Posted on 01/27/2023 1:41:15 PM PST by Libloather
Government officials are calling for calm ahead of the planned nationwide protests over the Tyre Nichols bodycam footage, which will be released tonight, as the Georgia governor activated 1,000 National Guard troops and Capitol Hill amped up security.
Many cities, including Memphis and New York City, are gearing up to protest after the gruesome footage, which has been described as worse than Rodney King, on the Memphis Police Department's YouTube page at 7pm. Police are releasing the footage later a night to allow people to get home beforehand.
Nichols, 29, was brutally beaten like a 'human piƱata' by five Memphis, Tennessee, police officers, who were all African American, on January 7 and died three days later in the hospital from kidney failure and cardiac arrest.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, 59, has declared a state of emergency until Tuesday, February 9. Kemp called in the National Guard following an anti-cop protest last weekend in Atlanta after an environmental activist died and said Georgia is 'closely monitoring the events in Memphis.'
Capitol Hill also amped up security in anticipation of widespread protests. President Joe Biden, 80, has called for calm ahead of the video release and said Nichols' death is a 'painful reminder' that the US' justice system has seen many 'fatal encounters with law enforcement [that] have disparately impacted black and brown people.'
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Glad I’m not a cop in a big city.
You got it wrong. This will be all cops bad, cops out of control. Remember ACAB in the 2020 riots and others?
Misread that
RE: These rioters do not venture in to my neck of the woods. I wonder why?
They might get a heapin’ helpin’ of your hospitality.
Many suburbs including Detroit ones are populated by people who got fed up with the City of Detroit and moved out in “white flight.” Old grudges intact. The late-—prescient—conservative county administrator L. Brooks Patterson said long ago “What we need is a wall to be built on 8 Mile Road (dividing line of city limits of Detroit and 5 suburbs) and Detroit can keep its robbers and rapists and carjackers on their side.”
RE: “District cancels all after-school activities.”
That is going to disappoint a lot of the BLM supporters.
No chess club or string quartet practice for them.
Just wandering on the streets attracted by bad teens in mobs.
If these protests turn violent will they be called “insurrections” by the MSM? /s
Another banned and suspended troll heard from. SMH
Ok newbie
Wonder why dbags with shi*ty antifa-like attitudes are allowed to stay on this forum?
Had a house fire, need new stuff.
Can I loot, too?
Is it possible to loot ebay or Amazon ?
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