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Minneapolis Burning: A Leadership Vacuum Leaves the Activists Fully In Charge
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 05/29/2020 4:22:00 AM PDT by EyesOfTX

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To: EyesOfTX

The Feds will be coming in today. POTUS can order them into action if governor does not.


41 posted on 05/29/2020 5:25:41 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Steely Tom
The fact that the officer's hands were in his pockets indicates that he wasn't feeling threatened by George Floyd.

But that's not a fact. The officer was wearing black gloves, which made it appear that his hand were in his pockets. If you look close at a high definition picture, you can tell the difference. Also, if you watch the full video, you will see him moves his arm, and it shows his hand was not in his pocket.

And this highlights a key point. What we think we see is not always what actually occurred. Until a cause of death has been released, we don't know for sure how Floyd died. Let's see more of the facts before we make final conclusions.

42 posted on 05/29/2020 5:32:44 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Steely Tom

I agree with your point, but to set the record straight, the officer was wearing black gloves. In the video, it appeared his hand was in his pocket, but once in a while he moved the hand and you could clearly see the glove. In no way does this mitigate what officer did, just saying.


43 posted on 05/29/2020 5:34:20 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Zhang Fei

Yep.


44 posted on 05/29/2020 5:34:22 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment
So you think Mr. Floyd had the officer in legitimate fear for his own safety while his throat was being compressed against the pavement? How, I wonder.

Maybe he thought Mr. Floyd had some sort of top-secret SEAL training that would enable him to get out of any hold, even while cuffed behind his back.

45 posted on 05/29/2020 5:37:34 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: Steely Tom

Small minds think alike, they dont have any room to grow.


46 posted on 05/29/2020 5:41:24 AM PDT by Ikeon (Simple minds think alike. , they dont hold a lot of options,)
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To: Steely Tom
No, I don't think any of that.

What I think is that all the facts are not in, and I'm not making a conclusion. That's all.

47 posted on 05/29/2020 5:42:10 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Steely Tom
"Give them room to destroy"

You beat me to it. I was thinking the same thing.

These riots are just one symptom of America's Rat controlled cities. This problem started long ago and is a result of hundreds of progressive policies and decisions made in the past. The same lack of intellect is now coming to bear, or should I write, not to bear on these riots. The people who voted for these Rats are rioting over what they voted for, and they will continue to vote for the same Rats, or some equally exchangeable piece of human excrement.

48 posted on 05/29/2020 5:45:51 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: EyesOfTX

“2) to reassure the angry public that has been burning the city since Wednesday that justice will be swift and sure.”

They aren’t the “angry public” they are thugs, rioters, and looters. If you bothered to watch the videos of the looting and arson tearing my old neighborhood apart you would have noticed that these thugs are all colors. My bet is that NONE of them actually live in that neighborhood, and probably a fair number of them aren’t even residents of Minnesota.

You also didn’t have to start stirring the racial pot by referring to “pasty white Minnesotans”, you didn’t refer to the rioters and looters, the actual criminals in this case as “black as tar” or any other pejorative about their color.


49 posted on 05/29/2020 5:51:40 AM PDT by euram
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To: EyesOfTX

Media template:

Violent disturbance in Minneapolis = “justifiable outrage”.

Peaceful protest in Ann Arbor to reopen businesses = “domestic terrorism”.


50 posted on 05/29/2020 5:57:03 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Step One of the recovery is 'flatten the curve'. Step Two is to flatten the tyrants.)
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To: CMailBag

Swearing in as a Congressman on the Koran.

51 posted on 05/29/2020 5:58:03 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: EyesOfTX

The peaceful protest already occurred: “He can’t breathe, bro, get off him bro.”
Justice has already been exercised: “You killed a man? You’re fired!”


52 posted on 05/29/2020 6:08:01 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: EyesOfTX

Arrest them all now no face masks!


53 posted on 05/29/2020 6:11:36 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: EyesOfTX
It is complete chaos. No fewer than three police precinct stations have been burned.

Minnesota has been axe-ing for this for 60 years.

54 posted on 05/29/2020 6:12:37 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: EyesOfTX

The Attorney General of Minnesota

55 posted on 05/29/2020 6:12:57 AM PDT by maggief
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To: EyesOfTX
As Trey Gowdy told Fox News Host Martha MacAllum

Trey Gowdy is a useless tool.

56 posted on 05/29/2020 6:13:21 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: msrngtp2002
Are these riots really just about cops killing someone or are they an expansion of being fed up with all levels of government locking everyone down? It doesn’t take much to push people over the edge.

You may be right, or you may be giving the sheeple too much credit. To my eyes, it appears the opportunists (race baiters, antifa, looter guys) have jacked the death of George Floyd.

57 posted on 05/29/2020 6:14:49 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: BerryDingle
I believe that it's spelled "the koran"*.

*I was unable to find html for dogfeces, sorry

58 posted on 05/29/2020 6:16:58 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: EyesOfTX

Where is the Minneapolis police chief? Conspicuously absent from news reports. Isn’t the police chief responsible for the actions of the police force? The training, the procedures?


59 posted on 05/29/2020 6:30:51 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
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To: KDF48

I saw burka’s in the crowds..


60 posted on 05/29/2020 6:53:54 AM PDT by mowowie
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