National Protest and 'disband the cops' discussion (please review page 1)

Question for the cops here.
squad 1 is 10 feet away, and squad 2 is a 100ft away. Why take him to squad 2?
I can tell you squad 1 was a back up from the Mpls Park Police, not regular Mpls PD. They're technically separate departments and Mpls PD "owned" the call. Looks like they were bringing him back to Mpls PD/responding officers squad.
 
The officer involved has now been arrested.

Derek Chauvin, Former Officer Who Placed Knee on George Floyd’s Neck, in Police Custody

This shit needs to stop, and there needs to be some serious jail time for a lot of these assholes. So, last night in Downtown Phoenix there was a riot.

8 arrested after hundreds march in downtown Phoenix to protest death of George Floyd

The Ohio statehouse has been breached.

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I'd like to think it will, but I'm not to sure.

These riots are fueled by a good mix of anger at the system, unemployment, pent up energy, and a dash of opportunism.

Hopefully what happened in Minneapolis doesn't spread to other cities and their police precincts.
 
I'd like to think it will, but I'm not to sure.

These riots are fueled by a good mix of anger at the system, unemployment, pent up energy, and a dash of opportunism.

Hopefully what happened in Minneapolis doesn't spread to other cities and their police precincts.


That's what is most concerning to me, everyone is pent up and pissed off right now at a myriad of reasons and all it takes is for some disenfranchised person to feel the need to retaliate towards 'The Man' or ato fully commit and try to kick the boogaloo off.
 
That's what is most concerning to me, everyone is pent up and pissed off right now at a myriad of reasons and all it takes is for some disenfranchised person to feel the need to retaliate towards 'The Man' or ato fully commit and try to kick the boogaloo off.

The frightening thing really in the event a boogaloo kicked off from this is how muddled the lines are; there's no easy North and South divide this time.

Anything spilling out in the US will be analogous to Syria; The two sides are those who support the current government and those who are "fighting for the people".

But if the groups fighting for the people all have different ideas of what that should look like, you have a situation primed to be full of smaller scale conflicts and almost impossible to control.

Like, ANTIFA, socialist groups, some BOOG-boys/3%ers, and even some right-wing sovergin citizen lite groups would all fall into the "oppose the government" side; ain't no way in hell they don't fight each other too.
 
I'd like to think it will, but I'm not to sure.

These riots are fueled by a good mix of anger at the system, unemployment, pent up energy, and a dash of opportunism.

Hopefully what happened in Minneapolis doesn't spread to other cities and their police precincts.

It's also fueled by people who just want to break and steal shit. Don't think everyone has the same moral compass you have.
 
The frightening thing really in the event a boogaloo kicked off from this is how muddled the lines are; there's no easy North and South divide this time.

Anything spilling out in the US will be analogous to Syria; The two sides are those who support the current government and those who are "fighting for the people".

But if the groups fighting for the people all have different ideas of what that should look like, you have a situation primed to be full of smaller scale conflicts and almost impossible to control.

Like, ANTIFA, socialist groups, some BOOG-boys/3%ers, and even some right-wing sovergin citizen lite groups would all fall into the "oppose the government" side; ain't no way in hell they don't fight each other too.

"Balkanization" is a good term for it.
 
That was from last night and, I'll tell you, it was immediately a suspect report to me.

First, the report was put out by the city via Twitter. Odd.

Then, they cited it as an unconfirmed report. Also odd. So, if no one is there, who told them this?

Finally, they concluded their Tweet by requesting everyone to leave the area for their safety, in case it exploded. Ah! There we have it: the real motive....just an attempt to get people to dispurse.

Pretty stupid and transparent if you ask me.
 
Just drove through some of the areas. Overall, pretty quiet. Mostly normal looking except for graffiti and the business owners continuing to board up their buildings; clearly expecting more problems. Many posting signs declaring they're a "black owned business" or a "small business".

Saw a couple police cars, but that's it; no NG. No visible presence in the areas I went through. Some streets or areas of streets are blocked off, for example, one of the precincts I drove by had barriers blocking it off with officers posted outside.

There was a large gathering of protesters outside the Hennepin County Government Center. Pretty uneventful, as you'd expect for now; the actual hoodlums are probably still in bed after a full night of vandalism and stealing.

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