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Protesters say they’ll starve until officers lose pension and jobs
vlox.com ^ | July 20, 2020 | Jerrica Valtierra

Posted on 07/23/2020 4:12:16 PM PDT by lowbridge

Monday marks day 54 of protests in Louisville, following the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. One group is taking that protest further with a hunger strike.

They began their strike on a Facebook Live today at noon.

The people who have been out protesting decided they needed to do more. The participants say they want to re-energize the protests but amplify that they’re hungry for justice.

For the past several weeks, around Louisville we’ve all heard these protesters’ voices. As of Monday, they want us to hear their hunger. There’s only one thing that they say will satisfy them.

“We just want justice; however that is going to look and whatever the outcome,” Amira Bryant said. Bryant is one of the four people who have volunteered to go on the hunger strike.

(Excerpt) Read more at wlox.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: lexington; protest
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To: lowbridge

Promise? You’re a Republican if you don’t...


101 posted on 07/23/2020 5:32:13 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

ping


102 posted on 07/23/2020 5:34:50 PM PDT by timestax
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To: lowbridge

Hoping Pres Trump says at his next press conference oxygen is good for you. Then BLM and anQUEEFa declares oxygen is racist and go on a breathing strike. May not be a bad idea, it could “thin the herd” and “improve the breed”.


103 posted on 07/23/2020 5:36:47 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Mastador1

Someone does need to tip CNN and get Don Lemon on this story. There is going to be a lot of bawling, if these people starve themselves to death, might even put them on the same level as George Floyd.


104 posted on 07/23/2020 5:45:31 PM PDT by rovenstinez (T)
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To: DAC21

Bobby Sands MP

An IRA terrorist.
Not much good to say about that.

That said, I respect his hunger strike.

I had read a copy of the letters he had written and remember how the guards would bring special food to entice him.

An escalation of commitment to failure? Tragic.


105 posted on 07/23/2020 5:53:25 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: lowbridge

Good. Hope it takes a long time. Excellent way to say goodbye.


106 posted on 07/23/2020 5:55:03 PM PDT by mulligan (an En bbnnEeThe tC)
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To: lowbridge

I would call their bluff.It is no skin off my ass if they starve. They are going to anyway when they get the Government they are working for[ Cortez’s Green Plan].]Might as well get a early start.


107 posted on 07/23/2020 5:56:08 PM PDT by sport
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To: SanchoP

They could go without eating for a year and you could not tell the difference. 10 years a rib may start showing.


108 posted on 07/23/2020 6:01:24 PM PDT by sport
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To: lowbridge

24 hours divided by 4 participants equals 6 hours of starvation and 18 hours of eating.

EACH.

No joke, that’s how recent ‘hunger strikes’ have been arranged.

Rush uncovered that.


109 posted on 07/23/2020 6:02:58 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: upchuck

Is that a promise?


110 posted on 07/23/2020 6:04:35 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

It is not working with me. They are three times 7 or is it 3 times 6 now?


111 posted on 07/23/2020 6:05:31 PM PDT by sport
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To: lowbridge

Sounds like a win-win for America.


112 posted on 07/23/2020 6:07:17 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: lowbridge

Such things should be enforced.

Make the claim going for fame? Then you do the deed or else.

If you’re not willing to die miserable for the cause, sthu and sit down.


113 posted on 07/23/2020 6:09:08 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
I think it took them 13 days without food or water to murder Terri Schivo by starving her. They being Pinellas County and the hospital.
114 posted on 07/23/2020 6:11:53 PM PDT by sport
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To: Balding_Eagle

I remember how Jesse Jackson participated in such tag-team hunger strikes back in the ‘90s. Absolutely ridiculous.


115 posted on 07/23/2020 6:13:20 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: lowbridge

Get’er done.


116 posted on 07/23/2020 6:13:51 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet
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To: lowbridge
The results they’re seeking is for officers Jon Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove to be fired and stripped of their pension.

So much for a full investigation to determine if any laws or policies were broken. It's street justice, like you see in a 3rd world country, they want where a angry mob rules not law and order.

117 posted on 07/23/2020 6:23:05 PM PDT by matt04
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To: ryderann

Yes, I think they do not grasp the fundamentals of ‘threat.’


118 posted on 07/23/2020 6:28:13 PM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: matt04

We now have mob rule. It applies in the court room. It applies outside the Court room. Might as well get used to it. It is Country music and Rock and Roll it is here to stay.


119 posted on 07/23/2020 6:28:33 PM PDT by sport
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To: SanchoP

Looks like it’s going to take awhile for any of them to start starving.


120 posted on 07/23/2020 6:36:49 PM PDT by freedomlver
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