palma has literally said he's more upset about property damage than state sanctioned police murder so i don't see any reason why anyone would engage with him, though it is refreshing to get some honesty
yeahhhh... nope
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video/4572164-looters-storm-hot-topic-store-in-long-beach/
Might give you some insight as to why the cops want to break up the protests after curfew is done. If they tell people for hours to leave and they don't, then its fairly ridiculous to be outraged that they eventually use tear gas.
It’s a pretty thin argument. 6 ATL police were charge with assault yesterday for dragging two black students out of their car using a tazer while the students were trying to leave the protests.
Without the looting and rioting, unfortunately, this all would be nothing. 95% of the US (and all of the world) learned about this through images and videos, and it’s the images of burned out streets and buildings that capture attention. Another march is just another march. The rioting, looting, and more police brutality videos are what are hopefully going to lead to change.
Right, the way to reduce police profiling based on prejudices of criminal behavior is through criminal behavior. Makes perfect sense.
There has been for the past week, hence the curfew.
idk why palma is so scared of looting, the flu kills far more people per year
is the argument that people should only protest if police kill someone in their area?
The questions is why are there so many cops at the peaceful protests, if not to gain media attention, which enables them to gain more riot funding? Cut the peaceful protest crew in half, shadow bit stay out of there way, and send the rest of the cops to areas targeted for looting.
Of course that would involve cops actually doing something instead of standing around and bullying unarmed peaceful civilians. It also might actually involve running, and not playing dress up GI Joe.
I'm more upset about nationwide property damage and literally millions of people who can't go to work because everything is closed. Protest in minneapolis? Sure. Looting in 50 metro areas simultaneously when the officer in charge is already likely going to get killed in prison soon enough? A bit much.
Well that's what they're doing now, but they were caught off guard the first day or two. The residents pay taxes so that police officers are around where there are thousands of angry people that given the links above, tend to get a little out of hand if there's no police presence. Wondering why the police are around is ridiculous. I'd imagine there'd be less of a police presence if they all protested in a park.
is the argument that people should only protest if police kill someone in their area?
This is quite possibly the dumbest post on this thread given what happened in DC in daylight before curfew. palma is reaching 2&2 territory.
Well that's what they're doing now, but they were caught off guard the first day or two. The residents pay taxes so that police officers are around where there are thousands of angry people that given the links above, tend to get a little out of hand if there's no police presence. Wondering why the police are around is ridiculous. I'd imagine there'd be less of a police presence if they all protested in a park.
Swing and a miss bud
With the amount of manpower called up the police could easily be doing both. Monitoring large peaceful gatherings but also chasing down and arresting looters. But they don’t want to. It’s not what they signed up to do. They signed up to beat on unarmed civilians and confiscate police revenue.
Murder clearance rates are down nationwide, yet technology is way up. What does that tell you about the motivation of today’s police?
If anyone is an expert on race relations... it's Justin Trudeau
There are wayyyyy more looters than there are police bruh. Long beach had thousands.