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Somewhere on the Twitterverse I stumbled upon someone cataloging the police brutality events at these protests. They were counting specifically camera documented events. If memory serves it was over 200 like 2 or 3 days ago. The number of attacks by cops on media personnel alone is staggering. If this society is going to move forward, all this will need to result in substantive change to how policing is done. Like I said, the tree is badly diseased.

Any good business person knows that you don’t make future decisions based on sunk costs. The cash the Pegulas sunk into the Sabres won’t matter if it makes business sense to sell the team.

So much for my comments in the now locked thread that at least this police violence wasn’t happening locally. A local news crew caught on film a Buffalo cop violently shove a 75yr old man who was just in the way. The man fell, hit his head on the pavement and the video footage shows blood streaming out of his right ear while he remained motionless in the road. a dozen cops walked right by as he lay there unconscious and bleeding and not a cop stopped to check how badly he was hurt. A 75 yr old man down and badly damaged and not a single public servant stopped to check on him. It took a National Guardsman to check on the man and get medical help. And the news crew filming? They were immediately forced to leave. The BPD official statement was that the old man tripped and was hurt. If it wasn’t for that news crew the truth would never get out. Its really difficult for me to not express myself in the way I want. This sort of thing is EXACTLY why these protests are happening. Its time to cut the tree down and plant a new one. This one is too diseased to save.

Eating at a quiet outdoor restaurant is awesome. Did a drive by to see if they were busy. Only a handful of patrons so........ it feels like home.

Stop feeding them or get a Jack Russel Terrier.

I wonder if the league trend in how powerplays operate changed last season and our penalty kill scheme just wasn’t well suited to it?

A gun store is one of the very few exceptions I'll make to the idea that killing someone to protect property is wrong.

So much has occurred. I don’t really know what happened in Philly.

Well, ironically, the 2nd Amendment was written to fight the very type of actions Trump announced today, but I doubt many 2nd Amendment supporters will be willing to use it to protect against the actual tyranny being threatened.

You weren’t asking me, but I think the end of a democratic United States is well within sight. Between corporate money determining policy (and candidates) and an increasingly authoritarian government that has lost its checks and balances, I think we are 75% of the way there.

If you haven’t seen the videos and pictures of the journalists who have been injured by police actions, you should seek them out. There are many videos that plainly show police targeting people with visible press credentials and shooting them with rubber bullets, pepper pellets, and tear gas and flash bang Grenades. There is clear evidence that the press is being targeted and journalists are getting injured. One lost her eye to a rubber bullet over the weekend. Disgusting behavior that has no justification.

Go on.....

Taken from Twitter: Message from Cleveland police tonight: “No media is allowed downtown unless they are inside their place of business. Period.” @CLEpolice The police are out of control. They’ve shot at and arrested credentialed media and press. They’ve been complicit in some of the violence. The veil is off and they are having a tantrum now. And in riot gear they can do it anonymously. This behavior is exactly why there is rioting to begin with. Thank God we aren’t seeing this crap locally.

Editorial bias.

A tanker truck just drove into a crowd of protesters in Minneapolis on a highway that was supposedly closed for at least 45 minutes. No word on injuries yet.

I'm more than halfway home. I worry for what my son is going to live through alot more than what I will.

I'm guessing he reposted it from somewhere else?

It only takes a minute of googling to find images of Proud Boys and Boogaloo Bois in those riots as well. Note the Igloo patches, Hawaiian shirts, and white supremacy hand signs. Look up Boogaloo to get the significance of the patches and shirts. Don't pretend that the far right isn't well represented in the chaos here. You can bet their aim is destabilization too. Boogaloo is shorthand for civil war 2 afterall.

It takes two sides to discuss. For all too long only one side has been talking. The laws are in place. It’s rarely implemented, and that is a huge chunk of the issue. What is needed is reform of training, recruitment, and a dismantling of the thin blue line that prevents good cops from pointing out bad cops. The other side of the discussion needs to come from within the law enforcement fraternity. The people have been talking for decades. The other side needs to step up to the table.

Photos all over the internet of far left groups like Antifa and far right groups like Boogaloo Bois and Proud Boys participating in these riots, yet this AM only far left Antifa is singled out by Trump to be labeled as a terrorist organization.

From what I have seen, it looked to me like they instigate and move on to let the rest finish the job.

Plenty of talent. Not enough determination IMO. Jack spoke to that in his Zoom interview. We've got alot of softness in that PP lineup.

I live in a county with more dairy cows than people. I over reacted, but the vibe from all this is just off. This isn't the Rodney King riots. There is something more sinister at play I think. I am supposed to travel to Detroit for business this week. I'm not at all comfortable with it. Between this and COVID. Ugh.

A few nights ago a guy was shot and killed in Livingston County after trying to ram cop cars with a semi and shooting at them. He had a bunch of anti-police and civil war stuff on his social media pages. WTF is going on?

Yeah, I know the drill. Seems like far right and far left involved the last couple of nights. Strange stuff indeed.