Bangarang

No, you didn’t. Still tip toeing. I’d like you to specifically explain what you mean by “my privilege has privilege”.

Except that’s not what I said. My justification for police use of force was clearly in reference to the rioters and looters and not the peaceful protesters. I see you’re going to continue to try and tip toe around your assertion that “my privilege has privilege”.

I agree with this. Clearly I did need to ask and I’ll do it again in the hopes that you can clarify it for me. What privilege are you referring to?

So it would seem

And the police didn’t have a problem with the peaceful protest. Their objective was to enforce the curfew.

That’s how you interpreted what I said? Yikes And what privilege are you referring to exactly?

I don’t know I wasn’t there.

Only if you reasonably believe these people are going to loot the local Target or try and set fire to city hall.

I don’t know that. Maybe you’re right.

How many times does someone who clearly has an agenda against the police need to be told to get back? I have no problem with police accountability. Suspend the cops pending a review/investigation. But to charge them with Assault is a joke and was only done to cater to the mob of people outraged.

Let’s all point the finger and vilify the police because it’s the easy thing to do right now. You’re right, we can discuss it and part of discussing it is acknowledging the current sentiment towards police and how there is an obvious hypocrisy in that mindset. Is this that whataboutism thing you were talking about?

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The 4 Minneapolis cops have been arrested and charged. Why are there still protests and riots? Is this about race or police? When is justice served and when will it be okay to stop the protests? And what does it mean to be exempt from bail reform? That doesn’t make any sense. Fair enough.

Lorenzo is clearly racist. That’s how it works right?

I don’t see anyone protesting or outraged over the 3 black people who ran over 2 troopers and a BPD Officer the other day. No big deal since they were white cops who were attacked. We also don’t care that the scumbags had a stolen gun in their possession. Where is all the celebrity outrage over that?

I agree, the outcome was horrible. I also agree that they could have just arrested him and likely avoided all this. I don’t think there was intent to injure him. Why is that weird? There have been peaceful protests in areas where ERT was present.

What exactly did I bring up? You asked if Allen always has to be great and I wanted to know what you consider great. I was literally responding to a point you made but somehow I brought it up?

I’m not saying he was pretending to be injured if that’s what you meant. It wasn’t mild but it also wasn’t violent. What alternatives would you like to see? There’s a large group of cops in riot gear trying to clear an area. They are yelling to get back but he advances towards them, getting very close. How long are police supposed to try and plea and negotiate with someone who clearly isn’t listening or doesn’t want to? At what point do we get to protect our personal space?

I don’t have a problem with it.

Bojo must have pictures of someone. How is the job his to lose? He’s terrible..

We’ll agree to disagree.

No, I mean he’s pulled similar stunts of looking for a confrontation and ending up on the ground. The blood from the ear is obviously real and this could have been handled better by both sides.

No, I can’t substantiate it. I care whose helmet it was because I’ve seen a lot of people concluding that he was simply being a good samaritan and returning it back to police. Ive seen numerous people refer to this as a violent shoving. I don’t see that. They probably didn’t have to push him. They could have just grabbed him and arrested him right there if he refused to follow commands. The bottom line is cops have a right to protect their personal space and if you get too close to them while they’re telling you to get back then it’s possible and likely that things escalate.

Is that at all what I am saying?

For those of you thinking this was just a violent attack on an innocent old man, just know that there is more to his story. The victim in this story has pulled similar stunts at protests in the past. He wasn’t just handing the police their helmet back, the helmet he was carrying was his own. And he was seen on video earlier in that day carrying said helmet and saying he was there fun and was trying to instigate a fight between people. It looked like he was selling the fall and cracked his own skull.