Posted on 05/31/2020 6:04:20 AM PDT by karpov
“That is not a protest. It is not a statement. It’s people, a handful of people, taking advantage of a situation for their own purposes — and they need to be treated as criminals,” said the commander in chief. “. . . A handful of criminals and thugs who tore up the place.”
The president, of course, was Barack Obama, talking about rioting that followed the protests over Freddie Gray’s 2015 death in Baltimore. The difference is that Obama faced a fraction of the backlash from the liberal media as Donald Trump did for tweeting the same word to describe the looters: Thugs.
Both presidents were right. A thug is not black or white, a thug is a person who takes the righteous anger over an injustice like George Floyd and burns down an affordable housing complex. A thug is someone who uses a protest to rob Scores Sports Bar in Minneapolis, owned by a black firefighter, KB Balla, who poured every cent he had into the business.
A thug is someone who vandalized a city, causing Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to plead, “What I see happening on the streets of Atlanta is not Atlanta. This is not a protest. This is not in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr.”
A thug is someone who just wants to watch it burn, as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said yesterday. “The situation in Minneapolis is no longer in any way about the murder of George Floyd, it is about attacking civil society, instilling fear, and disrupting our great cities. As you saw this expand across the United States, and you start to see whether it be domestic terrorism, whether it be ideological extremists to fan the group, or whether it be international destabilization of how our country works.”
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I see much more than a handful of people. And I see a coordinated effort in numerous cities. This is domestic terrorism by far left extremists.
Yep.
To late. The movement has been hijacked by the insurrection. I don’t care about the “message” now. I want the insurrection crushed. Let the pieces fall where they may.
Remember when “our” Justice Department declared the right to be the biggest threat to the country? I do.
This is domestic terrorism by far left extremists.
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Its also a breakdown of law and order. This not how a civilized society should act.
Tolerating riots and mayhem guarantees there will be more of the same.
Similarly, the lockdown is no longer about containing covid, it is about attacking civil society, instilling fear and disrupting our great economy.
Questionable police behavior in Minnesota requires an investigation and possible trial in Minnesota.
What’s going on across the country right now has absolutely nothing to do with any of that. I expect DOJ to come to interesting conclusions about what is really happening right now (domestic terrorism funded by Soros).
HANDFUL? What a sick joke!
It never was about safety.
Still haven’t heard why George Floyd was being arrested. Not that his death wasn’t horrible and wrong.
Nope.
The Antifa group needs to be officially labeled as a “domestic terrorist group”
So true.
And we are so ably assisted by the MSM which is doing its best to portray the rioters as white supremacists. Really.
Not BLM sympathizers; not ANTIFA thugs - no, no - White Supremacists!
I wonder if any of the freshly released criminals joined the fun.....
Agreed. All of these lockdown measures, forced wearing of masks, closure of certain businesses and not others, forced closures of Churches but letting Planned Parenthood still murder children is all about certain people in government and places of ‘power’, such as the leftist media, attempting to gain even more power and control over the populace.
JoMa
From the get go, it was reported (and stated in the police transcript) that George tried to pass a phony $20 bill at a convenience store..
Not a hood anywhere. But a lot of folks in blackface looting!
It’s sounding a little premeditated along about now, isn’t it.
instilling fear and disrupting our great economy
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It will be interesting to see how the stock market reacts to this havoc. Also, the May unemployment numbers are coming out next week on Friday.
There’s a plethora of bad news out there. We are living in “interesting times”.
Gerry Spence ...Police State.
There is not a justice system because Twenty percent of PROSECUTERS,...JUDGES,....LAWYERS...COPS ...are corrupt
but they are very seldom convicted or fired for there actions...
The very rich never go to jail or if they go it is for a short time...
They can afford the best lawyers..
If they come after you they will get you on something..
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