George Floyd's Death, Protests and Riots across the US

whitecoast said:
People are acting civilly, and as long as everyone manages to make it home at the end of the day to their families safely with their communities intact who cares how they choose to de-escalate or show solidarity with the protestors?
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They weren't sent to put down protests, they were sent to put down riots and looting. So let's make sure our terminology is accurate.

Kneeling is not a gesture of de-escalation. Plenty of ways to de-escalate without humiliating oneself with a mass submission ritual.

Anyone who's ever dealt with a bully, or defused a tense situation in a bar, understands one thing quite well: weakness invites attack. Showing weakness does not de-escalate; very much the opposite. De-escalation is achieved when the belligerent party understands that their victim will not back down; will accept a fight if offered; can obviously handle themselves in a fight; but will not initiate violence. It's a very primal thing. Show fear to an angry dog, and it will become more aggressive; respond to the dog calmly and firmly, with no trace of fear, and the dog's hindbrain thinks 'oh, this primate isn't scared of me ... probably a good reason for that, maybe best if I don't attack as it might go badly for me.'
 
Niall said:
Between that and soldiers 'taking the knee' at protests, Trump likely can't rely on the military to follow orders in this situation.
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So far, to be fair, I've only seen the one military unit kneel. And that was a National Guard unit, not exactly battle-hardened veterans. Given the known political leanings of the sharp end of the military - combat arms are overwhelmingly conservative Trump supporters - I doubt we'll see such behavior from the real deal.

Time-serving swamp creatures like Mattis will undoubtedly side against Trump. The top brass are mostly political appointees, either progs or neocons. The lower officer class - captains and such - tend to be much more conservative. And from what I've read they're quite aware that their leadership is entirely political in nature, and not terribly happy with that.

So, I'm not sure the military can be written off entirely at this point. It seems equally plausible that, if the generals tell them to stand down, the boots on the ground revolt against the generals rather than against their president. But of course that could be wishful thinking.
 
bjorn said:
The crowd DEMANDED that the police officers guarding the government building take a knee to show their solidarity – and some did so. Showing sympathy or giving power to the mob? Anti-racist protesters voilently attacked the police in Londen, Downing Street where this took place regardless.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1268208957610491908
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The kneeling thing is an obvious part of the psyop. The Burn Loot Murder rioters are NWO shock troops; kneeling is therefore a sign of submission to the NWO, and seeing the violence specialists of the power structure together with the power structure's political representatives engaging in this ritual submission is meant to encourage the population to submit.

None of this is accidental.
 
psychegram said:
The kneeling thing is an obvious part of the psyop. The Burn Loot Murder rioters are NWO shock troops; kneeling is therefore a sign of submission to the NWO, and seeing the violence specialists of the power structure together with the power structure's political representatives engaging in this ritual submission is meant to encourage the population to submit.
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The mob doesn't rage against the machine. They rage for the machine. They are the Brown Shirts of Nazi Germany's 1930 and if we let them we all have to kneel before them.
 
bjorn said:
The mob doesn't rage against the machine. They rage for the machine. They are the Brown Shirts of Nazi Germany's 1930 and if we let them we all have to kneel before them.
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They have more in common with the Spartacist uprisings in post-WWI Germany; Antifa traces its origins directly back to communist terror groups from that part of history.

It's important to remember that the NSDAP did not arise ex nihilo, but rather emerged from a violent dialectic that was, in its earliest stages, primarily driven by violent communist revolutionaries.
 
Pearce said:
I saw this yesterday myself and it's honestly been bothering me more than I feel it should, but even this morning I can't shake it. It felt like the clearest signal yet of who is on what side. And I've got this burning urge to speak out against it but who will listen, and right now living in the US it could be deadly to do so. But when thinking about it yesterday and again this morning, it just makes me feel heavy
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If your movement is backed by food and clothing corporations,videogame companies,most of the politicians on both sides,blue checkmarks and is popular in countries that have nothing to do with it (why are there protests about this in Australia again?) then your movement is not grass roots or natural in any way.
 
cassandra said:
Apologies if this has already been discussed. According to the chief of Minneapolis Police Union, George Floyd had a violent criminal history.
Also leaders in Minneapolis had been “minimizing the size of the police force and diverting funds into activists with an anti-police agenda. Our chief requested 400 more officers and was flatly denied any. This what led to this record breaking riot”
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Sad to see the NY Post carry the police union's water with that pathetic character assassination of Floyd. His criminal history is somewhat relevant, but cops are trained to deal with violent criminals. That does not make Chauvin's actions less deplorable or put it into any kind of "context." Would more cops have stopped his death? No. Would they have stopped people from rioting? No. They would have just had more cops to bash heads, tear gas, and further inflame tensions. That article just reads like a political push from the police union to the mayor. They'll get more officers now, and it won't be for the benefit of the majority of people who live in Minneapolis once everything has calmed down.
 
Beau said:
Sad to see the NY Post carry the police union's water with that pathetic character assassination of Floyd. His criminal history is somewhat relevant, but cops are trained to deal with violent criminals. That does not make Chauvin's actions less deplorable or put it into any kind of "context." Would more cops have stopped his death? No. Would they have stopped people from rioting? No. They would have just had more cops to bash heads, tear gas, and further inflame tensions. That article just reads like a political push from the police union to the mayor. They'll get more officers now, and it won't be for the benefit of the majority of people who live in Minneapolis once everything has calmed down.
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Even if true of having a criminal past it does not justify murder if not in self defense, you never know what person was been through and how would you fare in same case. But how much people were killed in a same way in US prior to that, Black or White, you ll never hear about that, nobody bats an eye.
 
Beau said:
Sad to see the NY Post carry the police union's water with that pathetic character assassination of Floyd. His criminal history is somewhat relevant, but cops are trained to deal with violent criminals. That does not make Chauvin's actions less deplorable or put it into any kind of "context." Would more cops have stopped his death? No. Would they have stopped people from rioting? No. They would have just had more cops to bash heads, tear gas, and further inflame tensions. That article just reads like a political push from the police union to the mayor. They'll get more officers now, and it won't be for the benefit of the majority of people who live in Minneapolis once everything has calmed down.
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Yeah, that is pretty sad to see.

If we are going to start looking into backgrounds to deflect blame then it would appear that Chauvin and his fellow officers have plenty of dirt to be dug up about their previous actions: Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck had 18 previous internal complaints against him

Of course a person's past does not justify their murder. The police unions and supporting media may want to be careful taking this line. I would imagine the question of why Chauvin was still on active duty and how these complaints were investigated/handled will come up sooner or later.
 
Neil said:
Well, it's like the Cassiopaeans said, twists and turns galore. Trump is using the riots as an excuse to purge the deep state 5th columnists trying to instigate a color revolution from the country, who are definitely not letting this crisis go to waste. If he declares martial law the Constitution is dead, which is exactly what the upper echelons of the deep state are manipulating him to do so they can do whatever they want with impunity. Except that Trump can also suspend the elections or curtail them in some way, ruling as a benevolent dictator and excluding people who are disloyal to him from gaining power. But as the world continues to fall apart, the economy crumbles, the weather starts destroying stuff, aliens are taking over, and Trump suffers a convenient death due to stress factors. Pence takes over as the new dictator and tries to institute some kind of neocon Zionist theocracy. However by that point the country is so far gone that he's almost irrelevant; other than getting up in front of the cameras and making speeches and signing official looking documents, no one actually cares. And then the cosmic lightning bolts come and the grid goes down and none of it matters anymore anyway. And so forth and so on...
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My bold print. Now would be a real good time to read or remember Margaret Atwood's prescient The Handmaid's Tale. Another item that will "give you chills."
 
anka said:
For the record, this video is allegedly a testimony of one of the Soros' paid protestors who concludes that it would be great if more people joined the team so they all could actually start a real movement (movement for what ? I would add 🤔).
I could not find out if it's real or staged but it looks authentic to me (German YouTube channel Für Europa - gegen NWO):

Protester admits: "We get payed by GEORGE SOROS" - (ENGLISH ORIGINAL)

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Soros organization is the biggest organization in the world and he pumped 18 billion into OSF. Over the year's news items says he is every where. But this testimony seems to be more of mocking the truth rather than admitting. If it is so straight forward as this guy is saying (go to george soros website and sign up and paid for it) , Soros would be in jail on the same day.

Zzartemis said:
This Special Report describes the activities of billionaire philanthropist George Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF), which are partially financed by U.S. taxpayers.
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Judicial Watch will continue to investigate and litigate to obtain evidence that we will analyze as we pursue additional lines of inquiry concerning Soros and the Open Society Foundations around the world and, in particular, the United States. Thomas Fitton President Washington, DC

View or download:
www.judicialwatch.org

SOROS: Judicial Watch Special Report: Open Society Foundations 2018 - Judicial Watch

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www.judicialwatch.org
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The above judicial watch report has this related to La Raza connection mentioned before.
Cecilia Muñoz, former Domestic Policy Council director under Obama and Senior V.P. at La Raza, is currently on OSF’s U.S. Programs board.65 She is also a Vice President at New America Foundation, which has received $4.5 million in USG grants, including
$580,000 in grants that are currently active.
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After seeing all this, I started thinking whether the George Floyd event itselfis Fake. It is not as simple as predator vs pray or abuser vs victim as the millennial's would like to think and vent.
 
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