Minneapolis cops slowly murder handcuffed man in front of crowd

[indietraveler]

Moral of the story:  don't try to pay with forged legal tender.

Moral of the story #2:  don't resist arrest if caught.

He fought the law.  And the law won.

It's really not that hard to understand.  

This is close to the worst take on anything I've read on this site.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

the thing with demonstrations is they often become infested with agent provocateurs desperate to turn the whole thing into a riot; which is one of the myriad reasons anarchic movements normally implode and end up hated by everybody.

Moral of the story:  don't try to pay with forged legal tender.

Moral of the story #2:  don't resist arrest if caught.

He fought the law.  And the law won.

It's really not that hard to understand.  

yeah, famously Minnesota repealed the death penalty except for the most vile crime of all: inadvertently using a fake ten dollar note, a malicious act of such cruelty that the police should be able to murder you without trial.

[fluffypanther19]

damn, they really looted and burned down that section of minneapolis. its crazy

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/dpatrickrodgers/status/1265801191314919424

[Roblox]

Thing is, riots don't happen without an instigating factor. Here, the instigating factor was the police brutally and sadistically murdering a cuffed and unarmed black man and then tear gassing the people protesting it.

[Koharu]

Apparently social distancing doesn’t apply to liberal “protestors”.

These guys should be recorded and denied medical treatment in the event of a shortage, just like the anti-lockdown protestors. You act ridiculous, you face the consequences.
This is not the right time for any type of physical protest (with reasonable limitations) and it is certainly not the right time to loot stores and break windows to own the “evil fascist police scum”.

And yes, the police involved in the original incident should be arrested. That doesn’t give you a pass to loot a store while spreading a deadly virus.

Could you kindly stop with the "deny healthcare" thing? We don't deny healthcare to smokers, alcoholics, diabetics who struggle with managing their disease, etc. This suggestion is disgusting. No one should be arrested for protesting because jails are hotbeds of COVID.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

This is really bad. The AutoZone burning has no doubt released a lot of toxins into the area and air and public transit has been suspended in that area too, the Blue Line light rail as well. Lots of poor people in that area relied on the closed businesses for essential supplies, not to mention medical ones, the nearby Walgreens was looted and is now closed too. And of course a huge blow to social distancing and a likely COVID-19 surge, plus more strain on the already strained hospitals in the area. I'm scared as hell.

And of course f[inks] the police who first started this in killing George Floyd and then the ones who escalated this out of control and turned the peaceful protest into a riot. A lot more than those 4 need to be fired.

[Intell]

HOT TAKE UPCOMING:

The looters aren't wrong because they engage in looting/violence but because it serves no purpose/harms your own cause.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

The footage of that Target being ransacked is going to be the subject of countless of dogwhistle-filled ads by far-right candidates for the next few years. All because people couldn't wait to see the inevitable filing of murder charges.

[KaiserDave]

The US police system attracts a lot of guys who just want to exert power on others, and there’s a lot of racists too.

The officer ought to be charged with murder and sent to prison for a long long time. This is a horrifying incident of modern lynching.

But as for looting, not good whatsoever and is a travesty.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

One of the buildings still burning is 7 Sigma, a plastics company that was making supplies for covid patients.

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

The US police system attracts a lot of guys who just want to exert power on others, and there’s a lot of racists too.

The officer ought to be charged with murder and sent to prison for a long long time. This is a horrifying incident of modern lynching.

But as for looting, not good whatsoever and is a travesty.

One thing the looters won't burn down is the local KKK headquarters.  That is the ONE building that will remain intact.  

The immigrant-owned bidnesses, however, will be burned to the goddamn ground.

LMAO. No wonder the blue avatars on this thread support the rioters.

Human behavior is fascinating.  

Oy, Vito -- stay in one lane.  You're all over the place. 

[vitoNova]

The US police system attracts a lot of guys who just want to exert power on others, and there’s a lot of racists too.

The officer ought to be charged with murder and sent to prison for a long long time. This is a horrifying incident of modern lynching.

But as for looting, not good whatsoever and is a travesty.

One thing the looters won't burn down is the local KKK headquarters.  That is the ONE building that will remain intact.  

The immigrant-owned bidnesses, however, will be burned to the goddamn ground.

LMAO. No wonder the blue avatars on this thread support the rioters.

Human behavior is fascinating.  

Oy, Vito -- stay in one lane.  You're all over the place. 

[Sir Mohamed]

The US police system attracts a lot of guys who just want to exert power on others, and there’s a lot of racists too.

The officer ought to be charged with murder and sent to prison for a long long time. This is a horrifying incident of modern lynching.

But as for looting, not good whatsoever and is a travesty.

Don't all police systems and militias attract far-right wingers or racists? Usually these people have an affinity towards autocratic structures and hierarchies. Of course I'm not saying a majority of cops or combat troops are racist bigots, but the share among these organizations is probably above the general public.

[The Dowager Mod]

The US police system attracts a lot of guys who just want to exert power on others, and there’s a lot of racists too.

The officer ought to be charged with murder and sent to prison for a long long time. This is a horrifying incident of modern lynching.

But as for looting, not good whatsoever and is a travesty.

One thing the looters won't burn down is the local KKK headquarters.  That is the ONE building that will remain intact.  

The immigrant-owned bidnesses, however, will be burned to the goddamn ground.

LMAO. No wonder the blue avatars on this thread support the rioters.

Human behavior is fascinating.  

Oy, Vito -- stay in one lane.  You're all over the place. 

Congratulations!
I have noticed you. (not a good thing)

[lfromnj]

Yellow avatars care more about windows than black lives

Post when I have cared about a single window. If it was just cop cars being broken down I say the cops could have accepted their mistake and the whole city should eat the loss.
However what isnt acceptable is damaging a cop car while its moving on a highway or trying too loot private property. A Hispanic immigrant(maybe 2nd generation judging by accent and name) just had to protect his own property from looters under the claim of racial injustice.  Is this what progressives now think is intersectionality? Looting lower middle class business owners?

What I am complaining about is posters from a few weeks ago all ranting on the Michigan protests for being violent when they were just loud and carried guns and then posting selective pictures of one man shouting and other people in tear gas.

[Tender Branson]

Disgusting.

Charge the police officer for murder and lock him up for life.

Too bad none of the bystanders showed the civil courage to toss the police officer away from the guy’s chest.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Disgusting.

Charge the police officer for murder and lock him up for life.

Too bad none of the bystanders showed the civil courage to toss the police officer away from the guy’s chest.

Then they'd probably be dead too. If they were willing to kill a guy over a counterfeit Hamilton imagine what they'd do if you entered their 6 foot blood circle

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Disgusting.

Charge the police officer for murder and lock him up for life.

Too bad none of the bystanders showed the civil courage to toss the police officer away from the guy’s chest.

Then they'd probably be dead too. If they were willing to kill a guy over a counterfeit Hamilton imagine what they'd do if you entered their 6 foot blood circle

I would hazard that might not hold true if several of them tried to enter at once.

Isn't this an area where 2A is supposed to help?

[T'Chenka]

HOT TAKE UPCOMING:

The looters aren't wrong because they engage in looting/violence but because it serves no purpose/harms your own cause.

Looting isn't in any way moral or defendable. Not sure why you're defending it.

[lfromnj]

Instead of protecting businesses the coward cops have gone to the suburbs to protect their fellow cop. Now I am not calling for vigilante justice and a few cops should still be posted here but 75 cops is insane ! Cops will never be there when you need them.
https://twitter.com/moa_wearemoa/status/1266003415433465856

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

The footage of that Target being ransacked is going to be the subject of countless of dogwhistle-filled ads by far-right candidates for the next few years. All because people couldn't wait to see the inevitable filing of murder charges.

At the same time, can you really blame them? Not only do you have the cases of Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and the attempted lynching of Christian Cooper, but the area was also home to Philando Castile. We had a police brutality incident where a man effectively got away with murder three years ago because he shot someone for doing what every responsible gun owner should have done.

As far as I'm concerned, Castile is only dead because the pig that pulled him over thought that black people didn't have Second Amendment rights.

[lfromnj]

Personally the Minnesota city department's reaction was adequate for me. It was immediate firing and was thrown to the FBI quickly. Even of the majority peaceful protesters I am not sure they had a clear goal besides arrest the cop which should happen in a day or two. I can still understand the PEACEFUL protesters and I am not condemning them at all, just a bit confused.

What really should have been protested more aggressively was the case where a black man was arrested for defending himself and his girlfriend from a group of 4 cops home invaders executing a no knock warrant. It took 2 weeks for the prosecutors to drop charges against the HOME OWNER and the cops haven't been touched.
This was the Louisville case and it disturbs me much more due to the absolute lack of reaction there . If I was in Louisville I would legitimately consider joining the protest there.

[beaver2.0]

Personally the Minnesota city department's reaction was adequate for me. It was immediate firing and was thrown to the FBI quickly.

What really should have been protested more aggressively was the case where a black man was arrested for defending himself and his girlfriend from a group of 4 cops home invaders executing a no knock warrant. It took 2 weeks for the prosecutors to drop charges and the cops haven't been touched.
This was the Louisville case and it disturbs me much more due to the absolute lack of reaction there .

I agree.  When cops enter the wrong house on a warrant, how is that not a home invasion?  They have no absolutely no right to be there.

[Intell]

HOT TAKE UPCOMING:

The looters aren't wrong because they engage in looting/violence but because it serves no purpose/harms your own cause.

Looting isn't in any way moral or defendable. Not sure why you're defending it.

It can be of course, in this situation as it serves no purpose so it isn’t moral or defendable