Chauvin put his knee, not his foot on Floyd's neck, my mistake. Not that it made any difference in the end.
What does Biden have to do with this? For the record he did comment and he spoke like a true leader, not a rabble rouser:
"Once again — the words 'I can't breathe.' An act of brutality so elemental, it did more than deny one more black man in America his civil rights and his human rights. It denied his very humanity. It denied him of his life..."
"The pain is too immense for one community to bear alone. I believe it's the duty of every American to grapple with it and grapple with it now..."
"With our complacency, our silence, we are complicit in perpetuating these cycles of violence. Nothing about this will be easy or comfortable, but if we simply allow this wound to scab over once more without treating the underlying injury, we'll never truly heal. The very soul of America is at stake."
As far as castigating the rioters, there was rioting and looting right here in Pittsburgh and it made me sick. I don't condone violence for any reason. The riot started as a peaceful protest. Nobody is praising the violence and saying it's deserved. City officials claim the violence was started by anarchists not from here, but the investigation is still going on.
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
Doc Dutch (05-31-2020)
You're a fuckung joke I posted the unequivocal evidence that he overtly condemned Nazis in his initial statement on August 14th and again during the presser on the 15th and posted the links that are dated to prove it that is not my version that is the only version it is reality you laughable fuck.
Check yourself, hotshot. The only reason there was a controversy at all was because of trump's stupid comments about a white nationalist demonstration, starting with the idiocy about "on many sides. On many sides."
Maybe you missed (haha) David Duke's comment "Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa."
trump did make a lot of neo-Nazis happy with his responses so there is that, and I bet you were thrilled.
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
Doc Dutch (05-31-2020)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
christiefan915 (05-31-2020)
cancel2 2022 (05-31-2020)
That is totally asinine. Clearly you were stoned during Kent State.
The guardsmen were not ordered to fire. You had a bunch of under trained young guardsman who were being pelted with rocks and debris some clearly panicked turned and fired. As soon as the first shots were fired that created a chain reaction. So like it or not it was a mistake. You would be correct if someone had given the order to fire. In fact this was the aftermathGeneral Canterbury ordered his men to lock and load their weapons, and to fire tear gas into the crowd. The Guardsmen then marched across the Commons, forcing protesters to move up a nearby hill called Blanket Hill, and then down the other side of the hill toward a football practice field.
As the football field was enclosed with fencing, the Guardsmen were caught amongst the angry mob, and were the targets of shouting and thrown rocks yet again.
The Guardsmen soon retreated back up Blanket Hill. When they reached the top of the hill, witnesses say 28 of them suddenly turned and fired their M-1 rifles, some into the air, some directly into the crowd of protestersNumerous investigatory commissions and court trials followed, during which members of the Ohio National Guard testified that they felt the need to discharge their weapons because they feared for their lives.
The problem usually seems to be a direct result of crowding too many people into a small area and having a young population that is all too eager to destroy things at a moment's notice.
To be fair, we see this not just as a reaction to perceived injustices but also to freaking sports games.
In short, too many young people are just looking for a reason to destroy things. It doesn't matter if the rioting happens as a result of a murder or as a result of a sports game -- it still is destructive and helps no one.
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