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9. you are assuming that every case

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #8)

Sun Jun 7, 2020, 01:08 AM

Jun 2020

involves violation of curfew. that is not true. LE is behaving badly.

nobody ever said it was equivalent to shooting people. it doesn't make it right. Also in Louisville they did fire on people who were out after curfew. Not protesting or anything, just out. They killed a man.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/dining/unrest-louisville-david-mcatee.html

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Massive thread of incidents [View all] barbtries Jun 2020 OP

My best teenage years friend became a cop and an asshole simultaneously. greyl Jun 2020 #1

it does. barbtries Jun 2020 #4

Lemme get this straight-- we have now declared war on ourselves? Wait... TreasonousBastard Jun 2020 #2

those guys barbtries Jun 2020 #3

Yeah, I noticed that. My irony meter explodes when these guys run out and... TreasonousBastard Jun 2020 #12

Not endorsing it, but pepper/paint ball guns aren't quite the same as AR15s, etc. Hoyt Jun 2020 #5

so what. barbtries Jun 2020 #6

Don't think hyping truth helps our cause. Hoyt Jun 2020 #8

you are assuming that every case barbtries Jun 2020 #9

The video in the OP - did you even watch it? It shows some ms liberty Jun 2020 #13

if you went to twitter barbtries Jun 2020 #15

Did watch it, saw a women trying to get the paint off her pants. Not really "Lighting things up" Hoyt Jun 2020 #16

So it doesn't bother you that Natl Guard soldiers ms liberty Jun 2020 #17

and looting Nikes isn't the same as frying someone to death in a chair, what's your point? nt greyl Jun 2020 #7

sadly, angrily rec Kali Jun 2020 #10

FTP & ACAB Coventina Jun 2020 #11

K & R malaise Jun 2020 #14