Looks like protests are breaking out around the country... (UPDATE)

[ChisolmTrailDem]

Last edited Thu Jul 7, 2016, 10:18 PM - Edit history (1)

Looking on Twitter, protesters have shut down a highway in Chicago and there's a crowd gathering in Times Square, with police allegedly threatening arrests.

Anyone seeing protests in your areas. I'm in Dallas but haven't seen anything local...yet.

UPDATE: Chaos and shooting erupted in downtown Dallas around the Commerce & Griffin Streets area and the Bank of America building. Two officers have been reported to have shot. Their condition is not known at this time.

[yuiyoshida]

1. As they should

enough is enough!

[yeoman6987]

29. I think it's over for tonight. Two cops shot and I imagine protesters will stop for tonight

[romanic]

2. And the cycle begins again.

Sorry I'm just very pessimistic rn.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

3. Add Atlanta and Philly. Protests are growing. I'm seeing the call on Twitter. nt

[zz-la]

7. A lot of people are are gathering in Piedmont Park in Atlanta

I saw a lot of people earlier that had signs and they were marching down the street. So far things are peaceful. I hope they stay that way. Police should understand that a lot of people are very angry and this has been boiling over for a while.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

10. #PiedmontParkHanging is trending. Seems there was a black man found...

...hanging there today.

Damn. SMH.

[840high]

12. Cops are saying no sign

of struggle - probably a suicide.

[ancianita]

13. All my black friends all my 65+ years remind me that black people do not believe in suicide,

that if white authorities say it's suicide, they're covering up a murder.

Do not believe authorities about black suicide.

[840high]

16. I guess autopsy will shed

some light. All people are capable of suicide. Guess we'll see what cops come up with.


From Guardian:



It’s just hard to imagine us killing ourselves when living in the US means we die early anyway

Some studies have found suicide can be considered a ‘white thing’, among African Americans, “anathema to a culture noted for its resiliency in the face of racial discrimination and oppression” – but suicide is not an insignificant issue for black Americans.

A recent study found that black children aged five to 11 are twice as likely to kill themselves as white children, and suicide is the third leading cause of death of young black men ages 15 to 24.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

21. I saw reports that authorities have said there will be no autopsy. I also saw reports...

...that the KKK was handing out flyers just yesterday in that very same park.

[840high]

42. Coroner said there were no signs of

defensive wounds. I don't think KKK would be in that area. FBI will be investigating this death per mayor's request.

[morningfog]

27. It's not a cycle. It's cops killing black men.

[metroins]

32. Cops kill a lot of people

It's not just black men.

[morningfog]

35. Not at nearly the same rate.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0141854

Don't you dare try to dilute or white wash this.

[metroins]

37. Don't you dare act like this is only a race issue

Because it's not.

I'm not going to make this big argument, but 1300 people a year are killed by cops.

Grow up and stop trying to segment this into a smaller issue.

[morningfog]

38. It is a race issue. That is THE issue here, not a "smaller segment."

[metroins]

39. Closed minded. Nt

[morningfog]

40. Is that a complete sentence?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

41. you're the one who needs to grow up and stop dismissing racism

when unarmed black men are killed at a higher rate as armed white men.

dismissing racism is racist.

[Rex]

4. Good!

Protesting is all we have left.

[randome]

8. Protesting should never have been the last resort but I'm hoping this is taking hold.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[Rex]

9. Well when you have nothing left, not like anyone is going to come to our rescue.

If Obama could do something about it he would, Congress is a joke, the SCOTUS is worried about other issues. Up to us on this one.

[KPN]

23. Yup. Well stated.

[kimbutgar]

5. There's a protest planned in Oakland, California tonight at 7 pm PST

[Lance Bass esquire]

6. Fox won't cover the shootings

But you can bet your ass that if it gets ugly on the street their cameras will be at ground zero.

Morons

[brettdale]

14. Faux news

Has Bill Oreilly repeating the same clip, a senator asking, "Did Hillary lie?"

[pinboy3niner]

11. Protest in South L.A. at the National Action Network headquarters

With speakers from the network, SCLC and NAACP.

And a protest going on now on the L.A. City Hall steps.

[Person 2713]

15. Chicago some footage in the link below

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160707/fuller-park/alton-sterling-philando-castile-be-honored-at-fuller-park-protest

[retrowire]

17. regarding your update...

Two officers shot? We have reached the boiling point clearly. The people are rebelling.

This all could have been avoided. But this is the natural progression of things. Damn it all.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

18. It's all very fluid but yes that's the word right now, 2 cops down. I saw a camera...

...shot that looked like 3 down but it was hard to tell if the third wasn't just staying low to the ground as the shots continued to ring out.

They're thinking it was someone in a parking garage with a long rifle.

[retrowire]

28. ahhh shitttt nt

[ChisolmTrailDem]

31. It may be worse, they're may have been multiple shooters or at least multiple guns. nt

[uponit7771]

19. Damn it all, amen...

[world wide wally]

20. You say you want a revolution?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

22. White racists on the #Dallas Twitter feed are trying to blame the automatic...

...gunfire on Black Lives Matter and calling them a terrorist organization.

TPTB are getting the chaos and violence they have been fomenting. How far will it go?

[world wide wally]

26. Fucking sucks

[gopiscrap]

24. Seattle has one

[zz-la]

25. Protesters are now blocking traffic in downtown Atlanta

On the downtown connector, protesters are blocking traffic on the Interstate.

[RandySF]

30. There's one planned for tonight in Oakland.

It'll get ugly if those kids from Berkeley show up.

[world wide wally]

33. WTF do they expect when they give license to kill innocent people?

[Patiod]

34. I'm gonna date myself, but it's feeling like 1968

I'm worried that frightened white people will start thinking like they did back then and elect an angry bigot that will promise "law and order"

It could be a long, hot summer.

[Hoppy]

36. Protest earlier, Newark, N.J.

N.J. Transit buses were ordered off the roads until the protest ended.