George Floyd

[Mr. Tea]

Whilst Im sure there's penty of property damage being committed by protestors, theres also a ton of vids out there that look a lot like provocateurs in action, including the one of a cop being confronted in Minneapolis after smashing the windows of an autozone.

Questions arise over masked white man with umbrella seen calmly smashing windows before Minneapolis riots

Speculation that figure dubbed 'Umbrella Man' may have been an agent provocateur

www.independent.co.uk

Always so suspicious! I just see a meteorologically pessimistic cybergoth who is obviously unhappy about some work they did on his car.

 

[Leo]

 

[Mr. Tea]

A bit like how some companies started putting rainbow flags on their branding for one month out of the year, and homophobia just doesn't exist any more.

 

[IdleRich]

Yeah that image of the White House is incredible. The sort of thing that, growing up, I simply never expected to see.

 

[DannyL]

Re. cops as provocateurs:

 

[droid]

 

[Mr. Tea]

Video here of cops in Seattle smashing shit up:

 

[Leo]

a few comments say they are clearing the jagged edges of broken glass in order to go in and check for looters.

 

[version]

Here's a long thread of incidents of police brutality tweeted by a criminal defense attorney.

 

[droid]

Trump just threatened to send the army in to states that fail to crush the protests.

 

[droid]

 

[droid]

Seems like there was some inevitability to this moment.

 

[version]

NYPD Union Doxes Mayor's Daughter on Twitter

A New York City Police Department union known for its controversial attacks against Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted out the personally identifying information of his daughter on Sunday night, including a residential address and her New York State ID number.

gizmodo.com

 

[version]

They need to send in the army to crush the police tbh. They're out of control.

 

[droid]

This could well be the end of the republic.

 

[IdleRich]

It's certainly hard to see that it can just kinda go back to normal. It must be profoundly changed.

 

[droid]

Brownshirts in Philadelphia.

 

[droid]

 

[IdleRich]

There are a serious number of proper fucking whackadoodles in MAGA-land.... is it wrong that I want that guy to go out on the street and get killed quickly and dishonourably a few seconds after breaking down in tears and pissing himself?

 

[Leo]

This could well be the end of the republic.

care to place a wager?