The George Floyd/Black Lives Matter protests and police conduct

[knapplc]

12 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

 

Yeah, everything about that was strange. Including the fact that he shot/killed a guy who approached him carrying bear spray...?

Seem like a lot of unknown information. 

 

Not a great guy though:

According to Baker County District Attorney Greg Baxter, based on a police probable cause statement, Reinoehl was accused of driving his vehicle over 100 mph while racing his 17-year-old-son, who was driving another car. Reinoehl appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance and had his 11-year-old daughter with him in his car, the statement said. Police say they found a concealed firearm in his car but that he didn’t have a concealed carry permit, Baxter said.

 

This sounds like a reasonably typical weekend night in my neighborhood growing up (minus having an 11-year-old kid). 

 

[Danny Bateman]

I've been thinking this for a while, but I wanted more polling to bear it out.

 

This poll at least is pretty stark: It ain't 1968 and Trump ain't Nixon. The "law & order" campaign just is not resonating with most of the country because they view Trump as the source of most of the chaos.

 

 

[RedDenver]

 

[RedDenver]

 

[Danny Bateman]

30 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

 

 

[Moiraine]

3 hours ago, RedDenver said:

 

 

 

It isn't legal for business use this kind of data to target or not target people - how can it be legal for police?

[teachercd]

It was a bad movie...and it is a bad idea to use for law enforcement.  

[Danny Bateman]

JoE BiDeN sUpPorTs LoOTiNg anD RiOtiNg 

 

YoU WoNT bE SaFe iN JoE BiDEn'S AmErICa

 

 

[DevoHusker]

 

[teachercd]

On 9/6/2020 at 8:40 PM, DevoHusker said:

 

This is really true.  Go home dorks.  Pick a new path.

[BigRedBuster]

1 minute ago, teachercd said:

This is really true.  Go home dorks.  Pick a new path.

Have to agree.  These people aren't protesting anything substantive.  They are only doing this because they have been allowed to.

 

The destruction of property needs to stop.

[teachercd]

1 minute ago, BigRedBuster said:

Have to agree.  These people aren't protesting anything substantive.  They are only doing this because they have been allowed to.

 

The destruction of property needs to stop.

Yep!

[teachercd]

5 minutes ago, BlitzFirst said:

As long as there continues to be a lack of reform and injustice...protest will continue.

 

Just because people are tired of it or want to frame it as something it's not doesn't change why people are still doing it.

Yeah it does.

 

Protesting, go for it, 100% of the time, speak your mind and march.

 

Breaking windows of a comic book store because it happens to be the window closest to you at the time...that is not about reform or injustice.  

 

Unless you are a Marvel guy and the place only sells DC.

[ZRod]

The biggest problem with these protest is that they lack a leader. There's no Medgar Evers, MLK, Malcom X, etc. Then again all 3 of those men have something else in common

[BigRedBuster]

1 hour ago, BlitzFirst said:

As long as there continues to be a lack of reform and injustice...protest will continue.

 

Just because people are tired of it or want to frame it as something it's not doesn't change why people are still doing it.

I didn't say all protests need to stop.  However, there are some that it's becoming clear that their only purpose is to create the most disruption and destruction with no clear goal.

 

That helps nobody.

 

@ZRod probably hit it on the head.  Maybe the problem is that there isn't a clear leader of these protests.  So, everyone is just out doing whatever they want....and some are more into destruction than actually making social change.

 

Let me ask you this.  What are the top three bullet points that the protesters in Portland want that would make them go home and stop destroying the city?