May 2020 Damage Report: ACAB Spring

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Nick Soapdish: Apr 27, 2008

Fister Roboto posted:

Yep.

Get ready for some fingerwagging about how property damage is going too far though.

https://twitter.com/kscullinfox9/status/1265791117959798785

Won't someone think of Target Corp's bottom line

# ? May 28, 2020 01:44

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 06:41

ded: Oct 27, 2005; Kooler than Jesus

BigDave posted:

Uh hey so a police precinct is getting assaulted by people.

https://twitter.com/kscullinfox9/status/1265779483530887168

Do we still consider them to be protesters, or are they now rioters?

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/kscullinfox9/status/1265791117959798785

Won't someone think of Target Corp's bottom line

Reminds me of the LA riots. Not that there was not cause for both of these things to happen.

And I don't have friends driving there to loot like I did during the LA riots.

# ? May 28, 2020 01:48

pmchem: Jan 22, 2010

BigDave posted:

Uh hey so a police precinct is getting assaulted by people.

https://twitter.com/kscullinfox9/status/1265779483530887168

Do we still consider them to be protesters, or are they now rioters?

Ask Frank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuQhNdpX2GA

# ? May 28, 2020 01:52

Woofer: Mar 2, 2020

BigDave posted:

Uh hey so a police precinct is getting assaulted by people.

https://twitter.com/kscullinfox9/status/1265779483530887168

Do we still consider them to be protesters, or are they now rioters?

If you solve the problem of riots, innocent black people will still get killed by the police.

If you solve the problem of innocent black people getting killed by the police, you�ll solve the problem of riots.

Solve two problems at once and concentrate your energy in the right direction.

# ? May 28, 2020 01:56

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1265786445853151234

# ? May 28, 2020 02:00

bloops: Dec 31, 2010; Thanks Ape Pussy!

Waroduce posted:

Pompeo just gave Hong Kong to China lmao

I�ve been reading that this move hurts China economically as the US has stripped away special trade privileges.

# ? May 28, 2020 02:03

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

We have as many active cases as we have deaths

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# ? May 28, 2020 02:04

pantslesswithwolves: Oct 28, 2008; Ba-dam ba-DUMMMMMM

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

We have as many active cases as we have deaths

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Hey everyone, check me out, my life is an idyllic ferry ride with beautiful white shepherds and other great dogs lulled into a state of sublime bliss in knowing that my government cares about the welfare of its citizens and acts accordingly, aren�t I just so rad?

:smithicide:

# ? May 28, 2020 02:16

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

Crowd of protestors blocking the 101 in LA, just saw one fall straight on his face and get KO'd trying to surf a squad car

note streamer is pretty annoying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjy1_Jszy5U

shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 02:20 on May 28, 2020

# ? May 28, 2020 02:17

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

shame on an IGA posted:

Crowd of protestors blocking the 101 in LA, just saw one fall straight on his face and get KO'd trying to surf a squad car

Wait what happened in LA

# ? May 28, 2020 02:19

Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

BigDave posted:

Wait what happened in LA

Empathy.

# ? May 28, 2020 02:20

ded: Oct 27, 2005; Kooler than Jesus

BigDave posted:

Wait what happened in LA

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/black-lives-matter-protestors-march-through-downtown-l-a/

quote:

Black Lives Matter protestors took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles Wednesday in a demonstration in the name of George Floyd, a black man who died after being pinned beneath a Minneapolis police officer�s knee.

A large group got onto the 101 Freeway around 6 p.m., blocking traffic during rush hour as Los Angeles Police Department officers and Los Angeles Fire Department units responded.

Many were seen wearing face masks and holding signs as they participated

The group had also planned to demonstrate in front of L.A. District Attorney�s Jackie Lacey�s office at 4 p.m. to protest in the name of those who died in L.A. police custody.

The Los Angeles Police Department said it�s responding to the protest, which apparently drew more than 200 hundred people.

No further details were immediately available.

edit :

it really says 200 hundred people

# ? May 28, 2020 02:21

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

LingcodKilla posted:

Empathy.

# ? May 28, 2020 02:21

Riot Carol Danvers: Jul 30, 2004; It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

BigDave posted:

Uh hey so a police precinct is getting assaulted by people.

https://twitter.com/kscullinfox9/status/1265779483530887168

Do we still consider them to be protesters, or are they now rioters?

gently caress em, they deserve a godamn riot.

# ? May 28, 2020 02:21

Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

gently caress em, they deserve a godamn riot.

While I would prefer they not loot private businesses who am I to stop progress?

# ? May 28, 2020 02:28

A Bad Poster: Sep 25, 2006; Seriously, shut the fuck up.

On the topic of people looting during a riot, I'm perfectly fine with that. People who are financially secure don't go looting during a riot.

# ? May 28, 2020 02:29

ded: Oct 27, 2005; Kooler than Jesus

WE DID IT

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52775216

quote:

The number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan - over an aggregate 44 years of fighting is almost exactly the same as the number of Americans who've now lost their lives to coronavirus in just three months of America's war against the hidden enemy, as Donald Trump likes to refer to Covid-19.

code:

US deaths in conflict:

Korean War (1950-1953): 36,500

Vietnam War (1961-1975): 58,000

Iraq War (2003-2011): 4,500

Afghanistan (2001-today): 2,000

Covid-19 (Feb 2020- today): 100,000

# ? May 28, 2020 02:35

Woofer: Mar 2, 2020

ded posted:

WE DID IT

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52775216

code:

US deaths in conflict:

Korean War (1950-1953): 36,500

Vietnam War (1961-1975): 58,000

Iraq War (2003-2011): 4,500

Afghanistan (2001-today): 2,000

Covid-19 (Feb 2020- today): 100,000

See? War isn�t that bad.

# ? May 28, 2020 02:37

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

pantslesswithwolves posted:

Hey everyone, check me out, my life is an idyllic ferry ride with beautiful white shepherds and other great dogs lulled into a state of sublime bliss in knowing that my government cares about the welfare of its citizens and acts accordingly, aren’t I just so rad?

I had it wrong, it was 8 active cases

# ? May 28, 2020 02:38

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

https://twitter.com/ChiefDavidRoddy/status/1265758198608400386?s=20

# ? May 28, 2020 02:46

CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Gloomtube is up on the Minneapolis situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjomVb9SAyo

# ? May 28, 2020 02:56

egyptian rat race: Jul 13, 2007; Lowtax Spine Fund 2019; Ultra Carp

Dunno how complete the Cspam / GiP overlap is, but I stole this from the photo thread. It's making me giggle

https://twitter.com/KlooKloo/status/1265741801425698816

# ? May 28, 2020 03:00

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

https://medium.com/@Phaylen/black-man-live-streaming-minneapolis-protest-swatted-by-alt-right-racists-b34eb008bf31

quote:

Prominent Streamer Derrick Branch drove to the protests in downtown Minneapolis on Tuesday night to protest the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who had been killed by the police earlier this week.

Branch stood at the protest while live streaming the events from his personal Facebook page, chanting in unison “I Can’t Breathe” with fellow protectors and encouraging his local followers to come out and stand up in the name of the dead.

Branch did not know that his stream had been hijacked and rebroadcast from a fascist YouTube channel owned by user lucky43113 with over 17,000 people watching the bursts of violence manifest before their eyes as Branch narrated what he saw around him. The YouTube user was also dual streaming the local Minneapolis police scanner.

The first few mentions of a “Black man in a hood with a gun” that came across the scanner happened while Branch was talking.

He continued to read his comments.

“Protesters just said someone out here is flashing a gun? Someone else confirm that.” Branch said as he quickly moved back from the scene. “This shouldn’t happen. We can’t do this. Violence never fixes violence, Man. I wish people didn’t do things like this, it makes it worse for us.”

Branch proceeds to move far back from the crowd, hoping to avoid an escalation in violence when his viewers alert him that the police on the scanner called him out by name: “The guy with dread and a black hoodie carrying a locked and loaded gun…

… his name is Derrick Branch.”

Branch’s eyes grew wide. On the video on Youtube he was completely unaware of, in front of a growing audience that was now predominately filled with comments featuring horrendous racist slurs, claiming he was about to die and laughing, spewing aggressive, hate infused language at the streamer, Branch froze.

“I don’t have a gun.” He said blankly before holding up his phone “Is this a gun?” He asked his viewers. He help up his water bottle collected from a package on the sidewalk moments before. “Is this a gun?”

Immediately, Branch’s phone began buzzing frantically with concerned friends texting him, urging him to leave, worried he would be hurt. This is a community that has the death of George Floyd fresh on their minds as well as dozen upon dozens of innocent black men, women and children, unarmed, shot down or brutally restrained to the point of death by police. Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Tice, all needlessly killed. In an Era where the US Administration has enabled and emboldened police brutality against black Americans we have witnessed events of police involved killings double by 2016, with most of the officers never held accountable, not charged, arrested and in some cases, not even fired.

We have seen white people use this in order to frighten and intimidate black people in public spaces by calling the police on them for doing things like selling lemonade, sleeping in a college dormitory lobby, or enjoying a family cookout on the beach. More recently, Christian Cooper, a birdwatcher in New York, found himself berated by a woman after he asked her to put her dog on a leash according to the park laws. She became irate, picked up her phone and said “I’m going to call the police and tell them an African American man is threatening my life.” She proceeded to do just that, knowing very well it could have resulted in his death. She weaponized the hostile climate of the police toward Black Americans.

Knowing how deadly the results could potentially be if suspected of having a gun at a protest, the visibly shaken Derrick Branch fled to his car as he continued to read his messages explaining that the police were now looking for him. Panicked, he repeated over and over again; “I do not have a gun! You have watched me since I began streaming. I chanted “I can’t breathe!” I didn’t touch anything, not even the barricade, I didn’t do anything!” He said to his viewers. “I told you I am not down with violence! Why would I have a gun?!”

“How do they know my name?” Branch wondered aloud, still unaware that his stream had been hijacked and rebroadcast to YouTube for nefarious purposes.

The comments on the YouTube live stream that flew upward at mach speed saw his assailants celebrating. They were mocking him, calling him names, peppering the feed with racist hate speech. The broadcaster even superimposed a raccoon over Branch’s face in a racist gesture.

“You did this.” he said, believing it was one of his Facebook viewers. “You had to do this, one of you.” He shook his head in disbelief. “It’s people like you that get people like me killed.”

“I don’t even go out like this. But I have a voice. I recently found out how to use my voice, that’s why I’m out here. But I ever once promoted violence. I never once said I wanted violence. What did you gain from that? You went after a person who was protesting to stand up for a victim killed by police brutality.”

Indeed, people he didn’t even know were watching him, people not his friends, were hoping to see Branch get killed on the live stream for their own amusement. There is no question that young black men, like Branch, have been burdened with unthinkable trauma, repeatedly, as they hear stories of men like themselves killed in broad daylight, in the open, and their murderers adorned with a police badge suffering no consequence as result of their heinous actions.

Here is the moment Branch realized he had been targeted.

You can watch his full two hour facebook live here.

# ? May 28, 2020 03:03

piL: Sep 20, 2007; (__|\\\\); Taco Defender

egyptian rat race posted:

Dunno how complete the Cspam / GiP overlap is, but I stole this from the photo thread. It's making me giggle

https://twitter.com/KlooKloo/status/1265741801425698816

Pro link but, uh

https://twitter.com/FlagsMashupBot/status/1265744599961698305

# ? May 28, 2020 03:09

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

ded posted:

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/black-lives-matter-protestors-march-through-downtown-l-a/

Text

Black Lives Matter protestors took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles Wednesday in a demonstration in the name of George Floyd, a black man who died after being pinned beneath a Minneapolis police officer’s knee.

A large group got onto the 101 Freeway around 6 p.m., blocking traffic during rush hour as Los Angeles Police Department officers and Los Angeles Fire Department units responded.

Many were seen wearing face masks and holding signs as they participated

The group had also planned to demonstrate in front of L.A. District Attorney’s Jackie Lacey’s office at 4 p.m. to protest in the name of those who died in L.A. police custody.

The Los Angeles Police Department said it’s responding to the protest, which apparently drew more than 200 hundred people.

No further details were immediately available.

Text

edit : it really says 200 hundred people

Edit: gently caress trying to copy paste for LA thread

# ? May 28, 2020 03:21

Woofer: Mar 2, 2020

If riots bother you, then stop this from happening and you�ll stop the riots.

https://twitter.com/redfishstream/status/1265708807071698945?s=21

But like I said earlier, this poo poo is going to happen even if you stop people from rioting.

# ? May 28, 2020 03:24

CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

This is some quality madness going on in Minneapolis. Apparently it's spread to LA and Memphis too.

https://twitter.com/aellison_wreg3/status/1265834865154560001?s=19

CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 03:45 on May 28, 2020

# ? May 28, 2020 03:41

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Apparently an Autozone has been set ablaze, hope people get away from it, there's nasty poo poo in there.

# ? May 28, 2020 03:45

Arven: Sep 23, 2007

CommieGIR posted:

Apparently an Autozone has been set ablaze, hope people get away from it, there's nasty poo poo in there.

lol didn't that happen at Ferguson too? People must really hate auto zone.

# ? May 28, 2020 03:48

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

its because they dont want you to experience the fully legal rush of throwing old car batteries into the ocean

# ? May 28, 2020 03:51

Nostalgia4Butts: Jun 1, 2006; WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

# ? May 28, 2020 03:52

CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Nah, autozones are just conveniently located all over the drat place in poorer parts of town. They're about as common as a dollar store.

I wouldn't want to be around when cans of brake cleaner start bursting, but it's no Bhopal.

# ? May 28, 2020 03:52

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Arven posted:

lol didn't that happen at Ferguson too? People must really hate auto zone.

Apparently the cops were on the roof of the Autozone which was across the way from the precinct.

# ? May 28, 2020 03:56

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

CommieGIR posted:

Apparently the cops were on the roof of the Autozone which was across the way from the precinct.

Police to Fire marshall: "Inflammable means flammable? What a country"

# ? May 28, 2020 03:58

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

gently caress em, they deserve a godamn riot.

They're definitely getting one.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1265832614927220738

https://twitter.com/hollybdc/status/1265821131203923969

# ? May 28, 2020 03:59

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

Los Angeles rn

https://twitter.com/NBCLA/status/12...ingawful.com%2F

# ? May 28, 2020 04:02

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

KirbyKhan posted:

Los Angeles rn

https://twitter.com/NBCLA/status/12...ingawful.com%2F

LAPD.mp4

# ? May 28, 2020 04:03

Internet Wizard: Aug 9, 2009; BANDAIDS DON'T FIX BULLET HOLES

facialimpediment posted:

They're definitely getting one.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1265832614927220738

https://twitter.com/hollybdc/status/1265821131203923969

My heart goes out to anybody who feels the need to loot an Aldi. I�ve done my fair share of shopping at one and it�s not where I�d choose to go

# ? May 28, 2020 04:05

Buttcoin purse: Apr 24, 2014

Woofer posted:

If riots bother you, then stop this from happening and you�ll stop the riots.

https://twitter.com/redfishstream/status/1265708807071698945?s=21

But like I said earlier, this poo poo is going to happen even if you stop people from rioting.

gently caress, I'm white and I think after a few minutes of cops pointing guns at me I'd be asking them to just shoot me and put me out of my misery because I can't stand the suspense of not knowing how this is going to end. What do they even want? Are they just waiting for an excuse to shoot?

e: I get that because I'm white it'll probably never happen to me though.

# ? May 28, 2020 04:14

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 06:41

ded: Oct 27, 2005; Kooler than Jesus

KirbyKhan posted:

Los Angeles rn

https://twitter.com/NBCLA/status/12...ingawful.com%2F

So the LAPD learned nothing from the previous riots that LA had.

I am shocked.

# ? May 28, 2020 04:17

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