“Burn it down,” they say from their multimillion dollar homes and cable news sets.— Rob Smith 🇺🇸 (@robsmithonline) May 29, 2020
“Burn it down,” from their secured, gated communities.
Never once thinking of the destruction it causes to black small business owners pic.twitter.com/c5euidcD2x
WNU Editor: Here is a list (with some video) of 130 businesses that have been looted and destroyed in Minneapolis and St. Paul .... A list of the buildings damaged, looted in Minneapolis and St. Paul (Bring Me The News). Some of the media are trying to sugarcoat all of this as protesters.
On a personal note. I live in Montreal and we had a number of riots a few years back. One image that I will never forget is a young woman crying beside her car that had been overturned and torched. The media at that time were calling these rioters protesters .... but I was accidentally there in the wrong place and at the wrong time, and these thugs were certainly not protesters.
Please check out Tim Pool's video about one business owner who's dream of opening a sports bar was burned to the ground. He's a firefighter and he was told about it while on duty. It is extremely upsetting for him but the people's response to help him has been amazing.
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The Hennepin DA came out in the 1st 3 days after the death of George Floyd and said do not be so quick to assume that there is enough evidence to convict. Since the mayor, the governor, the president, Gateway Pundit, Rush and others have all condemned it, the DA's comment went against the current.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things that was said during the Baltimore case was to not overcharge. I do not think that you can charge Chauvin with murder and get a conviction. I do think you could easily get Chauvin convicted on a charge of negligent homicide. If I were a juror I could not "beyond a shadow of a doubt" be assured that Chauvin had the intent to murder. SO while I would note innocent on a charge of murder, I probably would vote guilty for negligent homicide. But the thing is, I do not know Chauvin's state of mind. As I have written before Chauvin might have been stressed enough to not hear anything intelligible. No one posting here with the exception of may be 1 person has been put under the stress of a hostile crowd of that size.
A lot of the rioters and looters are white and seem to be more interested in indulging their envy and jealousy than in in protesting. The looters are using the protests as cover.
When these 'protesters" burn down two pharmacies (Target & CVS) how are some people going to get their medicine? If those people needing medicine do not get it in a timely fashion, who is responsible? It is not Chauvin. Two wrongs do not make a right.
The former head of the NAACP could not get medicine for her daughter, because some white azz wipes decided to loot Target.
Strange how most of the lootings occurred at liquor stores (or places that sell it). Makes me think the lootings were not related to people protesting, but I also don't see that being mentioned in the mainstream media.
ReplyDeleteNo policeman wants the death of a suspect. Sometimes the police can be responsible for the death of a suspect. Sometimes the responsibility lays with the suspect. Over decades I always wondered about the reporting of the deaths involved in London police action/custody. Being on the periphery of some of these terrible incidents I know that what actually happened & what was reported in all of the news media were absolutely 2 different things. Are they trying to start a race riot? I thought on many occasions. The answer I've come to over many years is yes. Some politicians & reporters throw petrol on the flames constantly. The inflammatory reporting at CNN is a case in point. Cooler heads need to prevail. Everyone concerned in this terrible situation deserves due process. The rule of law should always apply without fear or favour. Instead of investigators, lawyers & judges examining the facts in a cool & reasonable fashion, politicians & the media are cheer leading mob rule. Businesses ruined,homes ruined, lives ruined. So far 1 other person dead. Another family broken. The politicians & media will not be held to account as they are the establishment. I've worked in squads & departments which were multi cultural. No hassle. Everyone regardless of colour or creed got on very well as they were United in a common purpose. The prevention of crime & the detection of crime & suspects. The trouble in our Western societies is always started by criminals, politicians & journalists who wish to violently devide & conquer the rest of us. I think it will be a long hot summer. Best of luck. Keep ducking 🖖😎
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ReplyDelete"Being on the periphery of some of these terrible incidents I know that what actually happened & what was reported in all of the news media were absolutely 2 different things."
Then please write a short book.
ReplyDeleteMINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been arrested four days after George Floyd’s fatal arrest that sparked protests, rioting and outcry across the city and nation, and Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced he has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.
On Friday, John Harrington, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, announced that Chauvin, 44, of Oakdale, was taken into custody by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, who said that Chauvin was arrested in Minneapolis. There was some speculation that he had gone to a home in Florida.
“We have now been able to put together the evidence that we need. Even as late as yesterday afternoon, we did not have all that we needed,” Freeman said, before saying that he was unable to speak to specific pieces of evidence and which one specifically was needed to file charges.
Last I heard 6:03 had not been surrounded by a crowd. No, 6:03 just pointed a gun at a ROK.
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I am not sure that 6:03 understands stress.
6:03 was a clerk with a high opinion of himself as clerks sometimes have.
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ReplyDeletePersonally, I am pissed at Officer Chauvin. He may have known what he was doing and purposefully done harm. But I am not sure. Having taken a psychology classes at a real college for a real degree, I know that crowd psychology is different. Crowds of normal people will tell other people to jump to their depths.
This particular crowd was purportedly (I believe probably) telling the officer that George Floyd could not breathe.
3 points.
- Many suspects tell people that they can't breathe, so as to try to control the officers and/or try to escape. Police become jaundiced. Police should judge each case without prejudice, but they are human. They go through more crap than we do.
- While some people in the crowd (probably most), what are the chances that some in the crowd were jeering or shouting threats? If 7 people are shouting "He can't breathe". but 1 to 3 others are shouting threats, which one is an officer going to pay attention to? Have the authorities and the press gone through all the audio? Would you need AI to parse all of it to get everything that was spoken? We use AI for shot spotter systems. Why not for crowd commentary?
- People have personal bubbles. Bubbles change with the situation. Infringing on the bubbles cause stress or so psychologists and snowflakes tell us.
Was the crowd engaged in proper social distancing. Sure they should record. They should record from various angles, so as to get THE WHOLE truth.
Police can get jumped by suspects and have. Police can hey jumped by crowds and the threat axis is 360 degrees. That would get my blood pressure.
I think that Chauvin should go to jail for being an idiot for putting his knee on the back of the neck. But maybe he though it was resting on the guys back? If he have done the same thing on previous arrests, then I think you can get charges to stick.
And this is pertinent to the clerk's comment?
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ReplyDeleteThe clerk already has Chauvin convicted. I am looking at other angles partly so others might see it and partly to counter act his knee jerk TPM responses.
Sorry, if I bore you.
After my last post I looked up crowds attacking cops during an arrest. It is fairly common. I bet it is talked about in the LEO community on their internet bulletin boards, while the press and others only pay attention to the pronouncements of community organizers.
You didn't bore me, you're being intelligent. A prediction the initial autopsy will say he died from other causes. This will be hotly disputed.
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