Most people would rather die than think, and most people do. -Bertrand Russell
Before the camps, I regarded the existence of nationality as something that shouldn’t be noticed - nationality did not really exist, only humanity. But in the camps one learns: if you belong to a successful nation you are protected and you survive. If you are part of universal humanity - too bad for you -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The protest even forced an ambulance to divert its course
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...824-story.html
How they slant it to make him sound guilty:
How they address Kiwi Herring in the same article:A man was charged Thursday after authorities said he pulled his car into a group of demonstrators protesting a police shooting in St. Louis, injuring three people.
Mark Colao, 59, faces a felony count of resisting arrest by fleeing and misdemeanor charges of leaving the scene of an accident and operating a vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner. It's not clear if he has an attorney who can comment on his behalf.
That's pretty convenient that the officer was 'allegedly' stabbed. All media sources are also portraying this as if the car drove into the protesters, even though its obvious that the car did stop and then was attacked by protesters.Police said the three people suffered minor injuries Wednesday night during a candlelight vigil and protest in honor of Kenny "Kiwi" Herring, who was fatally shot by officers Tuesday after allegedly stabbing one of them.
Most people would rather die than think, and most people do. -Bertrand Russell
Before the camps, I regarded the existence of nationality as something that shouldn’t be noticed - nationality did not really exist, only humanity. But in the camps one learns: if you belong to a successful nation you are protected and you survive. If you are part of universal humanity - too bad for you -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
That literally is how duty to retreat works... If you can retreat/avoid the situation you must first do that. If you can't then you can retaliate.
You can not say "I could make this left turn here.... but I wanted to make that left turn down there so I'm going to assault people with my car" the latter you are instigating the issue.
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You're the only one slanting anything." They forced an ambulance to divert!"
Way more sensational than it really is. The ambulance also clearly wasn't in a hurry or had an emergency. you'd be great on Fox News.
Wait a minute, the ambulance did clearly divert its course after seeing that the crowd had taken over the street. Do you think that its reasonable that protesters should just take over streets and not allow cars through? When the car involved in the incident attempted to go around the protesters, why didn't the protesters just allow him to pass by? Why did they instead all swarm further into the road and surround his car?
Protesting is not a free pass to start terrorizing random passers by, I'm not sure why so many people support tactics like this that create dangerous situations.
Most people would rather die than think, and most people do. -Bertrand Russell
Before the camps, I regarded the existence of nationality as something that shouldn’t be noticed - nationality did not really exist, only humanity. But in the camps one learns: if you belong to a successful nation you are protected and you survive. If you are part of universal humanity - too bad for you -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
People will defend anything as long as it's about people on "their side". I consider myself liberal since I do not hold any conservative values, but this narrative of "if you're not with us, you're against us" mentality is insane. Even being a liberal, as a human being with thoughts and ethics you should be able to see when people that might have a kinda similar way of thinking similar to yours are doing shit wrong.
The sad truth of it all is, if it was some white dude that attacked police with a knife, or if it was a rally of conservatives and someone ran them over, "progressives" would celebrate. It's shitty that people are getting hurt, no matter what their political alignments are and it's a sad situation when no one is willing to actually sit down, talk things out and let others who have nothing to do with anything pay the price for it.
Also, sorry, if you attack a cop and get shot, that's on you. Cops have every right to defend themselves. And while we've seen instances where cops have killed people without any sort of provocation due to very poor training and preparation, this is not the case.
Reminds me of this:
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Um, there wouldn't have been a protest there in the first place if certain groups weren't protesting the police for doing their jobs. The intersection where this took place isn't even all that close to where the tranny dude got himself shot by police.