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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.

It doesn't have to be one or the other. He easily could have seen it on social media somewhere without caring one bit about the context or making the minimum of effort to educate himself about the context. Then he repeats it because he thinks is sounds all tough and law and orderish and he is a bigoted jackass.

That's more than a coincidence and it doesn't sound so implausible to me.

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05-29-2020 , 01:51 PM

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

if you are going to parse phrases that have the same common connotation because they have different legal definitions thats fine.

but be ready to have to use the rest of them correctly like "assault" for instance.

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05-29-2020 , 01:53 PM

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Was mainly replying to the Brit's correct legal interpretation, agreed it's a semantics thing.

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05-29-2020 , 01:54 PM

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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

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

This is spot on. I was going to post something like this earlier but got side tracked. Especially abt being white and tilted. Anyway

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05-29-2020 , 01:56 PM

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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.

Listen, don't get me wrong. I don't like seeing property being destroyed. And I'm not condoning it. But yeah, my point is, these people are simply fed up . And I don't blame them.
And, you just can't put one bad cop behind bars and think the problem is solved. A lot has got to change.

I was watching a rerun of Sanford and Son that ran in the early 70's. Lamont was telling Fred, Red Fox, how heart disease was the number one killer of black men in America. And Fred's response was something that took me back. Like wow. Again, this show was almost 50 years ago. I don't know exactly which episode it was anymore.
Fred Sampson," I thought it was the police."

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05-29-2020 , 02:02 PM

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

No. Watch the interview. Omar and his crew were *arrested* and *handcuffed* by officers of the State Patrol, for no reason that the arresting officer was able to give.

As you'll probably be aware, where reporters are concerned, that's quite sinister. And not altogether in line with the First Amendment. The officers weren't disagreeable about it, but they just did it, for some reason never given. Omar and his crew were then placed in the custody of the Minneapolis Police, who then eventually released them. Nobody apologised at the time, although I believe the state governor has since done so.

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05-29-2020 , 02:12 PM

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Ruh roh...

What happens when the weird protester smashing out all the windows at the Autozone that people speculated may be a Minn PD turns out really may be Minn PD?

If this is true this is absolutely crazy!!

So the police wants to blameshift the protesters. So they creating a locomotion to shift away attention on the actual homicide.

The protestor are the evil ones and the cops (the scum from the tape) are the good guys.
Yeah right!!

That's why they put a cop in disguise who breaks everything. Wtf guys wtf?

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05-29-2020 , 02:14 PM

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No. Watch the interview. Omar and his crew were *arrested* and *handcuffed* by officers of the State Patrol, for no reason that the arresting officer was able to give.

Did you actually see the video? The officer said get back, and no one took a single step back. The reporter tried to verbally negotiate the terms of him and his crew moving back, but he didn't move at all before being arrested.

I don't know exactly how well the officer understood or processed the reporter's attempts at communication (it was clearly very loud and chaotic and tensions were high); but the fact that no one took a step back when ordered to do so should be part of your story.

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05-29-2020 , 02:15 PM

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Now the Russians are getting into the act. "American law enforcement's history of lawlessness and violent crimes."
Lol.
That's the topping on the cake.
We've become the joke of the world.
I can imagine now a bearded man in the mountains of Afghanistan telling his young desciples about the evils of America.

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05-29-2020 , 02:18 PM

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Chinese propaganda outlets are having a field day too.

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05-29-2020 , 02:33 PM

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Chauvin charged with murder.

No jury will acquit him, at least I hope so.

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05-29-2020 , 02:34 PM

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Chauvin charged with murder.

No jury will acquit him, at least I hope so.

His a huge underdog to get convicted. Have you learned nothing?

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05-29-2020 , 02:35 PM

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Has the M.E. released cause of death?

I don't know why you say acquital is impossible when cause of death isn't determined.

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05-29-2020 , 02:36 PM

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Has the M.E. released cause of death?

I don't know why you say acquital is impossible when cause of death isn't determined.

It's because he's a cop.

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05-29-2020 , 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by grizy

Chauvin charged with murder.

No jury will acquit him, at least I hope so.

You should probably refresh yourselves with the results of other high profile cases (including ones where the officer wasn't white, so the media downplayed the acquittal) and adjust your expectations accordingly.

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05-29-2020 , 02:40 PM

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I can understand attacking the police station under the circumstances. But these swing flaws are just disgusting.

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05-29-2020 , 02:43 PM

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Trump on Floyd " I've got some bad news for you sunshine, Pink isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel"

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05-29-2020 , 02:51 PM

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It wasn't loud and the reporter said, 'Just tell us where you'd like us to move back to, and we're good.' And the cops just stood there. The reporter and the producer were then arrested, on camera, and no reason for the arrest was given. I know nothing of the laws in Minnesota, but that would be illegal where I am.

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05-29-2020 , 02:54 PM

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Republicans are going to flood the airwaves with talk about "peaceful protesting" and expect everyone to forget that they ****ing hate that **** too

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05-29-2020 , 02:55 PM

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since a lot of you guys were asking...no relation to former pro-hoopster Eric "Sleepy" Floyd.

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05-29-2020 , 02:56 PM

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I can understand attacking the police station under the circumstances. But these swing flaws are just disgusting.

Hey guys, look at the bright side of things. At least the golf courses are open again.

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05-29-2020 , 03:02 PM

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And they've lawyered it down to third degree, which does not meet the case at all, and offered the court the even less appropriate alternative of manslaughter to make sure he can walk. Not good.

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05-29-2020 , 03:05 PM

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I dont blame those cops that dude was a menace...hmm wait a second. oh..george floyd. i thought they said greg lloyd.

hmmm...watch it on u tube i guess.

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05-29-2020 , 03:07 PM

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Wtf is this guy? I think that deserves just as much of an investigation. He isn’t normal.

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05-29-2020 , 03:13 PM

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from what i understand, the cop who broke the windows was id'd 90% by his wife or ex i guess idk, but she was like same mask, same clothes, that's him.

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