Posted on 06/02/2020 8:09:15 AM PDT by yardboyd
WASHINGTON (AP) — American cities erupted in violence and destruction in a seventh straight night of unrest, with several police officers shot or run over, amid boasts and threats from President Donald Trump to send in troops to “dominate the streets.”
In New York, nonviolent protests Monday night were punctuated by people smashing shop windows near Rockefeller Center and breaching the doors of Macy’s flagship store on 34th Street, littering the pavement with broken glass. A vehicle plowed through a group of law enforcement officers at a demonstration in Buffalo, injuring at least two.
Demonstrations also broke out in such places as Philadelphia, where hundreds of protesters spilled onto a highway in the heart of the city; Atlanta, where police fired tear gas at demonstrators; and Nashville, where more than 60 National Guard members put down their riot shields at the request of peaceful protesters who had gathered in front of Tennessee’s Capitol to honor George Floyd.
Bystander Sean Jones, who watched as people ransacked luxury stores in New York over the weekend, said: “People are doing this so next time, before they think about trying to kill another black person, they’re going to be like, ’Damn, we don’t want them out here doing this ... again.’”
The unrest in Minneapolis appeared to stabilize on the same day Floyd’s brother made an impassioned plea for peace at the spot where a white police officer put his knee on the handcuffed black man’s neck until he stopped breathing last week.
The death toll from the unrest rose to at least nine, including two people killed in a Chicago suburb. The police chief in Louisville, Kentucky, was fired after a beloved restaurant owner was killed by police and National Guard members enforcing a curfew.
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They are not going to stop until they are stopped.
It’s time to bring down the hammer, President Trump.
Amazing how few people have actual work to do and produce something of value...
Pandering is not working. As long as the scum can see that they can get away with it... it will keep getting worse. The liberal idiot politicians are showing that they are not up to the task of even maintaining order.
Yeah I’m coming around on this. I have been very much against giving these bastards their Kent State moment but it may be necessary.
“... nonviolent protests Monday night were punctuated by people smashing shop windows...”
How is NONviolence “punctuated” by smashing windows?????
Evil never does.
By the tens of millions.
That’s right.
This is Civil War II. The Left has started it, and they are organized, and they have no opposition whatsoever.
This is bad, and it is going to get worse.
The windows were punctuated.
abasolutely
Trump says something = Trumps fault
Trump says nothing = Trumps fault
I can’t imagine voters are blaming Trump for bad cops and rioters.
This is their last act of defiance before the heavy stuff comes into play!
All of this because of something that happened in a Democrat-Run City in a Democrat-Run State.
To those on the left getting second thoughts:
The feeling you’re getting right now isn’t a “red pill”.....it’s a red suppository
2nd Amendment debate is OVER.
In a way this was the perfect storm. Millions losing their jobs, businesses closed, schools closed, people cooped up in their houses. All the while it's the government parasites that have not lost a single paycheck telling us to shut up and do what we are told. Now they are reaping what they have sown.
The governors or a mayor has to ask for help officially before our President can respond. DC is different, there is no governor.
President authorizes deployment of troops to Washington after phone call accusing state leaders of being weak
Trump Says He Will Deploy Troops to Capital Amid Unrest
President Trump said he will deploy thousands of armed soldiers and military personnel to Washington, D.C., to combat violent unrest. Shortly before his comments, police used tear gas to clear what appeared to be peaceful demonstrators from an area nearby.
By Andrew Restuccia and Catherine Lucey
WASHINGTON—President Trump called for a tougher government response to the violent unrest that has followed widespread peaceful protests sparked by last week’s death of a black man in police custody, telling governors they have been too weak and threatening to deploy the military in U.S. cities.
Three authors = three times the lies.
Trump says something = Trumps fault
Trump says nothing = Trumps fault
I can’t imagine voters are blaming Trump for bad cops and rioters.
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