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George Floyd dies after police knelt on his neck (MOD NOTE IN POST #1)

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  • #1742
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,733 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Clarence Boddiker wrote: »
    I'm sure every US truck driver is well aware of the infamous incident in the LA riots where the driver was pulled from his cab and battered half to death.
    In fact they're probably informed about it during training for emergencies.

    Jesus. I don't remember that. Will have to look it up. The whole thing really reminds me of the LA riots.

    You would be absolutely terrified in that situation though. An angry crowd is terrifying and dangerous.


  • #1743
    2u2me
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭2u2me


    Overheal wrote: »
    Because it was a bogus arrest.

    Ok give it to me, why did they arrest him? Did they just run over to him and arrest him based on no prior happenings between them?

    Because he was a black guy standing in a street?(I want to make clear I'm talking about a CNN reporter and not goerge floyd)


  • #1744
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    2u2me wrote: »
    Ok give it to me, why did they arrest him? Did they just run over to him and arrest him based on no prior happenings between them?

    Because he was a black guy standing in a street?(I want to make clear I'm talking about a CNN reported and not goerge floyd)

    They never booked him or presented any charge. So, bogus.


  • #1745
    2u2me
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭2u2me


    Overheal wrote: »
    They never booked him or presented any charge. So, bogus.

    So they were just arresting anybody they saw? They also arrested the woman that fell in front of the CNN crew just before they arrested them.

    Just more police brutality?


  • #1746
    Clarence Boddiker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Clarence Boddiker


    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    Jesus. I don't remember that. Will have to look it up. The whole thing really reminds me of the LA riots.

    Yeah it happened live on tv if I remember correctly.


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  • #1747
    Cheerful Spring2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,705 ✭✭✭Cheerful Spring2


    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    Jesus. I don't remember that. Will have to look it up. The whole thing really reminds me of the LA riots.

    You would be absolutely terrified in that situation though. An angry crowd is terrifying and dangerous.

    It more like a revolution than a riot,. It has spread to multiple cities.

    Watching the situation in Philadelphia, cars turned over and burned.

    https://6abc.com/live-george-floyd-protests-turn-violent-in-philadelphia/6221141/


  • #1748
    Happyilylost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,893 ✭✭✭Happyilylost


    2u2me wrote:
    Ok give it to me, why did they arrest him? Did they just run over to him and arrest him based on no prior happenings between them?

    2u2me wrote:
    Because he was a black guy standing in a street?


    I don't think the reason of the arrest has been released. What is known is they were arrested. And then released. And an apology released. Within roughly 90minutes.

    Apology under duress? Maybe. You can't prove it true. I can't prove it false. You can keep making the point. Posters can continue to attack it. Because at the moment it has no basis in fact or can be backed up by a source. So around and around in a circle we go. Might be best to leave points that are opinion rather a fact alone. The merry go round gets tiresome.


  • #1749
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    2u2me wrote: »
    So they were just arresting anybody they saw?

    I don’t have that information.
    They also arrested the woman that fell in front of the CNN crew just before they arrested them.
    Falling isn’t a crime.
    Just more police brutality?

    I don’t believe they were brutalized. They were arrested, not violently or savagely.


  • #1750
    ChelseaRentBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ChelseaRentBoy


    Watching now on TV. Police beating Antifa and BLM scum back with batons in LA


  • #1751
    BoroMan32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭BoroMan32


    Never seen anything like what's going on right now on CNN live......Hard to have any sympathy for these wailing lunatics - what do they expect to happen when they're smashing police vehicles and causing carnage.


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  • #1752
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,454 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    CNN live in a mini riot.


  • #1753
    ChelseaRentBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ChelseaRentBoy


    BoroMan32 wrote: »
    Never seen anything like what's going on right now on CNN live......Hard to have any sympathy for these wailing lunatics - what do they expect to happen when they're smashing police vehicles and causing carnage.

    Absolute scum ia all they are. Vandalism of police cars and yet they expect the police to just stand by and watch??

    They'll be helping themselves to 42" flat screen TV's on their way home later.


  • #1754
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    ChelseaRentBoy wrote: »
    Watching now on TV. Police beating Antifa and BLM scum back with batons in LA

    How do you know they are BLM and/or antifa? Uniform? Name badges? Flags?


  • #1755
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    ChelseaRentBoy wrote: »
    Absolute scum ia all they are. Vandalism of police cars and yet they expect the police to just stand by and watch??

    Hmm.

    Do the police expect the public to stand by and watch as they murder someone who is innocent until proven guilty?


  • #1756
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,454 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    ChelseaRentBoy wrote: »
    Absolute scum ia all they are. Vandalism of police cars and yet they expect the police to just stand by and watch??


    Probably too early to go in heavy handed, given it's a saturday night. If one of the crowd gets properly hit by a rubber bullet things could go mad.


  • #1757
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,454 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    They could do with some PSNI Landrovers :D


  • #1758
    Billy Mays
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,386 ✭✭✭Billy Mays


    F*cking hell, CNN arrest guy still going

    Do you have a dartboard at home with the CNN logo on it?


  • #1759
    ChelseaRentBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ChelseaRentBoy


    Overheal wrote: »
    Hmm.

    Do the police expect the public to stand by and watch as they murder someone who is innocent until proven guilty?

    You've heard of the rule of law the courts etc.., right?

    They are setting police cars alight now. Hopefully no officers injured by these animals.


  • #1760
    2u2me
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭2u2me


    Just about the comparison between the protests in Hong Kong; Hong Kong protests didn't turn violent for months. They tried to make their point as civilly as possible it wasn't until their government enacted a ban against facemasks that things turned violent.

    This is nothing like Hong Kong in the early days of protest. Hong Kong were organized and worked nearly as a single unit. This is civil unrest, this is not protest.


  • #1761
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Pictures from LA look wild. Cop cars abandoned and up on flames.


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  • #1762
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,454 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    The cop car fire came at the right time, calmed things for the next half hour.


  • #1763
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    ChelseaRentBoy wrote: »
    You've heard of the rule of law the courts etc.., right?

    They are setting police cars alight now. Hopefully no officers injured by these animals.

    Sure whether George gets to live or die will be settled at a later court date?

    Think before you post jesus.


  • #1764
    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    The cops need to get tough here


  • #1765
    ChelseaRentBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ChelseaRentBoy


    Overheal wrote: »
    How do you know they are BLM and/or antifa? Uniform? Name badges? Flags?

    Holding up signs saying BLM and Antifa.

    These are extreme left wing terrorist organisations.


  • #1766
    ChelseaRentBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ChelseaRentBoy


    Overheal wrote: »
    Sure whether George gets to live or die will be settled at a later court date?

    Think before you post jesus.

    Sorry im not Jesus, or religious for that matter.

    Are you always this slow or is it just a Saturday night thing?


  • #1767
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,451 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    CNN can't believe it's luck to be at the heart of this story. They're delighted.


  • #1768
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,733 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    If it's bad now this early. It's going to be another horrible night.


  • #1769
    Infini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,689 ✭✭✭Infini


    Clarence Boddiker wrote: »
    I'm sure every US truck driver is well aware of the infamous incident in the LA riots where the driver was pulled from his cab and battered half to death.
    In fact they're probably informed about it during training for emergencies.

    I looked at that video and honestly I wont blame the driver hes in a cab and has agressive people banging on his windows, likely he panicked and was trying to escape.


  • #1770
    ChelseaRentBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ChelseaRentBoy


    Leftist extremists.

    "I really care about this black man that got killed by the police"

    "Now where can i get my free 42" flat screen TV"


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  • #1771
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,451 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    ChelseaRentBoy wrote: »
    Leftist extremists.

    "I really care about this black man that got killed by the police"

    "Now where can i get my free 42" flat screen TV"

    Leftist extremists? Does America even have a Left?


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