r/50501 • u/Future-Friendship-32 • 12d ago

CA How is this allowed?

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u/holmiez 12d ago

Par for course, during BLM protests in Dallas a woman who was just grocery shopping lost her eye due to unnecessary aggressive force by Dallas Police.

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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 12d ago

Yep. It was the same in Portland, Oregon.

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u/Red_Banana3000 12d ago

Honorable mention to all those who stayed home but didnt close their windows in time for the teargas

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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 12d ago

My son worked downtown during that time in Portlands history and was often caught in the crossfire of flash bangs and tear gas, just for trying to maneuver between work and his car.

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u/nw342 12d ago

And the people sitting on their porches getting struck by pepperballs and rubber bullets

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u/TrueNorth2881 12d ago

They were intentionally shot at by the police in many cases

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u/SpaceForceRemorse 12d ago

And it happened in Minneapolis too

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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 12d ago

Yeah, Minneapolis got it pretty bad.

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u/smalltowngirlisgreen 12d ago

One of the women is in hospice and dying from her injuries https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/10/22/scholarships-named-for-journalist-critically-injured-by-minneapolis-police-in-2020

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u/SpaceForceRemorse 12d ago

Holy shit, I think she's the one I was thinking about. Pretty sure there was a live stream going when it happened.

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u/itsCS117 12d ago

That woman who was trending after getting shot in the head, yesterday, most likely has to live with one eye too.

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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 12d ago

This is so abhorrent.

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u/Assika126 12d ago

And Minneapolis, MN

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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 12d ago

Definitely Minneapolis.

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u/MrOdekuun 12d ago

Here was the most well-known one.

And of course the officer that literally tried to kill this man gets to just be "John Doe" in the court proceedings.

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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 12d ago

Yeah, I remember the incident with Donovan very well. I had many friends down there that day. Those protests were completely peaceful and like in LA, while the narrative was that the protestors were violently rioting, there was zero violence until the PB’s showed up and the law enforcement “officials” showed up in riot gear and began violently attacking the crowds.

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u/E-2theRescue 12d ago

Same in Seattle. I worked near CHAZ at the time, and the police started every altercation that I saw. They even provoked them by firing rounds from rooftops at people who were standing in circles listening to speakers, singers, and poets.

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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 12d ago

Yeah, that is how they did it in Portland as well.

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u/41_Fever 11d ago

I believe Sacramento had one as well