This thread listing numerous police attacks on press just last night

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...and others.

Angus Johnston @studentactivism
Police attacking protesters and press without cause tonight in cities around the country. Over and over.

...read through this thread:

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...and this one is just appalling.:

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...this is just insane. I'm as fearful of this for the nation, as I am the virus.

This falls directly at Trump's door. He's responsible, point blank.

[malaise]

1. Get thee to the greatest page

They are following their leader - Don the racist Con who attacks the press 24/7

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3. exactly

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[SamKnause]

2. Why didn't his fellow officers arrest him on the spot ???

Helping the man up doesn't make up for the assault on him.

I am sick of hearing about a bad apple in the bunch.

Cops have a different mindset than civilians.

I fucking hate them.

They don't protect and serve.

They protect property not people.

[Mariana]

5. Arrest him? Yeah, they never, ever do that.

Honestly, it's unusual that one of them did even that little bit to help the man.

[SamKnause]

6. I am aware they never do that.

That is why the one bad apple argument is complete bullshit.

[BBG]

9. Depends on which one bad apple argument is used

Doesn’t one bad apple spoil the bunch?

[SamKnause]

14. I am not aware of any other argument then one bad apple spoils the bunch.

I'm confused.

Is that not what I was saying and therefore the argument was bullshit.

[Bettie]

17. The militarization of the police has led to a

view of the public as insurgents in an urban combat scenario.

The narrative of the "thin blue line"? It means "us" (the cops) vs. "them" (the citizens).

Their job is to serve and protect: serve business owners and protect themselves.

[RVN VET71]

4. If America gets through this

and if America survives this -- as America, not as Trump's version of it, not as the police version of it -- it will be a bloody (seriously) miracle. I think the country has enough moral strength to survive and learn from it. The country does. But it needs a leader who doesn't lust for vengeance and violence, a leader who cares about the country and not the profits he and his can rake from it, a leader capable of growing, of learning from the mistakes of the past -- including his own mistakes -- a leader with a clear and hopeful and loving vision of the future.

I keep telling myself that we'll get through this, that the basic stuff of decency will emerge and help us re-establish America as a bastion of freedom (remember those days) and humanity, a leader that the world looks to for guidance, for help, for leadership. Then I see the police riots in MPLS, in Louisville, in NYC, cities all across the land. I remember the police riots in Chicago in 1968 and thinking they were anomalies, the stuff of bad politics and bad policing. Now I see the same ugliness from coast to coast. Cops running down protesters, cops shooting journalists, cops macing Congresswomen. Cops somehow unable to see or react to agents provocateurs who seek to foment violence -- oh, I think I know why the police aren't chasing after their brothers in arms working "under cover" with their black masks, hoodies and window-crashing batons. I see all of this going on everywhere, and I just don't know if we'll get through this. Not anymore.

If Biden's overwhelming victory in November is allowed to stand, he will have the hardest job in history restoring sanity and unity to the country the morbidly obese poser has fragmented and virtually destroyed.

(It was perhaps ironic that when the police rioting occurred in Chicago in 1968, I was in Vietnam and was not fully aware of its savagery until I got home. The Armed Forces Network deemed the footage and reporting too disorienting for troops "fighting for freedom" in South East Asia.)

[Lonestarblue]

7. What I wouldn't give for a strong leader right now instead of the blathering idiot we have!

Mitch McConnell is solely responsible for the fact that Trump is still in office. Had he not continued playing the degenerate he is but had an open mind to allow and hear evidence (as in Nixon’s day) and to allow a secret vote without strong arming every Republican in the Senate, Trump could have been removed. Instead, we have an uncontrolled virus, a flailing economy, and now the beginnings of a civil war. Many innocent people may well be dying over the next few days.

[TNNurse]

8. Trump's only thought of more force.

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No words or plans just a chance to show he is strong and has a military.

[johnthewoodworker]

10. How long before the guns come out? We have more guns in America than people. People who

are under threat (protestors), faced with batons, tear gas, and rubber bullets, will eventually respond with greater force.It could get very ugly.

[Native]

11. I hope everyone is reading the full thread. You know Trump is seriously getting off on all this.

This is a small sampling of the many reports of violence to the press that are in this thread. And they are all just from last night. They don't include one from the other night about a journalist who was permanently blinded after being hit in the eye with a rubber bullet.

Ali Velshi hit in the leg with a rubber bullet.
NYPD violently arresting protesters and journalists.
Member of Congress and city council member pepper sprayed, Columbus.
State legislator sprayed and attacked with flashbang grenade, Virginia.
Reporter beaten by cop with baton for filming arrest, Philadelphia.
Photojournalist attacked by cops and arrested, Minneapolis.
A dozen reporters targeted by cops, tear gassed at point-blank range after identifying themselves as journalists, Minneapolis.
Reporter with visible credentials attacked by cops with pepper shot, Denver.
Journalists targeted by cops, shot with rubber bullets when no protesters were near them, Minneapolis.
So many more.....

[uponit7771]

13. +1, he knows he's going to lose he would like to see it all burn down before he goes. He's Joker ...

... the stupid version

[zentrum]

16. This is his excuse to declare Marshall Law.

This is not just "him getting off on it"—he wants a military lockdown and this gives him cover, as far as he is concerned.

[Native]

18. I agree.

[uponit7771]

12. omfg, so push an elderly man with a can to the ground ?! Really ?!

[zentrum]

15. Disgusting. Man with cane

….was just standing there. Even though he was able to be dragged back up, doesn't mean he wasn't damaged. Old bones are extremely fragile.

DA must charge that officer.