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Captainant

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  1. 4 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

    @blacklab moved it here since it was in the police thread.

    Yeah because firing tear gas and rubber bullets at peaceful protesters is totally not police brutality and literal assaults on the right to peaceful assembly. 

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  2. 3 minutes ago, blacklab said:

    I moved several posts about Trump's trip to church to another thread.

    It should no longer be discussed here

    I really disagree with this move. This is shaping the narrative and preventing a full discussion of what the fuck is going on. 

    It was just "a trip to church". It was federal and military police sweeping and clearing a lawful peaceful protest in memory of George Floyd. Protesters were being shot at and bowled over by cops with their hands up and chanting George Floyd. 

    That belongs in the thread about George Floyd's death. This is your site and you can run it how you want, but this is taking measures to shape the discussion and disqualify topics arbitrarily. Shame on you. 

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  3. 19 minutes ago, Spankytoes said:

    So let’s bring race back into the equation.

    We have documented incidents of white cops being racist and killing unarmed black men. As a result, the prevailing thought is that all cops are bad and white people are racist. At best, SOME cops are good, based on personal interactions or family relations.

    We have documented incidents of black people acting like violent criminals. Yet, the same transitive properties don’t apply. We don’t label all black people as bad based on the actions of some. We accept that, on a whole, black people are unfairly treated based on the actions of the minority of the population. This is a broad stroke applied that doesn’t necessarily have the benefit of personal interactions or family relations.

    This seems hypocritical and an argument based on emotion.

    On the other hand: you have a decision if you're going to be a cop or not. 

    If you're black, you're black. 

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  4. 1 minute ago, Nicole44 said:

    At least you enjoyed the movie. I never have reported a post my whole time as a poster but the last few pages of that shit made it tempting. I can’t remember a thread getting that fucked up that quickly. 

    I mean talking about if Jesus endorses "chopping up babies" or not seems like a pretty bright line in my book for a thread on police brutality.

  5. I don't understand the comparison between news networks here. Who is showing video and footage from the front lines and who is putting talking heads on to tell you what happened? Stick to the facts. Do your civic fucking duty and watch for yourself what is happening right now.

    See the looters, see the riots.

    And fucking see the police attacking peaceful protesters and journalists for no reason but to just to clear out a walking path for a photo op for the president.

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  6. 2 minutes ago, Iconoclast Texan said:

    What happened? We’re they given an order to disperse and refused? The government needs to reassert control now.  Federal troops need to be in the streets. No 1st world country other than France would put up with this as long as we have. People aren’t going to respect the pigs. Get our troops and display overwhelming force, 

    They were given no orders to disburse or to leave. The cops attacked them. 

    Go watch what fucking happened. 

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Iceman said:

    Let me be clear:  I do not want conflict.

    At a certain point, you take the country back from the shitheads.  They had their 'fun,'  now settle the fuck down and get back in mommy's basement.

     

    I am 100% supportive of protests/ demonstrations.   I'm not down with looting, destruction, and mayhem.  If that bothers some folks, IDGAF.   

    Goodnight and Godspeed to you.

    The police at the White house attacked peaceful protesters to push them out of the way to make a walking path so the president could take a picture with a Bible in front of the St John's Church. 

    The protesters were not violent. They were attacked and forcefully shoved out of the way. 

    That's not political. That is a recitation of what happened. 

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  8. They apparently cleared out the protesters to make a path for the president to go to the St John's Church for a photo op. 

    That's where he's headed.

    And he shot rubber bullets and teargas and rubber bullet claymore mines at the protesters who were objectively peaceful to clear a path. 

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  9. 1 minute ago, Michael Knight said:

    so no one wants to comment on the use of american military forces on citizens?

    There were trucks of soldiers in BDU's with full battle rattle going into the Whitehouse lawn area about 10 minutes before the cops started attacking the protesters

    The protesters did nothing to start violence. There were cameras all over it, and everyone was chanting with their hands up. And then the flashbangs and tear gas came out

  10. Y'all need to turn on the news. Barr is on the White House lawn staring down protesters behind an army of cops, national guard members, and secret service agents. 

    And the president is about to have a speech from the rose garden.

    This shit is fucking wild. 

  11. Y'all need to turn on the news. Barr is on the White House lawn staring down protesters behind an army of cops, national guard members, and secret service agents. 

    And the president is about to have a speech from the rose garden.

    This shit is fucking wild. 

    Early reports is talk of the Insurrection Act being invoked to deploy national guard. And Abbot just signed an EO to allow federal agents to operate with state authority and powers

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