I'm afraid for our country tonight, the LA protesters are getting inches away from the officers faces and taunting....

[wcmagumba]

I'm completely pro protests but these folks are really pushing it...imo

[Bayard]

1. That's not the way to do it

Don't give them a reason to shoot you, people. We don't need martyrs.

[wcmagumba]

4. I think maybe you are right...what a mess...

[W_HAMILTON]

8. Being within the range of their gun is reason enough for them -- did you not see that video making rounds earlier today?

[Bayard]

10. Is that the one of them shooting the girl walking home?

[Blues Heron]

21. They shoot you anyway?

[electric_blue68]

2. Could some be provokatuers, or anarchists?

Otoh, some may be getting fed up.
They have to restrain themselves in order to not give drumphf any more of excuse to bring the military.

Yikes

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Crispus Attucks took the first shot

In the Revolutionary War.

I don't think he regretted it.

[Klarkashton]

5. They are brave. They are the only people willing to stand up

To this shit.
Worrying about how this will affect an election is two years is horseshit. The cops aren't going to stop no matter how nice people are.

[IcyPeas]

6. Where are you seeing this please?

[wcmagumba]

14. It was on a live stream YouTube channel but I stopped watching it because it bothered me so much...

In might have been the AP stream on YouTube but not totally sure now as there are several supposed live streams but some of these streams are reruns from earlier in the day or even yesterday...it is misleading...

[IcyPeas]

16. Thanks. None of the local LA tv channels are live with this.

[chowder66]

7. Where did you see this? It looks calm.

The video image is not from now. If you play it it shows a few protestors at times but they are on a corner away from officers.

[chowder66]

9. Different source Live....

[chowder66]

11. Okay. Here are the protesters.

[chowder66]

15. They're chanting Peaceful Protest.

[Silent Type]

12. Agree. People are walking up taunting them. Commend police for staying cool. We had an immigration protest in my

rube area in February. Pretty good size group.

The protest leaders were walking a 5 foot or so space between police and reminding protesters to stay back. It turned out well, quite peaceful and I think even police were thanking everyone.

One other thing that concerns me is people with big backpacks. I'm sorry, that's what bombers have used and should not be allowed at protests, just like people shouldn't be allowed to go to protests with a rifle hanging around their neck like Kyle Rittenhouse.

[stillcool]

20. organized planned protests are a different thing

than protests forming as a reaction to something happening in the moment. These started as ICE blocked streets and hauled people out of their work places. ICE fomented the rage in the most provocative way possible. People are reacting to that. It's where they live and they're being surrounded by military. I watched it in my county. Not LA...a suburb of Boston. They had several humvees to abduct one middle-aged woman. The neighbors heard the screams, came out into the street, which ICE had blocked, and saw them throw her daughter on the ground, and shove her face into the gravel. The neighbors asked who they were, what they wanted, and all hell broke loose. I don't really understand the taunting, I'd be too scared to do it, but it's not an unusual site. The guns, the presence, the shock of what you're seeing. I don't know. Reminds me of bar fights. The immature crap drunks do, and how so many join in without knowing who they're supposed to hit.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. Oh no not taunting

[Whiskeytide]

18. Well, hamsters and the smell of elderberries could have been involved - so it could have been severe. n/t

[Lilithschyld]

23. Don't bring elderberries into this.

They mind their own.


Sorry, couldn't resist.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

19. There is no messy taunting in, say, North Korea. Those people

over there have manners when they never protest. Yes, some say it's a tyranny, but it's very tidy & neat,
with a polite populace who don't hurt the feelings of the the enforcers of order.

[AStern]

17. Sounds like many think the protesters should just leave and let ICE have their way

n/t

[Tarzanrock]

22. Holding hands and singing Kumbaya --

always made Nixon give in. Appeasing Adolph Hitler with the Sudetenland avoided World War II -- "Today the Sudetenland, tomorrow the world" and if you are "nice" to Trump he will give in and he will be "nice" to you.