Tough Day To Be In Law Enforcement

[checkbookdoc]

I just want to say, I appreciate and respect law enforcement officers.
They have a tough job. I believe most of them are good people and nearly all of them do more good than harm.
I hate that they get condemned by the biased court of public opinion prior to having their day in court.

 

[Archie Moses]

The rest of the world: on lockdown due to COVID-19.

The United States of America: on a side quest.

 

[Archie Moses]

What is even going on there? Looks like two white kids and one black...but what are they doing? Looks like they may have been holding cans of spray paint? But I didn’t see them spray anything.

I guess he saw them tagging things and chased two teenagers down and took their cans. When Bones Jones is your moral compass, you know you're struggling but good for him.

 

[Avery]

Neither. Lots of people have linked antifa violence, but so far none where antifa was the instigator. Do you have examples of antifa initiating violence?

If you present examples, please keep in mind the importance of caveats like "initiating", "instigator", and "At protests where you don't see white supremacists".

Not sure what the angle here is, but Antifa aren't peaceful at all. They're instigating panic, fear and chaos. They're also largely young, white males who apparently have nothing better to do.

 

[Archie Moses]

Feel bad for these small business owners. It's been a hell if a year.

 

[Archie Moses]

More of this, please.

 

[NAOS]

Are you capable of being specific and writing out your thoughts or disagreements? You literally quote me and respond with some vague complaint like what I'm writing is so ludicrous.
@Ron Mexico - is capable of having a discussion and responds to what I say.

I'm not sure why you're such a hack about but it's apparent you condone riots, looting, and burning **** down that or you think you're so woke and and so philosophical and responding as ****ing vague as possible to my comments that you're some how better.

Cool, dude. Move along.

You don’t know **** about my position on things. So, your characterization of me is just one in a long list of things you’re leaping erroneously at. **** off, frat boy.

 

[Miggs]

My buddy just sent this. Not sure of the validity.

 

[One Brow]

I did miss the part about "white supremecists" which might be true, although a bunch of **** went down in portland at a climate change march due to antifa a little bit ago.

Your absolutely right on that score. I am assuming that you are referring to the Sep 2019 protest. Of course, it was described differently by different people.

For example, journalist and pro-fascist Andy Ngo certainly made the protests seem very violent:
https://www.newsweek.com/violence-p...uts-law-abiding-citizens-risk-opinion-1461124

Left-wing WillametteWeek put the violence at the feet of the police:
https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2...aws-condemnation-from-portland-civic-leaders/

Less partisan journalists had both sides seem less extreme:
https://www.koin.com/news/environment/students-plan-to-walk-out-for-global-climate-strike/

"Overall, the demonstration was peaceful, however PPB notes that they made three arrests during the march, out of the several thousand individuals in attendance."

 

[One Brow]

Yes. If change doesn't happen right away you continue to push for it in ways that make bridges, not enemies. The most successful social movements over the past 200 years are based on legal and non-violent approaches (think gay or women's rights).

While you are correct that this is hard and takes time, you are wrong if you think there was not plenty of violence used against, and sometimes for, people fighting for gay or women's rights.

 

[Beer]

I’ve covered the law enforcement angle in other threads and agree. But there will still be cop on black homicides. There just will.

Of course there will. But how many painfully obvious cop on black male murder have gone unpunished? A vast majority of them. Seeing them punished would certainly alleviate some of the hurt and would hopefully make other cops think twice before doing something dumb.

 

[One Brow]

What is even going on there? Looks like two white kids and one black...but what are they doing? Looks like they may have been holding cans of spray paint? But I didn’t see them spray anything.

It looked like the black guy took the spray can off the white guy to prevent vandalism.