The VP almost being assassinated; are you kidding me??? Do you really believe her life was ever in danger? And is this the same Kamala Harris who encouraged her followers and raised money to bail out violent rioters so they can return to the streets and riot, assault, and even kill some more? If you expect me to shed any tears for this woman who got a slight taste of the type carnage her contribution imposed on others…. sorry it ain’t gonna happen; I say justice served.
Broken windows? Tell that to business owners in Seattle who had their business burned down while the cops not allowed to stop it. Tell that to Aaron Jay Danielson who was hunted down, and shot in the streets of Portland because he was a part of a prayer group that supported Trump. Tell that to the countless people who died during those BLM/Antifa riots; their lives cannot be replaced either. You can’t compare 9 months of rioting, looting, and killing to 2 hours of over running a federal building, then leaving without further incident.
Said from a person who was not a victim of the protests. When you consider the thousands of protests that happened all over the country everyday, 7% is too many.
How do you know this? You have no idea how I would have described the BLM narrative. Perhaps had you described the Trump narrative, you would be bearing false witness.
What about the issues that led to the protests?
it was in the papers. He blasted it from his mouth Evry chance he got.
I can take a pretty good educated guess since you stated
when you use the phrase "despite the narrative from BLM" you imply their narrative; implying it is the opposite of what you stated. And if you're going to ask me to further spell it out so you can righteously accuse me of putting words in your mouth I'll just take a pass.
How about protesting WITHOUT rioting? How about peaceful protesters calling out the people who show up to riot, and point them out to the cops? How about stop trying to justify hurting someone else because you perceive misconduct of the Police? How about if we condemn bad protesters and bad cops.
No I don't. Let's say hypothetically that I claim the BLM narrative is something vague like too many black people are being killed by the Police. My response would be perfectly reasonable were this my view of their narrative
They don't necessarily condone it, or even encourage it; they will often down play, or even try to justify it. Plenty of politicians in my state have done this; calling them "uprisings" or other terms that down play the violence instead of calling them riots. And it isn't only politicians, the media (that has more influence than politicians) are guilty of this as well;
According to the FBI, of all the rioters that stormed the Capital bldg, none of them had guns. Yeah; some had flag poles, and sticks that could be used as weapons, but other than that they were basically unarmed. Had they ran into the secret service that was surrounding the VP, they would have run into machine gun fire. I don’t care how big of a stick, or long of a flag pole they may have had, they wouldn’t have stood a chance against machine guns fire.
Why does it surprise you that you like the guy more than I?
I ain’t talking about breaking windows, I’m talking about people dead. Address that!
Uprising sounds like oppressed people fighting back against their oppressors; that's not what happened.
In some cities, it was a war zone. There were protests going on all over the country (and the world) but in a few choice cities (my city included), there were far more violent protests than peaceful ones, these are the cities that get the most media attention. In my city, Mayor and city council allowed the rioters to secure 6 blocks of the city for themselves to do as they pleased without police intervention; they called this area CHAZ. Though the media didn’t report enough of it IMO there were reports of people living and doing business in the area being forced to pay a fee to CHAZ (armed) security just to go to their homes, or their place of business. There were reports of rapes, beatings by CHAZ security, and only when CHAZ security began killing too many people did the mayor allow the police to take the area back.
I can only speak for my city, not the others; (but I suspect the same thing happened in other cities as well) but when the politicians running the city forced the Police to step back and allow the rioters to take over, this did far more to encourage rioting, killing, and mayhem, than anything they could have done had they been directly involved.
This conversation has nothing to do with an indictment of Trumpism, it's about whether or not the VP's life was ever in danger. I'm pointing out that it was not
George Floyd happened in Minneapolis. To protest the Minneapolis police department I understand. But why all the other cities? Police departments in the other cities had nothing to do with George Floyd's death.
According to the Secret Service, I'm right, and you are wrong.
You keep bringing up this refuted claim that all police departments are under a single system. Judging from your claims it appears have no clue how policing works in this country.
