United States George Floyd Protests, Reactions and Riots

bullethead

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Grumbles in the fact that we should be able to buy M249s as the military gets them assuming you have the correct license but the ATF won't let us pay the revelant tax. Seriously that needs to go to the Supreme Court where it can be rendered unconstitutional
That will probably happen if the Supreme Court rules that the ACA is an unconstitutional use of the taxing power, since it is currently a $0 tax if you refuse to get health insurance.
 

MrBirthday

Agent of Catgirl Genocide
Is that for that comepeltly justified shooting of the guy that pulled a gun on a cop?
No, it's a separate incident where they shot a guy who had a knife.

Edit: And I'm a horrible person. When I saw where the riot was happening, my first thought was "West Philadelphia, born and razed" to the tune of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme.
 
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Es Arcanum

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So the riots are happening in the biggest urban centre of Pensylvania, a battleground state which could decide the election less than a week before election day.

Oh and the guy who got shot by cops was coming at them with a knife, ignored repeated orders to put it down. The two cops present did NOT have tasers on them and the guy who got shot?...


"The Black man fatally shot by Philadelphia police officers on Monday was an aspiring rapper who sometimes rhymed about shooting people, including police officers, and was awaiting trial for allegedly threatening to shoot a woman, according to media reports. "

"Court records obtained by the news outlet also show Wallace had a criminal history. In 2017, he pleaded guilty to robbery, assault and possessing an instrument of crime.

Authorities said he kicked down the door of another woman and put a gun to her head."

So police shot him and now BLM starts looting, stealing, assaulting people and burning property.
 

prinCZess

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The Wallace incident is very heavily skewed towards looking like a good shoot--unless witnesses came forward to say he didn't have a knife (since it's not that visible in publicly available video) or something, I have a hard time seeing how a complaint should be made.--An average citizen in a comparable situation would have easy and justified claim to the standard of self-defense, and if these officers didn't have tazers on them than even the conceptual 'you could have done [x]' second-guessing takes something of a backseat since it wouldn't have been possible. Dude's history has no bearing on the incident, but doesn't exactly present a positive case in terms of impulse control or the like which might be relevant in a tangential sense if there weren't video of what happened.

Dunnow if Philly PD officers have their own bodycameras that might offer more information to the precinct/public/potential-jury that may paint it differently somehow. But it'd take something noteworthy to change the general outlook of the situation, I should think.

Either way, more stuff pushing people out of cities and relegating neighborhoods to being 'hoods' for another decade+. I imagine it's already been done but am too lazy to search for it now, but I'm sure there's connection between the food desert and general economic depression issues and all related stuff in cities and this style of civil unrest.
 

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