Posted on 05/29/2020 4:06:15 AM PDT by C19fan
Day 3 of protests outside the home of disgraced former Minnesota cop Derek Chauvin turned violent as cops in riot gear lined the streets keeping protesters at bay. For most of the day there was a steady stream of about 150 protesters outside the former cop's home. Chauvin hasn't been seen at the house since the story broke that he was the policeman who knelt on George Floyd's neck for eight minutes while arresting him, before the man died.
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I'm no expert, but I think it has something to do with not wanting to "over charge" because failure to convict and he might walk.
I assume they will get charged too. I think in most of these situations they wait for it to blow over, and hope to do nothing. Maybe not wanting to draw the ire of the police union? Unions are quite powerful.
It is a bit more complicated than that. However, the cop needs to be in jail. Then deal with the mob.
Are they guarding the home...or, indirectly, the surrounding neighborhood?
Fired rubber bullets at protesters and didn’t get one reporter time to go back to to the gun range.
Protesters will destroy more things when cameras around it’s fuel for the fire.
I certainly hope not. It was unconscionable -- the people on the sidewalk were begging the kneeling cop to stop. Then they witnessed him die. It will give them PTSD for the rest of their lives.
when was the ambulance called?...before he stopped breathing or after?...
had he swallowed dangerous drugs and the cops didn't want him to move?...
but still, he clearly stopped breathing....why the kneeling on his neck?...where is the humanity....
some of them just like killing I think...
It's ironic that around December of last year, the AARP newspaper printed an article about great cities for retirees, with Minneapolis as their lead story, with big pix of the downtown. Whoa, Nellie. Hope no old people pulled up stakes and went there between December and now.
the cop was allowed to leave the next day on "vacation" and never required to give a statement until he came back a week later....
he was never charged because of some story he concocted ....
if a black gets killed by a white cop, be assured many, many more whites are killed by white cops...
..maybe that's reassuring to some blacks in a strange way...
Retired white people maintain their homes which is why their neighborhoods look nice. Painting, roof repairs, trees trimmed etc, doesn't come cheap. Responsible people make the repairs even if it means less party time.
After 'the black community' lives in a place long enough it'll start looking like crap... (yes, I know there are exceptions, but not as many as people think) so the ' 'black community burn down a few buildings, threatens homeowners and voilà white people move out - leaving nicely maintained homes. While the first white people escaping still get fairly good money for their homes, the later white people will be giving their homes away to get out of the the hellhole. Or worse, they won't have enough money to leave and will live out their lives in fear of being robbed, beaten up, etc...
After ten years, the place starts to look like the usual black hellhole - then rinse and repeat. Burn down a few buildings... start the process over.
Not only do property values drop, but property taxes drop as the homes become worthless ...It's a sweet financial deal for the 'black community'...
To be fair, white people do a similar scam with 'gentrification' where white people move in and property values go up... which causes black people to sell their homes because the profit is so high... Early homes are bought cheap and sold high.
I feel sorry for anyone who retired to Minneapolis - my only advice is to move quickly. When they tell you to 'hang tough and stay and it'll be OK' - they lie. Check out all the other cities where this has happened. White people who stay will lose everything.
Constitution? What Constitution?
You mean the Constitution under which the government can decide whether or not you can go to church? Or petition for redress of grievance? Perhaps it's the Constitution where in many states you can be arrested for carrying a firearm peaceably? Maybe it's the Constitution where government agents can steal your money from you without charging you with a crime, if in their opinion, they think you are carrying "too much" of it?
Do you want me to go on? I figure the only article of the Constitution that the government doesn't eviscerate on a regular basis is Amendment III. I'm sure they are working on a way to stomp on that one in the future.
The Constitution is a dead letter and has been for ages. It's only recently that they've decided to take the masks off. It appears that the only time this Constitution thing even comes up when it appears that somehow an agent of the State is somehow threatened.
You and I don't wear magic blue suits.
When riots trashed and burned 14th St in Washington, DC after MLKjr's assassination, it took literally decades to rebuild. Given today's much more socialist government, it's not hard to predict that a billion taxpayer dollars will be funneled into Mnpls. But if they send the money too soon, it, too, will be completely and immediately wasted instead of just eventually wasted if they send it after five or ten years.
He’s been arrested. Let’s see if the riots end.
I’m doubtful it will make a difference.
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