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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by shigawire on Monday June 01, 2020 @11:53PM (#23387248)
>But let's get this clear, it was violent rioting that was occurring. In that situation, how are you to quickly separate the two groups?

The crowd of people slowly marching while getting shot and teargassed or the protesters. Those in the liquor store are the looters. Pretty simple.

If firing indescriminantly into a crowd makes it hard to tell these groups apart it sounds like the police tactics need work.

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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by komali2 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @12:18AM (#23387394)
Regardless, it doesn't make sense to brutalize looters. They did this shit during hurricane katrina too - people stuffed into a stadium desperate for aid, people trapped on roofs, and the national guard comes in guns ablaze against looters. It's madness to put "property rights" over human lives.

Oh well, the liquor store is getting looted. Sucks that you can't deal with that because there are protests because you are murdering black people. Fix the bigger problem before worrying about property.

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