Posted on 06/02/2020 8:36:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
The riots in response to the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd don't seem to be diminishing. In fact, they're getting more dangerous and deadly in certain parts of the country. Two people were killed at a Davenport, Iowa protest Monday night. That same evening in Buffalo, three police officers were run over by a perpetrator in an SUV.
These scenes have been hard to witness. But I have to mention one more in Richmond, VA, where a group of agitators set fire to an occupied building on Monday. And then blocked a fire crew from getting inside the building to rescue a child inside. Richmond Police Chief Will Smith got choked up sharing the story during a press conference.
"We had to force our way to make a clear path for the fire department," Smith recalled. "Protestors intercepted that fire apparatus several blocks away with vehicles and blocked that fire department’s access to the structure fire. Inside that home was a child.”
That's when Smith broke down in tears and tried to collect himself.
Richmond Police chief breaks down after rioters intentionally set a home on fire with a child inside of it. The rioters then used vehicles to block firefighters from reaching the home. pic.twitter.com/HlvFv4MGjs— Matthew (@VhiteHouse) June 2, 2020
“Officers were able to help those people out of the house," he continued. "We were able to get the fire department there safely."
He apologized, took a sip of water, and continued once more.
”When you take a legitimate issue and hijack it for unknown reasons, that is unacceptable to me. It's unacceptable to the Richmond Police Department and unacceptable to the City of Richmond.”
Mayor Levar Stoney expressed similar sentiments, with similar emotion.
"When you block law enforcement from allowing fire services to get to a home that has caught on fire," Stoney said. "You are not inspiring change. When you knock out windows of businesses that had nothing to do with this, you are not inspiring change. That's an insult to the cause.”
Can someone tell me how trapping a child inside a burning building brings justice for George Floyd?
It’s called murder.
Watcha gonna do?
So they tried to kill a child. This is pure evil. Much worse than the callous indifference that killed George Floyd. This is to destabilize the civil order and bring about chaos, so they can replace our form of government.
Strictly speaking, it wasn’t murder; they got the kid out.
But it should be considered the same as attempted murder, which should be a capital crime.
“hijack it for unknown reasons” — Richmond Police Chief Will Smith is just not paying attention or is afraid to speak the truth.
Everybody on FR knows the reasons and it is very simple - destroy America and rebuild it from the ashes as a communist state.
What color was the child’s skin?
This guy is such a wussy, no wonder the anarchists took over his city with ease.
With a wuss like that on the top, how could police force even operate? Oh yea, all they did was pull people over for speeding before this. One of those type of forces.
When your town/city has a police force and your town/city has looters/anarchists stealing, destroying and burning your town/city down, you don’t have a looter/anarchist problem, you have a police problem.
This guy should resign, so someone with balls can operate that police force.
Probably black. We whites are considered expendable in the USA now.
He should be putting the perpetrators in the dirt instead of crying like a bitch for the cameras
Each one of them should be on trial today for attempted murder.
Right-I’m working and didn’t read the whole thing. Attempted murder ain’t no parking ticket either.
You should step down not break down - it's your damned job to protect that child. What the hell is wrong with you?
Everybody on FR knows the reasons and it is very simple - destroy America and rebuild it from the ashes as a communist state.
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I’d be willing to be that the vast majority of ‘mostly peaceful protestors’ do not know that they are willing idiot accomplices in that end game, and more-over, I am sure that most who do have no clue how they could learn how oppression is relative and that any struggle they experience in this country could seem very very different if they ever got their way.
If your oppressor is a state bureaucrat instead of a banker baron you can celebrate with with your comrades in the bread line. Karma, it’s poetic justice but everyone loses by default.
Stop crying and shoot people moron!
Did you collect any useable forensic evidence - pictures, cell-phone records.
Did you arrest any perps to hold on terrorism charges and start questioning to find the behind guys that put them up to this?
“It’s called murder.
Watcha gonna do?”
Precisely! If this sort of thing keeps up, expect armed patriots to take to the streets to protect innocents against these feral animals.Because apparently these state Governors and Mayors will not protect their citizens!
Agree 100% about your take on the useful idiots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arson
Arson is generally considered a felony
Respond accordingly
Arson is a crime of willfully and maliciously setting fire to or charring property. Though the act typically involves buildings, the term arson can also refer to the intentional burning of other things, such as motor vehicles, watercraft, or forests. The crime is typically classified as a felony, with instances involving a greater degree of risk to human life or property carrying a stricter penalty. A common motive for arson is to commit insurance fraud. In such cases, a person destroys their own property by burning it and then lies about the cause in order to collect against their insurance policy
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