Cops: No Snarky Nor Positive Title

[WeAreNDHockey]

Fu** the Mesa PD. With a Covid coated baton.

https://twitter.com/kingsrush/status...39136824545281

After all the protests, all of the news coverage, all of the journalists documenting their violence, not to mention plenty of local, state and national politicians decrying this sort of behavior, it continues unabated. The police want war. They are begging for it. The white nationalists and supremacists are counting on them provoking it.

In January the new politicians will need to to do two things immediately. First, come up with some kind of a coordinated, science based plan for corralling the coronavirus disaster left to them because of trump. And the second thing they must do is a massive, far reaching and overwhelming reformation of law enforcement.

I'm not talking about "criminal justice reform" as most would think of that. I'm talking of the front lines of it, the law enforcers themselves. What was in that linked video was disgusting and stomach turning. You can hear in the cries and voices of those people that they truly believed that this man was going to be killed. Not just brutalized with "non-lethal" force, but killed. They sounded like they believe they were about to witness another unarmed black man's life being snuffed out by murderous cops.

I have been saying this for two years or so now, but there will come a day that if we do not change our ways, violence like this in our streets will be met in kind. When the only voice people have left is violence, they will use it. At some point these cops will begin paying with their lives when they choose to go so far overboard with force. The violence in our streets will be the citizens against these cops. And it doesn't matter if the citizens will be outgunned by the militarized and over-armed police. If you think your only choice is dying or fighting back and dying, you will still pick the latter. I'm not saying it is right, but if in the moment captured on that video someone had opened fire on those cops, I would understand why. And my only concern would be for the innocent people around who may get harmed.

[rufus]

As is Donald Trump, with what he's doing in Portland, and as his own Immigration Director has said, wants to take nation-wide. Use their force to provoke the demonstrators into even more violence, and then run as the law and order guy, cracking down even harder.

[Kepler]

God bless my favorite city. (NSFW)

Portland 1 Nazis 0

[burd]

To those of you who watch such things: how are the far right libertarians responding to the federal tactics in Portland?

[Jeb2020]

God bless my favorite city. (NSFW)

Portland 1 Nazis 0

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.the...ed-in-portland

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/...nstration.html

[Kepler]

To those of you who watch such things: how are the far right libertarians responding to the federal tactics in Portland?

They're "concerned."

[Jimjamesak]

God bless my favorite city. (NSFW)

Portland 1 Nazis 0

That is definitely the most Portland thing ever.

[rufus]

I think 'Athena' is a member of the Bush family.

[burd]

My Name is Myeisha. Could be either here or in the movies thread. Artistic, powerful. Worth the watch.

[Handyman]

So a bunch of Suburban Moms showed up at the protests in Portland (Wall of Moms) to create a shield and protect the protesters and the dickless cops in full on military garb and camo were so scared of them they fired pepper spray balls at them.

[burd]

The Lincoln Project is gutting dump. Their ad on Portland is a work of art. Learn, Ds.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

“If you follow us you’ll be shot”

where are all the babies who said Obama would become a dictator? Sitting around stroking yourself over this?

https://mobile.twitter.com/RachelBit...78892915965952

[alfablue]

It would be nice to see state and city cops take these unmarked people into custody. And figure out who in the world they really are. If they are federal- who in the world do they represent? And what kind of country do we live in now where the First Amendment is shat on so willingly?

[Kepler]

Learn, Ds.

Our national leadership is so old they think digital watches are cutting edge.

The good thing about that is when these ads start being generated by Ds it will be the progressives who are unseating the fogeys.

These are the ads Schumer's primary opponent runs. Lots more Engel scalps before this is over.

[Kepler]

Their ad on Portland is a work of art.

It's embarrassing. It's like somebody asked Chris Nolan what he thinks about politics.

LP's last couple ads have played more like self-parody. I get that they're trying to reach a different demo (non-voter; non-engaged, younger people) and maybe it will work, but there is such a thing as so stupid it creates a backlash.

Now, yeah, we live in a world where guys shoot a copy of Obamacare and get elected -- I get that the average voter is a turnip. So maybe it will work.