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carbon20
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Australia is the most successful multicultural society in the world, uniting a multitude of cultures, experiences, beliefs, and traditions. We owe our accomplishments as a nation to the contributions of more than 300 different ancestries-from the First Australians to the newest arrivals. Have you ever been outside the USA? most Americans dont even own a passport,so I hear..... I live here, and don't find anything like the racism that's in your Country..... I don't see people calling the police on a person for jogging...... Bird watching, even entering their own apartment.....(.and getting shot!!!!!) So how many Black people do you know? I did ask AI the same question, I was deafened by the silence,...... Because he usually pipes up I take it he dosnt know any..... So any comment from any of you if you don't know any people of a different Race or Colour Or been for a coffee or BBQ at their house is Facile........ Because if you don't mix with people who maybe different than you It's easy to treat them as a sub human...... And your life is greatly diminished |
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Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees Pastoral scene of the gallant South The bulgin' eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh Then the sudden smell of burnin' flesh Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck For the rain to gather For the wind to suck For the sun to rot For the tree to drop Here is a strange and bitter crop Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Allan LewisStrange Fruit lyrics © Music Sales Corp All countries are racist to an extent, including those who are majority black (Just look at Zimbabwe). But Australian police are nowhere near as brutal as American ones and they are moving towards a fairer society. That's the important bit, where they are heading*. The first step towards dealing with such problems is to acknowledge them. Australia did that decades ago, as did the UK. We are all still imperfect, but we know this and seek to improve. The USA government does not seem to see this. They are still arguing over whether or not Trump is a racist: "His wife is Eastern European; he can't be racist!" - "But she is not black and he does seem to be colour prejudiced!" Tell America it has a problem and get attacked for your trouble. Tell anyone else and be listened to. *Ksc, the list you posted is 6 years old and we move on.................... That is the whole point. |
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I remember an old boyfriend of mine (white) visiting California a few years ago. He leant out of his rental car's window and asked a Policeman for directions (a normal thing to do in the UK). He was dragged out of the car at gunpoint - for asking directions! If your police are that brutal and even a smidgeon racist as well, the resultant horror faced by people of color must be profound. The police must be viewed as "THE ENEMY". This is not a recipe for a law abiding society. Oh! 'And I moved the thread to politics. |
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Atlanta, sitting in your car, Window smashed, Tazered, Arrested , Wrist broken.... FOR WHAT......Crime Being born with a Black Skin....... You have a Big problem America.... |
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Now it's here in PP What the hell was Chump doing waving a Bible Around..... As though he had a devine message from the Supreme Being..... What a Oranged Faced Clown. The whole Show was like watching, A FAKE wrestler on WWF......making an enterance Mind the audience he was playing to.....was A bunch of Extras from Deliverance..... That's his supporter BASE..... BASE.... being the operative word..... .. |
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AI, you're right. I was wrong. DC DOES have national guard unit. Hope it gives you the warm and tinglies. However it doesn't alter or invalidate my view. In fact, it reinforces it further. If DC does, in fact, have a national guard, why was active military called in instead of just the national guard? It was an unnecessary show of force against citizens. He was playing tin soldiers. |
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https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/saks-fifth-avenue-is-wrapped-in-razor-wire-to-prevent-looting Razor wire, German Shepards, pit bulls and armed guards... |
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Un-identified military personnel extend perimeter around the White HouseThe Hill reached out to the Department of Justice, Pentagon, White House and Park Police to ask what agency the military personnel came from. The Park Police said the police force was not theirs. Thaddeus Hoffmeister, a law professor at the University of Dayton, said Armed Forces personnel are generally required to wear identifiers. "As a general rule, members of the Army (Active Duty, National Guard, and Reserves) must wear an identifiable uniform,” Hoffmeister said. “The folks you see without an identifiable uniform are primarily federal law enforcement who don't have the same requirements." |
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I Love seeing the Mass demonstrations,without the riots, WELL DONE ALL YOU GOOD PEOPLE |
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Let's see what the natives of Australia think 2019. Racism in Australia: Australia’s Top 10 racist towns and citiesRacism is widespread throughout Australia and the worst of it is targeted towards Aboriginal populations. Our poll has revealed the 10 most racist towns and cities in Australia.Australia’s colonial history is full of racism which began with claims of terra nullius and a campaign to exterminate our race as settlers from the UK claimed we were some kind of inferior sub species of human, more closely related to animals. Today racism continues on. It is present in every town and city across Australia but there are some towns and cities where racism is so upfront that we often see disturbing news reports reaching national and international headlines. Racism isn’t something that you can measure precisely. Some areas are more outwardly racist than others, while some areas display a more subtle or even subconscious discrimination in places such as the health, education, justice and employment sectors. And a word to any kind souls reading this. Trying to approach us on the street to tell us your a good one only serves to make you feel better. Instead of trying to rid yourselves of guilt, how about challenging those being racist and asking why more isn’t being done to stamp it out? Your one minute chats often make no real difference to our lives when we know the big players like the government and the media are hell bent on marginalising our people. We need to see widespread education campaigns in our schools and in the media to really get our attention and show us that Australia is serious about repairing the damage done by decades of discrimination. https://www.welcometocountry.org/australias-top-10-racist-towns-cities/ Doesn't look like the aboriginal natives of Australia think that the country has done much to work on it. Well here's something very recent indeed on racism in Australia, today in fact. Despite 432 Indigenous deaths in custody since 1991, no one has ever been convicted. Racist silence and complicity are to blame Do you know about David Dungay Jr? He was a Dunghutti man, an uncle. He had a talent for poetry that made his family endlessly proud. He was held down by six corrections officers in a prone position until he died and twice injected with sedatives because he ate rice crackers in his cell. Dungay’s last words were also “I can’t breathe”. An officer replied “If you can talk, you can breathe”. Aunty Tanya Day, for instance, campaigned for justice for her uncle who died in custody and later died in custody herself. The scale of devastation is unthinkable – and violent, and racist. What makes Australian silence about deaths in custody so especially bizarre is that, unlike the US, we have a mandatory legal review of every death in custody or police presence. Each case, regardless of its circumstances, goes before a judge called a coroner. Just as public political will is always changing, so is law and legal strategy. Compared to the campaigns for justice for black people killed by police in the US, which have made relative gains, many families here are working in a complex space of honouring their loved ones, proper cultural protocols around death and the dead, and securing CCTV footage to mobilise the public for justice. I could go on and on seems there's lot's of racism in AU. Perhaps Carbon should tend to his own house and help fix that before barging into someone else's and judging them. Up next New Zealand seems racism runs amok there as well and I'll highlight a few other problems as well. |
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AandEM
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If it's bad enough for Mattis to speak out in this way, it makes me even more worried. |
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Baker Boy, Australian Hip-Hop Star, Shares Powerful Statement on 'Rampant' Racism Down Underhttps://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9395153/baker-boy-rampant-racism-australia-post Racist attacks spike in Australia, with anti-China politicians calling themselves ‘Wolverines’Australia has made some efforts to curb the racist attacks but gained little. Observers noted that mainstream society in Australia barely pays attention to discrimination against Chinese and Asian groups, which has also fueled racist incidents. In Australia, respecting the rights of original residents is "politically correct" while being anti-China is also "politically correct," observers noted. https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1189870.shtml Central Victorian Aboriginal leaders speak about systemic racism and injustice in Australia as Black Lives Matter movement ramps upThe family of Tanya Day, a Yorta Yorta woman who died after suffering a head injury in a police cell at Castlemaine, said it was a "stain on this country" that no police officer had ever been held criminally responsible the death of an Indigenous person in custody. https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/6779756/there-is-something-wrong-with-our-system/ Wow seems your political parties are rife with racism, in fact your whole country. A revival of the "white austrialia policy" doesn't sound like progress is being made in the racism dept. That's racist as fuck and you allow that in your country and in your government. Interesting your view of racism in AU is completely different than actual reality. Are you sure you live in the same country as this? Your perceptions don't seem to correlate with anything these native peoples and minorities are experiencing due to the rampant racism in Australia. And why isn't your government doing more to stop these gross racially motivated injustices and murders, it must be lead by racist from the top down. That would explain why not one single police officer has EVER been accountable for the deaths of aboriginals due to excessive police violence. You really need to reform your government it's been out of control for decades allowing this to go on. Hardly civilized behavior. |
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[QUOTE=AandEM] If it's bad enough for Mattis to speak out in this way, it makes me even more worried. [/QUOTE] Didn’t take him long to attack Mattis · Probably the only thing Barack Obama and I have in common is that we both had the honor of firing Jim Mattis, the world’s most overrated General. I asked for his letter of resignation, & felt great about. His nickname was “Chaos”, which I didn’t like, & changed it to “Mad Dog”... 275 661 2.3K ....His primary strength was not military, but rather personal public relations. I gave him a new life, things to do, and battles to win, but he seldom “brought home the bacon”. I didn’t like his “leadership” style or much else about him, and many others agree. Glad he is gone! |
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WitchMisspelled
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Bureau of Prisons have deployed special operations resource teams. So... The White House is being protected by prison guards.
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Esper will be the next one on the chopping block.... https://www.timesofisrael.com/pentagon-trump-clash-breaks-open-over-military-and-protests/ WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump’s Pentagon chief shot down his idea of using troops to quell protests across the United States Wednesday, then reversed course on pulling part of the 82nd Airborne Division off standby in an extraordinary clash between the US military and its commander in chief. Esper angered Trump early Wednesday when he said he opposed using military troops for law enforcement, seemingly taking the teeth out of the president’s threat to use the Insurrection Act. Esper said the 1807 law should be invoked in the United States “only in the most urgent and dire of situations.” He added, “We are not in one of those situations now.” After his subsequent visit to the White House, the Pentagon abruptly overturned an earlier decision to send a couple hundred active-duty soldiers home from the Washington, DC, region, a public sign of the growing tensions with the White House amid mounting criticism that the Pentagon was being politicized in response to the protests. |
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That really made me laugh. |
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carbon20
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Well Chump is a Clown......with a Bible!!!!! AI.... When we have problems like you have in your country then you might be able to say something, We have problems here, yes but its nowhere near your Stuffed up country , The Native people here gave a perfect right to complain about the treatment they get off our cops... BUT ITS NOWHERE Americas level of injustice...... To their Black citizens..... Your a Sick country....America But you can't see it..... You need to get out of Hicksville and travel..... I bet you don't have a passport...... You seem a bit insular..... Go to a country where you are the only white man In a store..... See what you think then, go trekking in Nepal, visit Sri Lanka visit Africa...... Wander the World it might broaden your mind...... Trouble is how much can a peanut brain hold..... Not ALOT........ |
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Why would you like to make another ageist comment? Tell me did you mean "boomer' in a derogatory or discriminatory manner? What manner did you mean it? Do you have a problem with older generations of white people? Why do you think that is you do? How long have you felt the need to degenerate based on age? Peaceful protesting, the right thing to do. Go world!! |
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I noticed that is was a CLOSED Bible. It would be best to remain closed, or he might just happen on the part where the whole 'law' is being summed up and the second of two sections is about "love your neighbour as your self". Or he might come across the part where in answer to the question "who is my neighbour?" the story includes a despised foreigner as the answer. |
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FFS you can't even see the pervasive racism in your government . And this was in 2018!!!!! The Australian Senate has narrowly voted down a motion condemning “anti-white racism”, despite government senators voting for the controversial statement echoing alt-right rhetoric. On Monday the Senate voted 31 to 28 to reject a motion put by Pauline Hanson – the leader of the anti-immigrant nativist One Nation party – which acknowledged the “deplorable rise of anti-white racism and attacks on Western civilisation” and “it is OK to be white”. That is an extremely racist and demeaning store display. That would not stand in the US at least not for the last 30 or 40 years or more. This was 2016 in Australia and they were selling out as fast as they could get them. 'Racist' Golliwog dolls flying off shelves of Australian ... |
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ITS your sick country the WHOLE WORLD IS DISGUSTED AT..... NOT MINE Please don't swear..... YOU LOSE when do..... I NEVER READ YOUR POSTS..... Only the last bit of dribble that comes forth..... Have you got a passport ? To get out of HICKSVILLE......LMAO you really have a SMALL TOWN ATTITUDE...... SAD LITTLE BOY.... NO WONDER YOU LOVE CHUMP CLOWNS LOVE CLOWNS...... |
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Carbon, be polite! That was a bit too personal. You can attack a person's opionion, but not themselves. AI swearing is not permitted. Please moderate your language. If you do not, I, or one of my colleagues, will moderate it for you. That post you made with the swearing in is hidden. We are not an over 18 site. You also are getting too personal. You are allowed to disagree with Witchy, but not to call her names. Putting it more simply: "Play nice!" That was Technophobe the Moderator speaking. Now for Technophobe the member of AFT - with her own opinions. AI, there is a difference between art and science and how they adapt over time. Both build upon the past, and rightly venerate it. But only the expressions of art remain timeless. (I love Bach even though I also love Lou Reed and I'm growing very fond of Ed Sheeran too. My taste encompases several ages. I am pleased to report I do not believe in phlogiston, "the brain is a waste disposal organ*" or a flat Earth. As science grows the axiomatic errors are removed.) So, demographic statistics change over time. The hidden post contained out of date demographics too. As I said, all these countries are racist, but they recognise the problems and are dealing (sometimes badly it's true) with them. America is in the previous state of denial - IMHO. * Aristotle. |
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WitchMisspelled
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Oops! See my next post. |
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Considering the Op Ed pieces replete with Cherry Picked facts you post, I find this truly laughable. Dare I say it? I dare! I dare! Hypocritical of you. Relax, dude. Look at it this way: Just as everyone has an a$$holes, everyone has an opinion. But you're not going to change their opinion with cherry picked facts skewed in a way they're just too smart to swallow. I find it interesting (and very revealing of who you are) that those you attack and call "over opinionated" are the very same people who don't swallow. |
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I think you need to call out AI for calling KiwiMum a shrill. It was uncalled for. |
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I fail to see where an article from 2018 regarding systemic racism condoned and actually voted on by the Australian Senate is anywhere related to "a change in demographic's". Likewise I fail to see where an article from 2015/16 where racist dolls were sold en mass to the public in Australia is anywhere related to "a change in demograpics". Both are highly relevant to the conversation of racism in Australia and racism in general. Is it your contention that the "demographics" have changed so much in 2 and 5 years respectively that the information relating to systematic and widespread racism in Australian government and public as purveyed by the accurate information as presented is without merit? That's quite recent history and as such has direct bearing on the conversation of racism at hand. You post a racist song from 1954 and that is acceptable even though the demographic and society has changed drastically in 66 years!!! Talk about changing demographics. So I removed the foul language there is no reason not to restore the post and the information contained therein. |
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It is restored. Thank you.
But published statistics can be cherry-picked and are only as accurate as their collectors, collators and interpreters. They also ignore underlying drives which also affect figures. ALL OF WHICH misses the REAL point; Irrespective of numbers, some police action is abhorrent and only dealt with because public opinion insists upon it and has irrefutable proof. This was apparently not Chauvun's first transgression, but it was the first prossecuted and the first to have been filmed. What a strange coincidance! The other officers at the scene also stood back and did nothing (except prevent rescue) while an unarmed man, who was already handcuffed and no threat to anyone, was brutally murdered. This does not say anything positive about justice in Maryland. Yes, the police may have 'good' reason to have become racists, but that is still unacceptable whatever their reasons. It breeds more problems too. I am Irish. I am not a member of the IRA, the Real IRA, Continuity IRA, or any other terrorist group. It would be wrong to assume I am, just because I'm Irish. As far as the gollywogs go, it IS insulting, so is calling me thick mick or selling leprecauns, but a whole lot better than murdering me in the street. Finally, speaking as a moderator once more: "Dont call anyone a shrill, whomsoever it is aimed at." |
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Well said Witchy. I think there's a number 4 as well: that AI uses insults as a distraction tool to change the subject matter away from discussing racism in America or anything that in any way detracts from the movie image of America as the leader of the world, or the president as anything other than the leader of the free world. But let's face it, Trump is the polar opposite of any of the presidents that we've seen on disaster movies played as reliable, sober, balanced statesmen by actors such as Morgan Freeman. Funny, sad, little man. And I meant boomer in terms of Ok Boomer. |
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Oh and I don't mind being called Shrill. It's a weak man's knee jerk insult to an intelligent woman who has an opinion and isn't frightened to voice it. You're a sad little man AI. |
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I think I'm developing a split personality............. Technophobe the mod says: "Careful KiwiMom, that too was a bit personal." Technophobe the me says: "Well said!" |
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And your above post proves my point perfectly, you didn't mention the problem of racism once, just politics. And by the way you do know TV and the movies aren't real right. |
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You are still being personally rude AI. |
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No. My pet peeve is fake and misleading news. What I've seen you post can certainly be validated except that the cherry picked facts are misleading. |
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You do this all the time AI. You hide behind your "facts" so you can deny being political. |
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This thread is an embarrassment. A hostile circus.Why do you insist on keeping it in both the main forum under " latest news" and under politics. You announced days ago you were moving it but that hasn't happened and it remains top of the news everyday. It is the first thing that anyone sees when they come on here. Imagine visiting this forum for the first time and this is what you are hit with under "latest news" section. What has this to do with pandemic and prepping. If I came here and had read all this back in 2009 I wouldn't have wasted my time. Why this can't be moved to political section is beyond me. In addition a moderator should have protected some of the posters who have clearly become over emotional and posted some very personal experiences and opinions in the hope of wining some points recently. Once calm I am sure some people must squirm that they have realise how much they have revealed about themselves and their experiences on an international forum. If threads like this had been moved to a less instantly accessable part of the forum (political) some posters could have been protected more. I know I won't ever feel comfortable conversing with quite a few of the people on this forum now, after seeing what they are really like. If it had been moved to political I wouldn't have read any of it. Technophobe you also seem to be encouraging this. I know you say you put your moderator hat on and then off and then on again, often within the same post, that's just silly. Honestly you are too caught up in all this. I know you aren't meaning it, but when you are saying I am moderator and here's my opinion and now I am non moderator 2 lines later, it comes across as though you are blurring the boundaries. You are one of the main participants and of course you are entitled to your say but this has turned nasty on all sides. Quote in one line you say Technophobe the mod says: "Careful KiwiMom, that too was a bit personal." In the very next line you say... Technophobe the me says: "Well said!" So imagine I come on this forum looking to see what it's about possibly thinking of joining. Go to "latest news"click on first story and all I read is screeds of hostility, oh but here is the moderator right in the midst of it telling someone to stop insulting someone else but 2 lines later she is praising the same person for saying it. Doesnt look very great does it. Seems you are abusing your position to wind someone up. So we are reading these comments from you in the "latest news". Please tell me what they are to do with latest news on the pandemic. You are not helping to diffuse anything.
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I think I'm a little older than you, being a boomer myself. I can tell you that in my generation, there are very few men who can handle an intelligent woman. Even fewer who appreciate a woman smarter than they are. |
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The other one I have no idea perhaps post the link and yes I generally do post a link as a rule if I am citing information. And no I am not hiding behind any facts. If I have something to say I say it. I would think that's obvious. |
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https://www.inquirer.com/news/fishtown-george-floyd-protests-philadelphia-bats-hammers-20200602.html Philly police stood by as men with baseball bats ‘protected’ Fishtown. Some residents were assaulted and threatened. City officials Tuesday pledged to crack down on what they called simmering vigilantism after as many as 100 men armed with baseball bats and hammers roamed the Fishtown section for hours Monday night, saying they were protecting police and local businesses from protesters. At least two people said they were assaulted by members of the group, including a reporter who tweeted that he was beaten and bloodied after filming the scene. Others said they were screamed at, spit on, or threatened with racist or homophobic slurs. Photos circulated of police officers taking photos with the bat-wielding men on the streets more than two hours after the citywide 6 p.m. curfew. Mayor Jim Kenney on Tuesday criticized how police handled the group, saying: “We tolerated it last night for too long, and that was a mistake.” The mayor said the group’s actions were “antagonistic” and the city doesn’t condone “armed vigilantism.” He said he was “disturbed” by reports of officers high-fiving members of the group, and Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said the force does not condone “any form of vigilante justice or taking the law into one’s own hands.” The group began congregating about 5 p.m. as rumors circulated that protesters might target the 26th District station. By the curfew, dozens of people — almost entirely men — had gathered, some chatting with officers. Many had baseball bats. Some had hammers, golf clubs, and pipes. By about 6:30, Police Capt. William Fisher said, “Thanks for your help, you got to go home.” A small group of protesters assembled on the other side of the avenue. One woman held a sign reading “Black Lives Matter” when two men broke off from the group and shouted “All Lives Matter.” She said one of the men spat on her, telling her that he “has COVID.” The woman spoke with The Inquirer on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. “The fact that these guys felt emboldened to go after us like that, in front of the whole neighborhood and in front of cops, I worry what they would do to someone who is more vulnerable when no one is looking," she said. After the exchange, a reporter watched Fisher discuss the incident with the protesters. He repeatedly told the woman who was spit on that the men were "allowed to be out here with bats. Scott Hearn said he walked by the crowd when a truck pulled up and a man got out with a hatchet. Hearn said he yelled: “This guy has an ax!” A video posted to social media by a WHYY reporter who was later assaulted shows the man then yelling to Hearn: “Mind your own f—ing business, you’re lucky I ain’t got my f—ing gun.” Hearn said he asked an officer, “Are you going to do anything about this? He has a weapon." He said the officer told him to “stop escalating the situation.” The man with the hatchet walked back into the crowd.. |
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Some of the helicopters have held a hover right over groups of people, hitting them with their rotor wash and the deafening sound of their rotors and engines. This comes after President Donald Trump announced he had ordered hardline measures against protesters and rioters in the nation's capital, including the deployment of additional national guardsmen, federal troops, and federal law enforcement officers. It also seems bizarrely dangerous. If something were to have happened to the helicopter, it could have quickly fallen into the crowd, offering them little chance to get out of the way. The risk of rotor wash sending debris flying either into the helicopter or toward people on the ground is another risk from this kind of flight profile, especially in a dense urban environment. There is no surveillance value added by hovering at that low of an altitude, quite the contrary actually. While some of the UH-60s may be from the 12th Aviation Battalion, Doug Davies, who also goes by the Twitter handle @Dougilis, spotted a Black Hawk flying around D.C. just as the curfew took hold that appears, by every indication, to be one that belongs to the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team (HRT). He was kind enough to share some pictures of it that he took, seen below, with us. This raises the possibility that at least some of the UH-60s involved in these show of force missions may belong to the FBI. As you can see, the UH-60 in question has fully equipped operators, replete with suppressed carbines, hanging out of their doors, some of which have four-tube night vision goggles mounted on their helmets. HRT is America's most elite special tactics unit.
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Pixie, we were watching this weird chopper activity on a live stream and it almost looked as if they were trying to blow the protestors over and out of the way, like a giant leaf blower. I'm sure there must be health and safety regulations about using a chopper like this in a crowded area. It appears that Trump is panicking and doesn't know what to do next. We saw coverage of a demonstration where 60 police officers took a knee and diffused the tension entirely and the protest remained peaceful, and then at the other extreme we've seen peaceful protestors being met with aggression and being needlessly attacked by the police and then the tension has ramped up and the whole protest as become violent. There seems to be no cohesive central government in charge, it's just individual police "states" deciding how they are going to address these protests, and some are more successful than others. |
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Those who got it wrong, for whatever reason, may feel defensive and retrench into a position that doesnβt accord with the facts.
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