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Miigwech

(3,741 posts)
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 08:45 PM Jun 2020

Just me or are cops not policing looters but only peaceful protests?

Watching the best videos and reading all the reports, seems to me that we are watching the police abuse the peaceful protesters, even assaulting passive bystanders, the Clergy, medical personnel helping the injured, even young children walking with their parents in peaceful protests. Why are they not out on the streets arresting the looters? Maybe because some of them are white? You tell me.
Saw a video from Santa Monica, CA --- a Patagonia store --- only white kids looting everything. Kids driving off on motorcycles with surf boards under their arms, in broad daylight.

Sorry, can't find the video. Maybe someone else remembers that and can re-post.

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The Magistrate

(95,237 posts)
2. It's Kind Of Like The Drunk Looking For His Keys, Sir
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 08:50 PM
Jun 2020

He's searching under the lamppost even though he lost them in the alley, because the light is better.

Large crowds of peaceful people are easy to find.

Looters are small, agile, fast-moving hit and run groups. They are hard to catch, strike when police are elsewhere, and there are not enough police to be everywhere.

Hekate

(90,189 posts)
3. I think it depends on two things: where you are and what time it is, i.e. day or night
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 08:50 PM
Jun 2020

Events and responses differ around the country

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
14. The cops will go mace children that join the protest, but...
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 12:50 AM
Jun 2020

they smile and nod when right-wing chuds show up with "1488" tattoos and AR-15s.

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
13. They want us conflating the two.
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 12:46 AM
Jun 2020

It's because the cops are being counterprotesters with lots of weapons, instead of doing what should be their actual jobs.

They want us thinking the protesters are the looters. No, they're two separate groups. Never forget that - and that's why I'm flat out of patience with the pearl-clutching and constant lectures directed at protesters.

Many of the looters aren't political at all - they're just thieves, making use of the unrest by renting U-Haul trucks, driving to stores in gangs, smashing their way in, and loading up the truck.

Some, of course, are police provocateurs or alt-right boogaloo groups trying to instigate. You think lecturing those chuds is going to change their ways?

But the cops and the media and the propaganda farms want us mixing these miscreants with protesters, so we take our eyes off the prize.

The prize we're after is an end to militarized policing, racism, and police brutality. Don't like the looting? Tell the cops to do their jobs correctly instead of engaging in police riots against protesters.

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