Generally speaking, the basic assumption of our legal system that you are 100% innocent until convicted of a crime should never, ever, ever, ever, ever be referred to as “semantics”. That’s a dangerous world view.

Especially when the trouble makers are false flag white supremacists casting the first stone, as with “Umbrella Man” in Minneapolis. He was trying to cause racial unrest, and apparently mission accomplished.

Here is a crazy idea. If police want to police protests, they must do it in full uniform with full badge number visible if they want to have the privileges that come with being the police. If you want to arrest someone, you get to do it under the scrutiny of the public. If you need to defend yourself with force, you…

You know, they, and by which I mean those in power, are actually quite a bit smarter than they seem.  This police behavior is completely outside of legal code, and they know it won’t stand in court.  But they also know that there’s a huge time-lag between the incident and the court, and they are using it to explore…

You don’t have a problem with the Secret Police nabbing people off the street in a way that is totally comparable to a kidnapping?

So if some hyper-aggressive men in civilian clothing ran up, surrounded you, and forced you into an unmarked vehicle, you’d be cool with that?

Plain clothes, running up and snatching someone without clear establishment of what authority you are representing is not how we as Americans accept an arrest. This person was not a violent extremist or anything that would require a tactic of this level. Nor would would we arrest someone who did meet that level in…

Do you lick the boot or do you also suck on it too? Like whats your technique.

Also, the negative partisanship is the reason we have no empathy anymore...and when you can look at this an be like “cool” then our democracy is fucking dead.

I’ll be honest, I don’t understand why you’re calling me names. Nobody knocked on my door to ask me to fix my cars. So, why would I assume that I was upsetting anyone? I can’t read minds. As far as I was concerned, there wasn’t an issue. (Though, obviously, I was acutely aware of how silly the whole situation was—one…

Electric bikes now rule the commuter market.

Another particularly alarming trend is the use of crowds of protesters to attack vehicles. No mention of presumably innocent drivers being beaten nearly to death on Minnesota Interstate Highways.

No mention of what crimes this person was being pursued for. Murder? Arson? Rape? Jay-walking? What?

“You are comparing the Chinese crackdown on protesters to what is happening now?”

Maybe because the military has far stricter rules of engagement?

Walnut Creek is so overrun with private security goons and patrols they don’t even need police.

I wonder how often a police department for a city with a population of 70,000 actually needs a Lenco BearCat.

“You see! The unarmed protestors are not afraid even with our battle-proven armored vehicles! How brazen! We need something more intimidating. Can we get some surplus M1A1 Main Battle tanks included as part of the next year’s budget, chief? I heard that tactic worked real well in China in the 80s LOL”

Oh yeah, that’s some “To Protect and Serve” shit right there

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Assuming you’re being genuine,

Anyone who has ever interacted with US Police knows their mentality, but these protests are really letting them show their true colors.