Are you happy now
Are you happy now
I draw a line when a country that prides itself on democracy and freedom wants to use the military or militarized police force against its own people. That's not a democracy and that's not a free country. If the country is not going to live up to what it prides itself on, democracy, then call it what it apparently is, a totalitarian state. These people are free to protest and demonstrate against whatever they darn well like and no one should have to demonstrate in fear of being attacked or assaulted, especially the old man in this video. If people can't organize in public for fear of being assaulted, injured, or arrested something is wrong with this country.
I just feel that there was no need to shove him when he was talking to the police, looked like he was asking a question and he was clearly non-threatening. If a pussy cop feels like a big man shoving an old man backwards and than wants to FUCKING LIE (Police report said he tripped but NO mention of the shove), then the two cops need to be fired.
Watch the camera pan around, there were not even 5 people in the immediate area.
These were not cops responding to bottle throwing protestors or looting or large crowds.
I would think this is one of those situations unlike the others and the cops did not learn anything in dealing with people appropriately.
There is no excuse for this action and I was glad to see the cops suspended.
They need to be trained when to put hands on and when not to. Cops do not have automatic authority to decide someone is worth an assault when evidence speaks to the contrary. Thank God for video because the cops were ready to lie and cover up for each other. Just like the cops in the George murder. Only a video led to an arrest.
This video was nothing like the Floyd video. The Floyd video showed a many minutes of an officer systematically choking the life out of someone. Open shut case.
This one begins with an older gentlemen in the face of the police. You don't know what happened, I don't know what happened. You don't know what he was doing and I don't either. You don't know what he was told to do, and neither do I. All you see is a nice propaganda clip meant for outrage. And you deliver outrage right on cue.
It could very well have happened as you say. It might not have. Even if it did, how many hundreds of thousands of encounters have happened in the last week alone that were perfectly fine? But no, take out the whole police force, riot, burn the country down.
So fucking stupid and hyperbolic.
Amazing how you never want to see a victim here at all when a man is shoved to teh ground and his head bleeding.... yeah other people looted and vandalized..but not this guy and no one in this scene.
Have some compassion for what is happening right here. Looters should be burned alive. This old man did not deserve this.
Amazing how you never want to see a victim here at all when a man is shoved to teh ground and his head bleeding.... yeah other people looted and vandalized..but not this guy and no one in this scene.
Have some compassion for what is happening right here. Looters should be burned alive. This old man did not deserve this.
This post though...They old men are calling it line they see it on Fox and Breitbart but that is propoganda.
The anarchists A is not an Anti Fascist symbol but they think it is, they are deep dived into edited clips and unbalanced coverage of protestor being aggressive.
As a documentary called the brainwashing of my dad showed, if you can get them away from conservative sources, they return to the normal people they were before the 80s, just doing that is a bigger task than campaign finance reform.
This post though...
Why would I want to participate in representative democracy with people who think I am ill and must be cut off from information? I'd just assume shoot them in the face. See where this goes?
But I guess you don't care hiding out on your estates in Colombia. Its probably just entertainment for you. Its why I'm not a ragged ex-pat and more like a tourist. I still love this big messy disaster we call America.