Totally not related to another post in this community…
What fearmongering do you find laughably wrong? What do you witness everyday that makes others clutch their pearls while watching the news?
Totally not related to another post in this community…
What fearmongering do you find laughably wrong? What do you witness everyday that makes others clutch their pearls while watching the news?
LA definitely got the Portland treatment. Interesting when they claim violence when the only violence to be seen stems from the fucking police and ICE.
Same as every protest. People peacefully organize in a park or something. Police get all weak in the knees and put on riot gear and bring out tanks, and start pushing people around. Finally a single protester throws a rock back and the media swarms in calling it a “warzone”. Closeups of the rock, slowmo of it going overhead, interviews with sergeants. Policeman crying. Every. Damn. Time.
It’s not even that. It’s more like when all the cops are stationed at a protest, some people become aware that they can commit crime without repercussion. Including torching a car or breaking into stores.
If you don’t want that, keep your cops dispersed and friendly
LA would have been fine with small teams of cops wearing hardhats and less oppressive gear roaming around keeping the protesters safe.
Heck, put together protest teams consisting of 2 cops, 1 lafd/emt, and 1 sanitation worker, just walking around providing community service. They’d be cheered as heroes.