A coherent protest would have people somewhat organized with signs and people speaking in turn. What happened in SLC was just an angry mob venting their anger while some people hung around to watch.
Tough Day To Be In Law Enforcement
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Along came a lad with a bow and an arrah, and he said, "I'll get ya, ya wee **** sparrah."
candrew
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They would think that they were within their rights to stand outside their home on their property as it clearly states you can in the Minnesota DPS website FAQs regarding the curfew:
https://dps.mn.gov/macc/Pages/faq.aspx
These cops, guardsmen, whatever are overzealous assholes who are making a bad situation worse.
Archie Moses
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Darkwing Duck
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Is it really the thought out response by law enforcement to react to protests, even violent protests, of police brutality and authoritarianism with high levels of brutality and authoritarianism?
Archie Moses
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I don't give a **** what the cure view says. I see a damn army of angry assholes looking for violence yelling at me to go inside, I'm gonna go inside. Lol
This is MAGA. Nice job dudes.
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Yes, but it was hard for me to hear.
They're just sitting on the front porch. Why would they need to be inside, unless the people on the street have something to hide?
The Thriller
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Which is what triggered these protests in the first place. Overzealous assholes making a bad situation worse. We’ve seen it countless times now on video.
This is an odd strategy.
1. Police overreact
2. Protests begin to protest police overreaction
3. During the protests, the police overreact
Um?
NAOS
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if you’re summing things up in moral binaries, then you can be sure you’ve wildly oversimplified what’s going on.
sahlensguy
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Just makes you want to say, F them.
And I don't even hate cops, but c'mon, this is the problem, not the solution.
NAOS
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Why are we able to separate SLC from the moods, feelings, causes, and effects that are being experienced by their brothers and sisters in other cities of this country? You appear to have the wrong model for explaining how these kinds of events can spread.
NAOS
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You’re struggling to understand.
sahlensguy
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4. Protest lead to angry, destructive, violent mobs.
5. Population sides with cops.
6. Conservatives win elections.
Avery
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The question will be if Trump doubles down on his law and order rhetoric or strikes a conciliatory tone to try to sound more presidential. My guess is the former as he’s probably going to want suburban moderate female voters vs. African American voters as I can’t see them voting for him in any circumstance.
The Thriller
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Republicans are the incumbent party. The pandemic, unemployment rate, and destruction we see are signs that we need different leadership.
guys, this is overblown. People aren’t remembering 1968 correctly. The incumbent party was thrown out of office then. Nixon and the republicans won because of the chaos. The country is going to **** on Donald’s watch and people think this chaos is going to help him? If hillary were president would we be saying that all of this would be helping her re-election? Come on. Can’t have it both ways. If the country was peaceful, healthy, and prosperous people would say it would help Donald’s Re-election. Now that it’s not, it helps his re-election too?
Similar to 1968, I think all of this chaos hurts the incumbent party and helps those who desire change. Not to mention that once these protests end in a few days, Donald will remind us once again on a daily basis how bad he is at his job. We can expect at least 3-4 more scandals to erupt and at least a dozen high profile twitter fights between now and November.
sahlensguy
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You and I know that Trump is not the leader we need.
This chaos will only mobilize the more white privileged Karen's to vote.
The Thriller
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Another thing, if these protests wanted to prove one thing, that the military I mean police is over militarized and often escalates rather than de-escalates situations, these protests have been quite effective. Nationwide we’ve seen racism, police brutality, and chaos promoted by the police.
pretty clear it’s not just “a few bad apples” but systemic rot. Reform is necessary.
pretty clear it’s not just “a few bad apples” but systemic rot. Reform is necessary.
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