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‘He just floored it’: Detroit police SUV plows through group of protesters, flings people who climbed on hood
Washington Post ^ | June 29, 2020 | Timothy Bella

Posted on 06/29/2020 6:23:20 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Buried down in the article is this:

"...in a statement to the Detroit News, the police department said the driver was attempting to leave the scene after a rear back window had been “busted out.”

“The officer tried to escape,” the department told the News.>>"

That's NOT a peaceful protest.

21 posted on 06/29/2020 6:34:17 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Frankly anyone in these ‘never peaceful’ riots/protests does so at their own risk......most are unlawful so shouldn’t be there in the first place.....and I don’t care what the police do. I’ve yet to see any of these where these gatherings aren’t flipping off cops, spitting, shouting all sorts vulgarities in officers faces and various other attacks.

These are not protests....


22 posted on 06/29/2020 6:35:03 AM PDT by caww
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yeah. “Largely peaceful” still means violent. I don’t blame anyone caught in a “protest” for doing anything, up to and including using deadly force, to escape the situation. Largely peaceful is fine, until that one {expletive} who is ready, willing, maybe even paid-to take things to the next level comes along with a brick, or a pipe or a cheap handgun... I do not want to be the first victim when “largely peaceful” becomes “riot.” Given recent history I say deadly force is justified the moment any “protest” forms. Get out, get away, no matter what you have to do.


23 posted on 06/29/2020 6:35:08 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

How many busted windows, attacked cops and looted businesses in a ‘largely peaceful’?


24 posted on 06/29/2020 6:35:21 AM PDT by Paleo Pete (I smile because you are family. I laugh because you can do nothing about it...)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
This just warms the cockles of my heart...

“Oh my God!” one woman is heard screaming. “Oh my God!”

Naturally...the natives always use their limited vocabulary. I guess she must have used up all of her “FU” supply.

25 posted on 06/29/2020 6:36:09 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Another feel-good story! I just love these!


26 posted on 06/29/2020 6:36:14 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: rbg81

Now wait a minute.....the other 95% cheer on the violence etc. so any there are not guiltless..


27 posted on 06/29/2020 6:36:44 AM PDT by caww
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To: cuban leaf

About f***ing time. This needs to spread.


28 posted on 06/29/2020 6:37:10 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
A largely peaceful protest

Aren't they all until they aren't. /sarcasm

this is the opening line of every article published by the Compost, regarding riots.

29 posted on 06/29/2020 6:37:42 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: budj

The back of a cop SUV is all weapons. They had to get out of there.


30 posted on 06/29/2020 6:38:40 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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31 posted on 06/29/2020 6:39:58 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Ditto. I’ll play along during jury selection. But the moment the case is handed to the jury I’m an automatic and immovable not guilty. Protest? Riot? Blocked your path? Done, not guilty. If someone is too stupid to get out of the way of a moving vehicle whatever happens next is on them. They intentionally put themselves in that danger.


32 posted on 06/29/2020 6:40:13 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I hope the vehicle wasn’t injured.


33 posted on 06/29/2020 6:40:25 AM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: budj
No, it was largely peaceful. 8>)

The new double-speak narrative the Compost always pushes to start off on a published article that involves unlawful behavior.

34 posted on 06/29/2020 6:40:49 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Instead of screaming at the Driver, why don’t the idiots get out of his way and quit jumping on the hood?


35 posted on 06/29/2020 6:41:22 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Always happens to those ‘peaceful protesters, huh? /s


36 posted on 06/29/2020 6:41:40 AM PDT by cranked
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A largely peaceful protest.. turned violent.. as a police SUV plowed through a group .. sending a couple of demonstrators who had climbed on the hood flying from the vehicle.

What a pile of posturing verbiage. Inflammatory and misleading, portraying the police as bad and the "largely" peaceful anarchists as good.

37 posted on 06/29/2020 6:42:44 AM PDT by Thommas
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"When they climbed on the hood, they left peaceful behind."

Not if they were "peacefully" climbing on the hood. Its sort of like:
"Peacefully" smashing windows
"Peacefully" burning down businesses
"Peacefully" looting
"Peacefully" assaulting people

38 posted on 06/29/2020 6:43:02 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Hard to think clearly at the moment. The officer could have driven down the road quite a ways with the guy on the hood, then, when out of distance of the others, stopped, gotten out and beat the living tarnation out of the protester.


39 posted on 06/29/2020 6:43:46 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: rbg81; Lurkinanloomin
Concur that when you climb on the hood of a police vehicle, you are rolling the dice with your life.

And you know these lunkheads are doing it not because they are "Down with the Struggle" but because they want to brag to their friends that, "Dude! I climbed on the hood of a police car! Dude!"

These "Black Lives Matter" protests composed mostly of bored white kids who have been quarantined in the house for three months are just absurd.

40 posted on 06/29/2020 6:44:09 AM PDT by JennysCool
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