The Demonstrations in Minnesota (Update: Now Nationwide){Now International} (2 Viewers)

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If the black dude was a cop, yes. Happens all the time, coops get the benefit of the doubt regardless of color of cop or victim. Jeremy Mardis’ killer was on the street for 6 days while investigations were ongoing and only got arrested because he turned himself in, then was out on bail for the next year awaiting trial. Cop=black, victim=white autistic 6yo boy. Many more examples.
First, it should be pointed out that white people do fall victim to the broken institutions within the American police force, but the harms are concentrated much, much more toward people of color. Statistics bear this out.

I think people also struggle with the idea that if a system is racist and broken, a person can still be the same color as the most prominent victims of that unjust system and be perpetuating it. It’s not a mutually exclusive idea. An individual need not be personally racist, or of the same color of the predominant abusers, to protect and advance a racist system.
 
It's not going to change without an absolute change in cultural mindset which ain't happening for another generation at least. DeBlasio straight up excused NYPD last night for their tactics, including the use of the vehicle to move protesters and today you have the National Security Advisor essentially saying that there is no real problem in American policing outside of the "few bad apples". How long is that excuse been given? You will never change the minds of folks who do not interact daily with the police that there is an issue. Until the very culture changes from us vs them to Us, we will continue to see the police act like private municipal armies that are rarely held accountable for their actions.
I think this protestor sums up the issue and generational dynamic you just illustrated:

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Hopefully moments like this will create enough people in this newer generation with that sort of passion and clarity and eventually the culture can change enough to enact real reform. But I am with you in that I suspect little will be done.
 
First, it should be pointed out that white people do fall victim to the broken institutions within the American police force, but the harms are concentrated much, much more toward people of color. Statistics bear this out.

I think people also struggle with the idea that if a system is racist and broken, a person can still be the same color as the most prominent victims of that unjust system and be perpetuating it. It’s not a mutually exclusive idea. An individual need not be personally racist, or of the same color of the predominant abusers, to protect and advance a racist system.

Very accurate and I alluded to this in an earlier post. There are black police officers that have put a stigma on people of their own race because they now fit the profile of the “face of the enemy.”
 
Instead of addressing the nation as a whole, the President plays straight to his base and is now blaming Antifa and the left for all of this. Unbelievable deflection. Yes...thats the real issue here. It's not even Antifa, it's black bloc anarchist agitators and the police that are escalating to the point of no return. God, things are not going to get fixed.
 
Instead of addressing the nation as a whole, the President plays straight to his base and is now blaming Antifa and the left for all of this. Unbelievable deflection. Yes...thats the real issue here. It's not even Antifa, it's black bloc anarchist agitators and the police that are escalating to the point of no return. God, things are not going to get fixed.


If someone isn’t familiar with the “Reichstag Fire Decree” of 1933, check it out. Google it, Wikipedia it, whatever.
 
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firing something at innocent person on their porch:



cop appearing to be enjoying himself today:

https://v.redd.it/jjclrdzp8x151

cops breaking supplies for peaceful protestors:

https://v.redd.it/v8x8isj0xz151

nypd driving into protestors:

https://v.redd.it/mztm15kh00251
cops shoving an old dude to the ground:

https://v.redd.it/bluggpblrz151

police actively seeking out fights compilation:

https://v.redd.it/m82yxl4qh0251

cop driving at people aggressively on a campus:

https://v.redd.it/ngxvkoro60251

cop shooting rubber bullets at people watching from apartment:



police shooting the press with rubber bullets:

https://v.redd.it/o3v8ps7rat151

police arresting a CNN reporter:

https://v.redd.it/yce9bpk8mo151

photographer being pepper sprayed:

https://i.redd.it/4ix8f3j6dy151.jpg

guy with hands in the air gets his mask ripped off and pepper sprayed:

https://v.redd.it/wlx0gyoe21251

lady who was coming home with groceries who got a rubber bullet to the head:

https://i.redd.it/ns0uj557x0251.jpg



reporter blinded by rubber bullets:



reporter describes getting tear gassed:



couple getting yanked out of their car and tased for violating curfew:




reporter sheltering in gas station is pepper sprayed: https://twitter.com/MichaelAdams317

reporter trying to get home gets window shot out:

cops come at a guy for filming a police car burning:



photographer arrested:



Columbus police assaulting protestors:



congresswoman sprayed with pepper spray during protest:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/30/politics/joyce-beatty-ohio-pepper-sprayed-columbus-protest/index.html

7 protesters fired on with rubber bullets:

https://v.redd.it/tal1ncha4o151

cops pepper spraying a group of protestors without provocation https://v.redd.it/0dxnkso0a1251

young child allegedly pepper sprayed:

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/v...ce-of-child-pepper-sprayed-in-seattle-protest

horse tramples young woman, police investigating: https://www.click2houston.com/news/...ce-horse-tramples-woman-during-houston-rally/

cop pushes protestor with his bike



Reuters reporters detail being shot at with rubber bullets:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-as-police-disperse-protesters-idUSKBN237050

Cincinnati Police shooting at people sitting down and macing a knocked out dude in the face

 
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Instead of addressing the nation as a whole, the President plays straight to his base and is now blaming Antifa and the left for all of this. Unbelievable deflection. Yes...thats the real issue here. It's not even Antifa, it's black bloc anarchist agitators and the police that are escalating to the point of no return. God, things are not going to get fixed.

Trump’s recent behavior is perhaps the most appalling and aggressive attempt at using the divide and conquer strategy while both delegitimizing justified grievances and setting the groundwork for state suppression that I have seen in my lifetime.

This is Nazi level sheet.
 
Instead of addressing the nation as a whole, the President plays straight to his base and is now blaming Antifa and the left for all of this. Unbelievable deflection. Yes...thats the real issue here. It's not even Antifa, it's black bloc anarchist agitators and the police that are escalating to the point of no return. God, things are not going to get fixed.

Just ignore him. You will be better for it.
 
If someone isn’t familiar with the “Reichstag Fire Decree” of 1933, check it out. Google it, Wikipedia it, whatever.
Yeah people should look that up.

Where the nazis essentielly fabricated a communist plot to delegitimize left-wing opposition and justify the further encroachment and concentration of state power used to silence and illegally arrest opposition leaders on false pretenses.
 
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