"Law and order!! Law and order!! ". Except for stay at home orders to prevent pandemic spread. Or protecting the statues of racist traitors. Or honoring desegregation. Or accepting abortion being the law of the land. Or starting the Civil War in the first place. Or honoring the verdict of the Civil War battlefield afterward. Or, or, or, or, or..... No, "law and order!! ", is really "get back in your place!! Get back in your fucking place!! Know your fucking plaaaace!!!! ".
I'm not seeing the image in a google search, but I have, at some point over the weekend, seen an image taken from the opposite direction, Chavin had his knee on Floyd's neck, but two other officers also had a knew on Floyd - one on his back and another on his legs. So, sure, the argument could be made that a knee to the neck wouldn't cause asphyxiation, but one on his neck and one on his diaphragm would.
It's actually more likely, IMHO, that the position he was held in would have been the cause rather than any individual point of contact. Restraining someone (especially a big someone) in the prone position via any technique makes this a high risk and he was held there for a considerable time, multiplying the impact.
Damn. I shoot here pretty regularly. I also saw that the Von's supermarket in Santa Monica that I used to go was totally plundered.
Holy shit, Popeye's. I know you meant well, but damn. They changed it VERY quickly, but of course someone always gets the shot in time and nothing goes away on the internet. The new version:
Former Minneapolis mayor Rybak writes on the issues of police racism and his own (self-admittedly failed) efforts to address it. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/02/mayor-minneapolis-police-racism-294985
The fact that it's causing damage causes people to take the protests more seriously. That said, actions like that shouldn't be and luckily aren't the goals of most protesters. However as has been discussed a few times in this thread now, while the rioters and protesters are in many cases different people with different goals, riots are often an inevitable consequence of mass protests. Especially when those protests are around issues where people feel powerless. So rioters can be condemned, however that shouldn't be used to condemn the protests. You're military, so well aware of the concept of collateral damage right. In this case, imagine that the doggy day cares window is instead a group of children in a wedding party.
The pastor of the church where Donnie-boy pulled his stunt didn't even know about it until she saw it online. And the pushback from clergy has been massive. He may have finally gone so far off the edge that there's no bringing him back, except for asslickers like Turtleman and Lindsay.
Sniffy little Beverly Hills, FWIW, locks down at 1 p.m. every afternoon. Apparently looters are figuring out "Why trash the local Target when we can get the Good Stuff on Rodeo Drive?" I'm not condoning, merely observing a paradigm shift since I've watched this stuff go down since the Sixties.
"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation." — Robert O. Paxton, "The Anatomy of Fascism" (2004)
Auntie Anne’s Breaks From Pack By Calling For Protesters To Be Shot. "Should these vandals steal so much as a teaspoon of our irresistible cinnamon-and-sugar-dusted pretzel dough, they will pay the ultimate price." Oldfella, Lubak, Zombie, and FF agree.
