Minneapolis PD Suffocate Unarmed Black Man Who Later Dies in Hospital

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by PeteMoss

You may watch too many movies. Police and militaries don't just start killing their own people en mass in developed countries.

Hong Kong? Nobody would have imagined the dead bodies turning up there or the brutality of interactions, but things change.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

So many reports across the country of police and NG cranking up the violence to 11 tonight. Regardless of whether it’s peaceful protestors, media, random people and maybe some rioters.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

These NYC cops are out for blood.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Firebot

State police are increasingly and purposedly targeting media and photographers with rubber bullets and tear gas. It's just odd to see, with police not doing themselves any favours whatsoever.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1266911382613692422

Press are exempt from curfew orders.

http://www.minneapolismn.gov/www/gro...h_EXtXFMlh_OKA

Pretty dangerous to be a journalist right now.

I was just watching the ABC live feed from L.A. and their correspondent was being harassed by protesters. Luckily others stepped in to stop it, but it has to be scary.

Cameras tend to be a magnet for idiots sometimes.

https://twitter.com/i/events/1265874933432737792

[Itse]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

I was actually impressed at most of the protestors seeming to be white from the feeds I have seen

Lots of local variance, but true.

There's just not nearly enough people of any color on the streets.

Or even threatening their elected officials that this needs to stop or someones not getting elected...

[JohnnyB]

Journalists being harrassed and attacked seems a direct product of Trump's speech. Scary seeing it turn to action.

[Hackey]

Originally Posted by fulham

As a mixed dude with no real dog in this fight it just reeks. White people cant kill black people, thats for black people only. You see the same stuff with aboriginal crime in Canada. Aboriginals terrorize each other and so do other ethnic groups(im half Punjabi) and the brown on brown crime in Surrey/Abbortsford is equally horrid. But if a white guy kills a Brown/Black/FN person the community cares.

This is more than a white person killing a black person. This is a cop killing a citizen. Black people are two or three times more likely to be killed by police than white people.

[Acey]

Originally Posted by fulham

Rich coming from the Mayor of the most dangerous place to be black in the world. They have had 18 murders this week..

Chicago has had catastrophic black on black gun violence that existed before Lightfoot, and will after. It's not like it's her fault or a problem she could fix, and I'm not sure why it should forbid her from expressing the only possible sentiment anybody in her position would feel - a gay, black woman who Trump has needlessly belittled several times.

Some of the responses in here are are so hilariously short sighted to the bigger picture.

[nik-]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1266904233393217543

Kid was probably from out of state though, so #### her.

[wittynickname]

Some clear evidence of a white man destroying a cop car during Pittsburgh's protest today. And of the actual protesters pleading with him to stop, that he wasn't helping the cause.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1266871145795633152

That's another thing about the prevalence of smartphones nowadays. We see the guys like this who are undermining the cause, taking advantage of it to create chaos.

[wwkayaker]

Originally Posted by nik-

https://twitter.com/user/status/1266904233393217543

Kid was probably from out of state though, so #### her.

The cop is a POS but so are the parents. Who takes their kid to a ####ing riot?

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by wwkayaker

The cop is a POS but so are the parents. Who takes their kid to a ####ing riot?

It’s a protest, not a riot.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by wwkayaker

The cop is a POS but so are the parents. Who takes their kid to a ####ing riot?

People don't make signs to go riot.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

It’s a protest, not a riot.

Regardless it’s not safe and not a place for children

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Is it OK to point out how cringe worthy I think it is that CTV keeps trying to act like Canada, specifically Toronto, is in the same boat as the US?

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Regardless it’s not safe and not a place for children

Mostly because of the police.

[afc wimbledon]

If buildings got to burn can they not burn a few of Trumps down?

[Samonadreau]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Mostly because of the police.

Pos cop, Pos parent.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

I really wish there was a way we could organize buses to bring all these people to rich white neighbourhoods to riot. Or go burn down Wall Street or a Walmart or something.

[nik-]

I don't think it's a bad decision. It may be a little scary for them, but it's a chance for them to see a fundamental right they're granted. Even if you think the parent made a bad decision, it's pretty easy to just not spray a child in the face with pepper spray.