The Shooting Gallery: Police Violence MEGATHREAD

[katmai]

Saw a video of a dude with an AR that was getting rushed by rioters, almost like a zombie movie.  They had him on the ground and one rioter went to jump kick him.  Looks like he was a bit panicky with the shots he got off, but I guess his own life was on the line at that point.  Looked like he had been trying to get away from them.

Ugly situation

why does this take from you not surprise me in the least?

[11B4V]

And if the 17 y/o kid carrying an assault rifle would have never been there, folks would not be dead. He put into motion and set the stage for that event by putting himself in a situation he should have never been allowed to be in. His parents should be jailed right along with him.


Property can be replaced.

[merithyn]

And if the 17 y/o kid carrying an assault rifle would have never been there, folks would not be dead. He put into motion and set the stage for that event by putting himself in a situation he should have never been allowed to be in. His parents should be jailed right along with him.


Property can be replaced.

Thank you for saying that.

[Eddie Teach]

What did the parents do?

[Razgovory]

A lot more protesters are going to get that takeaway and start showing up armed and/or taking proactive measures against right-wing militias that show up armed.

Yeah, that's what's happening.  There have been several cases now of left-wing protesters carrying fire arms.  You come unarmed, the police will beat the shit out of you.  You come armed, the police back off.

[DGuller]

A lot more protesters are going to get that takeaway and start showing up armed and/or taking proactive measures against right-wing militias that show up armed.

Yeah, that's what's happening.  There have been several cases now of left-wing protesters carrying fire arms.  You come unarmed, the police will beat the shit out of you.  You come armed, the police back off.

Seems like a dangerous move, though.  It's one thing to be armed when police understands that you're their vigilante backup, it's another thing to be a bad guy with a gun.  It's hard enough to posthumously defend your innocence against police shooting when you're unarmed, with a gun on you police or militia can shoot you at their discretion.

[grumbler]

What did the parents do?

Let their murderous child own an AR-15 and transport it across state lines in order to commit murder.

Actually, they should be jailed just for being the kind of parents who bring up a child like that.

[grumbler]

We need to have the Black panthers start open-carrying in every state, like they did in California in 1967.  The Panthers created an alliance between Ronald Reagan, the NRA, California democrats, and California republicans, to get a bill outlawing open carry.  The bill took less than 16 weeks to pass both houses of the legislature by 5:1 margins and get signed into law. 

"[I see] no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons" - Ronald Reagan.

Black Panthers, come save us now!

[Razgovory]

A lot more protesters are going to get that takeaway and start showing up armed and/or taking proactive measures against right-wing militias that show up armed.

Yeah, that's what's happening.  There have been several cases now of left-wing protesters carrying fire arms.  You come unarmed, the police will beat the shit out of you.  You come armed, the police back off.

Seems like a dangerous move, though.  It's one thing to be armed when police understands that you're their vigilante backup, it's another thing to be a bad guy with a gun.  It's hard enough to posthumously defend your innocence against police shooting when you're unarmed, with a gun on you police or militia can shoot you at their discretion.

That's the amazing thing! One black guy who might have a gun is terrifying.  They have to shoot because they fear for their lives. If 100 black guys show up with enough weapons to wipe out the entire police department the cops are inexplicably put at ease.

[Sheilbh]

https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1298774196026322946?s=20
"How shocked are we that 17 year olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?"

[Tamas]

We need to have the Black panthers start open-carrying in every state, like they did in California in 1967.  The Panthers created an alliance between Ronald Reagan, the NRA, California democrats, and California republicans, to get a bill outlawing open carry.  The bill took less than 16 weeks to pass both houses of the legislature by 5:1 margins and get signed into law. 

"[I see] no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons" - Ronald Reagan.

Black Panthers, come save us now!

amazing

In that vein, BLM protests should start shouting climate change is a lie. USA would be zero emissions in 5 years.

[Sheilbh]

We need to have the Black panthers start open-carrying in every state, like they did in California in 1967.  The Panthers created an alliance between Ronald Reagan, the NRA, California democrats, and California republicans, to get a bill outlawing open carry.  The bill took less than 16 weeks to pass both houses of the legislature by 5:1 margins and get signed into law. 

"[I see] no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons" - Ronald Reagan.

Black Panthers, come save us now!

amazing

Yeah it made me think of the pictures like this:


And I think there were also examples of people standing with a gun next to the police whenever the police were, say, pulling over a black person in a black neighbourhood.

I swear I've seen a documentary with something about this.

[Josquius]

Accelerationism woo

[The Minsky Moment]

https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1298774196026322946?s=20
"How shocked are we that 17 year olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?"

No surprise the fascists want to call out the freikorps for some good old fashioned murder of fellow citizens.

[mongers]

Yeah it made me think of the pictures like this:

The guy on the right with the M1 carbine (?) out-cools Samuel L.Jackson, he should have been in Hollywood.

The guy on the left is mearly, common or garden 60s cool.