Thousands of people in Philadelphia continue to protest racism and police brutality following the death of George Floyd. Crowds in Center City stretched from the steps of the Art Museum and past the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. https://t.co/LlmPCHjz7Q pic.twitter.com/6YJT2DvCW7
— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) June 6, 2020
June 6, 2020
Big protest crowd in Philadelphia.
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Pretty sure there were more people at Trump’s inauguration....
And here in Philly, I STILL cannot get my hair done.
That's about 6-7 blocks.
Fuck 'em.
I'm over it.
The tin foil hat types were right. The masks were at least partly about controlling the deplorables. We are moving away from social classes to a caste system. They probably figure they are protected from COVID due to the higher plane of evolution they occupy.
Good. Now show the people lining up to buy a gun.
I hope they can all vote by mail so they don't get too close to each other.
They gonna take virus home to kids and old people.
I'd estimate the crowd shown at 4,000 to 6,000.
I'm so old I remember when protesting meant taking a societal risk, rather than insulating yourself from one.
Wow, massive amounts of people. Reflects what most Americans are thinking.
74% of Americans view George Floyd's death as an underlying racial injustice problem: POLL This is a significant shift from a similar question asked just six years ago.
“And, at a time of deep strife and unrest, there is a rare show of uniformity across race and party about the treatment of African Americans by the police.
Majorities of whites (70%), blacks (94%), Hispanics (75%), Democrats (92%), Republicans (55%) and independents (71%) agree that what happened to Floyd exemplifies a systemic rift between law enforcement and black communities in the country.”
Serious question: If the virus comes back with a vengeance, will there be any recognition that the protesters bear responsibility? Or will they just blame Trump?
You should get as many protesting Godel's theorem. That's even worse than racism and police brutality. Mathematical brutality.
Two good things have come out of these riots and protests:
1. Covid19 shutdown is over.
2. Trump wins about 40 states. (Power Line blog has a post today about Trump's very strong support amongst likely black voters. A real shocker.)
Anybody remember the twelve shot in Dallas?
what do you think, andrew, magic eightball says yes,
This is all just the phone call to Ukraine in new clothes.
I can't wait for the next blue state Governor to say that it's too soon to lift social distancing restrictions.
What's a Covid?
"74% of Americans view George Floyd's death as an underlying racial injustice problem"
Democrats have been in charge of Minneapolis for quite a long time. One wonders why they hire racist cops and refuse to deal with the underlying racial injustice exhibited in their city.
Probably Trump's fault.
Andrew: "Serious question: If the virus comes back with a vengeance, will there be any recognition that the protesters bear responsibility? Or will they just blame Trump?"'
Trick question!!
The lefties have literally already pre-blamed Trump.
IF George Floyd was White:
1) It would still be exactly as ugly an episode of brutality and/or incompetence.
2) Black lives Matter would not only not give a shit, they would get angry at people who did care.
3) No riots, No protests, No breathless newscasts
4) No posing and character polishing. None of these people would be out protesting the death of a poor white man, who I assume they would say is equal in every way to all other people.
5) No money making off the death of a man.
6) No guilt
Being ignored that way is called "White privilege". Now tell me, who's life doesn't matter?
tim in vermont: "The tin foil hat types were right. The masks were at least partly about controlling the deplorables. We are moving away from social classes to a caste system. They probably figure they are protected from COVID due to the higher plane of evolution they occupy."
Late recognition is better than no recognition.
But a correction is in order: For the left, the masks were ENTIRELY about controlling the deplorables.
Majorities of whites (70%), blacks (94%), Hispanics (75%), Democrats (92%), Republicans (55%) and independents (71%) agree that what happened to Floyd exemplifies a systemic rift between law enforcement and black communities in the country.”
Richard Epstein points out that with a million cops the worst ones have misbehavior handled within the system and eliminated. That's the system working, not failing.
I myself don't agree that this is misbehavior in the first place but the point stands.
So I'd attack the mob on two grounds, Epstein on one.
Epstein podcast.
In Washington DC thousands attended the "Million person March". The Washington Post, unable to say with a straight face that this was a day of massive rallies, used the odd circumlocution: "It was a massive day of rallies."
I must agree with Tim in V. Covid was an excuse for punching deplorables.
Note. I think that was yet another leftie error. Covid is and was a threat. Social distancing was working. But many of its advocates were obviously bullshitting and were insincere. And social distancing is dead.
Most of America has decided they really don’t care about the sick and the old. We knew that about the regulars here already of course.
Inga- what do you have to say about all your hard work social distancing? Are your daughters or their peers, who were so happy to comply, feeling duped?
Inga was one of the bullshitters. She is now cheering the kind of crowd she used to criticize.
If 70% of white American agree, then why do we have to have these COVID- flirting protests? Just write your congressperson! From the safety of your home, where you've been locked up for three months.
So last month's racism is this week's anti-racism. Got it.
I'd estimate the crowd shown at 4,000 to 6,000.
Inga:
Wow, massive amounts of people
By way of comparison, it was estimated that 700,000 attended the Eagles Superbowl parade.
Average at attendance at Villanova basketball game: 8943.
"Wow, massive amounts of people. Reflects what most Americans are thinking."
Massive? By that standard most Americans think bowling tournaments are important, and lets not even get into the thinking about hitting a ball with stick. Americans must be really be upset about that.
Yawn. These stupid protests, the looting and all the other nonsense affects me not all. I go out...no idiot protestors...no looters...just normal people going about their normal lives. This idiocy is only affecting a very small portion of the country.
If the virus comes back with a vengeance, they can lock us down another 3 months.
Inga bites on every biased poll that agrees with her bias.
Virtually all Democrats (92%) and African Americans (94%) believe this killing is part of a broader problem.
Of course they do. Reparations, as Crack would assert.
The trillions wasted on them by The Great Society just vanished as if they never were.
Inga, this is just another sigh that the deplorable agenda is on a non-stop winning streak. Somewhere in hell Lyndon Johnson is smiling.
Inga said...
Wow, massive amounts of people. Reflects what most Americans are thinking.
ABCNEWS Headline: 74% of Americans view George Floyd's death as an underlying racial injustice problem: POLL
Let's go to the actual poll question...
"Do you think the recent death of George Floyd in Minneapolis is an isolated incident or a sign of broader problems in the treatment of African Americans by police?"
1.) Not even an example of a "broader problem", but a "sign"?
2.) And where's even the mention of an "underlying racial injustice problem" outside of police interactions?
In another episode of Howard's Heroes, we now have the "protesters" saying if they don't get what they want from DeBlasio they are going to get gasoline and head on down to the Diamond District in NYC.
Which would make DeBlasio quite happy, considering how DeBlasio and lefty/liberal pals have been targeting orthodox jews in New York.
https://twitter.com/johnnydollar01/status/1269351912840839169
BTW, I looked very closely at this guy making the threats but I did not see a single Hawaiian shirt in the video, which, according to Inga, is quite impossible since all violence is the result of Hawaiian shirt-clad Breakin' 2-Electric Boogaloo boys....which is odd since the media and lefties keep praising the molotov cocktail tossing/shop owner murdering looters....and even bailing them out......while simultaneously declaring its really white supremacists behind the mayhem.....which is still justified mayhem....even though its led by white supremacists supposedly......but actually not......because the looters are heroes....except for the white supremacists....who aren't there....
If this all seems rather muddled and insane to you, spend a day reading Inga's and Howard's posts at Althouse blog.
Tina848 said...
It's hard to communicate via comments, but if you see this... what part of Philly do you live in? I grew up in NE. Mom is still there. It's heartbreaking going to my old neighborhood.
“And, at a time of deep strife and unrest, there is a rare show of uniformity across race and party about the treatment of African Americans by the police."
Just goes to show the dangers of a pure democracy. Mobs are ruthless when they think they're right, and fickle. Once they take out their anger on whatever they think racism is, what or who will they turn to next?
which is more impressive?
which is historic more relevance?
George Floyd's multi-state funeral with live coverage or John McCain's?
My first thought in seeing the image in the post was "That's a great performance art project depicting the throngs of residents who have fled Philadelphia in recent decades."
Average attendance at a Wisconsin Badgers basketball game: 17,170
I am with eddie: I am so over this.
Wow, massive amounts of people. Reflects what most Americans are thinking.
Bullshit. Total of maybe 100,000 people in all the protests combined ... in a nation of 330 million.
Megan McArdle has an interesting piece in WaPo that posits these protests have ended social distancing. No way can you tell people they can't do (fill in blank) when so many people have been gathering en masse.
My partner and I are placing bets as to how long the Seattle protests will last. My prediction: all summer long. People out of work. Weather getting better. SPD will refrain from tear gas for 30 days. What has been gained so far will encourage asking for more. In a way, it helps me argue for total WFH with my employer. Right now, the few staff we have going into the office are instructed to *not* use public transportation and to leave the area at 2pm. Buses reliable in the am but not by the end of the day. I've gotten many alerts for my routes stating "no longer going through downtown" or "rerouted pick up bus at (location 1 mile from your normal stop)". Why should go to Seattle to work with the possibility of not getting home in less than 3 hours?
"Systemic racism"?
Okay, show me a system feature (rule or regulation or statute or other governmental arrangement) which discriminates against black folks. Tell me who is responsible for the creation and maintenance of this feature, and why they do it. Why are racists being put in charge of designing these system features? Explain away any non-racist justifications for that feature, to make it clear that there is not a valid non-racial reason society maintains that feature.
To be clear about it, I'm not looking for situations where blacks do worse than whites in connection with some aspect of dealing with life. Unless you can show me where the deck is stacked against them by someone else.
I think systemic racism as a concept is mostly BS. Sure, there are racist folks, but "systemic"? I don't see it. Most of our systems are designed to bend over backwards to accommodate and relieve disparities in accomplishment and behaviors.
Compare and contrast: Current protests versus Nuclear Freeze movement and Central Park demonstration in Central Park, 1982.
One similarity: Anti-Reagan, Anti-Trump.
Another: Media sympathy/support.
Another: Popular culture/celebrity support.
Now, what exactly happened to the anti-nuke movement?
https://historycollection.co/eight-largest-protests-modern-history-accomplished/7/
If the 6,000 number is correct, that's about the same number of people who have died of CV-19 in Pennsylvania.
And not one of them was allowed more than 10 people at his funeral.
Isn't it time for the protesters to declare victory and go home? Inga's poll says 3/4 of us agree that the way Police treat Blacks is a social justice problem. That's a supermajority indeed! We have elections coming up in November. We can all commit RIGHT NOW to vote out of office all the Mayors in the cities where cops have been mistreating Blacks. What more do the protesters want?
Inga: a very small survey of 706 adults, oversampled with blacks and Hispanics.
Don't get your hopes up.
Oh and let's not forget: the Trump/GOP campaign ads will write themselves.
"Jobs versus Mobs: take yer pick."
"Disband the Police AND give up your Guns?"
"Did you notice which party runs ALL the cities where racial violence is highest?"
"How's that 40 years of Democrat rule in big cities working out for you?"
rhhardin, You don't find anything wrong with three men sitting on an unconscious man for over two minutes?
The tin foil hat types were right.
The people who've been proven correct weren't the ones wearing tin foil, Tim.
Where did all the Karens go
Social distancing
No funerals stay at home
Social distancing
After Inga fixes all this, she will address the out of control murder rate in every big city. Or is racist to bring it up? Did they do a poll on that? Again, its hard to follow the rules here.
Here is Franklin, TN we had the Cars & Coffee for the middle TN area this morning. Today it was jam packed with hundreds of people walking around looking at a couple hundred cars. Virtually no masks. No social distancing at all. Even a number of POC walking around and exhibiting as well with no apparent issues or wariness that I could see from my vantage point of white male privilege.
Exactly WHO is organizing these mobs and pogroms?
Oh I'm so very sorry Drago I know how you like apologies so for whatever I've done Mea Culpa Mea Culpa Mea Culpa. As we used to say in the barrio: Pobrecito... lo siento mucho
bagoh20 said... IF George Floyd was White:
He'd be as well-known as Tony Timpa
Where are the giant papier mache puppets??!!
"Right now, the few staff we have going into the office are instructed to *not* use public transportation and to leave the area at 2pm. Buses reliable in the am but not by the end of the day. I've gotten many alerts for my routes stating "no longer going through downtown" or "rerouted pick up bus at (location 1 mile from your normal stop)". Why should go to Seattle to work with the possibility of not getting home in less than 3 hours?"
So- progressives are killing public transit. How devoid of value are their goals anyway, if progressive leaders are willing to abandon them the second the next shiny object catches their eye?
How is Democrats making war on Democrat administrations Trump's or Republican's fault? Philadelphia's last Republican mayor left office in 1952. Why are elected Democrats such racist dogs?
Howard said...
Inga, this is just another sigh that the deplorable agenda is on a non-stop winning streak. Somewhere in hell Lyndon Johnson is smiling.
I don't know if he is smiling. Howard, but if there is a hell, he is there. The consequences of Johnson and his Great Society are what you see in these riots. It is no accident that Reverend Wright, the racism coach of Barry Soetoro, built his retirement home in an all white suburb. Funny how you have to go to UK news sites for some facts.
I agree with buwaya that we see a civil war among the 87% of America that is white or Hispanic. Hispanics don't get along with blacks, a fact I have known since Nat Cole tried to sell a Spanish album.
The European white population has two castes, self identified. Those who think they are made superior by education, in spite of the erosion of that education, and those who work for a living untouched by the fiscal and technical world that creates nothing. Billions are made by those making "vapor ware." Elizabeth Holmes is the shining star of that persuasion.
To paraphrase a bit Jack Kemp's quote, I have had my hands in the bellies of more blacks than most of you know. It's not just manufacturing. Some of us do worthwhile things and others don't but think they do.
Is there any jurisdiction on the planet where Chauvin could get a fair trial? With Ellison handling the prosecution there's little likelihood of a plea deal. If for some reason Chauvin walks there will be Hell to pay. Since Minnesota does not have a death penalty there may be Hell to pay anyway, unless Chauvin gets Einsteined. This possibility should not be ruled out.
Philadelphia, which after Chicago and Baltimore has the most corrupt police union in America.
They're not wrong to march. George Floyd's death was an ugly thing. I will not be able to unsee the image of his face being pressed into the asphalt. Lots of ugly things happen that never get protested, but this was surely one that merits a march. Black lives matter--they shouldn't be ground into the pavement. No one should.
Sure, police have a highly difficult job, and most are good and hardworking. We need laws and people to enforce them. Blue lives matter too. Embrace the both/and. Black and Blue.
Combined enrollment of the three largest Universities in Philadelphia:
About 80,000
(This is fun)
CR: "Sure, police have a highly difficult job, and most are good and hardworking. We need laws and people to enforce them. Blue lives matter too. Embrace the both/and. Black and Blue."
We are already at the point where saying that in a crowd of Howard's Heroes will get you beat down.
Howard: "Oh I'm so very sorry Drago I know how you like apologies so for whatever I've done Mea Culpa Mea Culpa Mea Culpa. As we used to say in the barrio:"
Only one of us has lived in a barrio, and it wasn't you.
wholelottasplainin': "Inga: a very small survey of 706 adults, oversampled with blacks and Hispanics."
Inga never actually reads anything she links to. She bites on the headlines.
Details are for fascists.
I have organized events for up to about 50 people. Food and restroom facilities are always part of the planning. My events have been training sessions for working professionals. Somehow I have to find a way for the group to eat lunch, on their dime or mine. Food service is not a trivial part of event planning. I am curious about the logistics of an event such as this that can be announced in advance.
Has anyone here attended one of the George Floyd protests? Are there food trucks, or concession stands? Are there restrooms available?
If so, who arranges for the food service, and who keeps the toilet paper and paper towel dispensers full?
I would like to know about the whole experience.
are they wearing masks and social distancing?
recent memory reminds us - We were scolded a lot
Ken B said...
I must agree with Tim in V. Covid was an excuse for punching deplorables.
Note. I think that was yet another leftie error. Covid is and was a threat. Social distancing was working. But many of its advocates were obviously bullshitting and were insincere. And social distancing is dead.
The numbers were never there.
Nobody believes COVID was more dangerous than the flu to the general population anymore. It was a risk to a small number of people and democrats naturally packed their living spaces with COVID positive patients.
The lock down was always about control.
Most of America has decided they really don’t care about the sick and the old. We knew that about the regulars here already of course.
Another bad faith post. You continue to be a disingenuous, lying piece of shit.
I know it's been mentioned before, but I can't get over it. What happened to social distancing? Wisconsin's April election was going to kill thousands. Yet, now…?
Michael K said... Inga bites on every biased poll that agrees with her bias.
Well of course she does. Critical thinking is not in the wheelhouse of the Bedpan Commando.
I have a simple question or task for Inga and Howard: Please explain what new and concrete actions that government can take to alleviate "systematic racism".
There are three important terms you need to understand, define and consider:
1. Government actions
2. New and concrete
3. Systematic racism
If you fail to understand, define and consider those terms in your answers, you have failed.
I have asked others this simple question many times and have not received a single coherent answer.
I did a quick estimate- about 9000 people in that video clip, give or take 2000 (I counted heads in a gridded photo, and then extrapolated all the grids.
If you want some perspective on crowd size, here is an aerial shot of the same city's Superbowl celebration from 2018. There are at least 200,000 in the widest shot in the linked video, and I couldn't determine the limits of crowd since the angle wasn't wide enough.
Does anyone here think old people in nursing homes were sacrificed to the Blue Gods?
How long can these protests last? How long did the Occupy protests last?
Howard said...
Inga, this is just another sigh that the deplorable agenda is on a non-stop winning streak. Somewhere in hell Lyndon Johnson is smiling."
Johnson isn't smiling in Hell. If anything, he is wailing in agony. Should it come to pass the mob burns down your home it will take a heart of stone not to laugh.
Six thousand marching in a city the size of Philly? I'm way unimpressed. That mob can fit in Penn Field with plenty of room to spare.
I participated in and helped "organize" hundreds of demonstrations and other political manifestations, over three years. This was all in a distant country almost 40 years ago of course.
These things did not require provision of food or water or facilities, and very rarely of transport, though it was usual to ask the medical members to organize a first aid team. Using their own kit and supplies of course. But it was not always that we had such a team.
People were invited to attend, and they did, and were left to their own devices in every particular, and they expected nothing more.
I did, once, manage to get a large financial district company to permit entry to their bathroom facilities to demonstrators suffering from tear gas. But that was in one case out of dozens involving tear gas.
"If so, who arranges for the food service, and who keeps the toilet paper and paper towel dispensers full?"
They'll be going in the bushes. This isn't the Tea Party.
Once the revolution succeeds, those loyal liberals always find out that the lefty promises were all lies and the liberals find themselves inexplicablty on the wrong side of the "new law"....which is capricious and arbitrary and very Havel-Green Grocer like.
Staying away from meth and fentanyl is a good idea, too. No marks on his face at autopsy. I wonder if we will see the body cams before the trial ?
They're not wrong to march. George Floyd's death was an ugly thing. I will not be able to unsee the image of his face being pressed into the asphalt. Lots of ugly things happen that never get protested, but this was surely one that merits a march. Black lives matter--they shouldn't be ground into the pavement. No one should.
That cut and paste didn't work right last comment. This was the copy that didn;t go.
“IF George Floyd was White:
“1) It would still be exactly as ugly an episode of brutality and/or incompetence.
“2) Black lives Matter would not only not give a shit, they would get angry at people who did care.
“3) No riots, No protests, No breathless newscasts
“4) No posing and character polishing. None of these people would be out protesting the death of a poor white man, who I assume they would say is equal in every way to all other people.
“5) No money making off the death of a man.
“6) No guilt”
I will respectfully disagree, to an extent. The riots have been planned for months. AntiFA worked on organizing them and training its people very likely all winter. Many of us saw this happening this summer, based on what happened last summer. The left was going to ratchet it up as much as they could this summer, regardless, because this is an election year, and this is their chance to remove Trump. This tragic death is mere the pretext for most of the white rioters. They are Stalinist/Maoist terrorists trying to undermine the civilization they intend to overthrow.
The absurdities is that this wasn’t even a racist death, except that the comorbidities that accompany being Black were very likely what turned this from a routine arrest of an unwilling suspect into him dying. There is no evidence yet that he was treated any differently than if he had been white, and had refused to comply and get quietly into the police car. He likely had breathing issues due to a combination of COVID-19 combined with his use of fentanyl. And a weak heart, which probably is what killed him, likely due to excess weight and diabetes. The reality is that the rioters coopted his death and used it as a pretext for the rioting that has been planned for much of the last year.
Oh, and that 75 year old protester who was supposedly knocked down, causing two police officer to be fired? He is a professional protester who has long bragged about getting police to do just that. But this time, as shown by the slow motion playback of his interaction with the police, he was apparently trying to capture the frequencies of the officers com equipment so that they could track the police officers, and maybe even jam them. Complete setup, and just one more example of the planning that went into the riots.
The Left is a dangerous force. They hate America, they hate capitalism, they hate the nuclear family.
They have a lot of useful idiots in USA.
A lotta middle class have gotten soft from the fruits of the succes of our forefathers. Time to step it up a notch. Time to get some skin in the game to help save our Republic. No drama, just clear thinking and hard work.
Grundoon said...Has anyone here attended one of the George Floyd protests? Are there food trucks, or concession stands? Are there restrooms available?
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Good question. I still contend those 2 Beckies captured on shooos' cameras were seeking evacuation.
Pig roast would be popular.
I’m from Philly. I’d estimate that crowd was over 50,000.
FWIW Granny Killin Gretchen walked shoulder to shoulder in a photo op and took a knee. She was wearing a mask but you could see the oily forehead, it was her. Barbershops to open in 10 days. We all know that next to covid infected seniors sent to nursing homes, the barber shops and nail salons are fetid virus swamps. Two things to like about today's democrats... their faces.
and Just Like That, the cloud of Covid-19 vanished from the Azure sky
I am watching a live stream at Black Lives Matter plaza in DC. There are 3 portapotties in the shot from a rooftop. Someone thought ahead.
Philadelphia locked everyone in Center City in for the day and night. Did someone comment to this effect already? Every street from river to river was shut down at 11 a.m. The curfew starts at 6 pm, till 6 a.m. So if you left your house or apartment by car this morning, you were not getting back in. And if you stayed in, you were not getting out.
The highways were also closed for the space of Center City.
That is sick. Thank you, Mayor Jim! You ARE t-h-e MANNN!
So useless soy boy and Trudeau lookalike mayor Jacob Frey showed up at one of those mostly peaceful protests to do some more asskissing. The crowd demanded that he defund the police and then told him to shut up and go home. Being a Dem eunuch, he obeyed.
The walk of shame begins at 2:00.
https://twitter.com/SanaSaeed/status/1269407893406826496
"Liberals get the bullet too."
Oh, and that 75 year old protester who was supposedly knocked down, causing two police officer to be fired? He is a professional protester who has long bragged about getting police to do just that.
Sounds like that woman with the O2 tank who accosted the blind man being led by his wife from a Trump rally in 2016. She was also a professional. The O2 tank was a prop. Still, he had to appear in court so the mission was accomplished.
So avoiding large groups and social distancing are now no longer in effect.
Thanks for the demonstration.
"You don't find anything wrong with three men sitting on an unconscious man for over two minutes?"
If you are referring to recent events in Minneapolis, how were they supposed to know he was unconscious? And what were they supposed to do, get off of him and let him get up, in the middle of a hostile crowd? They were waiting for the ambulance. When it got there, they put him on a stretcher. Of course, he was probably dead already, from his heart problems and too much fentanyl. This is all going to come out at the trial, and if the jury is honest, the cops are going to walk. You should all be used to this by now, we have seen it often enough. The MSM always lie, and you always fall for their lies. But their lies are not admissible in court. Mayor Frey had better build some more buildings for his constituents to loot and burn. He's got some time, it'll probably be a couple years before they get this shitshow in front of a jury.
>>IF George Floyd was White
His name would be Justine Diamond. And his killer, who was not white, would get 12 years.
And yes, there were no riots.
I used to care. Now? Not so much. "Systemic racism"? "Silence is violence"? "Check your privilege"? Whatever.
I've got stuff in my life I need to deal with and I'm not all that interested in spending time on other people's problems anymore. And I'm not alone. Most of my friends and family have expressed thoughts along this line lately. Congratulations, progressives- you've managed to convince people that things you claim to be important aren't really worth their time. Good job!
James Earl Jones, as Terence Mann in "Field of Dreams": I was the East Coast distributor of "involved." I ate it, drank it, and breathed it... Then they killed Martin, Bobby, and they elected Tricky Dick twice, and people like you must think I'm miserable because I'm not involved anymore. Well, I've got news for you. I spent all my misery years ago. I have no more pain for anything. I gave at the office.
Did they take the Rocky statue down?
Remember the big kerfufflehaha about putting up the statue to begin with?
Sylvester Stallone in shorts right in front of the art museum?
“ Oh, and that 75 year old protester who was supposedly knocked down, causing two police officer to be fired? He is a professional protester who has long bragged about getting police to do just that. But this time, as shown by the slow motion playback of his interaction with the police, he was apparently trying to capture the frequencies of the officers com equipment so that they could track the police officers, and maybe even jam them. Complete setup, and just one more example of the planning that went into the riots.”
Slow motion, and it is very obvious what he was doing. He passes his scanner over the radio of one police officer, another one walks up and he does it with the second one. He tries to do it a third time, with a third officer walking up, is apparently pushed away, and falls. They get fired, and he is a hero.
I'm Full of Soup said...
I’m from Philly. I’d estimate that crowd was over 50,000.
Me too. You're full of soup.
All three networks in Philly are reporting thousands, not tens of thousands.
6/6/20, 6:40 PM
Meanwhile in London, Inga and Howie's buddies are also busy:
Ian Miles Cheong
A female police officer has been seriously injured in London after rioters threw bricks at her horse, spooking it and sending her head-first into a traffic pole."
Be proud, Inga!
I know the politicans have to, and the left-wing activists want to, but do the rest of have to engage in this hysterical over-the-top language about the 4 Policeman and St. George Floyd?
Of the 4 policeman - 3 were junior to Chauvin and 2 were rookies. One was Asian, One was black. I don't believe any of the three were responsible for Floyd's death, I'm not sure they even had the training/experience necessary the overule the Top Veteran policeman at the scene.
And the official autopsy is silent on the cause of floyd's death. It seems to have been heart failure not strangulation and Floyd had lots of drugs in him. The point being that Chauvin *MAY* have had no reason to believe Floyd was near death, or was simply too stupid to understand the risk he was taking.
But anyway, there was no cover-up the Policeman are going to be put on trial, and will be punished if convicted. Meanwhile, the Floyd family is/will get $millions in restitution. So, please tell me where all the "police Brutality" and "Racism" came into this?
We have TEN unarmed black men being killed every year by the police. TEN! Out of a population of 20 million black males and a million policemen making millions of arrests every year. And yet we get world wide hysterics! Even some on this comment section seem to have lost it.
Antifa to democratic supporters.
"We'll kill you last."
Looks like the CV-19 doesn't go after protesters of racism. SO, throw away those masks and have a party. Just say its a "Protesting Racism party".
How about this police officer murdering a guy crawling down a hallway? The entire thing is captured on video. Note: This is a very disturbing video.
*Daniel Shaver killed by Police*
No riots. No looting. No nothing. And the officer was acquitted.
Now tell me why this murder by police isn't worth protesting, but others are. Is it because the victim is white? It can't be that, right?
I guess they need change his badge number to 007.
Looking at this crowd of thousands, its incredible that a 70 y/o barber almost lost his license for giving people haircuts. Of course, he was saved by the Mich Supreme Court, not the Governor.
One more data point the left is completely full of shit...
I was looking at Andrew Sullivan's tweets:
During the Lockdown Protests: You're going to kill us all by not wearing masks and social distancing!
Now: BTW, the USA is behind Europe in CV-19 infection rates. See my boring Graph below.
My partner and I are placing bets as to how long the Seattle protests will last. My prediction: all summer long.
Not everyone is an Occupy Warrior. Most of the people out there will get bored soon. You can shout the same inanities only so many times. And perpetual outrage is fatiguing. They will go home and go do other things.
I go to a lot of plays (mostly Shakespeare) and am therefore on a lot of live-theater e-mail lists. At least three theaters in downtown D.C. opened today to support the demonstrations, offering toilets, water fountains, cell-phone charging, and . . . I forget the fourth thing, but there was at least one more helpful service. (I deleted the e-mails after reading, so can't check or quote them.) No plays on the stages, just logistical support for demonstrators.
DanTheMan: "So avoiding large groups and social distancing are now no longer in effect."
Au contraire!
All the democrat politicians, particularly the democrat governors of blue states, along with the same hack medical "professionals" who wrote scathingly of anti-lockdown protesters, have already penned an announcement that explicitly states anti-lockdown protests should still fall under the lockdown guidelines but the antifa looting demonstrations are all good to go!
Literally.
And democrat governors in MI, NJ and PA have already said they will continue their lockdown requirements for all non-looting gatherings.
Naturally, there are many who have noticed the rampant hypocrisy and politicization of the supposed "science" and the dems are already coming up with all sorts of reasons why its all cool.
I suspect that that 75 yr old protester had balance problems and maybe peripheral neuropathy. He had all his weight on his heels. Any slight unforeseen tap , and it was a restrain shove,would topple him over and fall. you can see he went down like a pankake. His response time is too slow.
Johnson isn't smiling in Hell. If anything, he is wailing in agony
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he at least got "the niggers voting D" all this time - though Biden is doubtful how much longer
It seems to me that the mayors and governors are responsible for the actions of the police forces that they command. Mayor Frey is ultimately responsible for the malfeasance of the officers in his police force. If that is the case then he can take the necessary steps to correct their behavior. It's so damn simple and straightforward. Problems with police are not going to be "solved" by national protests. They have to be dealt with at the local level. Apparently police unions are a big contributor to the problem of disciplining bad behavior, other than that it is just plain poor leadership by those responsible that allows real or imagined police misbehavior to continue. Given that local component I think that it is fair to blame the Democrats who have run these cities for so long.
The " national" protests/riots are a product of outside influence and without any kind of agenda. It's a substitute for summer camp, concerts and fairs that have been cancelled by our "betters".
They're not even pretending in Seattle anymore. DJs and drinking in the park. Corporate sponsored social justice fun runs. "Kid-friendly" demonstrations. It's become nothing more than an excuse to subvert the lockdown.
And I heard a Seattle-area TV anchor use the term "social justice" four times in two sentences. No attempt to explain what that means. He could have substituted "banana" or "socket wrench" without any loss or gain of clarity. Another sure sign we've gone from fury to fad in a few short days. BLM is now a wholly owned subsidiary of WhiteyProg Inc. Utterly predictable.
Democrats, drugs, and disease. #StaySafe #HateLovesAbortion
>>I’m from Philly. I’d estimate that crowd was over 50,000.
D-. Next time, show your work.
So, Floyd was using fentanyl. He was capable of disparate force. There is a question of motive to restrain him. Floyd tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, a probable spreader. Then the protestors carry out a warlock judgment and cause excess burdens across the nation. There is no evidence that diversity was a motive.
Now tell me why this murder by police isn't worth protesting, but others are. Is it because the victim is white? It can't be that, right?
They're Pro-Choice, diversitist, and, after 16 trimesters of conducting witch hunts and warlock judgments, the event was politically congruent/convenient (PC).
Butbutbut...COVID! DON'T KILL GRANDMA!!!
No? We're not doing that anymore? Oh.
George Soros has been allowed to operate as the safest man in the world, and he acts like it using his billions to destroy America as he did England/Great Britain/UK.
Wow, what Nazi accomplices can accomplish.
What collaboration!
Bruce Hayden said...
“ Oh, and that 75 year old protester who was supposedly knocked down, causing two police officer to be fired? He is a professional protester who has long bragged about getting police to do just that. But this time, as shown by the slow motion playback of his interaction with the police, he was apparently trying to capture the frequencies of the officers com equipment so that they could track the police officers, and maybe even jam them. Complete setup, and just one more example of the planning that went into the riots.”
Slow motion, and it is very obvious what he was doing. He passes his scanner over the radio of one police officer, another one walks up and he does it with the second one. He tries to do it a third time, with a third officer walking up, is apparently pushed away, and falls. They get fired, and he is a hero.
Otto said...
I suspect that that 75 yr old protester had balance problems and maybe peripheral neuropathy. He had all his weight on his heels. Any slight unforeseen tap , and it was a restrain shove,would topple him over and fall. you can see he went down like a pankake. His response time is too slow.
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!@Otto need to keep up man.
@Bruce Hayden - is it legal to do that? if not did they not have grounds to detain?
bad show in any case. lack of training and preparation on LEO's
Guildofcannonballs said...
George Soros has been allowed to operate as the safest man in the world, and he acts like it using his billions to destroy America as he did England/Great Britain/UK.
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Guildofcannonballs
is the Fed in danger of succumbing to Soros type attack? or
is the Fed already been doing his bidding for the past few years?
What does a Canadian Concern Troll have in common with a cvnt? Everything.
It's a good thing this country's economy is bouncing back because people with common sense saw through the bull shit. The elderly were sacrificed by governors' orders in MA, NJ, NY, MI, and IL.
We know who cares, cvnt.
It looked to me that the two Buffalo officers shove the old guy only after the urging of their commander.
The old guy lost his footing, I don’t think it was the officer’s intent to push him to the ground.
" And what were they supposed to do, get off of him and let him get up, in the middle of a hostile crowd?
That would be a good trick for a man with no pulse, and how dangerous is this dead man in handcuffs surrounded by armed cops?
The reason to be on him was that he was resisting. He was pulled out of the police care after the fight just to be treated as you saw. Regardless of what happened previously, he had passed out, and that's time to assess his safety not to continue to apply the pressure that knocked him out. If for some reason the police felt they need to control you, or you son, how would you feel about them just keeling on your limp body for two and half minutes after you passed out? That's when it became murder of the second degree.
Blogger Ken B said...
Most of America has decided they really don’t care about the sick and the old. We knew that about the regulars here already of course.
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They realize the sham can't continue.
A good portion have found another tragedy to exploit.
Tupac Matters.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0603-letter-cop-protester-20200603-vzznpesjw5fu3p3fwrkxhja3cq-story.html
https://news.wbfo.org/post/ontario-extends-covid-19-state-emergency-another-month
"Guildofcannonballs
is the Fed in danger of succumbing to Soros type attack? or
is the Fed already been doing his bidding for the past few years?
6/6/20, 9:03 PM"
M-e-t-h-o-d-s change, ask the Wu-Tang Clan.
Good God do you concede what he is doing and dare to critique only my failing to properly obscribe* that which you have pre-determined?
*You know
Is that Nextflic show about hunting George Soros, the Nazi collaborater and proffiteer?
Or his kin?
Shouldn't it be?
Our universities have considered the United States of America as unpanglossian, or an opposite of panglossian as you like, for far too long.
So glad "Scientists" came out and okayed the riots. Even after they warned us all for months we would die if we went outside and got closer than 6 feet from someone. Are you really awake? Or just doing what the "scientist" tell us it is okay to do??
Inga said...
Wow, massive amounts of people. Reflects what most Americans are thinking.
74% of Americans view George Floyd's death as an underlying racial injustice problem: POLL This is a significant shift from a similar question asked just six years ago.
“And, at a time of deep strife and unrest, there is a rare show of uniformity across race and party about the treatment of African Americans by the police.
Majorities of whites (70%), blacks (94%), Hispanics (75%), Democrats (92%), Republicans (55%) and independents (71%) agree that what happened to Floyd exemplifies a systemic rift between law enforcement and black communities in the country.”
6/6/20, 3:47 PM
Or a bunch of people sick and tired of being locked up in their houses, and got their excuse to go out and burn down cities and beat up people.
Gov. Wolf continues lockdown in PA even though 75% of state's deaths are in long term care facilities, after he ordered them to accept patients with active disease. He claimed this was to prevent overwhelming hospitals, which never reached more than 50% capacity.
Where were the riots when a black cop shot to death a white Australian woman in Minneapolis not long ago? None of course, and he now sits in prison.
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