t want to see their cities burnt to the ground. We’re suffering enough economic hardship from the virus-prompted shutdown as it is, and the riots only compound this"
Floyd's girlfriend must be a white supremacist too
George Floyd's brother calls for an end to the violence as he delivers emotional speech - "His younger brother Terrence broke down at the spot where his brother was taken into custody, telling the crowds: 'I understand you are all are upset. But I doubt you are half as upset as I am.'So if I'm not over here wilding out, if I'm not over here blowing up stuff, if I'm not over here messing with my community, then what are y'all doing? Y'all doing nothing, but that's not going to bring my brother back at all.'My family is a peaceful family. My family is God-fearing. Let's switch it up and do this peacefully, please. I know he would not want y'all to be doing this.'... 'It's OK to be angry, but channel your anger to do something positive or make a change another way because we've been down this road already,' Terrence told GMA.'The anger, damaging your hometown is not the way he'd want'"
Of course, he cannot understand the despair and anger at racism that is making so many people riot
George Floyd had coronavirus, autopsy says
An0maly on Twitter - "Imagine claiming to be an anti-corporation leftist while having literally every major corporation in America pushing your narrative. It’s about destabilization, centralization of power & control. They just use weak & naive people."
Science Magazine on Twitter - ""The evidence of systemic racism in science permeates this nation." @hholdenthorp emphasizes in a new #SciMagEditorial that it's not just abusive police that need to be reminded that Black Lives Matter, but the scientific establishment as well"
So much for the ideal of science as politically neutral and about seeking truth
Forgiveness ritual: white cops and civilians wash black faith leaders' feet
Secular religion intensifies
The Conservative Latina on Twitter - "Don’t blame every Muslim person for what happened on 9/11, don’t label every Black person a criminal thug, don’t assume all Hispanics are here illegally, but DEFINITELY blame ALL White people for racism being alive today. 🥴 #Progress"
Surely Minneapolis, Of All Places, Must Have Cured Racism By Now - "Progressives and Democrats are the people who never tire of accusing their political adversaries of racism, or maybe even of “white supremacism.” Elect us, the message is, and we will do away with these evils for good.If that proposition were valid, then clearly Minneapolis would be in the forefront of those places that have long since done away with racism. Among bastions of woke progressivism in this country, it is almost impossible to top Minneapolis. The place is currently run from top to bottom and at all levels of government by representatives of the far left wing of the Democratic Party; and that has been true for as far back as human memory stretches... The last Republican Mayor of Minneapolis was Richard Erdall, who served for one day in 1973. Prior to Erdall, the previous Republican Mayor was Kenneth Peterson, who left office in 1961... In our federal system, the states have their own sovereignty. Officer Chauvin worked for Commissioner Arradondo, who works for Mayor Frey. Arradondo and Frey are the people who are responsible for the conduct of the police in Minneapolis, overseen to some degree by Walz and Ellison. President Trump has no more authority to direct or control the conduct of Arradondo or Frey or Chauvin than you or I do. Oh, but wait. Is there some impediment that keeps Frey or Arradondo from bringing more accountability to the officers in the Minneapolis Police Department? Actually, there is. That is the police union, here known as the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis... The idea that public employees should have a right to unionize, and should be able to negotiate, through collective bargaining, protections to shield themselves from accountability — that, of course, is another basic pillar of the progressive government model... Has any one of the Minnesota Democratic politicians who hold responsibility in this situation — Walz, Ellison, Frey, Klobuchar, Smith, Omar, or the 13 members of the Minneapolis City Council — ever advocated for a change to the Minnesota public employee unionization regime to enable the supervisors to bring accountability to the rank and file? Of course not. The public employee unions are the principal funders of their campaigns. These politicians claim to be seeking “social justice” and the end to racism, but in practice they do the bidding of their union paymasters, which means holding public employees free from accountability in all but the very most egregious incidents."
Minneapolis Mayor Asks Trump For Aid After Riots Cause At Least $55 Million In Damage
I'd hate to see what non-"mostly peaceful" protests are like
George Floyd: Feds deny Minnesota request for aid to rebuild - "The federal government has denied a request from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for federal funds to rebuild and repair fire damage from the unrest that followed George Floyd’s death.The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that Walz’s spokesman Teddy Tschann confirmed that the request for federal aid was denied, saying the governor is “disappointed.”... Current estimates of the total damage exceed $500 million, the governor wrote in his disaster aid request."
Jackie walker on Twitter - "Why is the Nazi holocaust more important? We all know the answer!! Because it's white lives that matter"
Pelosi says portraits of former House speakers to be removed
"Let's also remove portraits of House speakers who eulogized former KKK members. Pelosi Remarks at the Funeral of Senator Robert C. Byrd | Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi"
Why Nobody is Systemically Racist - New Discourses - " “white complicity” is the relevant concept we need to comprehend to understand the present moment. This idea was developed in considerable depth in a moderately densely philosophical book from 2010, Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy, by Barbara Applebaum. In this book-length, defining treatment of the concept, Applebaum expands the usual definition of complicity from intentional participation in a crime to include everyone who benefits from any “oppressive system.” This passive “support,” defined as everything short of actively attempting to dismantle the oppressive system, is what Applebaum identifies by the term “white supremacy.” Her goal is to expand the concept of “white moral responsibility” far enough to induce all white and white-adjacent people to take up activism to unmake this system.This dangerous idea is presently in the process of remaking the world, and probably not in a good way... every white, white-adjacent, etc., person who benefits from “whiteness” and who isn’t constantly and actively working to dismantle the system that creates and enables it is a white supremacist (someone who isn’t working to dismantle the system in which whiteness has “dominance”) and a racist (someone who benefits from the existence of racial discrimination, prejudice, etc., of any kind). That’s Applebaum’s central thesis in a nutshell, and it is upon precisely this bizarre foundation that Robin DiAngelo’s concept of “white fragility” is built... systemic thinking, in the way that critical activist-scholars think of it not only does not but cannot clarify the problems it hopes to solve. In fact, it hopelessly muddles them, making them impossible to understand and impossible to do anything about except through symbolic contrition, feeling bad for one’s participation, however distant, for a “system” that sometimes produces bad results... the concept of “systemic racism” is, generally speaking, a bad one. It does not add clarity; it obscures it. It does not foster healthy relationships or conversations about race; it produces the opposite. It does not encourage personal growth or “doing better”; it induces unnecessary guilt, shame, and moral confusion. It does not encourage genuine responsibility; it displaces it... It only muddies the waters and invites us to confusion and unjustified overreactions... take heart: you’re hardly more of a racist because of accusations of “white complicity” in “systemic racism” than you are a murderer or manslaughterer because car accidents sometimes happen and you live in a society where people drive cars"
Basically, white people are evil
Destruction of property qualifies as violence - "Breaking things and burning buildings is enjoying a vogue it hasn’t had since the late 1960s or early 1970s.Arson and looting are a perennial feature of urban unrest, but they have been pretty universally condemned for decades now — until the past week or so.Forced to choose between criticizing the George Floyd protests when they get out of hand and defending the indefensible, activists and writers on the left have been tempted into the latter.Their inventive, if completely absurd, contention is that the destruction of property doesn’t qualify as violence, and, at the end of the day, isn’t such a bad thing, maybe even a salutary thing.The Pulitzer Prize-winning architect of The New York Times’ 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, argued in an interview: “Violence is when an agent of the state kneels on a man’s neck until all of the life is leached out of his body. Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence. To use the same language to describe those two things is not moral.”The editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick, favorably quoted a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Network, who explained: “We don’t have time to finger-wag at protesters about property. That can be rebuilt. Target will reopen.”An article in Current Affairs asserted that applying the word “violence” to the destruction of property risks “making the term conceptually incoherent and — much more important — conflating acts that do very serious physical harm to people with acts that have not physically harmed anyone.”... Those who minimize looting often explain that businesses have insurance, so what’s the big deal?But Balla wasn’t insured, and neither are many small businesses.How about chain stores like Target? They have more resources. But there’s still a cost. They may decide it’s too risky to open back up in a neighborhood where a store has been looted. And these businesses employ black people and have black customers.It is ahistorical to assume that urban areas easily bounce back from the large-scale destruction of property. Cities like Newark, Detroit and Washington arguably never recovered or took decades to fully recover from the riots of the 1960s.Finally, there isn’t such a clear distinction between harming property and people. Some shop owners will try to defend their livelihoods or hire security guards to do it. We’ve seen business owners beaten and a security guard at a St. Louis pawn shop shot and killed by people who, presumably, started out “only” wanting to destroy and steal property.It’s easy to be cavalier about someone else’s property. The former ESPN NBA reporter Chris Martin Palmer celebrated an image of a building burning in Minneapolis, tweeting, “Burn that (expletive) down. Burn it all down.”Then, when rioters got close to where he lived, Palmer lashed out at them as “animals.”He subsequently explained that he doesn’t endorse the destruction of property and supports peaceful protest. That’s the right position, although one that is now, incredibly enough, controversial."
Strange how these are the same people who call speech they disagree with "violence"
Of course, if a mob burns down Nikole Hannah-Jones's house...
Melrose police chief launches investigation into traffic message reading 'All Lives Matter' - "The Melrose police chief has launched an investigation after one of his officers typed a message on a traffic sign that read, in part, "All Lives Matter."... Lyle said the traffic officer who changed the sign told him that he did not post the message with "either malicious or political intent." The officer claims that he was trying to type a traffic safety message in the limited amount of space on the electronic sign and that he did not realize the totality or impact of what he wrote... A Melrose resident who was parked near the sign told a WCVB photographer that the sign featured the following message: "The speed limit is 25 mph. Please drive safely. The safety of all lives matter.""
When you politicise the police...
Maybe 4chan's next job can be to convince liberals that parts of the US Constitution are racist, then people will be fired for quoting the constitution
University Administrator Forced To Resign Over Study Finding No Racial Bias In Police Shootings - "Physicist Stephen Hsu has been forced out of his role as vice president of Research and Innovation at Michigan State University (MSU) after he promoted 2019 study that found there to be no racial bias in incidents of officer-involved shootings. “The [Graduate Employees Union] alleged that I am a racist because I interviewed MSU Psychology professor Joe Cesario, who studies police shootings,” Hsu wrote in a blog post on Saturday. “But Cesario’s work…is essential to understanding deadly force and how to improve policing.”... “This started as a twitter mob attack, with very serious claims: that I am a Racist, Sexist, Eugenicist, etc.,” the professor wrote in a blog post on Saturday.According to The College Fix, Hsu also came under attack for blogging over the years about research involving genetic differences among different races.The GEU circulated a petition titled “Fire Stephen Hsu,” which included an open letter “demanding” that he be fired from his position as senior vice president of Research and Innovation... His critics posted a triumphant update on their petition website, thanking everyone who demanded Hsu be fired. “We sincerely thank all of you who had the courage to speak out and took the time to engage with this important work,” they said. “The reception we received was beyond our imaginings. It is clear this is a deep pain that has been bubbling under the surface at our institution for many years, and we are not done engaging with and trying to heal that damage.”"
Science is "racist" after all
Of course, we are still told that Cancel Culture doesn't exist
Apparently it is "courageous" to belong to a mob that has the power to bully everyone else into following its demands
Will Chamberlain on Twitter - "The city of Atlanta let looters and rioters run riot, destroying homes and stores, without consequence But when one of their police officers killed a black man in a clear, justified self-defense situation, they threw the book at him It's not safe to live under Democrat rule"
Gregory McKelvey on Twitter - "Yesterday Dominique Dunn was murdered by a white man in Portland in a racist attack. He was called racial slurs and then murdered while walking away. These attacks are not rare in Portland and continue to expose white suppremacy. The family is asking for prayers."
Andy Ngô on Twitter - "Antifa have amplified baseless allegations the suspect who shot a black male outside a Portland strip club yesterday did it in a "white supremacist" attack. Jordan C. Clark was arrested on a murder charge. His FB profile features MLK Jr. & anti-police content. #DominiqueDunn"
Vermont City Council Rejects American Flag Art After Pushing Through ‘Emergency’ BLM Street Mural - "The city council for Montpelier, Vermont, unanimously rejected a petition to paint an American flag and the phrase “Liberty and Justice for All” in front of the Vermont State House... Klar wanted to paint the flag on one side of an existing “Black Lives Matter” motto on the street, and the phrase “Liberty and Justice for All” in red, white, and blue painted on the other side... Klar has pledged to take the city to court for favoring one type of political speech over another in a public venue... Casey responded by calling Klar a racist... “I’m a former public defender, and I’ve raised over $25,000 for Ugandan children over the last five years""
Of course, we are still told that liberals don't hate their countries
Portland police declare riot as anti-cop protesters torch union building - "Anti-cop protesters in Portland, Oregon, torched the city’s police union headquarters Saturday night as local law enforcement officials declared a riot... Saturday marked Portland’s 52nd straight night of anti-cop protests... Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has called the demonstrations a “violent mob” and said local leaders “refuse to restore order.”"
It's clearly Trump's fault that Portland cannot run their own city
More Arrests Made During Portland's 46th Consecutive Night Of Rioting - "Officers were pelted with glass bottles, ball bearings, paint pieces of brick, and other objects throughout the night... Rioters also shined lasers into the officers’ eyes... a worker was hit by an object one of the rioters threw... Portland resident Rowan Olsen, 19, was charged with creating a hazard on federal property, disorderly conduct, and failing to obey a lawful order.Prosecutors said Olsen shattered the glass doors of the Hatfield Courthouse while trying to hold it closed to keep officers trapped inside... a rioter launched a mortar into the courthouse through the broken doors, causing and explosion near the officers inside the building.A small fire broke out as a result of the explosion... One suspect hurled an open pocketknife at an officer, missing him by mere inches"
Rioters Try To Set Up Portland 'Autonomous Zone,' Set Fire To Occupied Police Precinct - "Rioters looted and torched North Portland businesses and tried to burn down an occupied police precinct while working to establish an “autonomous zone”... Rioters hurled glass bottles and other projectiles at officers before ramming two dumpsters into the garage doors in an attempt to force entry into the west side of the precinct, the PPB told KVAL.When their efforts to bust in failed, the rioters opted to barricade the doors of the precinct so officers and inmates would be unable to escape, according to police.“Burn the building down!” a rioter with a bullhorn yelled at approximately 12 a.m."
Portland Mayor Says DHS Officers Are To Blame For Violence, Not Rioters - "“I told the Acting Secretary that my biggest immediate concern is the violence federal officers brought to our streets in recent days, and the life-threatening tactics his agents use. We do not need or want their help”"
Kentucky AG Has Police Arrest 87 Protesters On His Lawn - "Louisville Metropolitan Police Department (LMPD) officers arrested 87 protesters trespassing in the front yard of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron"
I saw people on Facebook condemning this as being against the right to protest. Maybe they should organise protests at their houses since they support the right to protest at people's houses so much
Feds Arrest Black Lives Matter Organizer For Blackmailing Local Businesses - "Devonere Johnson, 28, was charged with extortion in connection with threats he made to multiple Madison, Wisconsin businesses. The federal criminal complaint also specified Johnson was attempting to obtain money and “property consent” through the use of force, violence, and fear, according to Fox 6. Upon Johnson’s arrest, violent riots swept through Madison, which left two statues destroyed, several windows smashed, and Democratic State Senator Tom Carpenter (Milwaukee) physically attacked by protestors near the state Capitol. “I don’t know what happened…all I did was stop and take a picture…and the next thing I’m getting five-six punches, getting kicked in the head,” explained Sen. Carpenter (D-Milwaukee)... Devonere Johnson also goes by the alias Yeshua Musa and has been present at every protest following Floyd’s death. Allegedly, many of the businesses Johnson attempted to extort were Asian-owned. Johnson has stated numerous times he is a proud Black Lives Matter member and has attended several BLM meetings in Madison. Johnson has been convicted and/or pleaded guilty three times, including felony theft for charges dating back to 2016. He was also charged and acquitted for felony first-degree assault charges in 2015, which left a Minnesota bus passenger paralyzed from the neck down"
Black Lives Matter Activist Charged With Extorting Businesses - "Violent activists tore down two statues and set a fire inside a city-county building that houses the Madison Police Department’s Downtown Station.Then about 300 people marched to the Dane County Jail and blocked traffic in the area, demanding drivers get out of their vehicles and join the protest, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.“This is not a peaceful protest, so if you came out here for a peaceful protest, you missed it,” one organizer said. “We’re done being peaceful. Now we demanding justice.” The windows were shattered in a state office building and street surveillance cameras were vandalized, spray painted, and destroyed... the man whose arrest inspired all the rioting and destruction had threatened to “shut down and destroy” a number of Wisconsin businesses unless Johnson and his friends were given free food and drinks, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.The criminal complaint against Johnson said that in one case, he told the business owner “give me money or we’ll break windows.” “You don’t want 600 people to come here and destroy your business and burn it down. The cops are on our side,” Johnson threatened the bar owner, according to the complaint. “You notice that when you call them, nothing happens to us.”"
When the thugs and rioters know that there is no political will to stop them...
Massive Brooklyn march demands justice and liberation for Palestine - "Multiple speakers highlighted the necessity of common struggle to fight for Black liberation and the liberation of all oppressed nations and communities alongside the struggle for justice, liberation and return in Palestine. The lead banner of the protest read, “NYPD=KKK=IDF: One Struggle for Liberation.” Indeed, many speakers focused on the centrality of struggling for Black liberation as a necessary condition for the liberation of Palestine. The rally lasted for nearly two hours as the crowd continued to grow, full of energy and militant spirit to struggle for Palestine. The march was widely attended by young people and by the Palestinian community in New York, and slogans like “Not just annexation – Not just occupation, Palestine won’t take it, Bring the whole thing down!” “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “There is only one solution! Intifada revolution!” filled the air."
NYPD Chief Who Knelt With Protesters In June Gets Injured In Clash With Protesters - "The highest-ranking uniformed member of the NYPD, Chief of Department Terence Monahan, who knelt with protesters at the beginning of June, was one of four NYPD officers injured during protests in New York"
So much for compromising the neutrality of your department by capitulating to the mob
Suspect Who Allegedly Attacked 3 NYPD Officials Is Released From Jail Without Bail
Amazing 4D chess means "white supremacists" and "police infiltrators" are attacking police officers in false flag operations to delegitimise the protests, which are really all peaceful
Liberals Blamed "Right-Wing" Nazis For Car Plowing Into Two BLM Supporters...Turns Out Driver Was a Young Black Man - "a white Jaguar plowed into a group of Black Lives Matter protesters who were congregated on the freeway, wearing all black... The left wasted no time trying to politicize the story, blaming President Trump and all “white people” etc. etc.But they were stopped in their tracks when it was revealed that the driver of the car is a young black man.All the tweets they had published blaming Trump and his supporters began quickly disappearing…*delete delete delete* Now, the left has a problem…this outcome doesn’t fit the “Nazi Trump Supporter” narrative they were spouting when they thought only a white man would be driving a pricey Jaguar... Ironically, the account who spread this fake news goes by the handle “Truth Matters.” How’s that for irony?...
'An Instagram page credited to a person named Dawit Kelete showed multiple photos of a Black man having fun in various settings that resembled college life at Washington State University. The man in those Instagram photos appeared to be the same person in the photos circulating on social media.'"
On Summer Taylor and Diaz Love
Comment (elsewhere): "A young black man driving the car.
He'll most likely be set free. But that's fine, that's what she'd have wanted."
1/1024th Liberty Memes - Posts - "A 27-year-old man drove a white Jaguar onto a closed freeway in Seattle and barreled through a panicked crowd of protesters, killing one."
"The driver wasn't white, but THE CAR WAS, so let's go with that
Spotted Toad on Twitter - "'“Somebody literally walked up to him&put a gun to the back of his head &shot him&we don’t know why,” said Smith Someone walking their dog found him bleeding around 11:15. He had been shot once. Neighbors said the shooting happened in front of a bus stop'
This response from the Chancellor of the University of California Berkeley is fucking horrific. Our country is ruled by monsters"
"We realize this is a difficult time for those of you who knew Seth. It is important to know that individuals may express their grief differently and we need to respect the different ways people react and support each other in the days and weeks ahead. Many of you may have had a close relationship with Seth and are feeling a sense of loss and disbelief. Others, like many of us, are experiencing stress, grief and anxiety related to the coronavirus pandemic and the recent murders of George Floyd, Riah Milton, and other Black Americans."
The poision of intersectionality. While we are told that one person's suffering doesn't negate another's, it's clear that in the liberal gospel some animals are more equal than others (this is like how feminists don't want to talk about men's issues because that will dilute the singular focus on women)
BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, 'I think it's time for the protests to end' - "‘The protests of 68 had a purpose in mind. There were definite changes that needed to happen. There was segregation on a national basis.’
‘Perhaps Pastor Scott, there are many millions of African Americans who don't share your view. You once described Donald Trump as the most pro black president I've seen in my lifetime. Is that still your view?’
‘Yes, it is. The measures that Donald Trump has enacted for black people are not in response to social upheaval or social unrest. And so he's been proactive. His prison reform is proactive. Criminal justice reform is proactive, not reactive.’
‘But many taking to the streets, not those who are indulging in violence. But many taking to the streets peacefully say that under him, over the past four years has seen a progressive diminution of the economic status of black people’
‘Come on, you got to be kidding me… You're talking about... historically low levels of unemployment for black people before this COVID-19 virus. Black businesses were flourishing prior to this COVID-19 outbreak.’
‘You say prior, Pastor Scott, but given the economic collapse, given the absence of much to support people during the economic collapse, perhaps we won't be that great for what was coming before, the one that results from COVID.’
‘Okay, that's, that's worldwide, isn't it? That's not just confined to America. Those effects from COVID, come from COVID are worldwide. They’re over in your country just as much as they are over in this country. You're trying to make like this is an American virus and it's not. It's a worldwide, a pandemic means worldwide.’
‘I'm asking about the response to the virus’
‘You know what the problem is, there's a segment and it sounds like you're one of them, you're looking for a way to pin these riots on Trump and you can't. You want to. You want a face for this. And you want Donald Trump to be that face, but he's not.’
‘What about his language? What about his tweeting?... What about the fact that he uses a phrase about looting and shooting?’
‘What about the fact that in 2015, when they were rioting in Baltimore, Barack Obama said they were criminals and thugs. That's what Barack Obama said in a response to the riots of 2015 in Baltimore. He said, these… were criminal and thugs’
‘Looting and shooting is a phrase with a long history, Pastor Scott. You know it and I know it.’
‘I don't know. What are you talking about?’
‘Looting and shooting, which was the phrase that the President tweeted and Twitter had to stop’
‘Let me ask you a question. If somebody broke in your house, to steal all your possessions, vandalize your house and burn your house to the ground, you would shoot them. And you know it’
‘Well, no, I wouldn’t, because we don't have guns in this country. So I wouldn't’
‘Now, President Trump-’
‘So you’d just let them take it then. You just let them take your stuff. But we have guns in our country and the Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms.’...
‘Wouldn't people who listening to you Pastor Scott who are taking to the street saying, well, here we are. Someone who supports Donald Trump who is not really interested in major change’
‘I'm the CEO of the national diversity coalition. I'm the CEO of the urban revitalization coalition. I sat in on the criminal justice reform. I contributed 27 pages to the criminal justice reform plan for America. All I've been doing for the last two years is trying to affect positive change for the black community. But do I want them to go get Molotov cocktails and go down and burn up the cities? No.’
‘How in your view, does this come to an end? And what would your message be to people who are not going there for violence, but you may think are helping those who are?’
‘Most of the violence is done by outside agitators. There was a, there was a white woman that was spraying Black Lives Matter on stores so that it could be attributed to the black community. There's a criminal element in every society that tries to exploit and capitalize upon human pain, suffering, grieving and injustice. And so that, that faction is at work right now. There really is, I don't know what the endgame is for some of those protesters. And you look up a month from now, a lot of people will regret the fact that they participated in this’
‘The slogan Black Lives Matters is echoed not just in American cities over the past six nights but also on the streets here and all over Europe. The words were first used in a hashtag written in 2013 by Patrice Cullors after a jury acquitted a neighborhood watch leader of murdering an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin. When I spoke to her, she told me that officials and the media should focus on the cause of the protests and not on the violence.’...
‘We know that there's white supremacists that are definitely coming in and agitating. That are burning things up, that are shooting at people. That's true. And-’
‘Just white supremacists?’
‘And there's also police instigators’
‘There may be people on the left as well, I mean they’re not’
‘Possibly. I don't know any of those people, but I can confirm that there is white supremacists and I can confirm that there’s police instigators, this is, unfortunately, a very common tactic that happens inside of protests and protest movements is infiltration.’"
Since the cause of the protests is identity politics and lies and disinformation about policing...
How convenient. Violence is always by 'white supremacists' and 'police instigators'
BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, More large protests across US but violence falls - "‘We see hundreds more people out here beside the White House again, as it was 24 hours ago. It is a predominantly white crowd, although it is mixed’…
‘I feel like every day is really important. So every day that you can come out and show up. It's really important’
‘Given what's happened, did you feel apprehensive?’
‘Yeah, definitely. But I think that especially as a white person, it's like, my life is much more productive right now than other people's lives.’
‘I felt like I needed to be here more… Because I left yesterday and I was able to go home and sit in my room. And there were so many people out here who are more vulnerable than me. And more in danger of these, the police like at night and I was able to go home and I felt so guilty not being out here when like, my life is not in danger here. And there're so many people out here risking their lives to save other black lives. And so I felt like I needed to be here more so than ever after how crazy last night was’"
Protests are white supremacy!
Business Owner Charged With Hate Crime For Painting Over BLM Graffiti On His Storefront | The Babylon Bee - "Drake said he was just "cleaning up vandalism," which is a well-known racist dog whistle."
ELIJAH on Twitter - "Protest organizer claims their mission is the “abolition of the United States as we know it”"
Antifa mugshots go viral online after Portland arrests - "The images are going viral for average citizens to know that Antifa are not so scary behind the mask. They’re actually a little weird."
Racism in the Arab world: Black Lives Matter protests prompts reflection - The Washington Post - "U.S. protests in recent weeks have been cheered by many in the Arab world, even as they have turned a spotlight on deeply entrenched racism in the region. Abeer Sinder, a black Saudi model and beauty video blogger, has used her online platform for years to discuss racism in the Arab world. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests, she recently posted some of the offensive things people say to her, including: “This is your husband??!!” (referring to her lighter-skinned spouse), “How did you get this job?” and “It’s true you’re black but you’re pretty, bless Allah.”... In the Arab world, people often use derogatory words to refer to black people; President Barack Obama was frequently called “al-abd,” or “the slave.”"
So much for racial equality in Islam
Australia’s Coon cheese to change name in effort to help ‘eliminate racism' - "The Australian cheese brand Coon will change its name to help “eliminate racism” following a campaign stating the product name was offensive to Indigenous Australians.Friday’s announcement by Saputo, the dairy company that owns Coon, “to retire the Coon brand name”, comes after a decades-long effort to rename the cheese, including an unsuccessful 1999 complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission from Indigenous activist Dr Stephen Hagan.Hagan told the Guardian on Friday the decision was “a total vindication of 20 years of campaigning”.Coon, along with other businesses, artists and cultural symbols, has come under fresh scrutiny over racial connotations in recent months as the Black Lives Matter movement gained momentum in Australia.The brand, which was first sold in 1935, has long resisted calls to change its name, defending its historical decision to name the cheese after American cheesemaker Edward William Coon, who, according to the brand’s website, “patented a unique ripening process” used to make the dairy product."
Time for Buddhists to cancel the swastika
Demonstrators gather in Aurora to protest Elijah McClain's death - "Two protesters were shot and injured by another protester during a march over the death of Elijah McClain on Saturday night in Aurora.The group had made their way down East Alameda Avenue and onto Interstate 225, forcing the closure of the highway for a time.While over I-225, Sky9 captured a Jeep barreling down the highway as protesters scrambled to get out of the way... the group returned to APD headquarters and tore the fence surrounding the complex, prompting APD to declare the protest an "unlawful assembly" and ask those participating to leave the area. A tweet said that anyone who remained would be subject to arrest. APD tweeted that the protesters were no longer peaceful, as they were throwing objects, shining lasers and shooting large fireworks at officers. They had broken windows to the courthouses and started a fire in an office"
Presumably the protestor who shot the other 2 is a "white supremacist" or "police infiltrator", and so are all the other violent protestors. And leftists are claiming he was shooting in self defence, when the video clearly shows the vehicle wasn't in danger of hitting anyone
Biden: violent protesters should be 'arrested and tried' - "The former vice president struck a discordant tone with fellow liberals who insist protests against the May killing of George Floyd by Minnesota police are peaceful, and that authorities are to blame for any violence in Portland and other cities... Biden’s call for the prosecution of violent protesters may further alienate leftist politicians uneasy with Biden’s decades of centrist policies.This week, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) said she would not endorse Biden and a co-chair of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner, likened voting for Biden to eating a “bowl of s–t.” The event was the first time Biden took questions since a June 30 briefing. President Trump by contrast often takes reporter questions multiple times a day including at his resumed daily coronavirus briefings. He’s taken questions from reporters at least 15 times since June 30. Biden largely steer cleared of gaffes on Tuesday, but mistakenly said that Trump canceled plans to hold the Republican National Convention in Tallahassee, Florida, before correcting himself to say Jacksonville."
Louisville protests descend into chaos when armed protester accidentally shoots members of his group, injuring 3 - "Gunshots erupted during a planned protest in Louisville, Ky., Saturday and three members of the heavily armed militia group, the “Not F---ing Around Coalition” (NFAC), were injured by shots fired from one of their own member's guns... officers from the LMPD were on high alert, aware of the possibility of violence from highly armed militants dressed in all black -- many of whom are not from Kentucky -- claiming they are defending the Constitution and decrying the death of Breonna Taylor. Other racial justice protesters who have staged peaceful marches daily since the death of Taylor in March faced off with NFAC militants, saying they don't agree with their tactics of displaying guns and weaponry.The Louisville organization of Black Lives Matter has distanced itself from the coalition, accusing the armed group of being “outside agitators""
Strange how these "white supremacists" (as liberals dismiss all protestors who don't fit the narrative) are all black
Related: Black armed protesters march in Kentucky demanding justice for Breonna Taylor
Carrying guns only incites violence when white non-liberals do it
Orcs March On Minas Tirith In Mostly Peaceful Protest | The Babylon Bee - ""Everything is very calm, very peaceful here," said a reporter from Gondor News Network. "It's very tranquil."... Gondor's government was criticized for "police brutality" when, after a long period of inaction, Rohan's armies finally charged in to break things up."We were just peacefully protesting -- Gondor had no right to peacefully protest back," said one Orc. "Two of their agents were even having a contest to see how many of us they could kill -- and they were killing the majestic, endangered Oliphaunts! I'm literally shaking right now.""
Body found in building torched during George Floyd protests - "“The body appears to have suffered thermal injury and we do have somebody charged with setting fire to that place”"
I saw supporters of the riots claiming that the body was placed there to get rid of it after the fire
Redwood City Scrubs Black Lives Matter Mural After Trump Supporter Asks to Paint ‘MAGA 2020’ on Same Street - "the city washed the sign away after being contacted by local real estate attorney Maria Rutenburg, who said that if the street was now a public forum, she wanted a sign of her own reading “MAGA 2020.”... Faced with the possibility of a political and/or legal fight, the city suddenly decided that Dan Pease’s sign was a traffic hazard that might cause accidents and they removed it in the middle of the night"
Cliff Maloney on Twitter - "I have a crazy idea, but stick with me... Why don't we just exchange all the pro-liberty Hong Kong protesters for our socialist and communist "comrades" who are so unhappy here? The citizens of Hong Kong get freedom. Antifa gets communism. Everyone wins."
Suspect wearing 'I Can't Breathe' t-shirt wanted for shooting, killing man in Northeast DC
James Woods on Twitter - "Communism has long fingers and many facades.
CCCP: *raised fist*
Black Lives Matter: *raised fist*"
BLM co-founder describes herself as 'trained Marxist' - "Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in a newly surfaced video from 2015 that she and her fellow organizers are “trained Marxists” – making clear their movement’s ideological foundation, according to a report.Cullors, 36, was the protégé of Eric Mann, former agitator of the Weather Underground domestic terror organization, and spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology that shaped her worldview"
Hulu Removes Episode Of Golden Girls Due To Spa Treatment Mud Mask - "“Hulu has removed an episode of ‘The Golden Girls’ that shows Betty White and Rue McClanahan in blackface.”Except that 1988 episode titled “Mixed Blessing” had two of the actresses wearing mud on their faces as a facial treatment, not in blackface... Roxane Gay, a black author, criticized Hulu’s decision on Twitter.“That Golden Girls episode isn’t blackface,” Gay tweeted. “What the hell?”“Removing this episode is weird, counterproductive and stupid,” Gay said. “It diminishes the effort to actually end racism. It’s just so dumb.”Black author Erica Williams Simon also was critical of Hulu’s decision... “First of all, they were in mud masks not blackface,” Simon tweeted. “And second of all, in what world does ‘Stop killing us.’ sound like ‘Please remove episodes of Golden Girls’? I didn’t see that ask on anyone’s protest sign…”"
Dennis Wingo on Twitter - "European Colonial History in six words: “Is that yours? It’s mine now.”"
"That's human history. The Bushmen would say the same thing about the Bantu, the Persian about the Egyptian, most of the world, from the viewpoint of Ghenghis Khan. Making all history about White Europeans is diametrically opposite of your call for truth in science."
When Neil deGrasse Tyson is also a race hustler
Calvin Cheng - Posts - "PROTECTION OF MINORITIES - LEE KUAN YEW
Do you know what will happen if we let Americanised ‘woke’ Singaporeans get into positions of influence in Singapore? When the Black Lives Matter started in America, they tried to also start a Brown Lives Matter campaign. When the rioters in America tore down statues in America and the UK, they also asked for Sir Stamford Raffles statue to be torn down. The Americans are now erasing from their Universities, the names of Presidents that Social Justice Warriors deem racist. A few days ago, they tore down the statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the river. Already, you would have seen that these parroting-Singaporeans are putting out memes and articles calling Lee Kuan Yew a racist, in response to the police report against the Workers’ Party’s Raeesah Khan. Lee Kuan Yew has no statues for them to tear down, but I am sure if they get into positions of power, they will ask for his name to be removed from Singapore institutions."
Chicago Mayor Says Fourth Of July Weekend Was 'Mostly Peaceful' | The Babylon Bee - ""It was mostly peaceful, very calm, lots of people enjoying themselves, very fun," she said. "Yes, there were a few run-of-the-mill murders and shootings, but hey. We just call that a Saturday here.""Other than the people getting shot on basically every block, it was largely calm and peaceful." Lightfoot also pointed out that most people who committed murders were practicing social distancing and wearing masks. "Encouraging" surveillance footage showed that Chicago's murderers are using hand sanitizer and wiping their weapons down after each murder. "So, by that metric, I think it was definitely a success. We're making a lot of progress on that front."She further stated that she suspects the murderers are actually paid Trump supporters trying to make her city look bad."
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany | The White House - "MS. MCENANY: — Greater New York BLM president has said, “If this country doesn’t give us what we want, [that] we will burn down [the] system…And I could be speaking…literally.” I’d call that a pretty hateful statement.
Q But, Kayleigh, he’s not —
MS. MCENANY: Yes. Ben.
Q — talking about the organization in his tweet. He says the words —
MS. MCENANY: Yes, Ben.
Q — he says the words, “Black Lives Matter.”
MS. MCENANY: Which — what’s the name of the organization again?
Q Black Lives Matter.
MS. MCENANY: There you go. You just answered my question."
Schrodinger's liberal activist - only representing the ideology/organisation when it makes them look good!
VIDEO: DA Decides Not To Charge Man Who Put Cop In Headlock - "A Bronx prosecutor deferred charges against a man caught on video putting a New York Police Department officer in a headlock... The cell phone video filmed by a bystander showed 29-year-old Wisnel Manzueta trying to interfere in an arrest that two NYPD officers were making... NYPD sources told The Police Tribune that the Bronx district attorney is notoriously anti-police and has always been reluctant to charge assault on a police officer... “She basically said it’s okay to assault a police officer and the streets now know officers are fair game,” the source said. “All you have to do is get a cop to take action and you can do whatever you want. It’s absolutely crazy that they would say ‘oh, because of this we’re not going to prosecute’ when if it was a cop who did the same thing, they would be all over it saying it was a chokehold.”“If the roles were reversed, the cop would be in a jail cell”"