We have learned that two of those arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails at police vehicles are attorneys. Colinford Mattis, 32, is a Pryor Cashman associate and graduate of NYU and Princeton. Urooj Rahman is a human rights lawyer and graduate of Fordham https://t.co/sGKnrnIpD9
On Saturday, Richmond Police Chief Will Smith was overcome with emotion detailing one of the worst acts of violence carried out in the city during the previous night’s rioting, ostensibly over the death of George Floyd.
According to Smith, rioters set fire to an occupied multi-family residence with a child inside, then repeatedly blocked firefighters’ access to the scene.
Thankfully, officers found a way to secure access and saved the family, including the child.
“One incident that is particularly poignant, that truly illustrates the seriousness of the issues we’re facing,” Smith told reporters. “Protesters intentionally set a fire to an occupied building on [West] Broad Street. This is not the only occupied building that has been set fire to in the last two days.”
“They prohibited us from getting on scene,” the police chief continued. “We had to force our way to make a clear path for the fire department.”
“Protesters intercepted that fire apparatus several blocks away with vehicles and blocked that fire department’s access to the structure fire,” Smith said. “Inside that home was a child.”
“Officers were able to –,” Smith attempted to continue, though he was overcome with emotion, “help those people out of the house.”
“We were able to get the fire department there safely,” the emotional police chief added.
“When you take a legitimate issue and hijack it for unknown reasons, that is unacceptable to me,” Smith stated firmly, “it’s unacceptable to the Richmond Police Department, unacceptable to the city of Richmond.”
Protests began popping up across the nation on Tuesday over the death of Floyd, a black man who died after a police officer had his knee on the 46-year-old’s neck for over eight minutes during an arrest, as shown in viral video footage.
“An eight-minute clip filmed by a person on the street shows Floyd telling police he can’t breathe and begging the cop on top of him to stop before he falls unconscious,” The Daily Wire reported Tuesday. “Officer Derek Chauvin was identified as the officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck outside Cup Foods on Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street.”
“He’s not even resisting arrest right now, bro,” one bystander is heard telling the officers, according to the video. “You’re f***ing stopping his breathing right now, you think that’s cool?”
The protests quickly turned ugly; arson, looting, and violence spiked in places like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York City, Rochester, Richmond, and other cities.
Since the incident, all four officers involved in the arrest have been fired, investigations from the FBI and state law enforcement have been opened, and, on Friday, the officer at the center of the incident was taken into custody.
This is evil. To block the fire department from getting to a burning home with humans inside. Prime Evil.
So, pallets of bricks are showing up in suburbs of Dallas today in places where they typically would not be placed. Right outside of subdivisions. I’m going to check my city due to photos popping up and rumors of protests.
written by Avi YeminiThe riots in America are NOTHING like Hong Kong, and comparing the two is bloody disgraceful.
Hong Kongers have been protesting for a year now, fighting for their freedom from Communist China under the constant and real threat of STATE SANCTIONED police brutality.
What’s happening in America is nothing alike.
What happened to George Floyd is horrible and inexcusable –– but it’s no justification for Antifa extremists to tear down everything that is American. Everything Hongkongers are fighting to obtain.
When activists like Drew Pavlou draw any comparison between the two, he undermines the legitimate cause Hongkongers are fighting, bleeding and dying for.
This comparison is disgraceful.
ONE bad cop in the US does NOT represent their entire police force. Hong Kong police are evil from top to bottom.
Also, I’ve been to Hong Kong and have NEVER seen protesters looting.
You cannot compare US police to the Hong Kong police.
How have many Police in Hong Kong been punished for their brutality? None.
Meanwhile, in the US, George Floyd’s killer is already facing murder charges.
There are some corrupt cops in the US, just as there are some here in Australia. The vast majority are good, just doing their job. Many of which STAND WITH HONG KONG against the police brutality there.
Cops in the West are accountable.
Take, for example, in Minnesota, the same police force at the centre of this crisis. A couple of years ago a BLACK cop shot and killed an unarmed WHITE Australian woman. He’s now in jail.
No one came out and rioted.
People understood he was a rotten egg. But in Hong Kong, the police force is spoiled from top to bottom. They work at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party.
The kind of brutality George Floyd suffered is a daily occurrence in Hong Kong; the difference is, none of the perpetrators stands trial.
Funny thing is Drew is not the only person supporting these riots; he’s in great company; The CCP is also celebrating these protests via Chinese state media.
If you're protesting for freedom and the Communist Party of China starts supporting you... you're doing it wrong.
In case anyone is still not convinced of the vast differences between America and Hong Kong, take a look at how the supposed ‘protesters’ are behaving in the US.
In all my time spent at protests in Hong Kong, I’ve never, even once, witnessed protesters looting.
In all my time spent at protests in Hong Kong, I've never, not even once, witnessed protesters looting.
What George Floyd suffered is a daily occurrence in Hong Kong; the difference is, none of the perpetrators ever stands trial.
Fire fighters have fire hoses. Those have been shown to be effective against rioters. I hope they used them...
White people rolling up handing Black men bricks to throw during the protests? Glad a Black woman was there to set they asses straight. pic.twitter.com/k9ickiIQA9
Polk County, Florida Police Sherrif to gun owners regarding looters: “I’m highly recommending they blow you back out of the house.”pic.twitter.com/40jP20SRg3
Just made a run to my local Walmart that's borderline in the sticks, about 20 minutes east of I-275 around Cincinnati and found out they closed at 5pm because of potential civil unrest. I'm about 10 minutes south but much more rural.
Apparently last night there was some demonstrating in a nice suburb further north but much closer to the 275 loop that warranted this.
Not sure how closing to customers is going to keep rioters from smashing windows and ripping doors out to get in but, okay.
And apparently this happened to one of our customers during last night's festivities in a rich and vibrant Cincinnati neighborhood.
Retards didn't get anything. All that stuff in the drive through was fairly new (and expensive). Van was stolen.
The tweet referred to a passage in President Barack Obama’s obama medium , in which he said: “We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths –- that all of us are created equal –- is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall.”
The Stonewall Riots occurred in New York City in 1969 and are considered a crucial event in the emergence of the gay rights movement.
However, as the Wall Street Journalnoted last year, the drama and violence of the riots overshadowed a non-violent gay rights movement that had already existed for a decade, and which lay the groundwork for what followed:
Stonewall has long been credited as the event that sparked the modern gay rights movement. But while the riots that ensued over three days and nights in late June 1969 were undoubtedly transformative, they weren’t the first time that gay people had resisted persecution. Stonewall was preceded by well over a decade of gay civil rights activism, much of it led by a man named Frank Kameny. The rhetoric and strategies that he employed were less confrontational than those adopted by the people at Stonewall, but they set the intellectual template for the gay movement’s eventual success.
Fairfax County, just outside Washington, DC, includes many of the suburban areas of Northern Virginia that have moved dramatically to the left in recent decades, shifting the state as a whole from red to purple to Democratic blue.
June 1st, 2020, 23:22
vector7
Re: Widespread National Rioting
'The Five' condemns antifa 'infiltrating' peaceful protests
June 2nd, 2020, 05:15
Ryan Ruck
Re: Widespread National Rioting
:D
"The people in Polk County like guns, they have guns, I encourage them to own guns... And if you try to break into their homes to steal, to set fires, I'm highly recommending they blow you back out of the house with their guns." STORY: https://t.co/NjG4Frlphypic.twitter.com/KH0g3X0POC
— Tommy Real Nigga (@TommyRealNiggga) June 1, 2020
June 2nd, 2020, 06:39
Ryan Ruck
Re: Widespread National Rioting
91-00504, a military Swearingen RC-26B Metroliner, is circling over Whittier, Minneapolis at 8675 feet, squawking 0243, 0.01 miles from 24 St E #91_00504 https://t.co/ZAAowIcvwipic.twitter.com/Fqg7udQRSy
— Advisory Circular Minneapolis-St. Paul (@SkyCirclesMPLS) June 2, 2020
Rooftop Arabs (or Pakistanis) defending thei business in New York City. They start looting, the Arabs start shooting and the rioters immediately flee. #GunRights work! Weak governments won’t protect you! pic.twitter.com/0q48UcuQOG