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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 01:23 PM Jul 2020

Police and protesters clash in violent weekend across the US

ATLANTA (AP) — Protests took a violent turn in several U.S. cities over the weekend with demonstrators squaring off against federal agents outside a courthouse in Portland, Oregon, forcing police in Seattle to retreat into a station house and setting fire to vehicles in California and Virginia.

A protest against police violence in Austin, Texas, turned deadly when police said a protester was shot and killed by a person who drove through a crowd of marchers. And someone was shot and wounded in Aurora, Colorado, after a car drove through a protest there, authorities said.

The unrest Saturday and early Sunday stemmed from the weeks of protests over racial injustice and the police treatment of people of color that flared up after the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Floyd, who was Black and handcuffed, died after a white police officer used his knee to pin down Floyd’s neck for nearly eight minutes while Floyd begged for air.

In Seattle, police officers retreated into a precinct station early Sunday, hours after large demonstrations in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Some demonstrators lingered after officers filed into the department’s East Precinct around 1 a.m., but most cleared out a short time later, according to video posted online.

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Police and protesters clash in violent weekend across the US (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP
Support protest, but this will be used as the reason traitor and barr will postpone, indefinitely, Eliot Rosewater Jul 2020 #1
Now what is the difference between a peaceful demonstrator and a violent rioter? Could it be abqtommy Jul 2020 #2

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. Support protest, but this will be used as the reason traitor and barr will postpone, indefinitely,
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 01:26 PM
Jul 2020

the election.

Everyone should go home and stay there until Nov 3, if they dont, this WILL happen.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
2. Now what is the difference between a peaceful demonstrator and a violent rioter? Could it be
Mon Jul 27, 2020, 01:53 PM
Jul 2020

that violence is the chosen tactic of the far right who in many cases I expect are trying to pass themselves off as the peaceful BLM demonstrators we're used to seeing? Let's pay attention.

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