Minneapolis police in the news again

[WLJ]

Lightfoot is one the sorriest excuses for a mayor ever seen

[fifth_column]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-officials-looting-riots

I wonder how this alderman feels about defunding the police.

Obviously, if there were no police there would be no shooting . . . . .

[TechMan]

*expletive deleted*it just got real...Buddhist Monks have joined the protests.

https://i.imgur.com/Bn7wG8c.gifv

[bedlamite]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/1/antifa-end-whiteness-race-stop-funding-police-depa/

This is gonna get worse.

[bedlamite]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/1/antifa-end-whiteness-race-stop-funding-police-depa/

Wasn't counterfeit bills part of why Floyd was arrested in the first place?

[Ben]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/1/antifa-end-whiteness-race-stop-funding-police-depa/

This is gonna get worse.

I guess so:

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/06/09/now-leaving-the-usa-militant-protesters-in-seattle-have-set-up-barricades-and-created-the-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone/

[Angel Eyes]

[sumpnz]

I guess so:

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/06/09/now-leaving-the-usa-militant-protesters-in-seattle-have-set-up-barricades-and-created-the-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone/

Ms Wolfe to the courtesy phone please.

Claire - what's the time?

[Perd Hapley]

I guess so:

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/06/09/now-leaving-the-usa-militant-protesters-in-seattle-have-set-up-barricades-and-created-the-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone/

So Antifa favors borders? With walls? And armed guards?*

So I can bring my gun with me to the free state of Capitol Hill, right? Wearing my "It's OK to be white" t-shirt?





*Someone on the Twitters pointed that out.

[Perd Hapley]

Chicago's mayor and aldermen had a shouting match.

https://news.wttw.com/2020/06/05/what-are-we-going-have-left-our-community-aldermen-react-panic-sorrow-unrest


Anyone else think it's funny that Lightfoot accused someone of "preening"?

[Ben]

So now HBO has pulled Gone With the Wind from its lineup. Ironically on the anniversary of the birthday of the first black woman (Hattie McDaniel, who played "Mamie") to win an Oscar.

It's already difficult to find old and classic movies on streaming (streaming seems to define "classic" as pre-1990s). I'm glad DVDs still exist, because they might end up being one of the few ways to avoid big tech censoring cultural history and "guiding" us in what is acceptable to watch.

On the other end of the quality media scale, "Cops" has also been canceled. I remember watching it after it debuted and not liking it, because I thought it made the police state look cool. Still, it's none of my business if others want to watch it. I also have to wonder how many of the behind the scenes crew are black, and are now out of a job.

[230RN]

Mob insanity is incurable.  You just have to wait until the signs and symptoms decline to manageability.

[Ron]

Mob insanity is incurable.  You just have to wait until the signs and symptoms decline to manageability.

It's funny how the "madness of the crowd" always seems to benefit folks who have the real power and money.

[Viking]

I guess so:

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/06/09/now-leaving-the-usa-militant-protesters-in-seattle-have-set-up-barricades-and-created-the-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone/

And they have already run out of food apparently because the various homeless people stole it lol. Just let all the commies starve to death.

[WLJ]

And they have already run out of food apparently because the various homeless people stole it lol. Just let all the commies starve to death.

Let them eat poop

[TechMan]

And now the Seattle protesters are demanding that the Mayor resign.

The Mayor released a statement:  "Et tu, Brute?"

https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-city-hall-protesters-autonomous-zone

[WLJ]

Dems: You don't need a gun because you can call the police
Also Dems: Disband the police

[230RN]

It's funny how the "madness of the crowd" always seems to benefit folks who have the real power and money.

I have previously theorized that this is because they're hoping to become high-ranking poobahs, Commisars, and Gauleiters in the resulting super-socialist society.

Chaos, chaos, chaos.  The more, the better, and it does not matter whom  you attack or why, even if they're nominally on your side, just attack, attack, attack.

Communism thrives on chaos.

Chaos, chaos, chaos.  A simple, mindless strategy that works.

[zahc]

It's worth reminding ourselves about how far communist/anarchist movements might go. Consider the Montreal riots in the late 60s. They escalated to bombs, kidnappings, murders, and orchestrated robberies. In that context, we really haven't seen anything yet. But, it's a reminder that sitting back and waiting for it to "die down" might possibly not work and dying down might not actually happen. Like the COVID-19, it's really hard to predict how bad it will get when it's just the beginning.

We saw what happened in Montreal when the police striked in the middle of unrest. With antifa reportedly running around it it plausible to me they would take advantage of the situation like the FLQ did. As far as I know, it took relatively drastic action, and not appeasement, to eventually put it down. Factors different are different groups and context, and the current unrest in the US is relatively distributed, modulo potential masterminding/puppetmastering. Factors similar include the shocking willingness of the young and the intelligentsia to support the FLQ despite their abhorrent actions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray-Hill_riot

[zahc]

double post

[makattak]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-nightclub-bumped-heads/

Oh, hey. Look at this.

Starting to look like second degree murder IS an appropriate charge. And that is very well may have been personal animus.

(And, I come back to my observation from shortly after the murder that the murderer WASN'T one of the two cops who first arrested him who had Mr. Floyd's full cooperation. Seems this relationship may actually have been a pertinent factor IF Mr. Floyd did start resisting, and, given that he was murdered, may have been justified in resisting once this worthless excuse for a human being showed up.)

[Perd Hapley]

"Do you think Derek had a problem with black people?" CBS News asked.

"I think he was afraid and intimidated," Santamaria said.

"By black folks?" CBS News clarified.

"Yeah," Santamaria confirmed.

I'm so glad we're having riots for "Black Lives," and violence against police, so cops can learn not to fear black people. 

[Angel Eyes]

And they have already run out of food apparently because the various homeless people stole it lol. Just let all the commies starve to death.

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1270806581970518016

Some guy named Raz Simone has apparently set himself up as a warlord in the "autonomous zone" declaring that he and his crew are the police now.

I'm just waiting for Delta Force to arrive in UH-60s (and for Ridley Scott to make the movie).

[Ben]

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1270806581970518016

Some guy named Raz Simone has apparently set himself up as a warlord in the "autonomous zone" declaring that he and his crew are the police now.

He's A#1!!!!

[Angel Eyes]

A scope mounted on the suppressor?  Yeah, that'll work.