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 ...
I’ll believe it when it happens. In my little middle class suburb, there are lots of “Black Lives Matter” and Biden yard signs.
Indoctrination is powerful, and has yielded a generation of idiots.
Maybe some of your neighbors will venture out to D.C. to support the “odc” effort. Mark 9/17 on your calendar to see how this plays out.
This would end quickly, and lives and cities would be saved, if the media would just report what is going on.
If the media would report, it would quickly become politically untenable to support the rioters.
However the media will continue only to report stories that support their narrative. They are therefore either an organized criminal enterprise and should be handled under RICO, or they are making undocumented contributions to the Democrat Party and should be handled under RICO.
“Maybe some of your neighbors will venture out to D.C. to support the “odc” effort. “
I’d prefer that some of my neighbors would get the heck out of here, or assume room temperature. I don’t care which.
Yikes!
DEMOCRATS RUIN EVERYTHING they TOUCH!
“Yikes!”
Damaged, indoctrinated liberal minds. With their vote, they can only harm me. I’m too old to try to find common ground when their is none.
It's this - but where in Federal law enforcement is the will to address it?
“ In my little middle class suburb, there are lots of “Black Lives Matter” and Biden yard signs.”
There aren’t any in my “diverse” suburb, and I live in blue northern Virginia.
Where are the republican senators and congressmen who should be haranguing the democrat congresspersons to renounce their violent rioters?
lol yea okay. I’ve yet to see ONE BLM sign except on TV from some leftist city.
Where exactly do YOU live?
“Where exactly do YOU live?”
Northeast Ohio.
and THIs is the problem. They want POTUS gone too. Why would they ever come out and show strength against these leftist violent thugs?
As a matter of fact Romney marched WITH them, and others were drafting pro BLM and ANTI Cop legislation. Tucker called them out and had one of these pathetic Republican senators on his show.
I live in a Republican state - when a bunch of black lives matter and antifa thugs started milling around downtown, our police force watched... and watched. And when it started becoming violent, OUR HOMETOWN POLICE told them to dismiss - and when they didn't, OUR POLICE arrested them.
The wannabee 'riot' was over before it started.
My city is safe, I sleep well at night and know if there's an emergency I can call 911 and someone will be here in less than 7 minutes (on average)....
I thank God I live in a Republican State...
One of the women on FOXNews lives in the Upper West Side near the formerly nice hotel mentioned above - one that's housing sex offenders, drug addicts, and common criminals. She expressed the same fears and contempt asthe people in this article...
I suspect she and her neighbors will flee the New York Hellhole soon...
As long those fleeing are conservative we welcome them moving to red states. BUT if liberals decided to 'escape' what they created - and bring their filthy shit here - they will NOT be welcome. White liberal 'elites' should stay in the hellholes they've created. They are NOT welcome in red states.
The odds of seeing a Trump sign and a BLM sign in the same neighborhood is about as likely as two Trump supporters walking the streets of Chicago at 2AM carrying a noose and a bottle of bleach...
Where do YOU live brownsfan?
“... BUT if liberals decided to ‘escape’ what they created - and bring their filthy shit here - they will NOT be welcome. ...”
They are not welcome, but we can’t stop them. They come armed with the false feeling of superiority, and the belief that voting for progressives is right and good.
In short, they are a cancer.
“In my little middle class suburb, there are lots of “Black Lives Matter” and Biden yard signs.”
In my working class neighborhood in Norcal, there are none.
But there are a lot of US flags.
BLM had ONE march a couple of months ago. Two storefront windows broken, 13 arrested and charged. They say they would march again but the police won’t protect them.
So sad.
“BLM had ONE march a couple of months ago. Two storefront windows broken, 13 arrested and charged. They say they would march again but the police won’t protect them.”
I’m in NE Ohio, in a working class suburb that used to lack diversity. Now, we have diversity and much of what comes with that, crime and run down areas. This used to be a Republican community, now a Republican couldn’t get elected dog catcher. I’d say the indoctrination has rendered this city about 60% Dem. I’m old, house is paid for, but I am considering an escape to a redder part of Ohio.
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