except that is not what happened and you won't find any reporting anywhere to that effect
LOL, the videos clearly show the "protestors" pushing the guy to the ground into a seated and submissive position, then some other asshole sucker kicks him in the head.
If you are going to expect the public and authorities to kid glove these protests because they are for some higher moral cause, then that movement has to own the disgusting crap like this as well.
the only people who could protest were non-whites? whites can't protest police violence?
Strawman much? Of course not. My point is that if Portland were protests were purely for racial justice, then why would we not see even more prolonged protests in cities with higher numbers of blacks?
Do you honestly think that it was all about racial justice for 100+ days? Seems that these were anti-establishment/anarchist protests first and foremost.
given the Malheur guys and all the State of Jefferson sh!t in norcal/soorg that there is a very big anti-government bent to the citizens of that state....this is why it ratcheted up so severely when the Feds came in....the fkn Governor told the feds to GTFO!
The Feds had every right to go in there after giving the local and state authorities several weeks to get their act together and stop the attacks on the federal courthouse. Their tactics probably crossed some lines, which I don't support.
it's worth nothing that there were additional protests beyond G Floyd...in memorium for people killed by Portland PD prior
Great, feel free to pull up the details of those shootings if you think they were so unjust and worthy of 100 days of trying to light a courthouse and the mayors condo building on fire.
you're whinging about a guy getting kicked in the head without looking at how he came to be in that situation.....the guy drove his car in to a group of people he says were assaulting someone.....
Where did you read that, Mother Jones? I've checked a few sources (WaPo, Guardian) and there is no mention of him using his own car as a weapon. There is however video of him actually trying to help a transperson who was being assaulted by some goons shortly before. And driving away from an angry mob, which is certainly justified.
are you trying to insult me because I'm using words to explain my case?
No, I'm not trying to insult you. What you are doing IMO is doing the same kind of thing that ifallalot does in regards to 1/6. You are basically playing damage control for all the bad sh!t that went down . . . . just like the media did.
wowowowowo.....we're rationalizing extra-judicial killings by police because....why?
Strawman . . . Again. Nowhere am I saying that. What I am saying is that these cases tend to be complex and create a situation where a potentially lethal response ***could*** be justified. Michael Brown, Rashard Brooks, and several others who have been held up as victims all committed serious acts of aggression that led to their demise, yet were all portrayed as victims and the police were murderers.
can you name one person that deserved to be killed by the police in 2020 without due process?
Of course not . . . See above. You are strawman'ing hard. There's no time for due process when someone is pointing a tazer at you or trying to pull your gun from your holster.