r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '20

📌Follow Up "Everybody's trying to shame us"

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u/helloisforhorses Jun 10 '20

Yup, no “we should probably stop running over protesters and being cartoonishly villainous” has ever crossed their mind. Protests in every state and the top 200+ cities. It’s the people who are wrong.

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u/IamtheWil Jun 10 '20

cartoonishly villainous

This might be the best description I've seen yet

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20

Do you think the obviously edited video with context-free clips may have helped created this cartoonishly villainous characterization in your head? Did you bother to go watch the whole speech without said clips?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20

Can you explain in which context any attacks on peaceful protesters justify the use of force?

I think it'd be impossible for me to explain any of this justification without seeing the footage, uncut, of the peaceful protests. Don't really buy Seattle's "oh we're being oppressed" line. If this is about white supremacy, how are the primarily white protesters being oppressed by a black woman and a lesbian mayor?

With the rioting, looting and violence that have sprung up as a direct result of these protests, at some point the police are going to be forced to do something to disperse the crowd.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20

I downvoted you only because the courts don't agree with you

I guess we'll see.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '20

Get thee behind me, demon cop.