Life in the US will be just a riot, what fun!

http://joannenova.com.au/2020/08/reagan-on-rioters-whats-to-negotiate/
The Democrats are basically running on extortion.
Democrat supporters are terrorizing the nation and as Kamala says with a smile about “protesters”:

“…they’re not going to stop, and nor should they”.

Here's the full interview, from mid-June

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTg1ynIPGls

The part that JoNova quoted starts around 5:30. Prior to that Harris talks at length about the history of protest in America and the ability of peaceful protest to bring about change. JoNova is being breathtakingly dishonest to use the short xcerpt to claim Harris supports violence. She said nothing like that.

A few days ago, again talking about peaceful protesters Sen. Harris said

We should not confuse them with those looting and committing acts of violence, including the shooter who was arrested for murder. And make no mistake, we will not let these vigilantes and extremists derail the path to justice

https://justthenews.com/video/harris-people-are-angry-and-exhausted

When I use the word looting, I mean the mass expropriation of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot. That's the thing I'm defending. I'm not defending any situation in which property is stolen by force. It's not a home invasion, either. It's about a certain kind of action that's taken during protests and riots.

From the mouths of babes

https://twitter.com/RealMiniAOC/status/1300573752703418368?s=19

Shooting the guy in the back many times. I mean, couldn’t you have done something different, couldn’t you have wrestled him? You know, I mean, in the meantime, he might’ve been going for a weapon. And you know there’s a whole big thing there. But they choke, just like in a golf tournament, they miss a three-foot putt.

I'll just leave that there.

That whooshing sound is the point as it passes over Tomo's head.

Um, equating acts of police brutality that have left people dead or in a wheelchair for life with missing a putt on the 18th green does not exactly reek of empathy.

Coming after 'it is what it is' on the US death count.

You need a new slur.

Laura gets it

Nope, still not getting it.

“Jacob Blake brought this on himself.“.
What SEVEN, count them SEVEN, shots in the BACK, yes that’s right, in the BACK That would seemingly be unjustified, except in tomo’s and the President’s world, where police are always innocent, even when there is video evidence of their attempted murder But in today’s America a black man walking away is (un)fair game 👮‍♂️

My point was about Trump's cloth-eared tone-deaf response. The exact opposite of what is needed right now.

I don't know enough about the detail of what happened in either of the recent killings to second-guess the courts. Apparently a police officer may only use deadly force when ' necessary to prevent the escape and the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious bodily harm to the officer or others.' My reading of the video evidence is that it does not come anywhere close to that standard; Blake had one officer's weapon trained on him, while another officer grabbed him by the shirt with one hand and shot him repeatedly with the other. It's a miracle none of the children in the car were hurt.

Hard to see how that is lawful, but I am content to leave it to the courts to decide and I am not going to get into any hypothetical and redundant would he/should he.

Fun Fact: The US police kill Blacks at 2.86 times the rate they kill Whites.

Sorry. One killing, one maiming. One loses count.

Elsewhere in the same interview, our stable genius was asked who is pulling Joe Biden's strings….

People that you’ve never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows. People that –

Laura: What does that mean? That sounds like a conspiracy theory. Dark shadows. What is that?

Trump: No. People that you haven't heard of. They are people that are on the streets, they're people that are controlling the streets. We had somebody get on a plane from a certain city this weekend..

This echoes Rand Paul's complaint, referenced upthread:

Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House. I think we’re going to find out that these people are hired and from out of town. … They flew here on a plane. They’ve all got fresh new clothes, and they were paid to be here. It’s a crime to do that, and it needs to be traced. The FBI needs to investigate

I am not sure that the FBI is empowered to investigate black people for the crime of owning new clothes, but Trump was happy to expand …

I'll tell you sometime, but it's under investigation right now. And in the plane, it was almost completely loaded with thugs, wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms, with gear and this and that. But they came from a certain city and this person was coming to the Republican National Convention. And there were like seven people in the plane like this person and then a lot of people were in the plane to do big damage.

People from the Dark Shadows? Mysterious planes? Black uniforms? Paranoid delusions are an early indicator of various cognitive disorders, including Alzheimers. The debates could be interesting.

AK

The police are categorically not all innocent and I'm *certainly* not defending them as a group entity - they obviously have their share and possibly more than their fair share of bad apples attracted by the arbitrary powers bestowed on them. Justine Diamond's killer was purportedly recruited on a diversity drive.....

If a policeman was pointing a gun at you, would you deliberately walk away from him , open a car door and reach in?

Irrational desperation or just plain mean figure in many of the shootings - example

As I understand it Mr Blake was Tasered twice in the run-up to being shot in the car - the rapidity of something innocuous turning lethal is breathtaking - example

What kind of crazy person walks away from a policeman (possibly two) pointing a gun at him ?

As to the number of shots - that looks like an exceeding stressy situation and obviously the adrenaline is pumping after a wrestle and two Tasers...

They could have shot him once in a foot? - that'd probably be a felony assault - and anyway, real bullets aren't like in Hollywood movies... he went to the car and reached in ... see female police officer incident in LA linked above.

What colour is the sky on your world?