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America on edge: Protests are planned nationwide over Tyre Nichols bodycam video - as Georgia Gov. Kemp activates 1,000 National Guard troops, district cancels all after-school activities and security is ramped up at Capitol Hill
Daily Mail ^ | 1/27/23 | Alyssa Guzman

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 piñata' 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.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Homicide-by-race

Something happened in May of 2020 to suddenly make blacks kill each other by murder and traffic accidents more than ever. I can't imagine what it was.....

41 posted on 01/27/2023 2:09:41 PM PST by PGR88
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To: SpaceBar

Problem is it’s heading out into the suburbs.

A woman was killed not far from where I work in what’ supposed to be a safe suburb.

If it keeps going this way we’ll have to form “intentional communities” with shops, restaurants, armed guards, etc. in one secure, private area.

Oh, and a well-stocked fallout shelter for when the basement dummy starts a nuclear war.


42 posted on 01/27/2023 2:10:01 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: blackdog

Cops(black) in Memphis killed a guy, so Atlanta and DC are going to chimp out?
That makes sense...


43 posted on 01/27/2023 2:10:07 PM PST by EEGator
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To: cgbg

In different cities...


44 posted on 01/27/2023 2:10:32 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Libloather

I don’t think we’ll have riots here. We still have statues


45 posted on 01/27/2023 2:10:51 PM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Libloather

Capital? Like the capital that was almost destroyed by white suprema-cysts a couple years back? That capital? Not b on b issue. Oh, they did it due to white suprema-cyst rhetoric right? 😵


46 posted on 01/27/2023 2:11:19 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Craftmore

Boys, it looks like Violent Insurrection is back on the menu


47 posted on 01/27/2023 2:11:44 PM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Libloather

We’re pulling the AR and the AK out of the gun locker just in case.


48 posted on 01/27/2023 2:12:00 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Libloather

Great

this crap again...


49 posted on 01/27/2023 2:12:38 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Memphis is surrounded by a significant number of folks who are heavily armed and who do not necessarily agree with nor approve of “mostly peaceful but firey” protests. Especially if they spill out of the, ah, duskier neighborhoods.


50 posted on 01/27/2023 2:13:05 PM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: jroehl

If Deep State wants riots, there’ll be riots.


51 posted on 01/27/2023 2:13:34 PM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Libloather

Right on time the media is making sure the leftoids get out and riot. Time and place provided.
I bet they even serve refreshments.
I hate the MSM.


52 posted on 01/27/2023 2:13:41 PM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: circlecity

It is far more likely to be Antifa.


53 posted on 01/27/2023 2:13:53 PM PST by cowboyusa (There is no co- existence with Pinks and Redsime this year.)
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To: bigdaddy45
“You know that somehow, some way, this is whitey’s fault.”

Yet another sentence that should be on billboards all over the country.

54 posted on 01/27/2023 2:14:44 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Skooz

Cold and windy a lot of places.
Turnout may disappoint....


55 posted on 01/27/2023 2:15:42 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: SIDENET

LOL 👍


56 posted on 01/27/2023 2:16:24 PM PST by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Antifa terrorism


57 posted on 01/27/2023 2:16:29 PM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: SpaceBar

“ America is not ‘on edge’. ”

No kidding…hadn’t even heard about this till now. So if blacks killing blacks is cause for rioting, why hasn’t Chicago been burned to the ground already?


58 posted on 01/27/2023 2:16:40 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Libloather

“...llowing an anti-cop protest last weekend in Atlanta after an environmental activist died...”


The ‘activist’ died after shooting a cop. An important detail.


59 posted on 01/27/2023 2:19:28 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: meyer; eyeamok

”We’re doing shots?”

60 posted on 01/27/2023 2:19:36 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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