2020 Protests megathread

[lfromnj]

Tom cotton was(half) right.
The proper path to deal with riots and protests was to send in the military with riot gear and tell cops to stand down. Cops have an obvious interest in opposing any reform while said reforms would likely not touch the military yet we still need some semblance of order to protect areas from the rioters.

Police just aren't trained to deal with events of this scale because they are so rare while the military is. People are flipping out because they think sending in the military means machine gunning everyone or blowing everyone away with tanks.

 Sending in the military would be a disaster and would leave a stain on the military at a time that they can least afford it. The trend has been that less of America's population signs up for military service. You get enlisted men and women to start clashing with protestors in the streets of America and you will have the worst public relations and recruitment campaign ever. The military and civilian gap will continue to grow, this would not be good for Democracy or the country.

Again it depends what the military does, I absolutely believe if the military was the one controlling the riots they would have done it much better than the cops who clearly had a belief that they had to stop these protests that were directed mostly at them.

[lfromnj]

Speaking from an electoral perspective, Trump really screwed up the Church photo op, I mean at the very least I would have gone into the basement which was where the fire was and taken the photos there.

[lfromnj]

Speaking from an electoral perspective, Trump really screwed up the Church photo op, I mean at the very least I would have gone into the basement which was where the fire was and taken the photos there.

did you see the Legal Eagle video about the events there?

What about it?

BTW I am not endorsing his tactics, really I should have posted this in US pres 2020 and talked more about the electoral effects of it.

[lfromnj]

Also to those asking where are the 2nd amendment folks?
Well when they come to the protests as white men they get called white nationalists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqItJOLwxkA&feature=emb_title
Call them dangerous or even terrorists if you want, but stop blatantly labelling everyone a white supremacist.

[lfromnj]

UCLA Professor Suspended, Threatened, Under Police Protection, for Refusing to Let Black Students Skip Final over George Floyd’s Death

There used to be nothing I cared about more than education, but it's so clear the system is so broken when students are this powerful. Pushing me very hard to the Defund Education bandwagon. So much public money wasted for something that provides almost no benefit and is actively harming the state of our country. What a trash system. I don't even care if it means the end of sports as a side effect. I now realize we can live without it.

Don't worry about him, he can become the CFO of the local KKK branch.

Yes because a sarcastic response is now equivalent to the KKK

[lfromnj]

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1270728560328744960?s=20

Lawless chaos in the CHAZ

lol

CHAD LUMPENPROLETERIAT overthrow VIRGIN ANARKIDDIES.

[lfromnj]

The "security" forces of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone are this rapper named Raz Simone and a bunch of his buddies.  He had a bunch of guns, gave them to his buddies, and they're patrolling the place.  Last night they beat the s**t out of some guy and threatened to kill him over some graffiti.

https://gofile.io/d/IffAr1

As you can see from that video, this isn't some anarchist paradise.  It's a bunch of people standing in the street fighting with each other.

Do people live in that area?
Like normal people who don't care besides instagram.

[lfromnj]

Ok, this free zone Paris Commune larping needs to end right now. This shouldn't be tolerated.

Hey dont worry soon you can LARP as Bismarck.

[lfromnj]

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1271154145739800578

Ted cruz's meme game on twitter is once in a while surprisingly good

[lfromnj]

It’s outrageous, the commune must be crushed now. They are lawless and explicitly anti-American. It’s time to siege them in.
And these protestors are complicit in spreading Covid-19 and killing the American people.

You realize you just described the Trump White House, right?

Yes.
I can hate CHAZ and Trump at the same time.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/876714162

SALVADOR SAHAGUN: Black Lives Matter really saved our business, though. It's just kind of an amazing thing 'cause we were really struggling with the corona recession.

ALLAM: Salvador Sahagun is the manager of a Mexican restaurant on the edge of the CHAZ. He says the business from protesters has been a godsend. Sahagun voted for Trump in 2016 and might do so again in November. Still, he says, the president is way off-base when it comes to what's happening here.

Hey look its your opposite.

[lfromnj]

Two people got shot inside CHOP. The medical clinics of the area transported them to the hospital but one died.

Greta Thunberg has also commented on BLM as of late.

The Homicide victim was a 19 Year old Black Man...

So without knowing further details, might be potentially be a random act of street violence in an "edgy neighborhood after hours", or potentially even more likely (in my mind) some type of hate crime from the various militia types who have been patrolling the perimeters on a daily basis....

https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Shooting-in-Seattle-protest-zone-leaves-1-dead-1-15354354.php

Not everything is a hate crime , most murders are not that and it was probably one of the leftist anarkiddies acting all dangerous.