Is this anything new for large nationalized protest movements. A lot of people who honestly believe they have grievances, and then a few malicious disruptors connected together. The messages shown may or may not be real (their grammar seems awfully perfect for such a group) but similar things have happened.
The dual-nature of BLM makes it possible for it to attract a lot of confusion.
The dual-nature of BLM makes it possible for it to attract a lot of confusion.
A lot of people who honestly believe they have grievances, and then a few malicious disruptors connected together. That's a really good point. And the militarization of police in recent decades makes it impossible to dismiss out-of-hand their claims WRT the police — that mindset is a self-reinforcing us-vs-them attitude as well as antithetical to de-escalation (precisely because the military mindset is about projecting force).
The messages shown may or may not be real (their grammar seems awfully perfect for such a group) but similar things have happened.
That's a good point, but then again everything about the Dallas incident smells funny:
- The timing, just days after the FBI/Hillary debacle, hours after the State dept announces they're re-opening their investigation into Hillary.
- The early reports: first multiple gunmen, then a "lone gunmen" in the news-cycle.
- At least one person reported seeing "the"/a shooter get out of a police car. (There was also something about a high-end car too, Mercedes or BMW.)
- The shooter seen on film obviously had training.
- The bomb ending, even though he claimed to have planted IEDs. (You'd want to capture him alive to get that info, not use that as justification to blow him up.)
- The "not enough left" excuse for drug testing. (It takes rather a lot of energy to get rid of a human body, plus the reported vest should have protected the torso somewhat.)
- The "veteran" angle the news-cycle is pushing.
- The SKS "allowed even under CA laws" news-cycle reporting.
It's just a whole lot of
off
to me.