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1. That was a different era and not really a fair comparison.

Reply to Wicked Blue (Original post)

Thu Jan 7, 2021, 01:19 PM

Jan 2021

It's far more relevant to compare yesterday's events to the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer.

I suspect police leadership may have viewed their response to the BLM protests as too heavy handed and swung too far in the opposite direction, but I'm speculating and they really need to come out and say why yesterday was handled differently than this summers events. There really needs to be dialogue around the vastly different responses.

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12,000 were arrested in May Day 1971 protests, just for contrast [View all] Wicked Blue Jan 2021 OP

That was a different era and not really a fair comparison. Massacure Jan 2021 #1

The main difference was that the 2021 event was encouraged by the President Wicked Blue Jan 2021 #2

Thanks for the reminder. I was 22 years old then and I'm sure I noticed at the time but I forgot to abqtommy Jan 2021 #3