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8 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Slowly back to home, work and/or the campus safe space, until the whole thing starts again because of the next George Floyd or Tony Timpa or whoever will be the victim of the next psycho like Chauvin.

Unfortunately, I think you’re absolutely correct here.

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Protestor shot after confronting a car that tried driving into a crowd of protestors. The protestor was taken to a hospital, and police have since captured the man driving the car (of course they did so without shooting him since he was white).

 

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8 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Protestor shot after confronting a car that tried driving into a crowd of protestors. The protestor was taken to a hospital, and police have since captured the man driving the car (of course they did so without shooting him since he was white)

 

 

The likes of Tony Timpa and Daniel Shaver don't agree with you. Well, their families I mean, since they were killed by police just the same (and just before you get all worked up saying I'm denying racism or something, I'm not, I'm just saying "of course they didn't shoot because he's white" makes no sense, because they do in fact shoot white people who are already under control as well, albeit less often).

 

By the way, surprised there's no reaction from you on BLM people attacking and chasing away journalists, but only when police does so :p 

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37 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

The likes of Tony Timpa and Daniel Shaver don't agree with you. Well, their families I mean, since they were killed by police just the same (and just before you get all worked up saying I'm denying racism or something, I'm not, I'm just saying "of course they didn't shoot because he's white" makes no sense, because they do in fact shoot white people who are already under control as well, albeit less often).

 

By the way, surprised there's no reaction from you on BLM people attacking and chasing away journalists, but only when police does so :p 

I have seen any video of American protestors chasing away journalists yet. I’m sure it exists, but I haven’t seen it. The police have made many targeted/purposeful attacks on journalists though, so I still stand by my statements against them.

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1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

I have seen any video of American protestors chasing away journalists yet. I’m sure it exists, but I haven’t seen it. The police have made many targeted/purposeful attacks on journalists though, so I still stand by my statements against them.

It's literally in the posts directly above yours. The live stream ends when the journalists are rather aggressively chased away by masked protesters. 

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9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

It's literally in the posts directly above yours. The live stream ends when the journalists are rather aggressively chased away by masked protesters. 

I didn’t see any journalists being violently attacked. Sure, those people are dicks for asking them to move and chasing them, but it wasn’t a targeted violent attack on a journalist like we’ve seen from police around the United States.

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45 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I didn’t see any journalists being violently attacked. Sure, those people are dicks for asking them to move and chasing them, but it wasn’t a targeted violent attack on a journalist like we’ve seen from police around the United States.

They are being aggressively chased away and it is made abundantly clear they are not welcome there. The people doing so are just as much attacking free press, so as a fan of free press, it pisses me off just as well. What police in the US did is irrelevant for this scenario, although it does show that on both sides there are people who don't want their crap to be filmed (unsurprisingly).

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