That's patently ridiculous. There's dozens and dozens of incidents like the videos I have listed below of police just brutalizing people, and they've done this to journalists too. Police are angry and want to violently stop protestors.
Pretty sure police officers nightly beating of protestors, pulling off masks and pepper spraying their eyes and assaulting reporters is a very direct attempt at quelling descent.
In my view, these videos are evidence of serious and pervasive cultural problems in police departments around the country, and with how they see their role in society. There’s simply no way to justify the behavior seen in many of these clips.
So the best reply you could come up with was to assert that those videos are lies with weasel words without addressing facts or providing any substance or counterpoint?
Burying your head in the sand does not count as honest discourse or objective reasoning.
Every video in marricks's post started after things started happening; right in the middle. There is not context. We have no idea what happened BEFORE. That's the context that's missing.
Go back and watch the newly released Floyd bodycam videos; the entire 30min and 18min clips. Dude was reaching around in the car, was being a total fucking asshole, swallowed 2mg of fentenyl; the cops were nothing but nice (as they could be) to him. Dude was claiming he couldn't breath and cried out to his mom even before they asked him to get in the car, and long before he was on the ground.
It's a complete and total lie compared to the narrative that's been stuffed down our throat by the 24/7/365 Insta-rage-a-media.
> Every video in marricks's post started after things started happening;
If you really believe that pulling the "they did it first" card helps your case in any way, I'm sorry to break it to you but people only started to protest after the police was caught, again, doing pretty egregious stuff against innocent members of the public, including killing people in broad day light.
And I'm dumbfounded by your attempt at whitewashing police murders by spewing bullshit like "the guy was being a total fucking asshole".
What's wrong with selectively chosen videos of police brutality? They still prove it exists and is unprovoked. (And as mentioned in another post, there's a thread cataloging hundreds of them, so they're not really that selective...)
Pretty sure police officers nightly beating of protestors, pulling off masks and pepper spraying their eyes and assaulting reporters is a very direct attempt at quelling descent.
- police pulling down mask to pepper spray protestor in the eyes while pinned to the ground: https://twitter.com/_WhatRiot/status/1292012255714787330
- police randomly puncturing a support vans tires, they have done this on multiple occasions for no real reason: https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1291711270903844867
- police beating and kicking an unresisting protestor: https://twitter.com/1misanthrophile/status/12959623991035453...
- more police jabbing protestor with batons: https://twitter.com/danielvmedia/status/1292228819588452359
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