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How widespread are the protests? It seems very bizarre to think they could be affecting tech news and announcements. Is there more going on here?

• thatguy0900 6y ago
  Protests all across the country, riots only in a few large cities. It's alot bigger then Minneapolis
• Memosyne 6y ago
  > Protests have erupted in at least 20 US cities over the death of unarmed black man George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [1] Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests 1 - https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/george-floyd-protests-05-30-20/index.html https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/george-floyd-protests-05-30...
  • ConsiderCrying 6y ago
    It's also worth noting that this happened in the space of a day or so, a very quick countrywide expansion. There are supposedly reports that the White House is on lockdown due to the people protesting outside.
• katktv 6y ago
  let's just say that they have spread beyond the state where this happened. and given that the police is getting ever more brutal, there is no reason for them to stop spreading either.
• MattGaiser 6y ago
  They are consuming all media space which is not directed to covid. There is just no room to talk about Google right now.
• djaque 6y ago
  George Floyd's murder is only the straw that broke the camel's back. This is now about decades of injustice and police officers that stand by silently and enable their peers to abuse and kill and get away with it. Protests have broken out in most major cities.
  • mdoms 6y ago
    Well people said the same thing about Trayvon Martin but nothing changed after the protests.
    • ngcazz 6y ago
      I don’t remember Trayvon Martin triggering any public action this aggressive or widespread
      • MattGaiser 6y ago
        https://www.google.com/search?q=trayvon+martin+protests&rlz=1C1CHBF_enCA852CA852&oq=trayvon+martin+protests&aqs=chrome..69i57.5533j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=trayvon+martin+protests&rlz=... It was pretty intense at the time.
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        • ngcazz 6y ago
          Sure; but that wasn't a campaign year, nor was there a pandemic raging in parallel where at least 100000 people will have died, the majority of them from minorities. And as a sidenote: Trump is literally activating terrorist cells in your country -- his tweet was explicitly quoted by this self-ascribed paramilitary goon when coming out with his machinegun to terrorize folks: https://twitter.com/LCRWnews/status/1266509747169005569 https://twitter.com/LCRWnews/status/1266509747169005569 Was this happening in 2013? Pretty sure it wasn't.
      • mdoms 6y ago
• weiming 6y ago
  Twitter has been indispensable for on-the-street/real-time video reporting (just search for city name). Even reached normally quiet Portland.
  • drewwwwww 6y ago
    it’s curious to me that you consider portland to be normally quiet - in the era of W and occupy it was 2nd only to Oakland on the west coast as being somewhat notorious for protest intensity, which was also worn as a badge of pride, and recently there have been several intense clashes between pro- and counter-fascist demonstrations.
• kevingadd 6y ago
  Cops were shooting (less-lethal rounds and gas, not live rounds) at unarmed protesters down the road from me in San Jose tonight, not too far from Google's main campus. Plenty of their employees live here and some work here right now due to the pandemic. It feels pretty logical to see violent unrest outside your window and think 'we should probably postpone whatever press events we have planned'
• seemslegit 6y ago
  Yes, PR and political signalling both internal and external.
• TLightful 6y ago
  How much rent do you pay for that closet?