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

[Streathamite]

I'm simply saying the rioters want publicity. I don't think they see the TV schedule as a constraint at all. They see it as an opportunity. And that 100 -200 figure is accurate.

For the reasons Kabbes has given (and btw, his profession is very much about numbers!), your argument and the stats you quote simply don't add up. It's just not plausible.

 

[Streathamite]

In Portland legitimate protests do happen during the day or early evening. The riots happen at night.

riots are, and always have been, 'legitimate protests'.
As a smarter man than me once said, 'riot is the voice of the unheard'.

 

[Streathamite]

Fucker Carlson has weighed in with his usual reactionary shite about how the shooter was acting in the interests of law and order.

Tucker Carlson defends actions of teen charged in killings of Kenosha protesters

god that bloke really is an all-time champion bell-end

 

[editor]

Nailed:

 

[Streathamite]

Tunnel vision is not spotting someone running away. Not letting a gunman go.
Shooter appears to be an idiot who wanted to help and ended up in over his head and killing people. That's why you shouldn't make access to guns easy.

more relevantly, he'd been indoctrinated that the protesters - especially the black ones - are a Threat, and the Enemy. Less than human. Vermin to be hunted and killed. That's how the Alt-Right works.

 

[Petcha]

What. A. Dick.

The 'interview' with him below is mind blowing.

Gunman, 17, charged with murder of BLM protesters went to MAGA rally

Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, who is charged with allegedly shooting dead two BLM protesters in Kenosha Tuesday had bragged about his role as a vigilante and EMT in an interview earlier that night.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[kenny g]

The one who got shot in the head was a registered sex offender sentenced in 2002 for activities with a minor.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

What. A. Dick.

The 'interview' with him below is mind blowing.

Maybe you can explain so we don’t have to click on that shite?

 

[Petcha]

Maybe you can explain so we don’t have to click on that shite?

A freelance journo happened upon him 'guarding' a building, interviewed him, then followed him to the spot where I guess he shot the guy in the head. I'm sure it's on youtube or something.

 

[existentialist]

Nailed:

It's weaselly how the most sinister of ideas are presented as questions...

"I was only ASKING"

 

[existentialist]

The one who got shot in the head was a registered sex offender sentenced in 2002 for activities with a minor.

Is that particularly relevant, though? Last I checked, getting gunned down in the street by some wet-behind-the-ears teenager with an assault rifle wasn't on the scale of punishments available for people who'd committed offences nearly two decades previously (and presumably served their official sentence?).

 

[Petcha]

Unfortunately the Mail is usually quicker off the mark and has deeper pockets for this type of shit

 

[Streathamite]

Strikes in the MLS, MLB and NBA fixtures

good to see the soccerball chaps not letting the side down

 

[pesh]

Unfortunately the Mail is usually quicker off the mark and has deeper pockets for this type of shit

the fuck are you talking about? the daily mail just ripped some video off Twitter that has been reposted about a million times, stuck their logo on it and re-uploaded it for the ad revenue. quick deep pockets lol.

 

[Petcha]

the fuck are you talking about? the daily mail just ripped some video off Twitter that has been reposted about a million times, stuck their logo on it and re-uploaded it for the ad revenue. quick deep pockets lol.

Er, no. This is the full version. The one on Twitter was a teaser, presumably to coax media orgs to bid for the full one.

 

[pesh]

ahhh. nice.

 

[Pickman's model]

The one who got shot in the head was a registered sex offender sentenced in 2002 for activities with a minor.

presumably the murdered 36 year auld, .'. about 17, 18 at the time, and 'registered sex offender' covers a multitude of sins from vile paedophilia to having sex with a 15 year auld: which last at the age of about 17 isn't the most heinous offence

 

[dylanredefined]

What. A. Dick.

The 'interview' with him below is mind blowing.

Gunman, 17, charged with murder of BLM protesters went to MAGA rally

Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, who is charged with allegedly shooting dead two BLM protesters in Kenosha Tuesday had bragged about his role as a vigilante and EMT in an interview earlier that night.

www.dailymail.co.uk

It's just sad. Doesn't matter if he is a naive idiot or a Turner diary reading milita Nazi. 2 people are dead as he was allowed to wander around with a rifle. Got into a situation he couldnt handle and shot his way out. The clip going round makes it look like self defence could be valid. Its Zimmermann all over again.

 

[Idris2002]

Zimmerman went out looking for a scrap, and if anyone acted in self defence in that case it wasn't him. As for this wanker - even with two dead it's still all theatre and "performance". I know that sounds callous. But I'm still thinking "Belfast - city of the future" - and it's when we see gangs of idiots like him attacking minority residential areas with impunity that we'll know that America has slid over the edge.

And it will be a long way down.

 

[Crispy]

NYT has done a timeline of events by going through lots of footage



First shots were fired by someone else, while he was being chased, then it got messy

 

[Idris2002]

Playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

 

[Petcha]

It's just sad. Doesn't matter if he is a naive idiot or a Turner diary reading milita Nazi. 2 people are dead as he was allowed to wander around with a rifle. Got into a situation he couldnt handle and shot his way out. The clip going round makes it look like self defence could be valid. Its Zimmermann all over again.

He's only been charged for murder on the first guy i think, not the one where he was lying on the ground. He could probably justify that as self-defence. Which is nuts in itself but I think that'll be the compromise.

 

[Idris2002]

"Leading the people into situations where the people can be massacred".

 

[likesfish]

Poor stupid sod wanted to play cop ended up murdering two people he was being chased because he shot someone.

 

[spring-peeper]

Poor stupid sod wanted to play cop ended up murdering two people he was being chased because he shot someone.

I'm sure they will say it was self-defense

 

[bimble]

I know it’s just Twitter and not representative of the real world but the killer is being valorised as well as defended. It’s all so deeply fucked up.

 

[dylanredefined]

I know it’s just Twitter and not representative of the real world but the killer is being valorised as well as defended. It’s all so deeply fucked up.
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He is either a moron or a moronic nazi.

 

[Pickman's model]

He is either a moron or a moronic nazi.

moronic nazis are particularly moronic

 

[Pickman's model]

I know it’s just Twitter and not representative of the real world but the killer is being valorised as well as defended. It’s all so deeply fucked up.
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And like national treasure he should be locked away in fort knox.

 

[Streathamite]

I know it’s just Twitter and not representative of the real world but the killer is being valorised as well as defended. It’s all so deeply fucked up.
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inevitable. every country has its' nutter/wanker fringe.