The Shooting Gallery: Police Violence MEGATHREAD

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZBZ_hwUobw

Houston chief of police tells Trump to keep his mouth shut.

[DGuller]

Curfew in Coralville IA, city jammed right next to IC.

Curfew in NYC as well.  Got a loud ass emergency alert on my phone just to make sure I was informed.

[PDH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZBZ_hwUobw

Houston chief of police tells Trump to keep his mouth shut.

He won't get any federal aid.

[Oexmelin]

Curfew in Coralville IA, city jammed right next to IC.

Curfew in NYC as well.  Got a loud ass emergency alert on my phone just to make sure I was informed.

Don't worry, I am sure the armed protesters who complained about lockdown will take it to the streets against this decision.

[Syt]

So, the 1807 Insurrection Act that Trump drooled about, what does that entail?

[jimmy olsen]

Arlington is pulling its police from DC, effective immediately due to Trump tear gassing that peaceful protest so he could get a photo op at that church.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/1/arlington-county-pulls-police-dc-after-trump-churc/

[DGuller]

Curfew in Coralville IA, city jammed right next to IC.

Curfew in NYC as well.  Got a loud ass emergency alert on my phone just to make sure I was informed.

Don't worry, I am sure the armed protesters who complained about lockdown will take it to the streets against this decision.

That wouldn't be a bad thing, if there were any chance of NYPD enforcing laws against white people supporting them.  Brandishing guns in NYC is a mandatory jail time offense, or at least used to be.

[jimmy olsen]

So, the 1807 Insurrection Act that Trump drooled about, what does that entail?

It will screw over anyone with property insurance, because acts of war are excluded and that includes insurrection.

[DGuller]

So, the 1807 Insurrection Act that Trump drooled about, what does that entail?

It will screw over anyone with property insurance, because acts of war are excluded and that includes insurrection.

Insurrection is excluded, but civil disorder is not.  I don't think invoking the act itself makes the riots an insurrection, I imagine that it would require a lot more than that.

[Syt]

Btw, I think that even without the looting and arson we would see a very similar response. If it's not about looting a Target or burning a police station, it would be blocking of roads or being a public nuisance, like a couple of years ago.

[Syt]

The White House released a video with dramatic music showing Trump go to the church:

https://twitter.com/JesseCox/status/1267691419000467457?s=20

Totally worth tear gassing protesters and shooting them with rubber bullets to clear the way.


https://twitter.com/jackmjenkins/status/1267664350522810368?s=20

Jack Jenkins
@jackmjenkins

Just spoke with Rev. Gerbasi.

She told me that law enforcement with shields forced priests, others *off the church patio,* meaning they stepped on church property to expel people from it.

As she put it: "They turned holy ground into a battle ground."

Story coming.

DC bishop is also pissed: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/01/politics/cnntv-bishop-trump-photo-op/index.html

[The Brain]

As she put it: "They turned holy ground into a battle ground."

They were dominating the battlespace.

[DGuller]

I just watched a couple of hours of videos from the Russian blogger walking around in the thick of the action the last two nights, rather bravely.  The first night was mostly a violent clash with police and their cars.  In the first night he feared getting hit by an object thrown at police, and then he feared being targeted by police getting out of control. 

On the second night it was anarchy and chaos on the streets, and he feared being targeted for recording people aggressively looting every shop they came across, as police has clearly abandoned most streets, choosing to concentrate in overwhelming force in the select few.  He regularly visits the sketchiest NYC neighborhoods for his blogging, so he's not a wimp. 

This is just an orgy of violence now, and no matter how much protesters are justified in making their point with a bit of violence, because obviously non-violence isn't getting anything done, what was happening last night in NYC wasn't it.  It was anarchy for the sake of it.

[garbon]

Interesting when you put that side by side with Cuomo's statements on the situation in NYC.

[Syt]

Is it even possible to get an objective picture of what's happening? I'm sure it's easy to pick shots of violence from both sides as well as police and protesters showing solidarity.