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New "Blue Lives Matter" Flag (Original Post) kpete Jul 2022 OP
damn righr FoxNewsSucks Jul 2022 #1
I left the stars white to provide contrast Just A Box Of Rain Jul 2022 #4
this! lapfog_1 Jul 2022 #7
+1 TeamProg Jul 2022 #22
*️⃣ Blue matters (EXCEPT Capitol Police) live love laugh Jul 2022 #2
+1 I always thought this was interesting how they rationalize things..nt mitch96 Jul 2022 #10
Corrupt, lazy, worthless cowards dalton99a Jul 2022 #3
... ck4829 Jul 2022 #5
wide yellow stripe needs to be added. - n/t lapfog_1 Jul 2022 #6
Blue Lives Scatter. Mariana Jul 2022 #8
To serve and protect? Uvalde...To swerve and deflect...nt mitch96 Jul 2022 #12
That is devastatingly good Sympthsical Jul 2022 #19
This story is the most upsetting of anything this year. rubbersole Jul 2022 #9
They weren't just standing there... Wuddles440 Jul 2022 #17
This has been the case for years. A HERETIC I AM Jul 2022 #11
As Rage Against The Machine says: Initech Jul 2022 #24
This points out an issue we need to address randr Jul 2022 #13
Yes. America needs to hear the screaming children. Then they need to see the after pictures. rubbersole Jul 2022 #16
and be reminded that those cops WERE hearing the screaming LIVE. FoxNewsSucks Jul 2022 #18
Cowards, what did they think was happening? Mike and Sully in there scaring kids for electricity? ck4829 Jul 2022 #21
They need to concentrate, so they wait patiently until the screams stop IronLionZion Jul 2022 #14
I look forward SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2022 #15
yep llashram Jul 2022 #20
Oh, and add. "Except for Capital Police". nt AKwannabe Jul 2022 #23
While I understand the sentiment, lets NEVER show pictures summer_in_TX Jul 2022 #25

rubbersole

(6,734 posts)
9. This story is the most upsetting of anything this year.
Thu Jul 14, 2022, 10:10 AM
Jul 2022

Traitors, price gougers, warmongers, polluters, armed incels...all kinds of unsettling reporting. But little children screaming in fear as they're being massacred...and men entrusted to protect them standing there doing fucking nothing. (With military protective gear and weapons.)

Wuddles440

(1,127 posts)
17. They weren't just standing there...
Thu Jul 14, 2022, 10:49 AM
Jul 2022

doing nothing! They took the time to run from the gunfire, find cover/concealment, and get a generous squirt of hand sanitizer (just in case they touched a door knob by mistake). What an absolute disgrace!

A HERETIC I AM

(24,380 posts)
11. This has been the case for years.
Thu Jul 14, 2022, 10:21 AM
Jul 2022

Way too many cops are utter cowards with a fascist bent.

Another version of that dopey “Blue line” flag;

randr

(12,417 posts)
13. This points out an issue we need to address
Thu Jul 14, 2022, 10:25 AM
Jul 2022

We need to hear the children screaming and we need to show all those who have made this world of horror possible the carnage they have created.

rubbersole

(6,734 posts)
16. Yes. America needs to hear the screaming children. Then they need to see the after pictures.
Thu Jul 14, 2022, 10:46 AM
Jul 2022

On the news everywhere. Show everyone what this really looks like.

FoxNewsSucks

(10,435 posts)
18. and be reminded that those cops WERE hearing the screaming LIVE.
Thu Jul 14, 2022, 10:51 AM
Jul 2022

Americans need to think about that when watching that video.

SickOfTheOnePct

(7,290 posts)
15. I look forward
Thu Jul 14, 2022, 10:31 AM
Jul 2022

to the full investigation about who was in charge, who was making decisions about what to do, who was giving orders, etc.

I don't expect the cops to run in willy-nilly and start firing, but when I think about the fact that a father of one of the children being murdered was somehow able to NOT charge down the hallway and try to save his daughter, and according to the video, with minimal restraint, I can't help but wonder what these guys were being told to do/not to do.

Because as a father, I can't imagine what it would take to hold me back. This is not in ANY way casting aspersions at Felix Rubio (the deputy whose daughter, Lexi, was killed). But what were the "powers that be" on site telling him that made him believe they were doing what needed to be done? Who was in charge onsite that he trusted to be doing what needed to be done?

Who was the leader here that allowed this massacre to continue unabated?

summer_in_TX

(2,757 posts)
25. While I understand the sentiment, lets NEVER show pictures
Thu Jul 14, 2022, 08:36 PM
Jul 2022

of massacred children or anyone else. What horrible, nightmarish images to plant in people's heads. Parents, kids, those struggling with mental health.

Same with the sound of children's screams. Can you imagine not being able to forget those images and screams for the rest of your life?

Now if it were done like A Clockwork Orange with only the NRA funded pols like Ted Cruz there and forced to watch, I'd be tempted to say okay.

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