Posted on 08/14/2020 6:44:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Twitter, Mike Doran (@doranimated) shared a long thread about the violence his friends around the country see in their towns. The stories he shares are disturbing and frustrating. However, much like the riots and damage that occurred in small cities and suburbs during the George Floyd riots, what Doran’s friends are telling him will be sparsely covered if it’s covered at all.
Journalist Michael Tracey went out on the road to document the damage done outside of our major cities at the beginning of the summer. National media haven’t and won’t follow suit.
Doran decided to share what he has been told, in a Twitter thread. It includes demoralized law enforcement officers not intervening in street violence, escalating homelessness, and random violence. Here is a direct quote from his friend in New York:
“Here’s my neighborhood, Mike: An elderly man, enjoying dinner w/his wife at an outdoor restaurant, punched in the face. A woman waiting for the subway to come stabbed in the back. An older neighbor pausing to catch his breath told to pay two dollars in protection money or get the f**k off that particular street corner. This is just the ten block radius from where I live in the last six days.”
Others in the city talk about the criminals, including sex offenders, who are housed in hotels on the residential Upper West Side. Business districts are destroyed, and drug paraphernalia and other trash litter the streets.
Doran’s contacts in Philadelphia tell him about being robbed a gunpoint. Squatters are taking over vacant homes in Los Angeles neighborhoods. Minneapolis is in smoldering ruins
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
BLM are like a plague of locusts devouring everything in its path until there is nothing left to eat and they die off.
Florida’s nice - and we’re always happy to see a fellow conservative move here... so put us on your list. Of course a redder part of Ohio is fine too.
“Florida’s nice - “
Yes it is. I spent 2 years in Jacksonville, (Mayport).
I have too many roots to go too far from here.
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