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Eckhardt: Death of Black Lives Matter protester in Austin an 'epic failure' of leadership
KXAN News (Austin, TX) ^
| 30 July 2020
| John Engel
Posted on 08/01/2020 9:40:22 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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To: Carl Vehse
Thank you for those extra details. First I’d read of that. The rioter definitely picked on the wrong guy.
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posted on
08/01/2020 10:31:48 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Protests and Riots are not the same thing.
The Left and the Media conflates things as usual.
We have the right to protest peacefully, we have no constitutional right whatsoever to riot, destroy property, threaten, harm or kill police or bystanders.
The sooner that is made clear, the better.
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posted on
08/01/2020 10:36:55 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Carl Vehse
From your linked article:
...The protester said Foster was Mitchell’s “caretaker, and has been for like 10 years....
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Why do I suspect that he was PAID BY THE GOVERNMENT to be her caregiver?
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posted on
08/01/2020 10:50:51 AM PDT
by
House Atreides
(It is not a HOAX but it IS CERTAINLY A PRETEX)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
The failure of leadership was the failure to keep the mobs off the streets.
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posted on
08/01/2020 10:57:23 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/01/2020 10:57:47 AM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
You can hear the shots from the AK47 in the video. The initial news reports said there were TWO different weapons being fired. There is one burst of say 4 or 5, then there is a pause and then there is a second series of shots from a weapon that sounds different.
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin; Chode
You are a flaming racist, self-centered, heartless, heathen, God-forsaken, demon-possessed individual for having a prejudicial view towards someone pointing a rifle at you with milliseconds to go before he pulls the trigger. Wretch.Should have ended with "It's Miller Time !!! let Me buy You a beer."
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posted on
08/01/2020 11:04:15 AM PDT
by
mabarker1
((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
To: mabarker1
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posted on
08/01/2020 11:10:59 AM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: kaehurowing
Garrett never fired his AK47. Those five shots are a .45ACP or .357 followed by three shots from a .380, or possibly a 9mm. Garrett never fired. He pointed the gun in a specifically threatening way. Case closed.
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posted on
08/01/2020 11:12:14 AM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: lgjhn23
After a car turned into a group of demonstrators
A lawless mob blocks a street so a car going down said street is guilty of turning into a group demonstrators .
To that l say: dont be Reginald Denning. Better to face charges later than have your skull caved in by a brick.
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Austin, Texas is a great example of what is happening all over the US. People are fleeing big Democratic controlled high tax little freedom states for states like Texas and then try to remake Texas into the $hithole of a state they left.
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
So if there were 2 weapons, who was the other shooter in the antifa mob?
To: gibsonguy
Stopping a car on a thoroughfare, without authority and surrounded by a crowd sounds like an unlawful imprisonment, and with a weapon...wish someone would do the case.
DK
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
So I guess now you’re supposed to wait for your assailant’s bullets to penetrate your skin before its OK to defend yourself.
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posted on
08/01/2020 11:46:07 AM PDT
by
FLT-bird
To: a fool in paradise
From the
American Thinker article:
"Immediately after Sgt. Perry fired on the individual who raised the assault rifle toward him, a member of the crowd began firing on Sgt. Perrys vehicle."The second shooter should have been arrested and charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm, if not reckless endangerment or attempted murder. He shot at a car (with people near it) in which the driver presented no immediate danger to him. The second shooter can't just start shooting at the driver because that driver was shooting his gun, unless he knew the driver was shooting innocent people who presented no imminent threat to the driver (which was NOT the case).
To: kaehurowing
Hasn’t been identified for obvious reasons.
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posted on
08/01/2020 12:04:09 PM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: Carl Vehse
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posted on
08/01/2020 12:04:33 PM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I see we basically are on the same page.
To: kaehurowing
Someone else in the crowd fired at the car after the driver defended himself
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posted on
08/01/2020 12:19:11 PM PDT
by
joshua c
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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