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mdmost

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  1. The good thing about him taking up OANN talking points is it further pushes him away from the rest of the country. That 38% approval might be a high point really soon. 

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    Just now, ChickenSandwich said:

    I’m saying the population will have fatigue from the sustained rioting and looting. They seem to follow the peaceful protests quite closely. 

    Okay. Where is there sustained rioting and looting going on?

  3. 3 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    There will be a law of diminishing returns on the protests/riots and looting as we are already seeing. The crazies will start to lash out, and the silent majority will quietly condemn while saying “I support BLM, but....”

    The shelf life is turning quickly 

    Is it? All I'm seeing since Thursday is peaceful protests every day with a few exceptions like the anarchists in Seattle going at it with police. Curfew lifted which has led to less confrontations with the police. National Guard troops are leaving. Calm pretty much restored. 

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    15 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    Agree. The cops are police, not the Army.

    Always reminds me of this clip from The Wire. Before anyone says "blah blah Hollywood". The Wire was co-written and created by a former Baltimore cop.

     

  5. 48 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    up until floyds death(which was caused by a knee to the throat) how many deaths were caused by MPD with military style weapons in the last year, 2 years, 5 years?  what is a military style weapon.

    I wasn't referring to deaths. I mean the general warrior style policing that we see now that makes the police even more of an us vs them system. And military style weapons like APCs and mine proof vehicles are what I'm talking about. Their budget is 7 billion dollars. Surely a good portion of that could be moved to efforts that are more beneficial. I'm very interested to see what they come up wtih. 

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    They can overreact and quit. I doubt the people who are being abused and overpoliced will mind. Maybe MPD will stop having military style weapons that are only used on citizens and not the terrorists they were intended for. Maybe mental health, crisis management, and de-escalation services will be fully funded. There will still be police, they will just be managed in a different fashion. Again, if you don't like it as a cop then you have options. If you are fine with 4 officers being called out for a call about a counterfeit $20 bill that leads to a man's death then I guess doing nothing is fine. 

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