Is America burning? (Black Lives Matter protests, civil unrest and riots 2020)

[oryx]

A friend of mine in the US sent me a link to this Twitter feed which is an encapsulation of some of the brutality carried out by the police and National Guard on protestors, bystanders and journalists. Apologies if this has been posted before but although I've been trying to keep up with this thread it's a fast-moving one.

The videos are from a couple of days ago.

It's horrific. I would hope the perpetrators can be identified and appropriately punished, but given that the US looks even worse in terms of dealing with police and army brutality than the UK, I'm not holding my breath.



(I don't know why it says 'this tweet is unavailable' in Firefox but not Chrome but I'm not that au fait with Twitter apart from reading tweets).

 

[Steel Icarus]

George Floyd's former partner and their daughter Gianna. Heartbreaking

 

[YouSir]

Live LAPD community forum, they're getting beasted. Fuck 'em.

 

[DaveCinzano]

So let me get this straight... Krist Novoselic has come out in favour of Trump's “strong and direct” response to protests, whilst Jedward are putting themselves forwards as BLM activists?

 

[nogojones]

Live LAPD community forum, they're getting beasted. Fuck 'em.

Fuck yeah. Live and every caller in cunting them out

 

[rekil]

I don't think I can take much more of this bullshit.

What is antifa and what does it stand for?

Antifa is short for antifascists. It’s pronounced “an-TEE-fuh.”

So let me get this straight... Krist Novoselic has come out in favour of Trump's “strong and direct” response to protests, whilst Jedward are putting themselves forwards as BLM activists?

He endorsed Gary Johnson in 2016. He appears to have spent all the money Kurt made for him on weed.

Imagine if so-called “patriot militias” were raising this kind of hell? “If this were the case, left wing people would welcome federal intervention.

Everything that happens is the same as a synagogue/church/walmart massacre when you think about it.

 

[YouSir]

Fuck yeah. Live and every caller in cunting them out

Current caller is Rusty Shackleford... first one to defend the cunts.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I'm astonished. But y'know, good on yer James Corden

 

[quimcunx]

"Liberal cop-hating NYC mayor" Bill de Blasio comments on what the protests are really about:



To be fair, NYC is a weird police state, and the cops really do hate him, but they will continue to hate him no matter what shit he comes out with.

How about an attack on a black person is a fucking attack on all of us.

 

[YouSir]

Live LAPD community forum, they're getting beasted. Fuck 'em.

Chief Moore just had to deny that live rounds were being used in LA despite reports to the contrary. Not that he has any credibility, but there you go.

 

[two sheds]

I'm astonished. But y'know, good on yer James Corden

Worth watching right through

 

[Flavour]

NY times reporting the crowd in lafayette Park, Washington dc, is twice the size as yesterday

 

[YouSir]

NY times reporting the crowd in lafayette Park, Washington dc, is twice the size as yesterday

Police are either scared by the size of the crowd or relaxing the curfew. Either way I'll be hoping everyone stays safe when it gets dark, they'll make a move sooner or later. Not sure they/Trump could do anything but act now - if they let people stay and it stayed peaceful it'd be hard to pretend they weren't to blame. Not impossible, but hard.

 

[gosub]

 

[Treacle Toes]

Police are either scared by the size of the crowd or relaxing the curfew. Either way I'll be hoping everyone stays safe when it gets dark, they'll make a move sooner or later. Not sure they/Trump could do anything but act now - if they let people stay and it stayed peaceful it'd be hard to pretend they weren't to blame. Not impossible, but hard.

They will wait until dark....

 

[quimcunx]

Been posted twice and shown to be not true twice. Also a year old.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Discredited earlier in thread

 

[Part-timah]

Worth watching right through

I’d sooner watch Piers Morgan

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Also during that rather alarming act of abasement, I could hear someone talking about asking for forgiveness, from god or Jesus it sounded like. So some kind of church thing maybe? I dunno. I don't like the idea that people should get on their knees like that.

Bloody heretics! Jesus ought to chuck them into the lake of fire for that sort of shit.




(I jest of course... but only slightly )

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

It's a white supremacist QAnon account posting an unsourced video of some cops doing uh something?

To be fair, the same video is all over twitter being posted by both left and right.

Here are Boston Police responding to the video. Make of it what you will.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Northeastern University Police, rather.

 

[petee]

 

[bimble]

Soldiers moved to Washington, where the President could give them orders without needing the governor to ask for ‘help’.
I don’t think he’ll actually do it, think / hope it’s theatre,playing with his toy soldiers.

 

[two sheds]

I’d sooner watch Piers Morgan

Not come across him before but the guy he interviews and the video at the end are powerful.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Aha, but you see this is a double fake reversal bluff! Antifa are clearly making false Antifa twitter accounts to discredit anti-Antifa by making it look like anti-Antifa are making fake twitter accounts to discredit Antifa. Check mate!

 

[two sheds]

Well I hope Trump tracks down these anti-antifa posing as antifa and treats them as the antifa terrorists they clearly are.

 

[bimble]

Hospital staff come out onto the street, lovely bit of film of mutual respect.

 

[LDC]

Can people really watch what they post please, especially if it's some Twitter/FB video with no comment. It's often really adding fuck all to the thread, and in some cases subtracting from its usefulness if it turns out to be fake/out of date.

 

[IC3D]

I hope that PPE is just for effect.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Soldiers moved to Washington, where the President could give them orders without needing the governor to ask for ‘help’.
I don’t think he’ll actually do it, think / hope it’s theatre,playing with his toy soldiers.

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Washington DC is not a state so does not have a governor, the mayor is the big kahuna in town.