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responding to being shot at from off camera. What??? She called him on it and he deferred to the judgement of his police chief. He has been trying to make the claim that there are people coming to try to use the peaceful protesters as cover to start trouble.
babylonsister
(171,102 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)I saw a man sit there and cast about for justifications for the creation of chaos in his community. I think they are planning more to come. He clearly has no qualms about what is going on.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)HUMAN SHIELDS?????????
Lex
(34,108 posts)not attack them.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)And I guess they were lobbing tear gas into people's yards because they were being bitten by lawn gnomes.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Unbeleiveable. We've got our own Bibi Netanyahu as a mayor in the US!
procon
(15,805 posts)He was trying to blame the black residents, saying they were too "transient" so they didn't appreciate how hard it is for the police. He was making a ridiculous assertion that people should just stay put in those apt project complexes and not move out, everything would be lovely.
The mayor's "logic" implied that living in those crummy, cockroach infested ghetto buildings will somehow bring on the love for his heavily armed, white goon squads. That makes perfect sense, doesn't it???
frylock
(34,825 posts)no shit. it's the cops.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)As is the racist sh*tbag chief of police.