Cops 8: I Am Out Of Here...

[Kepler]

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Yep. The ONE spot you would expect to blow up, hasn't. I think it was in NY, the protesters weren't going near the Mexican areas, because they knew those folks would throw down the real sh* when fighting back.

Protests tend to be centered in places where the protesters' grievance is understood. Go figure.

[Handyman]

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Kepler isn't annoyed. Kepler is interested.

Chris Cuomo yelling at Kepler:

[Kepler]

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it will look REAL bad if the White parts get massive amounts of protection and the Black parts dont.

a.k.a., DC Metro Policing. Though TBH depending on the city the black community often views police and mayor as equally rancid.

[Kepler]

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Chris Cuomo yelling at Kepler:

I understood that reference.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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One thing that would help tonight is for the protestors to GO HOME by 8. Get off the street- plenty of hipsters out last night well past 8 not causing trouble.
Get the mobs off the street so we can find the professional agitators

[Kepler]

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One thing that would help tonight is for the protestors to GO HOME by 8. Get off the street- plenty of hipsters out last night well past 8 not causing trouble.
Get the mobs off the street so we can find the professional agitators

It would be a very interesting tactic for the community to sign on to a statement around 10 pm that since 8 pm they have all pulled back to their homes, anyone on the streets should be regarded as a Republican agent provocateur, and as far as they are concerned the cops should take them all out as an attack on their neighborhood.

That would really put Kroll, Gazelka, and the MAGAts in a bind.

[SJHovey]

I am not going to get in deep with you on this because I think you know from interactions over the years I am hardly a conspiracy theorist...but there is no way even in Whitelandia Minnesota (cause we are definitely mostly Lighter Shades of Pale) that the make up would be this bad. These riots are almost as White as the U of M National Title riots the later it gets in the evening

And I dont think anyone is seriously saying none of this was caused by Black People. Hell I mentioned the Wells Fargo myself. (and those idiots did it on camera) After the cops showed up in the fifth though and things shifted towards Uptown the video looked like he stands of a Wisconsin Football game.

Yeah, actually Handy I was leaning more towards the alcohol. If there is one thing I’ve learned reading these threads these last few nights, the longer you drink, the crazier the theories, and the worse the typing.

[WeAreNDHockey]

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Which hasn’t happened since WW2. The entire guard means the units from across the state, not just the post at the airport. That’s a pool of 13,000 guardsmen. Not all of them will be on the streets, to be clear.

Not familiar at all with the organization of the MN Natl Guard, so I'm wondering if the "post at the airport" is made up of Twin Cities and surrounding areas locals, and is it a MN Air National Guard unit?

One of the issues in the 1967 Detroit 12th Street riots was the makeup of the Michigan National Guard. When it was deployed in the city it had zero calming effect and made the issues much worse.
Speculation was that was due to a couple of issues. One, they were inexperienced soldiers, and two, they were all white boys from rural parts of the state (a lot of them from the U.P) and were infused with all of the wrong attitudes from the start.

By contrast, the 82nd and 101st Airborne soldiers who were deployed in the streets of Detroit were combat veterans from racially integrated units and were much more effective in dealing with conditions they were faced with. Of all the people shot and killed during the riot, only one was by a federal soldier.

I spent the last few minutes catching up on all the posts after I quit watching around midnight and am saddened to see there is at least some evidence of white, right wing extremist agitation. Happy is not the right word, but at least last night I was hopeful that the presence of mixed races among people might mean enough people of all stripes are finally taking real note of what is happening. I still think I saw a lot of across the board properly focused anger among people of a lot of different backgrounds in some of the coverage last night. I suppose we will only know in November if major unrest in dozens of American cities will help or hurt trump. We here all see the evils of the current administration and even the most dense among us know the country is not moving in a good direction. We are also not in any way an accurate representation of average Americans.

[Spartanforlife4]

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Trump and the right wing are pinning it all on Antifa.

[state of hockey]

Trump and the right wing are pinning it all on Antifa.

I don't care which fringe group or merry band of idiots it is. Shut. It. Down.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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He won’t acknowledge white supremacists because they are “very fine people”

[Handyman]

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One thing that would help tonight is for the protestors to GO HOME by 8. Get off the street- plenty of hipsters out last night well past 8 not causing trouble.
Get the mobs off the street so we can find the professional agitators

The BLM and other leaders should tell their people to stay home or go home before 8. Let the interlopers deal with the National Guard.

The GF has gone off the deep end. I am so proud of her. The "80% of arrests not from Minnesota" stat has her frothing. She spent too long working in the urban communities she knows this isnt how things blow up...especially over South like that. (which is as much immigrant as it is straight up oppressed Black) She is as angry as the White People protesting are pretending to be She also called this as a coordinated attack from outside forces on Day 2 The look on her face when Walz hinted at that last night was like the look Frey had when he heard the tweet from Trump.

Crazy thing...her super conservative cousin in Chicago...seems to agree with her

[Handyman]

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Yeah, actually Handy I was leaning more towards the alcohol. If there is one thing I’ve learned reading these threads these last few nights, the longer you drink, the crazier the theories, and the worse the typing.

Well part of that is I use my phone when I am watching TV with the gf...I just never will get the hang of typing on that thing

And I wasnt that drunk last night...

[state of hockey]

Well part of that is I use my phone when I am watching TV with the gf...I just never will get the hang of typing on that thing

Me neither. My typing doesn't get worse with alcohol, because it is always bad. What gets worse is my giving a crap about proofreading.

[Handyman]

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Trump and the right wing are pinning it all on Antifa.

Lot of Fascists in South Minneapolis that is for sure...