Thanks! Context is everything
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Thanks! Context is everything
Gov Blackface just tweeted that we have an 8pm curfew in place tonight.
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Doing work right now, but did the POTUS just invoke the Insurrection Act?
Omaha is under a 8-6am curfew that started yesterday, largely, in fact due to the shooting death of James Scurlock caused by Jacob Gardner.
When news first broke out of a white man killing a black man, local twitter erupted and so did other social media sites. Outrage soon followed and an increase in violence occurred. Many posts you'd see started saying that Gardner initiated the confrontation and being aggressive, started yelling out racial slurs, etc. Then the larger social media sphere picked up on it, well you can imagine the rest.
Today the appointed prosecutor has declared that the death was in self defense based on video footage provided from eye witnesses.
Basically what I'm trying to say is right now, especially, we all need to take the time to verify sources and gain as much context for events as possible. Everyone on this site does an amazing job at that and that's part of the reason why I get most of my news from here.
But it's a lesson thats worth repeating regardless lest we have the abyss stare back so to speak.
Omaha prosector says white bar owner killed black protester in self-defense
When news first broke out of a white man killing a black man, local twitter erupted and so did other social media sites. Outrage soon followed and an increase in violence occurred. Many posts you'd see started saying that Gardner initiated the confrontation and being aggressive, started yelling out racial slurs, etc. Then the larger social media sphere picked up on it, well you can imagine the rest.
Today the appointed prosecutor has declared that the death was in self defense based on video footage provided from eye witnesses.
Basically what I'm trying to say is right now, especially, we all need to take the time to verify sources and gain as much context for events as possible. Everyone on this site does an amazing job at that and that's part of the reason why I get most of my news from here.
But it's a lesson thats worth repeating regardless lest we have the abyss stare back so to speak.
Omaha prosector says white bar owner killed black protester in self-defense
Not yet, but he did mention he may
Here's his address. Skip forward quite a bit to where he comes out.
As an aside, did Trump bring his WWE announcer to work in the WH?
As an aside, did Trump bring his WWE announcer to work in the WH?
I've got a friend who lives in Indy. He's reporting houses with American Flags are being shot at. 5 of them within a mile of his house.
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Hate, because this is the worst thing to start happening.
My same fears about how any shithead group can chuck a brick to start a riot are also applicable here.
Trash people (regardless of left/right) are fully trying to get this even more violent, and I frankly cant see them not being successful at this point.
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How does one shoot an American flag ar a house?
FIFY.
In regards to the Insurrection Act, it'll be what needs to get order in place, or the biggest mistake that Trump could make right now and plunge the Nation into further violence. The problem is that I absolutely have no idea what will happen if it does get enacted (and then enforced).
With a t-shirt cannon, I'd imagine
Joke aside, think he means homes with American flags are being targeted.
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Knowing some folks in Indiana...they may want to rethink their strategy.
Carmel Mayor Brainard backs off plan to sue Minneapolis over costs associated with riots
How many more will follow?
How many more will follow?
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I'll be honest, this is probably one of the best speeches he's ever given. It's like the pundits don't even care what he has to say.
Colonel Macarthur, Major Patton, Major Eisenhower...it won’t be pretty.
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General MacArthur was explicitly ordered not to do what he did, and then he wasn't court martialed or removed.
Apparently the Phoenix DA is hoping that a night in jail will keep the rioters peaceful the next day. All rioters arrested by Phoenix PD had been released, charges dropped, and curfew fines waived. One of them was even interviewed at the protest on live TV a bit ago.
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I don’t know many areas in Polk county worth looting. You could burn that place down and it would probably look better...
Jokes aside- other than Lakeland there aren’t a lot of developed areas to “riot” in. It’s a weird rural pocket between Tampa and Orlando. I doubt he will face many issues.
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