cops provoke folks in Minneapolis, instead of consoling

[Miigwech]

Is that because they want to crack heads? Make the protesters the problem, not cops behavior. The fucking cops are giddy now because they are allowed to go out and abuse protesters in order to escalate the whole situation. cops escalated, folks fight back, and the narrative is .... 'look at these people rioting' .......... the American's living under apartheid police control have had their final fuck. Me too. Reminds me of Union worker fighting for their lives and livelihood, as cops shot and killed them ... coal workers, factory workers ... same old same old. Yes, many other brave Americans have fought many other fights. But, this one is on the burner now.

[Faux pas]

1. It's

sad and totally disgusting at the same time.

[Mike 03]

2. I can tell you, as someone who has been listening to multiple police scanner

channels all day, the police have spent an inordinate amount of time talking about what non-lethal weapons they can deploy against these protesters. (It's calmed down a little bit now from what it was two hours ago). Not one word of empathy or understanding for the protesters or any talk about defusing the situation.

https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/13544
https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/1651
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/23408

[Miigwech]

7. Totally believe this

it's no wonder that corrupt cops are public enemy #1

[RockRaven]

3. Violent outside agitators (90+% of MPD don't live in the city)

[Tipperary]

4. So where are they from?

Why do people say this every time there is a riot? Remember the Rodney King riots? Remember the poor guy driving a damn truck beaten within an inch of his life? They were from the neighborhood there. Some kind of mysterious looters and arsonists who show up every time? Wth?

[RockRaven]

8. I'm referring to the cops with my comment. Using cops' language.

[captain queeg]

5. I went to a conference in Minneapolis a few years ago

All the taxi drivers were Somalian immigrants. Seem to be a pretty anti-immigrant attitude there. So in typical RW fashion lump them all together.

Wasn’t it in Minneapolis a couple years ago where some cop shot the woman who had called for them, from inside the police car...hard to believe he thought his life was threatened. I think she was Australian or something? Anyways, seems excessive force is common there.

[judeling]

10. Yes and he is in jail now

Noor

[judeling]

11. Anti immigrant?

As with the Hmong before them, those from the Horn were brought here. The faith and cultural communities fostered and encouraged them to come.

[a kennedy]

6. I know the tactic........not quite the same but......I get it. I worked at our

campus cop shop. I was one of the clerks that worked the counter.....giving out daily parking passes and taking money for parking fines. We had one “cop” (security guard), that when on duty would really piss the student off more then when they came in. He would immediately lower his voice, puff out his chest and make the student more pissed off then when they came in. Oh yah, he was fantastic at stoking the heat the student was feeling. Ugh......a real asshole. But, if the Chief was on duty, he’d be having the student laughing and willing to pay more then the fine required. Needless to say, I wanted our Chief to be working more then the asshole who just didn’t know how to defuse a bad situation.

[stillcool]

9. they love it...especially when they

can bring out the big-boy toys.

[captain queeg]

12. Haven't heard much about it lately but a few years back the army was selling police all sorts of

Surplus Tactical equipment. Small towns getting armored cars. The town I was in at the time picked up one of those armored trucks that were supposed to resist an IED blast. Every little city needs one of those. I suppose weapons too but not sure about that part.

[stillcool]

13. yeah...I guess militarizing the police..

nixes the idea of serving the public, and keeping the peace.

Public awareness and coverage of police militarization has largely focused on the acquisition of military equipment by police, such as armored vehicles, aircraft, and weapons. Since the early 1990s, the Department of Defense’s 1033 program has provided local law enforcement agencies access to military-grade equipment. This program, now expanded by President Trump after President Obama attempted to limit its use, allows local law enforcement agencies to receive excess Department of Defense equipment that would otherwise be destroyed because it was no longer useful to the military. Over 8,000 law enforcement agencies have utilized the 1033 program to access more than $6 billion worth of military equipment such as night-vision goggles, machine guns, armored vehicles, bayonets, grenade launchers, and military aircraft.

[oasis]

14. "Civil unrest". Operation Re-Elect 45 Plan B. nt

[BlueLucy]

15. I wonder if this is true?

https://www.facebook.com/selena.garza2014?fref=search&__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARCkJ00Wzq_6o4lGQOyXyoeNKyK9beiJKz5JQ-lG7KuEkTSmpB13jxTPEaceSarcf7SpwsxFPhC4dZr4