...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Meanwhile at the White House
I'm sure Trump feels safe.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE: Hold the presses...
Apparently he didn't feel safe...
Ohio has history
Also: unconstitutional?
Less than a month from the 50th anniversary of the Ohio National Guard massacre of students at Kent State.
UPDATE:
Another patrol vehicle running into protesters
This time in LA.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Why didn't Clinton's campaign team just make ads out of Trump's old tweets?
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Haven't you heard? Trump is above the law.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE:
UPDATE:
Meanwhile, because there's not enough upheaval..
Today:After a long period of relative quiet along the Sino-Indian border, militarized incidents have come to the fore again.
[...]
On May 5, Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed near the Pangong Tso lake in Ladakh. It is believed that the skirmish took place because the PLA had objected to Indian military patrols in the area. Most of these clashes apparently stem from differing assessments of the location of the so-called Line of Actual Control—the de facto international border. And then on May 9, at an altitude of 15,000 feet, in the Naku La region near Tibet, soldiers from both sides came to blows and threw stones at each other mostly in efforts to induce the Indian troops to move back from the areas they were patrolling. No arms were used but several dozen soldiers were injured, including a senior Indian officer who was required to be airlifted to a hospital.
Foreign Policy
Police state activity: get rid of the press
More police state activity
There's a lawsuit.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE:
Another view of the NYPD cruisers
That looks perfectly intentional.
Utter bullshit. There was no burning bag. And there was plenty of room to back up if they wanted to "escape".A law enforcement source told CBS News that the vehicles in the video were "trapped" and that the crowd was throwing bricks and rocks, and that there was a bag on fire sitting on top of one of the vehicles. The source said the officers did not "ram" the protesters, but that they were "trying to go forward and escape."
CBS
Recall DeBlasio.At a late-night news conference, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio addressed the video, saying that although it was "upsetting," it's also "inappropriate for protesters to surround a police vehicle and threaten police officers."
"That's wrong on its face," de Blasio said. "I'm not going to blame officers who are trying to deal with absolutely impossible situation ... If a police officer is in that situation, they have to get out of that situation. The video was upsetting, and I wish the officers hadn't done that, but I also understood that they didn't start the situation."
NY & Minneapolis bus drivers won't transport arrested protesters
“TWU Local 100 Bus Operators do not work for the NYPD. We transport the working families of NYC , all TWU Operators should refuse to transport arrested protestors,” the New York chapter of the Transportation Workers Union tweeted Friday evening.
The New York TWU sued the New York Police Department in 2011 for ordering buses and forcing city drivers to transport arrested Occupy Wall Street protesters.
Unionized bus drivers in Minneapolis also refused requests by local police to transport arrested protesters, according to CityLab.
The Hill
The quiet part out loud
“Looters deserve to be shot. But not by government. #2A” state Rep. Tony Lovasco (R) wrote on Friday afternoon, referring to the Second Amendment.
Twitter has since taken down the tweet for violating its guidelines but screenshots began circulating on social media.
[...]
Missouri House Minority Leader Crystal Quade (D) said in a statement that while anyone who commits a crime should be prosecuted, “an elected official who advocates for extrajudicial murder is just as lawless as those he condemns and is unfit to hold public office.”
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called the tweet “sickening,” and said the rhetoric is “what Trump has unleashed.”
[...]
Lovasco attempted to clarify his point in a follow-up tweet, saying people have “missed my point.”
“1) Trump was wrong to threaten looters with being shot. 2) If you loot & a property owner shoots you*, I have no sympathy. 3) I'm not telling anyone to shoot anybody, just saying what I think people deserve.”
The Hill
"Probably."
Yeah, you've got some cleaning up to do, buddy.Lovasco condemned Floyd's killing and praised Chavin's arrest, having spent several days calling for criminal charges to be brought against the officer.
"It's impossible for people to trust law enforcement when obvious abuses of power are ignored, as is sadly often the case," Lovasco wrote on Tuesday.
Blood lust
I don't want to excuse the NYPD, but that vehicle charging the crowd looks like it might have been unintentional. Or it could have been a miscue. Or simply intentional. We'll have to wait and see.
UPDATE: Another view makes this look absolutely intentional. And horrible.
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