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by adjkant 6y ago
Appreciate the insight into the process! Someone very well may follow up in two weeks :)
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by adjkant 6y ago
Hi dang! If I may ask, why is this one not on the front page? It seems to offer something significantly different that that older link which only links to an article indexing police brutality against journalists, while this is against all p
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by adjkant 6y ago
Wow, that explanation, live, and seeing it play out is incredible. That narration and video work given the situation is incredibly commendable.
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by adjkant 6y ago
100% agreed, I tried to highlight that with the + but I think this nit is helpful and will hopefully flag this for people who might not think back to that type of history, like how sheriffs were originally created to track down runaway slav
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by adjkant 6y ago
The national guard is backing up the police. The police presence there was long before they came in. So yes, like Minneapolis. If the initial police response was different we could see a vastly different landscape of protests currently, but
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by adjkant 6y ago
While coming to the table is important and I think reacting thoughtfully to this is important, I think it's important to note that these incidents of police brutality are being documented a lot more due to the current events and scale
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by adjkant 6y ago
Truly an insane moment that really underscores the level of fear these cops are acting under. If they are that unstable, they should not be out in the field currently. I have said this elsewhere on HN, but I think these protests would be be
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by adjkant 6y ago
Right now there is so much first person documentation of these acts pouring into Twitter, Reddit, Snapchat's Map, and Tiktok. This is the time to make sure there is a simple way to document all of this so it can be organized later. Sys
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by adjkant 6y ago
This tweet has a good two minute video of some of these cases, for those who are questioning if this is "valid" as I have seen in many threads. https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1266917228752056320
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by adjkant 6y ago
You can find the videos yourself of this happening over many many cities. I'm not going to do that work for someone clearly not trying to understand in good faith. You say this like it's a conspiracy when there are clear maligned
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by adjkant 6y ago
Wide scale police brutality and a lack of accountability or change over 30 years+. Rodney King. Ferguson. The countless names and incidents in between. In my hometown, there was a young black man shot 17 times in the back that sparked local
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by adjkant 6y ago
Many of those white people arrested for said looting have been tied back to white supremacists groups who seem to be trying to discredit the protestors. This is all happening fast so I can't say this is the best source, but: https:&#x
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by adjkant 6y ago
It's called abuse of power. Police should be enforcing laws, not their own will. Police 100% cannot tell people to do anything. The issue is the law is not good at defining these things, leading to this exact issue of mass scale police
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by adjkant 6y ago
> But the vast majority of these altercations come from after a group has been declared a riot This is typically after police have antagonized the situation and created it through tactics like kettling and surrounding protesters and then
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by adjkant 6y ago
I read this as "stop using your constitutional right to protest or we will attack you". These curfews are clearly being used to suppress protests, and I think disobedience is crucial here and does not justify police brutality in a
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by adjkant 6y ago
Protests have been regularly shown to let emergency vehicles through, I saw videos of this yesterday.
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by adjkant 6y ago
Then you also know a good deal of people disagree with you, so what you see as wrong likely doesn't match the poster. So what's the point of going in this loop of useless comments?
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by adjkant 6y ago
> You just sound really mad at FB and silicon valley for no good reason As a reader of Hacker News, it'd be quite hard to imagine you don't have at least have an understanding of some reasons to dislike Facebook or Silicon Vall
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by adjkant 6y ago
> Imagine discriminating based upon the employees work history. Who the fuck are you, mate? Last I checked that's time and time again what companies hire on based on every study, lol. Your issue seems to not be at all with prior wor
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by adjkant 6y ago
Just like this[1] dead post, you're bringing the lack of nuance, not the parent. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23378204
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by adjkant 6y ago
I'm only going off what you said: > I don't take sides Not taking sides is de facto siding with the more powerful side in a situation for practical/effect purposes, this is pretty well established across many disciplines.
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by adjkant 6y ago
I want to point out there's a big difference between judging people without nuance and what the parent post says. To me it seems you read a lot in between the lines on the post above which I didn't get nearly the same reading on.
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by adjkant 6y ago
Who says people have not considered both sides, reasoned, and then come to a conclusion? Considering both sides does not mean forbidding conclusions to be made. It's clear that I find your level of skepticism to be too far for the cont
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by adjkant 6y ago
See other threads, but this is not an isolated incident. Trying to argue that it was staged seems incredibly disingenuous and an unreasonable standard of proof given the widespread occurrences of this and police brutality in the past 48 hou
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by adjkant 6y ago
American here who fully disagrees, particularly on the first part. Even in today's craziness worldwide it's clear the US has fucked up worse than many other countries. I'm not going to live and die on external opinions but ca
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by adjkant 6y ago
The irony here is you just pigeonholed "ethics" and then made several ethical arguments yourself while saying you don't care about ethics! To add some formal language: > I don't think absolute right and wrong, or even
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by adjkant 6y ago
Is the problem not precisely that there are very apparent and relevant conflicts between these points? Reconciling free speech with "offer[ing a] safe, welcoming platforms for users" is exactly what's at play here when it com
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by adjkant 6y ago
> is writing and applying a custom TOS that covers content not editorializing/publishing? For the specific TOS in question I see no way this counts as that. It is simply banning things like pornography, hate speech, and cyberbullyin
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by adjkant 6y ago
> This is exactly what Trump said in the tweet. No, that is not what he said. This is the tweet excerpt: > "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robb
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by adjkant 6y ago
[citation needed]

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