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Re:A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 G... by newacct583 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:53AM (#23399864)
Race riots are nothing new in the US. The Rodney King riots didn't have a virus to blame.

Seriously? Given the choice between "many decades of racial animosity and unfair police conduct" and "it's the lockdown", you really made that choice?

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Re:A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 G... by war1025 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:02AM (#23399931)
The Rodney King riots were isolated to Los Angeles.

If these riots had stayed isolated to Minneapolis you'd have a point.

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Re:A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 G... by sukilot on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:02AM (#23400329)
Long,_hot_summer_of_1967

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long,_hot_summer_of_1967

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Re:A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 G... by craftinator on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:53AM (#23400279)
And it's a good thing the Mongol Horde didn't have airplanes, or we'd all be drinking fermented horse milk with dinner. Guess technology really does change area of influence, don't it?
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Re:A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 G... by dalyons on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:14AM (#23400022)
there was no internet or social media back then. Different times.
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Re:A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 G... by gremlinsinc on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @03:23AM (#23400852)
Google when was the WWW started (hint: August 6th, 1991), now do when was the LA Riots hint: May 4, 1992.

It was in its infancy but the internet did exist. Technically the "INTERNET" was around in the 1960's.

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Re:A Git Repo to Document Police Brutality During the 2020 G... by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @03:41AM (#23400970)
You're being pedantic for the sake of being pedantic without actually contributing to the discussion.
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