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stillcool

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4. They're just making it worse..

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Tue May 26, 2020, 10:37 PM

May 2020

White Supremacist protesters get police escorts, black protesters get a hostile police presence just waiting to pounce. White protesters are protesting about their guns, or their right to hate...black protesters are protesting about young black men getting murdered. The police are the problem, the instigators, the killers. They are the cause, and then they throw lighter fluid on to the fire.

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Rubber bullets, chemical irritant, water bottles in air as thousands march to protest George Floyd' [View all] riversedge May 2020 OP

NOW will they deploy tear gas for the gun-toters? raging moderate May 2020 #1

perhaps it is not overkill. throwing water bottles could seriously hurt anyone including riversedge May 2020 #2

Other sources mention brick and rocks. Igel May 2020 #9

During Vietnam protests cops would pretend to be part of the protest rockfordfile May 2020 #10

(waits for Orange Anus to babble about 'good people on both sides') Grokenstein May 2020 #3

They're just making it worse.. stillcool May 2020 #4

Remind me what city/state had their cops react to covidiot shutdown protectors the same way. RockRaven May 2020 #5

The big ZERO. roamer65 May 2020 #8

they use tear gas and rubber bullets on these people and not the humpsters who blazeny display guns AllaN01Bear May 2020 #6

I don't see masks or social distances jimfields33 May 2020 #7

I see both masks and distancing. LanternWaste May 2020 #11

Don't throw things at protests ripcord May 2020 #12