This seems to be the general consensus amongst news headlines that i see?
Of someone who, if he indeed had been in the military, would have known to get out of the way of a moving formation, especially when they have been yelling at him to get out of the way.
Also, instead of yelling at others about the war crimes he committed, why doesnât he turn himself in to face charges if it bothers him so much? He could hop on a flight to Vietnam and see if they will do him the favor of putting him in prison. Seriously, he is going to compare the mass murder he committed to what the federal police are doing?
Uh, no. The 30 people killed were killed directly as a result of the BLM riots. You cannot toy with facts.
The problem with this sort of thinking is that it is the same logic that countries like China use to justify their actions towards dissidents. The situation in the US just isnât being handled properly, the state and local governments want to be all soft and gentle but you have some cops lashing out in inappropriate ways. There are other ways that this could be handled, but it requires the government to be willing to take action.
Ugh, there were riots and violence last night too. The Feds havenât gone anywhere.
They arenât called useful idiots for nothing.
âProtesters in support of Black Lives Matter once again rallied near the federal courthouse that became a flashpointâ
This is what the article claims but then, this is what a black woman says: âStupid ass white people only here for their own reasons.â
The content of article contradicts the headline. Itâs not that they were peaceful, there were no feds to engage them when they were not peaceful. So the morale of the story is: we have to accept âmostlyâ peaceful riots as being peaceful. Kids, you need to limit how much damage you cause and how badly you injure people but that doesnât mean you canât do any of that. Just be reasonable.
In the absence of confrontation, and with the state police remaining largely unseen inside the courthouse, tensions quickly eased.
Seems like quite an improvement from the escalation that was caused the last couple weeks by the deployment of the militarized DHS agents into portland. Hopefully things continue to improve there.
You tell people that there is a difference between peaceful protest and criminality. Let them know that if there is any criminality, the protest is over, so maybe start policing yourselves if itâs that important to you. Involve the police if you need to in order to remove the trouble makers. It seems like people want the police to differentiate between peaceful protesters and criminals well, maybe the protesters should do the same.
Well yeah, the state police finally showed up en masse and decamped them out the nearby park. I mean, thatâs an indictment against not having done it earlierâŠ
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/07/portland-police-clear-parks-across-from-federal-courthouse-in-early-morning-sweep.html%3FoutputType=amp
Thatâs what the Feds weâre asking for from local/stateâŠ
âdemonstrators shook the fence around the courthouse, at which in early demonstrations the federal agents generally fired teargas, stun grenades and baton rounds.â
âSome in the crowd worked to avoid trouble by stopping demonstrators from lighting fires and shooting fireworks at the courthouse as they had done on previous nights.â
Hereâs the thing, if it were less violent it wasnât because the feds werenât there to escalate things but because the protesters had no one to attack. This is a result of how too many kids are raised today. Rather than teach them self-control, we seek to remove and avoid triggers. The world has to accommodate them, without compromise.
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Earlier in the day, Portland police cleared the two parks in front of the courthouse and county jail that served as a staging ground for the protests. Officers then sealed the parks off and marked them as closed. But that appeared strangely provocative and difficult to enforce.
When a few protesters tore down the yellow police tape, and began chanting: âWhose park? Our park?â, the Portland city officers quietly left the park and were not seen again for the rest of the evening.
And continued to have a presence outside of the courthouse. This whole time Wheeler and friends couldâve done this.
Compared to what numbers when they actually had Unmolested and settled living/camping spaces And and amenities? It will get cleared right back out again. Fewer and fewer will bother.
Why donât they do that then?
Looks to me like 90% of the problem is that the copsâ hands are tied by left wing politicians who side with the protestors.
Because⊠Trump. If this werenât an election year things would have been different. The reality is that those politicians donât care at all about the protesters or even BLM (but they do like the donations that they get from BLM).
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Proud of the work the Feds did. Ty for protecting our property from terrorists. About time local officials actually allowed local law enforcement to do their work.
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Yep, âoccupiedâ areas typically end up turning into basically homeless encampments anyways. Clear it during the day, dont cause a fight at night⊠repeat. I agree that fewer and fewer will bother.
thats part of the de-escalation: stop giving the rioters bulletin board material and an obvious enemy to fight and they will lose their motivations⊠and fewer and fewer will bother.
Isnât it nice that local enforcement was allowed to help their Federal brethren from the outside?
If anything the cops should be the ones protesting, being forced into that situation and not allowed to do much.