U.S. Watched George Floyd Protests in 15 Cities Using Aerial Surveillance

Re:U.S. Watched George Floyd Protests in 15 Cities Using Aer... by microcolonel on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:31PM (#23580391)

> Nobody in power cared about George Floyd's deaths until the violent protest

That is untrue. Well before the executions, arsons, and burglaries, there was essentially no ambiguity in the public perception of the case. Most people who watched the video believed they witnessed a murder, and that charge was already planned for Chauvin, well before the public was aware of riots.

And of course, even if it did work, it would still be wrong, and the people executing people and shooting senior citizens to death to steal televisions should be prosecuted.

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Re:U.S. Watched George Floyd Protests in 15 Cities Using Aer... by xxpor on Friday June 19, 2020 @09:38PM (#23580763)

Executions? Wtf are you talking about?

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Re:U.S. Watched George Floyd Protests in 15 Cities Using Aer... by microcolonel on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:24PM (#23580978)

Several people have been executed, including a Federal Protective Services officer.

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Re:U.S. Watched George Floyd Protests in 15 Cities Using Aer... by newacct583 on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:49PM (#23581099)

Anderson was killed a a 2A boogaloo nut, not a BLM protester: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_boogaloo_killings

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Re:U.S. Watched George Floyd Protests in 15 Cities Using Aer... by microcolonel on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:15PM (#23581261)

Nobody is less dead when killed by a person of a different ideology from the nominal ideology of a gathering.

When you push out the police, it's no wonder that people who would like to get away with heinous crimes show up.

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Re:U.S. Watched George Floyd Protests in 15 Cities Using Aer... by microcolonel on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:42PM (#23581068)

I feel like you are attacking me with a straw man, a very unfair one at that. Not everyone who sees things a bit differently from you is a baby-murdering psychopath who watches (gasp!) the most popular news broadcaster in America.

I never thought theft, assault, arson, or lynching was okay, and I hope most people don't need to watch TV to learn that.

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Re:U.S. Watched George Floyd Protests in 15 Cities Using Aer... by unethical_ban on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:51PM (#23581477)

FOX is despicable, bad faith programming and anyone forming opinions based off watching The Five, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson are worse off for having been exposed to their lies and intentionally bad logic.

But you're correct on one front: I attacked your use of FOX and gave you an opening to avoid the real accusation: That you are using the (limited number of) riots and looting as a way to get out of focusing on systemic police dysfunction and the need to radically reform policing and public safety.

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Re:U.S. Watched George Floyd Protests in 15 Cities Using Aer... by Fjolsvith on Sunday June 21, 2020 @12:22AM (#23589734)

The police departments need to be disbanded and law enforcement needs to be returned to elected county sheriffs the way the constitution intended.

Make law enforcement accountable to the people and the people accountable to the law.

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