To charitably argue jkpoker's viewpoint I'd agree that burning and destroying police and public property is far superior to community businesses.

I think it would be easier to defend kneeling now vs then but the point you make is valid. Kneeling probably will just hurt athletes that do it like before in the nfl.

I mean it’s sad the police office won’t be charged here even though he was extremely negligent.

wHy DOn'T tHeY PRotEsT PeaCeFuLLy?

LOL

Chauvin arrested

I'm a 'conservative' I Believe in small govt, no unions and basically that the govt should stay out of people's lives/live and let live.

Cool, so what do you do with your life?? Well let's see, I joined a union working for the govt in a capacity where I bring the govt in to people's lives everyday, you got a problem with that? k

"extremely negligent"

ALL lives matter man

Maybe I'm crazy, but if I were protesting in Minnesota, I think that I would be more likely to get in violent confrontation with police than I would be to loot a store or torch a car.

That said, right-wing stories that portray protesters as mostly opportunistic criminals are appalling.

Given how trump is known to operate, yeah sounds extremely likely. Trump is also on his phone with his “friends” all night. There is a significant probability one of these gossip sessions had this quote fed to him.

People should not downplay these phone calls he has nightly. Outside of Fox News, it is where he gets almost all of his information. He ignores his intelligence briefings every day but does act diligently on the whispers from his friends. I wish this was even a tiny bit hyperbolic. Vince McMahon? Sean Hannity? Absolutely have more sway over this administration than whomever is the National Security Advisor at the time, unless they make it Jared.

I don't know if you are a native English speaker, but this was way beyond negligence as that term is used in U.S. law.

Now list the black men killed by cops!

Well Named thought it was merely a serendipitous coincidence that Trump stumbled upon the exact phrasing previously used by police forces. I don't think it was.

According to the CNN reporter (who is cool as heck and a credit to his profession), the arresting officer said he did not actually know why he had been ordered to make the arrest. (In Britain, that would mean the arrest was illegal, because the reason for arrest must be stated.)

I wouldn't say coincidence, but I could imagine Trump having heard it and liking the way it sounded, without ever really caring about the context at all.

Could be some sort of Jungian style collective consciousness thing between bigots.

Day late and a dollar short

Oh I think he's been fantasizing about it for literally decades.

I mean, if a monkey tweets out random **** all day long, it will eventually tweet out the 14 Words, so this could be a coincidence. We can't rush to judgement without knowing whether Trump has a long history of throwing out racist dogwhistles and catchphrases.

I agree. Trump isn't thoughtful enough to care about the context.

7 people in Louisville Kentucky were shot last night during protests over the Breonna Taylor case.

Protests are turning violent. Agree that people should be arrested, not shot, for looting or non violent offenses. Tear gas, mace, tasers, etc.

I think? the CNN people were just detained, not arrested though right? Not defending the actions of the police

Better late than never. Maybe the County Attorney was moved by the fact that his disastrous press conference went down like a cup of cold vomit and people were demonstrating outside his house.

For sure. But I am not going to hold any property damage against any of them right now.

I am a extremely privileged white male in America and this has me tilting. I can’t even imagine feelings after watching this play out for and over and over and over like the Jordan Peele remake of Groundhog Day.

Anyone who isn’t understanding and empathizing with how the protestors got to this point have something seriously wrong with them.