2020 Civil Unrest, Protests, Demonstrations, et al.

An armed security guard for a news crew in Seattle snatched a loaded rifle that had been stolen from a police cruiser out of a protestor’s hands: [1]

Edited by archonspeaks on May 30th 2020 at 10:51:53 AM

This Twitter Post highlights how bastshit insane and crazy the protests have become.

The witches are a very, very active subculture, especially in recent years, and are genuinely popular.

Indeed. The Batman Cosplayer is out of his god damn mind, though.

Well, back in Hong Kong, we literally had Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man show up with a sign. The cops tackled him quick.

Somebody has compiled a thread of instances where journalists have reported being shot at, injured, arrested, or harassed by police while documenting US protests. Note that every single instance in that thread is from an article or from the Twitter account of an actual journalist.

The H Rock in Salt Lake City has been changed into an "I can't Breath" rock.

Holy fuck, thats dedication to your craft...

Crazy stuff. I've been watching all kinds of coverage, reading tweets looking at footage, and there is some shit going on on both sides. Not to be a centrist because I oppose racist cops and brutality as much as anyone but for every successful, peaceful protests there are people who just show up and start wrecking shit for no reason. https://twitter.com/trishwithapen/status/1266929583552528385

It's never a whole crowd either, it's usually one or two guys cracking windows while others watch. So yeah, the movements being co-opted by radicals and assholes.

Every mass movement has its thugs. The Cuban Revolution (1953-59) had bandits pretending to be revolutionaries to rob, rape and kill. In Hong Kong, we had to deal with idiots setting an old man ablaze and trying to plant IEDs.

Edited by TheWildWestPyro on May 30th 2020 at 11:10:12 AM

Apparently people are burning down the headquarters of the Daughters of the Confederacy and also toppling Confederate statues. Might as well, I guess?

Let us pay respects with the appropriate music.

Yeah, let's mourn the destruction.

Edited by TheWildWestPyro on May 30th 2020 at 11:29:35 AM

Sheriff Swanson in Gennessee County, Michigan? Heads to speak to protesters and in response to them chanting "Walk with us," says "let's walk," before marching with them and starting a dialogue.

There is no violence whatsoever and he shows understanding and solidarity. This is a model cops should be following.

I think it's safe to say that the lockdown has a good part in the intensity of the looting. You have tons of young unemployed, people who can't go to school or college with nothing to do, they end up making bad decisions.

Fuck the confederacy BTW. Now that's a spot that should be catching hell.

Amen to that

Edited by Codafett on May 30th 2020 at 11:32:26 AM

Given how they were destroyed, how easy will it be to justify repairing/rebuilding/replacing them?

Anonymous's little message for the Minneapolis police department.

Someone built a little guillotine in a parking lot in Ferguson, MO.

https://twitter.com/MelissaAGarriga/status/1266932366175592448

(Presumably a prop?)

Edited by Clarste on May 30th 2020 at 11:48:36 AM

There's been solidarity marches worldwide, especially in the likes to Tokyo and Mashdad, the former though with an old incident where a Kurdish refugee was killed by cops while being beaten.

Among the condemnations of police brutality included Canada, UK (their concerns was with attacks/arrests of reports), Norway (Princess Louise condemned it via Instagram), the UN and Arab League.

China, Turkey and Venezuela were on the offensive. Global Times jabbed at Trump and the MPD and compared the incident to his support of the protest movement in HK.

> Anonymous's little message

STFU* anons and GTFO'

... Oh wait you weren't serious. No need to thump him.

Edited by AngrokVa on May 31st 2020 at 6:35:53 AM

Its unlikely I would be thumped for telling a bunch of anons to shut the fuck up and get the fuck out

Amusingly enough, they had a lowkey hint of activity when they hacked the UN site to include Taiwan back in February this year.

Edited by TheWildWestPyro on May 31st 2020 at 3:52:11 AM

Okay, for real here, are we talking about the hacktivist group, or just regular anonymous net users?

Edited by AngrokVa on May 31st 2020 at 6:51:35 AM

Yes

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1189945.shtml

GT commentary on the riots in America. Hu Xijin was one of the advocates who called for a boycott of Australian goods due to their insistence of having an investigation into the outbreak at Wuhan.