> He didn't do anything. He was basically just standing there.

If you actually watch the video, you can see that he was approaching the officers as they are trying to enforce a perimeter, trying to get in their way. The additional video of him confronting other protesters as well as the detail of when this happens tells us two things:

1. He was there to cause trouble

2. The curfew had begun and the officers were merely enforcing it

Of course, whether or not the force they used was justified, or if this is part of some grand conspiracy is an entirely different story; the answer to both of these are no, I think. But it's important to look at this situation fairly.

@realcaseyrollins The real question shouldnt be if they had the legal right.. the question is.. are they deescalating the situation or making it worse with these actions.

@freemo Well, they clearly deescalated it 😜 Again, the question is whether or not the actions they took to do so were warranted. I think not, but only in consideration to the person's age. They overestimated his strength, thus committing a potentially lethal flaw in dishing out the gentle shove.

Carrying him away or arresting him calmly and peacefully would've been a better move IMHO. Sort of glad they resigned. While it is one mistake, it was a potentially lethal one, and the tolerance for such mistakes should be low.

@l0wk3y sorry IDK how my reply got orphaned from the original thread smh

@realcaseyrollins

Clearly? Did the people who witness the situation say to themselves "fuck the police im more pissed".

Just because people didnt rush the cop in anger doesnt mean that the impression they left on the community lead the bigger picture in the right direction.

@l0wk3y

@realcaseyrollins

By the way not saying your wrong.. just asking the question.. I may even agree with you.. People are easily triggered right now is all.

@l0wk3y

@freemo @l0wk3y

> Did the people who witness the situation say to themselves "fuck the police im more pissed".

I don't care.

> Just because people didnt rush the cop in anger doesnt mean that the impression they left on the community lead the bigger picture in the right direction.

Again, don't care. Doing their job and ensuring the safety of the community is probably more important than PR.

We're seeing this now actually, police making PR moves that is forcing them to commit more harm to citizens, such as using rubber bullets instead of tear gas because people are saying "look, they're gassing the people! The barbarians." Tear gas rarely leaves permanent injuries like rubber bullets can. People say "oh they're just rubber bullets" but they can actually be extremely dangerous!

> People are easily triggered right now is all.

While many conservatives, including the ones I watch and listen to, are opposed to officers kneeling, and frankly while I'm not a huge fan of it from a small picture viewpoint (for imagery reasons I don't think having a bunch of white cops kneeling like Chauvin did is necessarily a good look but that's just me) I think it's important and at time necessary to join the protesters and show that you support them to build mutual goodwill between the officers and the citizens, for this very reason. Remember, cops can get triggered too, and that leads to even worse results since they're armed and stuff, so it's important to keep the citizens happy when possible.

@realcaseyrollins

Well thing is, whether you think their right or not you should care. Because ultimately if they perceived it as something that made them more angry about the cops the end result is larger and bigger riots tomorrow than we have today.

Presumably you do care if your house gets burned down.

@l0wk3y

@freemo @l0wk3y In a sense I do care, but I don't think PR should prevent officers from doing their job. There are other things officers can do to build mutual goodwill, as I listed in my above reply.

@realcaseyrollins

Then youa re concerned with PR, you just dont think that PR should effect how they uphold the law... unfortunately thats kinda where all the protests come from. All they really care about is how the police treat them..

Thats the tricky part its gotten so excitable out there even somewhat reasonable responses to a gang of rioters is going to create more riots not less.

Things are going to get worse and worse until there are some pretty major laws in place that curtail the police in some way.

@l0wk3y

@freemo @realcaseyrollins @l0wk3y

Diversity has failed so hard

It's entertaining

Now we have the LA Riots, nationwide!

@amerika @freemo @l0wk3y @realcaseyrollins

"Diverstity" that now obsolete leftwing codeword

now we know it really means marginalize white males

the worst kind of racism, the equal of the nazi's

@EMPEROR @freemo @l0wk3y @realcaseyrollins

It was also a Soviet program, until it failed there as it always does.

Genghis Khan was big into it too.

@amerika @l0wk3y @freemo @EMPEROR It's not just about marginalizing white people, it's everyone, man.

Maximum division is what they want.

@realcaseyrollins @l0wk3y @freemo @EMPEROR

A good point: diversity will exterminate every racial group.

The Left are egalitarians, and that means taking from the successful, healthy, sane, and good to give to the failing, sick, insane, sad, and/or bad.