2020 Uprising: Enough is Enough

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So, help me out here. They say repeatedly the victim here “posed a threat to himself.” “He appeared to be suicidal.” So the objectively reasonable response was to shoot him 3 times. The next 21 shots were not reasonable. He was a threat to himself, so we shot him. We just should not have shot him so many times? WTF?

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And now a witness has come forward to report that the group that killed him did not identify themselves in any way, they just rolled up and started shooting.

So it was an assassination, plain and simple.

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i remember reading somewhere that apparently a whole bunch of people called 911 because they saw men with guns running around, and they had no idea those men were police.

( also, dear god that article has a lot of ads. like every fourth sentence is interrupted with one thing or another )

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Taken from his last book “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?” (1967)

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As expected. Sadly, not shocked.

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The Bills are going to highlight Black Lives Matter and officer inflicted head injuries to hippies near town hall awareness in upcoming games

Since I got a post here anyways. I’m glad my hometown is getting around to finally having the conversation about this dark moment in this town’s history

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LA County Sheriff Dept is OUT. OF. CONTROL. They patrol the city north of us and I will not drive in or through it. They are worse that the most hardened gang in LA County and I do not feel safe with them around. I hope Mark Ridley Thomas gets results.

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Thanks to Facebook et al, that delay is now down to a couple of months:

https://twitter.com/grantusmcgrant/status/1304727341961101312?s=21

The US flag is now being adopted as a symbol by white supremacists across the globe.

“Leader of the free world”.

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the new banner of the nazi fascists: black and white “american” flag with one blue stripe.
fuck this. #FTP
Seriously, Fuck The Police
(or, UNfuck the po-po. thanks, @Melizmatic , I like that better but the hashtag remains.)

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Considering that US has always been a white supremacy, that symbol is surprisingly adequate. US just had better PR before.

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https://twitter.com/busblog/status/1305078573049372672?s=21

https://twitter.com/daveanthony/status/1305105642781208578?s=21

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That’s awesome. I never would have thought of mannequins as protest gear, but now it seems obvious.

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I guess can see how this could be legit, there are a lot of very angry people. At the same time, I dunno. If it were a TV show, I’d already be expecting the twist where we find out it is staged.