Minneapolis cops slowly murder handcuffed man in front of crowd

[Former President tack50]

https://twitter.com/sunbellyra/status/1265466730501079040

Reminds me of Tea Party protests compared with early BLM demonstrations.

Is the implcation that cops should have set off tear gas in inside the literal state Capitol building during a legislative session over some maskless protesters? If its that the cops should not have gassed the Minnesotans then I agree.

Honestly, armed people entering the state capitol during a legislative session is the definition of a coup imo. So tear gas would have actually been a very tame response to a state coup d'etat.

And I say this as someone who, while fully condemning the death of that black man and thinking the police should be fired and sent to jail for manslaughter, does not agree of the violent reaction (although if as others say it was the police who escalated and the protestors were peaceful, then it is even worse than I thought and the fault lies fully on the police).

Honestly the American police system might need deep reforms since this kind of thing seems to be a pattern.

[Former President tack50]

Regarding the looters, the job to stop them lies with the police, not with armed vigilante justice.

The riots can and should be supressed by the police and it makes no favours to the people fighting for justice and their cause.

Also using "muh property damage" to somehow say the claim of justice in policing and condemnation of this manslaughter is invalid is insane

[Former President tack50]

Police needs to start bringing out the riot gear and engaging.

 That works until it doesn't work and then what? One of these days the police bringing out the riot gear isn't going to do anything. Most police forces in major cities are a couple thousand. NYC has the largest force and is 40k if these protest spread, there are not enough police, riot gear, nor jails to stop anything.

 One day with the way things are going you'll wake up to an America where authoritarian crackdowns in the name of "law and order" don't do anything but get cops hurt and anger boils over until it's uncontrollable.

For once I will actually agree with Grassroots, and violent rioters and looters should indeed be crushed by the police. It is the job of the police to uphold law and order and they are failing miserably.

However the Police should leave peaceful protestors alone.

Of course there comes a point where the police gets overwhelmed, and normally at that point they either call backup or they simply retreat and leave some the rioters alone until they disperse.  (probably the ones that are less likely to cause damage and what not).

This video is a good one on explaining how riot control works, though it seems to be centered on the Charlottesville protests: