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Last edited Tue Jun 9, 2020, 01:13 PM - Edit history (2)
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WhiskeyGrinder
(22,147 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,320 posts)Those are the cops.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)Reports I have seen said they were parked at a business. One of the videos shows cars parked correctly between the lines in a typical parking lot.
How did the cops know that they were protesters cars? They could have belonged to employees or customers of the business whose parking lot that was.
judeling
(1,086 posts)Not an invalid assumption on their part.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)This is effectively costing a whole lot of people a whole lot of money as a fine for parking close to a protest. As I said, maybe the cars belonged to employees who had no choice but to park in that lot or to customer who may not have been able to move their cars because of the protest.
It's pretty much the same attitude that gets black people beaten or killed because they might have been guilty of some crime. The crime that George Floyd was killed for was not a death penalty crime. In fact, usually a person who inadvertently pass a counterfeit $20 is not charged with anything. They lose their $20 and tell the officers where the bill might have come from, but they are not charged. George Floyd was killed for it.
Police should not be allowed to commit vandalism on the possibility that the people who drove those cars to that lot were involved in the protests or involved in the destruction of a police station. If this is the MO of the officers from that station, no wonder it was attacked.
I am an old white woman and if I were on either a criminal or civil jury, I would find those officers guilty of malicious vandalism, agree to jail time for them, and award the victims a significantly higher amount than the cost of replacing the tire.
Coventina
(26,874 posts)rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)Fuck them, bigly.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Several of the damaged cars belonged to reporters on the scene covering the protests that erupted following the police killing of George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis. Journalists have repeatedly been targeted by law enforcement officers as they cover protests across the country
Backseat Driver
(4,339 posts)thwart those high-speed moving violators in evasion of crime offenders that endanger innocents in deadly collisions of self and others'-harm instead of closing the highways within city jurisdictions. Or did they? Shame on LE vandalization of citizen's vehicles!
Submariner
(12,485 posts)Air stems are about $8 a piece, tires can be 200 a pop.
Johnny2X2X
(18,745 posts)They're caught on camera committing property crimes, fire them, convict them, and then make them personally pay damages.
oasis
(49,152 posts)fulllib
(234 posts)mahina
(17,506 posts)Thanks. Its important for these folks to be held accountable. Rule of law! Equal justice.