2020 Protests megathread

[jimrtex]

Awful. Doesn't anyone get the sense that, with impeachment, coronavirus, and these riots, that 2020 seems like a redux of 1968? That year, we had Vietnam, assassinations, and race riots/anti-war protests.

And the Hong Kong Flu.

[jimrtex]

The logistics of these protests and demonstrations are just so embarrassing. Every protest, every demonstration and every riot needs to be held at or in close proximity to a police station. Right now, all of these randomized demonstration locations mean that whenever cops pop their power-boners or the event breaks down into riots, the damage is always done in areas that don't send a message, leading to plenty of collateral residential and commercial damage.

The cops are invariably going to show up and start beating the s[inks]t out of people regardless of how the event occurs or where, so it only makes sense to push them back to their home turf - and with enough people at various locales, minimizes the chances of police being able to gang up on individual sites. It also ensures that there's no collateral damage of innocent residences and businesses.

This way, when the cops decide to start attacking people and acting like animals, it's only going to be the cops who are getting hurt/killed and only police stations getting torched (i.e. the only parties deserving of such).

Protesters should gather and have their temperature taken, and ID's checked for contact tracing. Persons from out of town and minors without a parent or guardian should be barred. Protestors should be given a wrist band with a chip. The route should be planned out in advance and the side streets barricaded. Periodically, protesters should go through a chip detector. Masks should be distributed, and social distancing encouraged. Sanitization stations should be provided.

[jimrtex]

https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1267289308756504576
If the police can't do it, Americans will.

Why are you re-posting a tweet from a Dude, who is almost the literal definition of a "Fake News Poster"....?

I mean I went and clicked on the local Fox News Guy deal, and really he seems to have no idea what he is talking about half the time.

Not that there might not be a few grains of through in this guys report, but to me it looks like a "small town local news reporter" trying to create a story and some media hype to advance his career... doesn't appear that he is actually talking hardly anyone on the ground here, but simply making a provocative claim because he got a photo op with a few business owners somewhere within the "General Neighborhood"....

Call me skeptical for now.... this is not 1992.

2501 Broadway

[jimrtex]

Can a Dem elucidate why sending the military to put down a bunch of white-supremacist, Russian-funded, Klansmen, boogaloo-wanting, rioters is a bad thing?

The military should only be deployed on the homefront in an insurgency or large-scale terrorism situation. Otherwise, the situation should be defused by local/state law enforcement, or failing that, state-controlled national guardsmen.

Susan Rice told me on CNN that the rioters are Russian-funded racists. If we have foreign-backed insurgents at our doorsteps, surely that fits in with your criteria?

I don't give a sh**t what Susan Rice said, and even if there were Russian-funded white nationalists rioting and looting (which maybe there are some, but that's beyond the point) that's a situation that law enforcement and guardsmen should handle, not the national military.

Susan Rice is an African-American Women. It is typical of white privilege to curse at African-American leaders.

[jimrtex]

he tripped on a police officer's shield that was moving towards him and fell.

He tried to grab the hand of an officer who was carrying a baton. The officer pushed him away.

[jimrtex]

https://twitter.com/StribJany/status/1267471624397361162
Violent criminal history of George Floyd? Terrorist movement?

Seriously?

Yes, seriously.

[jimrtex]

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.

Reading the article you linked to, it appears that the professor was NOT suspended for refusing to excuse black students from exams but was instead suspended for sending out a sarcastic and a-hole-ish email in response to an email from black students.

It is not clear from the article whether the letter was from students in his class, or from some group sending out a form letter to all professors.