2020 Protests megathread

[Pyro]

The only "outside agitators" are white supremacists and instigator cops.
Miss me with that Antifa BS

[Pyro]

What a queen!

The mayor of Atlanta goes off on TV, full-on yelling into the camera at the rioters and looters while supporting the peaceful protestors.

How completely useless. More time scolding people for property destruction than instructing the police to stop instigating violence. These mayors aren't on the sidelines, they are in positions of power and should be held just as accountable to the deaths as the police.

[Pyro]

The only "outside agitators" are white supremacists and instigator cops.
Miss me with that Antifa BS

Bullsh*t , there have been possible claims of cops but name one actual white supremacist arrested !

https://www.courthousenews.com/minnesota-officials-link-arrested-looters-to-white-supremacist-groups/

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkyb9b/far-right-extremists-are-hoping-to-turn-the-george-floyd-protests-into-a-new-civil-war

Are you also implying that there are no white supremacists within the police depts?

[Pyro]

What a queen!

The mayor of Atlanta goes off on TV, full-on yelling into the camera at the rioters and looters while supporting the peaceful protestors.

How completely useless. More time scolding people for property destruction than instructing the police to stop instigating violence. These mayors aren't on the sidelines, they are in positions of power and should be held just as accountable to the deaths as the police.

You know that cameras don't follow her around 24/7, right? You have no idea, ZERO, how much time and energy she's spent talking to police about not instigating violence. You are talking out of your @$$. George Floyd wasn't killed in Atlanta by an Atlanta cop, so the mayor of Atlanta is in no way accountable for what happened in Minneapolis.

Is it difficult to make a post that is utterly wrong on every single level like that? It looks like it'd be a lot of work.

Oscar Cain
Jimmy Atchison
D’ettrick Griffin

This issue is not limited to Minneapolis.

[Pyro]

What a queen!

The mayor of Atlanta goes off on TV, full-on yelling into the camera at the rioters and looters while supporting the peaceful protestors.

How completely useless. More time scolding people for property destruction than instructing the police to stop instigating violence. These mayors aren't on the sidelines, they are in positions of power and should be held just as accountable to the deaths as the police.

She had Killer Mike up there with her backing up every word she said. I guess Killer Mike is pro cop too now? Please be quiet. Harming private businesses would be especially counterproductive here in Atlanta because (As mayor Bottoms so eloquently put it) so many are black owned.

Don't put words in my mouth. The mayor doing too little to address police violence does not equate to being "pro-cop," it equates to doing too little. Her focusing on fires instead of systematic change demonstrates a refusal to accept a functional solution. Black people have been denied justice in Atlanta, and in cities throughout the country, and it's the responsibility of people in positions of power like Mayor Bottoms to hold the police accountable. If she intended on introducing criminal justice reform, she would have done that instead of speaking down to communities so desperate to breathe that they're out in the streets during a fking pandemic. The only solution I've seen from her is to vote, and that's just not going to cut it, here.

[Pyro]

What a queen!

The mayor of Atlanta goes off on TV, full-on yelling into the camera at the rioters and looters while supporting the peaceful protestors.

How completely useless. More time scolding people for property destruction than instructing the police to stop instigating violence. These mayors aren't on the sidelines, they are in positions of power and should be held just as accountable to the deaths as the police.

She had Killer Mike up there with her backing up every word she said. I guess Killer Mike is pro cop too now? Please be quiet. Harming private businesses would be especially counterproductive here in Atlanta because (As mayor Bottoms so eloquently put it) so many are black owned.

Don't put words in my mouth. The mayor doing too little to address police violence does not equate to being "pro-cop," it equates to doing too little. Her focusing on fires instead of systematic change demonstrates a refusal to accept a functional solution. Black people have been denied justice in Atlanta, and in cities throughout the country, and it's the responsibility of people like Mayor Bottoms to hold the police accountable. If she intended on introducing criminal justice reform, she would have done that instead of speaking down to communities so desperate to breathe that they're out in the streets during a fking pandemic. The only solution I've seen from her is to vote, and that's just not going to cut it, here.

As a black person myself, I am absolutely outraged over what happened to George Floyd, and I can understand why these people are out on the streets, as they are. Real and systematic change needs to take place in the country. However, that does not excuse violence and rioting of the scale we've seen here. And you seem not to acknowledge that many of these people are destroying their own communities, their own businesses, and ruining the livelihoods of their own neighbors. Violence should not be met with more violence.

I've never condoned violence. I think peaceful demonstration, whenever possible, is a far more productive means to achieve progressive goals. I'm not blind to the outrage and frustration felt by these brutalized communities, either, nor the decades of oppression that have led us to this point where some have resorted to destruction.

[Pyro]

Police car running over protesters
https://twitter.com/pgarapon/status/1266885414016688134

Absolutely shameful.
Transparent inspiration from Charlottesville.

https://twitter.com/zzelladonatella/status/1266883979342417926

This as well.

[Pyro]

Meanwhile...

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1266895422397779968

[Pyro]

MSNBC's Ali Velshi just reported being fired at by cops with tear gas & bullets unprovoked in MN.

He was coughing from tear gas inhalation from MN SP.

Video was just posted of this.

https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1266920629623681025

[Pyro]

Hands raised, and it didn't matter. NYPD has been particularly deplorable today.

https://twitter.com/AJRupchandani/status/1266889115288711168

[Pyro]

Yet another police assault on a news crew. Why are they targeting the media?

https://twitter.com/MikeGeorgeCBS/status/1266919447970942986

[Pyro]

https://twitter.com/shehasbadknees/status/1266922778118115329

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1266921926905286656

[Pyro]

https://twitter.com/makloubae/status/1266898124477534210?s=21

Just so y'all know that's his horse, apparently. Not stolen.

[Pyro]

Trump to designate ANTIFA as a terrorist organization - NBC

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-says-he-will-designate-antifa-terrorist-organization-gop-points-n1220321

Cannot be overstated how dangerous a slippery slope this is, essentially labeling ideological resistance a crime.

[Pyro]

Police in Brooklyn targeting medics.

https://twitter.com/sa0un/status/1267157808962777091

[Pyro]

CNN apparently running looting footage on a loop all day.

Meanwhile, peaceful protest is happening now. Before any police or nat. guard intervention.

https://twitter.com/cbenavidesTV/status/1267193699005595650

https://twitter.com/pslct/status/1267155175501856777

https://twitter.com/olliviaalee/status/1267200656839970816

https://twitter.com/JennaListonTV/status/1267200802462015490

https://twitter.com/marcusiel_/status/1267200819440558082

[Pyro]

My facebook feed is a reality show right now.

Both Ferguson and Salt Lake City went insane last night.

And there is even a gofundme page to support the criminals arrested in Salt Lake City which now has double its intended goal amount raised? What? Why are we defending looters, arsonists, and criminals?

And yes they are criminals even if they are white.

This is the left's charlottesville. defending what should be indefensible because to them "we don't want to attack people on our side". The crimson avatars only changed their opinions today because they realized the optics looked bad and nobody brought the "looting is justified for the reason of el revoluccion and police brutality " , not because they don't actually approve of looting and rioting.

This is not remotely comparable to Charlottesville.
It's rather disgraceful to compare the murder of Heather Heyer to broken windows in Philly.

[Pyro]

LAPD hit and run.

https://twitter.com/ohhjazzio/status/1267219103414026242

https://twitter.com/SophiaLeeHyun/status/1267216604388978689

[Pyro]

LAPD hit and run.

https://twitter.com/ohhjazzio/status/1267219103414026242

https://twitter.com/SophiaLeeHyun/status/1267216604388978689

So a protester gets in the way of a cop car while's hes driving and he's the victim.

I dunno if you're aware, but cars have this thing called 'reverse'.

[Pyro]

Interstate was formally shutdown. The man driving this tanker tried to commit mass murder.

https://twitter.com/BrettHoffland/status/1267227669701316608

[Pyro]

NYPD at it again. Twitter thread shows clip from just before, and there was zero provocation.

https://twitter.com/drivenbyboredom/status/1267263490009546753

[Pyro]

https://twitter.com/jangelooff/status/1267308341660979200

[Pyro]

Trump's speech was great. No mercy for rioters and looters. Trump's bringing me (and many other pubs) home with these remarks.

Yep. Today is the day Trump stepped up to the plate. After completely losing me for the last three months, I am cautiously teetering back toward him again. He still seems a bit weak, but I would be extremely confident if he put someone dependable like Tom Cotton in charge of the response since he is a bit too lazy.

So, he threatens to violate posse comitatus to use military force against American citizens, and that's what brings you back to the fold?

The fascism turns them on.

[Pyro]

These police have intentionally assaulted members of the press, medics and other neutral parties.
Anyone who continues to defend these monsters is an unprincipled crank.

https://twitter.com/AshleeMullany/status/1267596369562394627

[Pyro]

These police have intentionally assaulted members of the press, medics and other neutral parties.
Anyone who continues to defend these monsters is an unprincipled crank.

https://twitter.com/AshleeMullany/status/1267596369562394627

If you aren't voting for Biden I don't want to hear it.

"Sorry, I'm ignoring massive human rights abuses because I suspect your voting intentions."