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

[8ball]

Damn social media lies! Mind you they still ridiculously militaristic

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Yeah. A bit less District 9, but not far off tbf.

 

[Nylock]

So we're looking for someone who hates Trump's guts...

That's a pretty broad suspect pool!

 

[nogojones]

One of the local TV stations got a video of it......

Bit of a shit molatov. Did they forget to put any petrol in it?

 

[8ball]

Bit of a shit molatov. Did they forget to put any petrol in it?

Agent Provocateurs have been completely ruined by Health & Safety legislation.

 

[NoXion]

Yeah. A bit less District 9, but not far off tbf.

This photograph however, is completely real.



The guys in red who look like NOD troopers from Command and Conquer, are apparently riot specialists (Rapid Response Team) from the Department of Corrections.

They've fucking got screws on the streets. How fucking desperate are they?

 

[8ball]

This photograph however, is completely real.



The guys in red who look like NOD troopers from Command and Conquer, are apparently riot specialists (Rapid Response Team) from the Department of Corrections.

They've fucking got screws on the streets. How fucking desperate are they?

I want whatever phone app it is that's got them so terrified.

 

[NoXion]

I want whatever phone app it is that's got them so terrified.

The camera app?

 

[nogojones]

Agent Provocateurs have been completely ruined by Health & Safety legislation.

I wouldn't mind, but it's the USA, petrol is proper cheap

 

[8ball]

I wouldn't mind, but it's the USA, petrol is proper cheap

Can be quite dangerous, though.

 

[Pickman's model]

This photograph however, is completely real.



The guys in red who look like NOD troopers from Command and Conquer, are apparently riot specialists (Rapid Response Team) from the Department of Corrections.

They've fucking got screws on the streets. How fucking desperate are they?

Yeh but I bet their riot specialism is indoor disturbances and not urban ones

Pretty fucking desperate

 

[8ball]

Yeh but I bet their riot specialism is indoor disturbances and not urban ones

Certainly looks like it.
They're all wearing masks.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Good article from The Atlantic...

An outside agitator is stirring up violent protest in the streets of Portland, Oregon. His hand is at work in Seattle; Oakland, California; and Los Angeles, too. This agent provocateur set out to inflame protests simmering in these cities by making sure that armed hordes were in their midst, and it has worked: Many more protesters are out on the streets, throwing bricks at law-enforcement officers and engaging in vandalism. Blocks of these cities have been engulfed in tear gas. Mayors are pleading for calm.

When there’s upheaval like this, it’s sometimes hard to track down the culprit. But in this case it’s not hard to identify or find him: The outside agitator’s name is Donald Trump, and he lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

The president’s aim in deploying federal agents to Portland and elsewhere was barely concealed from the start: Send federal forces into liberal cities where they are unwelcome, wait for trouble to start, and then use it as both retroactive justification and political leverage for the president’s troubled reelection campaign. It’s been a roaring success. The provocation has been so effective that the Trump administration is now preparing to send more federal agents to Portland, to tamp down the violence that has been inflamed by sending federal agents to Portland.

Trump’s Effort to Provoke Violence Is Working

The president sent federal agents into Portland with the apparent aim of inciting a confrontation.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[spring-peeper]

hmmmmm....

Minneapolis ‘Umbrella Man’ seen in viral video believed to be white supremacist trying to incite violence

A man seen in videos smashing the windows of an auto parts store in Minneapolis during protests over the death of George Floyd is suspected of being a white supremacist trying to incite racial viol…

thehill.com

The man was seen in videos wearing all black and carrying a black umbrella as he smashed windows with a sledgehammer during protests two days after the death of Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was killed in Minneapolis police custody on May 25.

Police say prior to that, the man spray-painted "free shit for everyone zone" on the double front doors of the Auto Zone in question.

The man is a suspected member of the Hell’s Angels biker gang, as well as the Aryan Cowboy Brotherhood, according to the Star Tribune.

 

[little_legs]

 

[krtek a houby]

Fucking cyclists

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Feds leave Seattle:

(Reuters) - U.S. agents deployed to Seattle to protect federal property have left the city after local officials complained their presence was escalating tensions, Seattle’s mayor said on Tuesday.

U.S. tactical forces arrived in Washington state’s largest city last week and were on standby to protect federal facilities after attacks on a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon.


Mayor Jenny Durkan rejected the deployment, saying it did not have the consent of local officials and could incite the property damage it was supposed to prevent.

She tweeted on Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told her that U.S. Border Patrol Tactical Unit agents had left Seattle. DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Federal agents pull out of Seattle, mayor says

U.S. agents deployed to Seattle to protect federal property have left the city after local officials complained their presence was escalating tensions, Seattle's mayor said on Tuesday.

www.reuters.com

And in Portland:

After discussions with the Vice President and administration officials this week, the federal government has agreed to my demand and will withdraw these officers from Portland,” Brown said in a statement Wednesday. “They will also clean up the Courthouse, removing the graffiti.”

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announces ‘phased’ removal of federal officers from Portland

Federal officers will begin leaving the city on Thursday under a deal reached between Oregon officials and the Trump administration. State police will help protect Portland's federal courthouse.

www.opb.org

You have to wonder wtf the Feds think was accomplished with this bit of "reality theater."

 

[editor]

Sounds legit

At least 12 Black Lives Matter protesters arrested during the ongoing demonstrations in Portland, Oregon have been told not to attend protests as a condition of their release from jail, something which may be a violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly.

"Defendant may not attend any other protests, rallies, assemblies or public gathering in the state of Oregon," states a document entitled "Order Setting Conditions of Release." The document is given to arrested protesters to sign before they're allowed out of jail.

Jailed Portland Protesters Must Agree to Stop Going to Protests to Be Freed

"I don't see that as constitutionally defensible, and I find it difficult to believe that any judge would uphold it," a First Amendment scholar said.

www.newsweek.com

 

[BlanketAddict]

Putting my Nostradamus hat on I predict that, on the run up to the election, something will happen which no-one has foreseen.

A global pandemic!

 

[8ball]

A global pandemic!

Kind of a generous take on the words "run up" and "predict" there.

 

[BlanketAddict]

Bit of a shit molatov. Did they forget to put any petrol in it?

Unleaded

 

[DexterTCN]

Found this. From 2017.

 

[teqniq]

Seems as if some agreement has been reached

Federal Officers To Depart Portland After Weeks Of Violent Clashes With Protesters

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Wednesday that the federal officers brought in to quell anti-racism protests in Portland will leave the city beginning Thursday after weeks of violent clashes with demonstrators.


“These federal officers have acted as an occupying force, refused accountability, and brought violence and strife to our community,” Brown said in a statement.

The governor said a “phased” withdrawal agreement came out of talks with Vice President Mike Pence and other officials this week...

E2a

According to this, maybe not:

Oregon governor says feds to leave Portland, but feds say they're staying

The dueling statements were yet another twist in the increasingly fractious and violent situation in Portland.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Streathamite]

Sounds legit

Jailed Portland Protesters Must Agree to Stop Going to Protests to Be Freed

"I don't see that as constitutionally defensible, and I find it difficult to believe that any judge would uphold it," a First Amendment scholar said.

www.newsweek.com

That doesn't so much break the first amendment as tear it into a thousand tiny pieces and set fire to the scraps
I really hope they sue on that - calling the ACLU...

 

[little_legs]

 

[krtek a houby]

Some angry people out there.

 

[scifisam]

A friend of mine who lives in Portland shared this:

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Saw an aerial view of this just now. The unmarked van pulls up and the plain clothes grab the person, then the cycle cops move in to cover them.

 

[teqniq]

Business as usual

 

[TomUS]

A friend of mine who lives in Portland shared this:

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That's near the heart of downtown. The damage from rioting and looting is spread over a much larger area of downtown......up to a dozen blocks from that zone.

 

[TomUS]

Sounds legit

Jailed Portland Protesters Must Agree to Stop Going to Protests to Be Freed

"I don't see that as constitutionally defensible, and I find it difficult to believe that any judge would uphold it," a First Amendment scholar said.

www.newsweek.com

It appears to be the Feds doing this. Sure seems totally unconstitutional. The Feds can expect more lawsuits over this.