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Thirty years ago. And this wasn't on a "high speed highway" it was on Florence Ave. And equating largely peaceful protests with the LA riots is really a mistak

by greedo 5y ago

Thirty years ago. And this wasn't on a "high speed highway" it was on Florence Ave. And equating largely peaceful protests with the LA riots is really a mistake. The LA riots turned violent very quickly, while the BLM marches stayed peaceful by and large with the exception of right-wing agitators who started looting and fires under false flag operations.

solarhoma 5y ago
There are plenty of videos from the summer of 2020 showing BLM rioters attacking vehicles and their occupants.
- fredophile 5y ago
  I searched for "BLM rioters attacking vehicle". The first result was an article about a driver being attacked and pulled from their vehicle. The protestors accused the driver of assaulting them before entering the vehicle. The second article was about protestors attacking a driver who attempted to drive through the crowd. All of the rest of the links in the rest of the page were about drivers running over protestors. Perhaps you could provide a link or two to back up your assertion.
  - superflit2 5y ago
    Use duckduckgo and different results will appear. As people asked for some duckduckgo results -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60cqUPxYThY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60cqUPxYThY https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/09/cop-in-texas-looks-on-impotently-as-blm-shuts-down-traffic-pulls-gun-on-frustrated-motorist-1071467/ https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/09/cop-in-texas-looks-o... https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12158537/protesters-attacked-car-man-cerebral-palsy/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12158537/protesters-attacked-c... https://news.yahoo.com/youtube-removes-anti-blm-livestream-220414035.html https://news.yahoo.com/youtube-removes-anti-blm-livestream-2...
    - pessimizer 5y ago
      This is the internet, if you found one you can just share it.
    - fredophile 5y ago
      Here's a TL;DR of the links: [0] Guy gets into an argument with protestors, then crashes his truck. Protestors fight guy. [1] Guy exits vehicle and argues with protestors. Cop breaks it up before things get out of hand. [2] Guy (accidentally) runs over a cyclist at a protest. Protestors get angry and trash car. [3] Youtube takes down a video, puts it back up with age restrictions. In the two cases where protestors attacked a vehicle or its occupants either the driver already had an altercation with protestors or the vehicle struck a protestor. The original comment I was replying to implied that there was lots of footage of protestors attacking people in cars. This doesn't show any evidence of that. I still haven't seen any evidence that there is a problem of protestors attacking random cars and their occupants.
  - solarhoma 5y ago
    Here is a video of a recent attack. Sounds like this is from last night. I saved the headline of the post for context. https://streamable.com/svs5ps https://streamable.com/svs5ps
- tessierashpool 5y ago
  > There are plenty of videos from the summer of 2020 showing BLM rioters attacking vehicles and their occupants. false.
throwawaysea 5y ago
Please stop gaslighting. Look at what happened after George Floyd. For example, DC had tons of violence, arson, burglaries, assaults, and so on (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/31/fires-light-up-washington-dc-on-third-night-of-george-floyd-protests https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/31/fires-light-...). In Portland, antifa-affiliated and BLM-affiliated rioters set buildings on fire, without caring about any occupants (https://nypost.com/2021/04/11/portland-ice-building-burns-amid-night-of-violent-protests/ https://nypost.com/2021/04/11/portland-ice-building-burns-am...). In Seattle, BLM rioters put posters around town encouraging people to commit crimes to tie up police resources (https://komonews.com/news/local/protesters-aim-to-tie-up-seattle-police-resources-with-nightly-marches https://komonews.com/news/local/protesters-aim-to-tie-up-sea...), and held twice daily blockades of infrastructure, including one incident where they trapped drivers in a tunnel. BLM activist even broke into homes in “white neighborhoods” and set fires in their kitchens with families sleeping in those homes (https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-blm-activist-arrested-for-arson-and-burglary https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-blm-activist-arrested-...). The George Floyd protests were not peaceful, and they were certainly far more violent than the Capitol riot since they very literally included orders of magnitude more violence, destruction, and death. A peaceful protest does not break the law. It does not try to subvert the political process we all follow via acts of violence to achieve a political end. These acts are technically terrorism, which is defined (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/terrorism https://www.dictionary.com/browse/terrorism) as follows: > the unlawful use of violence or threats to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government, with the goal of furthering political, social, or ideological objectives.
- pasabagi 5y ago
  >they were certainly far more violent than the Capitol riot since they very literally included orders of magnitude more violence, destruction, and death. ... And orders of magnitude more people. Per-capita, the capitol riot is obviously more violent, and that's the only way it makes sense to measure violence. Otherwise I could say that ISIS members are less violent than catholics.
  - NoImmatureAdHom 5y ago

by greedo 5y ago

solarhoma 5y ago

There are plenty of videos from the summer of 2020 showing BLM rioters attacking vehicles and their occupants.

fredophile 5y ago
I searched for "BLM rioters attacking vehicle". The first result was an article about a driver being attacked and pulled from their vehicle. The protestors accused the driver of assaulting them before entering the vehicle. The second article was about protestors attacking a driver who attempted to drive through the crowd. All of the rest of the links in the rest of the page were about drivers running over protestors. Perhaps you could provide a link or two to back up your assertion.
- superflit2 5y ago
  Use duckduckgo and different results will appear. As people asked for some duckduckgo results -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60cqUPxYThY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60cqUPxYThY https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/09/cop-in-texas-looks-on-impotently-as-blm-shuts-down-traffic-pulls-gun-on-frustrated-motorist-1071467/ https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/09/cop-in-texas-looks-o... https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12158537/protesters-attacked-car-man-cerebral-palsy/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12158537/protesters-attacked-c... https://news.yahoo.com/youtube-removes-anti-blm-livestream-220414035.html https://news.yahoo.com/youtube-removes-anti-blm-livestream-2...
  - pessimizer 5y ago
    This is the internet, if you found one you can just share it.
  - fredophile 5y ago
    Here's a TL;DR of the links: [0] Guy gets into an argument with protestors, then crashes his truck. Protestors fight guy. [1] Guy exits vehicle and argues with protestors. Cop breaks it up before things get out of hand. [2] Guy (accidentally) runs over a cyclist at a protest. Protestors get angry and trash car. [3] Youtube takes down a video, puts it back up with age restrictions. In the two cases where protestors attacked a vehicle or its occupants either the driver already had an altercation with protestors or the vehicle struck a protestor. The original comment I was replying to implied that there was lots of footage of protestors attacking people in cars. This doesn't show any evidence of that. I still haven't seen any evidence that there is a problem of protestors attacking random cars and their occupants.
- solarhoma 5y ago
  Here is a video of a recent attack. Sounds like this is from last night. I saved the headline of the post for context. https://streamable.com/svs5ps https://streamable.com/svs5ps
tessierashpool 5y ago
> There are plenty of videos from the summer of 2020 showing BLM rioters attacking vehicles and their occupants. false.

throwawaysea 5y ago

Please stop gaslighting. Look at what happened after George Floyd. For example, DC had tons of violence, arson, burglaries, assaults, and so on (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/31/fires-light-up-washington-dc-on-third-night-of-george-floyd-protests https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/31/fires-light-...). In Portland, antifa-affiliated and BLM-affiliated rioters set buildings on fire, without caring about any occupants (https://nypost.com/2021/04/11/portland-ice-building-burns-amid-night-of-violent-protests/ https://nypost.com/2021/04/11/portland-ice-building-burns-am...). In Seattle, BLM rioters put posters around town encouraging people to commit crimes to tie up police resources (https://komonews.com/news/local/protesters-aim-to-tie-up-seattle-police-resources-with-nightly-marches https://komonews.com/news/local/protesters-aim-to-tie-up-sea...), and held twice daily blockades of infrastructure, including one incident where they trapped drivers in a tunnel. BLM activist even broke into homes in “white neighborhoods” and set fires in their kitchens with families sleeping in those homes (https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-blm-activist-arrested-for-arson-and-burglary https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-blm-activist-arrested-...). The George Floyd protests were not peaceful, and they were certainly far more violent than the Capitol riot since they very literally included orders of magnitude more violence, destruction, and death. A peaceful protest does not break the law. It does not try to subvert the political process we all follow via acts of violence to achieve a political end. These acts are technically terrorism, which is defined (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/terrorism https://www.dictionary.com/browse/terrorism) as follows: > the unlawful use of violence or threats to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government, with the goal of furthering political, social, or ideological objectives.

pasabagi 5y ago
>they were certainly far more violent than the Capitol riot since they very literally included orders of magnitude more violence, destruction, and death. ... And orders of magnitude more people. Per-capita, the capitol riot is obviously more violent, and that's the only way it makes sense to measure violence. Otherwise I could say that ISIS members are less violent than catholics.
- NoImmatureAdHom 5y ago