“When the looting starts, the shooting starts...”

[Allandavid]

Really...???

This is a national leader...???

 

[Basil the Great]

We will find out in November I guess, but as of now, the polls do not look overly good for re-election.

 

[nonaeroterraqueous]

That's one way to stop it. Looters are scum.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Praise God we have a highly popular Pro-Life tough on crime President in office during these trying times. Hillary would have been a disaster.

 

[Jonathan Walkerin]

Well isn’t this exactly why you guys think that everyone owning a gun is a grand idea ?

To fight against corrupted administration and their military and police apparatus?

So what is the difference between freedom fighter and rioter again?

 

[Nithavela]

I'm guessing the next step will be rootin, shortly followed by tootin.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Really...???

This is a national leader...???

“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.” -- Josef Stalin

 

[TLK Valentine]

We will find out in November I guess, but as of now, the polls do not look overly good for re-election.

“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” -- Josef Stalin

 

[essentialsaltes]

Where does the phrase 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts' come from?

Before Trump, it was uttered by a Southern police chief during civil rights unrest in the 1960s.

Headley, who was chief of police in Miami for 20 years, said that law enforcement was going after “young hoodlums, from 15 to 21, who have taken advantage of the civil rights campaign. ... We don't mind being accused of police brutality."

Miami hadn't faced "racial disturbances and looting," Headley added, because he let word filter down that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."

 

[super animator]

“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” -- Josef Stalin

I don't think it will go that far tlk.

 

[MyLifeForChrist]

Since it is well understood, it doesn't need to be said, particularly in a manner that invokes past racially charged events and support for police brutality.

When people are looting/burning businesses and/or homes to the ground not to mention destroying any chance of desperately needed neighborhood change anytime soon?...they are obviously not "understanding" anything ie: risking their lives for a stick of gum and a Red Bull.

Nice try yet nobody on this forum will allow you to equate "..past racially charged events and support for police brutality.." with our President simply stating the law regarding looting in no uncertain terms.

 

[essentialsaltes]

with our President simply stating the law regarding looting in no uncertain terms.

“When the looting starts, the shooting starts...”

Show me this law authorizing the police to use deadly force when looting begins.

 

[Fantine]

The looting began when a plainclothes policeman, identified on video by his ex-girlfriend, smashed windows.
According to channel 8, the tear gas was released while the protesters were still peaceful.
Hmmmm....
There are indications that right wing provocateurs tried to turn the situation to their advantage.
In the meantime, the murderer is holed up in Florida.
The four fired officers can be arrested on manslaughter charges pending investigation, after which murder 1 charges and supporting evidence can be brought to a grand jury. This should be done immediately.

 

[Nithavela]

The looting began when a plainclothes policeman, identified on video by his ex-girlfriend, smashed windows.
According to channel 8, the tear gas was released while the protesters were still peaceful.
Hmmmm....
There are indications that right wing provocateurs tried to turn the situation to their advantage.
In the meantime, the murderer is holed up in Florida.
The four fired officers can be arrested on manslaughter charges pending investigation, after which murder 1 charges and supporting evidence can be brought to a grand jury. This should be done immediately.

Source?

 

[essentialsaltes]

@realdonaldtrump
The Governor ... should give a little, and put out the fire. These are very good people, but they are angry. They want their lives back again, safely! See them, talk to them, make a deal.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Source?

St Paul police denies the 'plainclothes policeman' story.

 

[Nithavela]

St Paul police denies the 'plainclothes policeman' story.

Brilliant.

 

[stevil]

Is Trump saying that his solution to racial unrest, (caused by police brutality on an unarmed un-violent black man resulting in his death) would be for the president to encourage/order the police to shoot black people?

Is this a campaign promise?



EDIT:
When mainly white people protest, e.g. the protests against lockdown (ignoring the fact that tens of thousands are dying due to deadly contagious disease), and some of those were open carrying guns. Trump supports them and says they have the right to free speech.

When black people protest due to one of them being murdered by police. Trump threatens to have the police shoot the protesters.

I'm sure the White supremacists will be a very happy group, happy with recent events and very happy with their president.

 

[wing2000]

Really...???

This is a national leader...???

...this is a national provocateur.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Protesters demonstrating against the the killing of George Floyd clashed for hours with police on the streets of downtown Los Angeles, blocking the 110 Freeway, damaging cars and property and getting into a series of tense altercations with officers. Looting and vandalism were reported across the area early Saturday as police tried to push out the demonstrators, many of whom were arrested and hustled off in buses.

Police had declared an unlawful assembly about 9:30 p.m. Friday for a large swath of downtown L.A. from the 10 Freeway to the 101, and the 110 Freeway to Alameda Street.

“This is being made following repeated acts of violence and property damage. Residents should stay inside. Businesses should close. Those on the street are to leave the area,” the LAPD said on Twitter.

Police repeatedly fired less-than-lethal weapons into the ground after some officers got into a struggle with demonstrators.

Mayor Eric Garcetti urged peaceful protest.

“We respect every Angeleno’s right to protest, but violence and vandalism hurts all,” he said on Twitter on Friday evening. “Let’s remember why we march, protect each other, and bring a peaceful end to a painful night.”


Bad guys got arrested. Nobody had to be shot. I commend the mayor and police chief for trying to cool things down, rather than inflame them.