Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land

Re:Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as... by vkou on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @06:17PM (#48483499)

99% of BLM protests were just people with cardboard signs. There's always the occasional anonymous asshole who might throw a rock at a window and run off, but that's the nature of any gathering of 100,000+ people. There will always be a turd.

In the other 1%, the police decided on a policy of always picking a fight with crowd, every fucking day, until they ran out of gas.

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Re:Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as... by uxp100 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @06:26PM (#48483614)

There was a lot of arson at BLM protests, and plenty of people beaten in the street, some of whom were in no way asking for it. The majority of the violence probably was the cops though.

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Re:Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as... by BryanBigs on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @06:43PM (#48483791)

Watch any random sampling of body cam footage and you won't think the majority of violence was the cops. I'm amazed at the restraint honestly.

Now when I was a kid...getting thrown into a paddywagon while hammered after mouthing off to a cop was a right of passage.

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Re:Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as... by BobaFloutist on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @08:45PM (#48484861)

Do you think the selection of what body cam footage cops make available is without bias?

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Re:Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as... by oytis on Thursday June 11, 2026 @07:20AM (#48488859)

Still I can't think of an event where Swiss cops would be able to collect similar footage.

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Re:Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as... by BobaFloutist on Thursday June 11, 2026 @03:04PM (#48494944)

Maybe a football game?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Basel_hooligan_incident

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