willhud9 wrote:Curfew here at 8pm. Flash bangs and other sounds can be heard.

Scary stuff. A part of me wonders if buying a gun is necessary as I feel something is going to break soon.

I’m just scared. This is a lot of stressful times. I’m not as scared as my black roommate. He’s really feeling ill over all this.

laklak wrote:Better to have and not need than need and not have.

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Alan C wrote:Looks like a significant number of marchers in London and a number of other non-violent ones around the US. They should get equal coverage.

London, Manchester and Cardiff among others have had gatherings of thousands over the weekend in protest at the shooting.

Seabass wrote:"Enemy of the people."

Cannot believe they could not tell she was press. The outfit she had on totally said PRESS. Dressed in all black like Antifa. googles, nothing on that said Press. No vest nothing. middle of a push police line being told to move on. Hiding behind a small brick wall as the police approached. I say she was clearly identifiable as being a member of the press.

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aufbahrung wrote:Failed revolutions turn to fascism. Not the idea of fascism but the real thing with mass graves on the edge of town and that sort of thing. America is not special in these regards. If anything it is the potential stereotype being already a violent gnu obsessed society.

Good Samaritans detained on live TV while protecting LA business from alleged looters

LOS ANGELES - Good Samaritans who were trying to help the owners of a Los Angeles liquor store protect their business from alleged looters were handcuffed and detained by police who were confused after arriving at the scene Monday evening. The entire situation took place live on FOX 11.

Reporter Christina Gonzalez was outside the Van Nuys liquor store when store owners and members of the community got into a standoff with a group of alleged looters who approached a gold store next door. However, the liquor store owners—who were armed—and the residents who came to help weren’t going to let that happen.

"We're not doing that. We're not tearing up anything over here,” Monet, a well-known member of the local community, recalled saying to the alleged looters.

Gonzalez and Monet tried to flag down police as they passed. When officers arrived in front of the store, there was confusion. As the situation continued to unfold on live TV, several of the officers ran after several men who ran cross the street, but other officers approached Monet, her husband and brother-in-law, whom are all African American, and began putting them in handcuffs as Gonzalez tried explaining that they were not the looters.
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“We’re putting those in handcuffs right now!” one of the officers said to Gonzalez, as she frantically tried to explain they had the wrong people and were losing the alleged looters. Gonzalez went on to provide police with a description of the alleged looters, answering officers' questions while she was still live on air.

"I was handcuffed, thrown up against a wall with my husband and brother-in-law, and I'm like, 'What the hell?'" Monet explained in an exclusive interview with FOX 11. "The news people are here and telling you it's not her, she's trying to stop the situation."

Tortured_Genius wrote:Serious question - is there anything in the US constitution (or law) that could be used to justify the postponement or cancelling of November's elections?

I'm trying to figure out how likely that is Trump's game plan.

I'm guessing though that this will more likely be used to suppress the Democrat vote since a disproportionate number of dem voters are going to be in jail....

Seabass wrote: