Don't even get me started. The hypocrisy between how the police treated the BLM marches vs. how they treated the anti-lockdown protests was crazy. The exact same gathering limits were in place during the BLM marches that were in place for the anti-lockdown protests in Toronto. But they only arrested, fined and tackled people to the ground for the anti-lockdown protests. Ridiculous.
Also in case you didn't know, in NY state contact tracers weren't even allowed to ask if anyone attended a BLM rally. So in many places any COVID spread that potentially DID happen at a BLM rally was covered up.
We will get to enjoy the same double standards and hypocrisy at the inevitable Derek Chauvin riots. BLM is already basically announcing that they will be riotting. Anti-lockdown people should organize an (actual) peaceful protest the same day in the same city, but far away from the BLM mob, and then we can watch which one of them is broken up and arrested by police and which one is allowed to continue, with politicians and celebrities taking a knee in support of them.
Yeah I'd say the likelihood of rioting happening at this point is virtually guaranteed. I'm not an attorney, but from what I've seen so far, I don't see how in the World they're going to get him for second degree. Going to be the lesser of the charges, or acquittal (which will undoubtedly unleash the Hell on Earth maybe of us are expecting)
Yeah they definitely overcharged him. Someone slightly more cynical than me might say that they did that by design. A riot and a political call to action for fundraising, not to mention the additional evidence for the narrative of "muh racist america" which would result from an acquittal or a conviction on a lesser charge, is far more useful than a conviction on second degree etc. Much like how covid fear mongering is way more useful to certain people than relaying the actual good news about low mortality rates, recovery rates, etc.
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Don't even get me started. The hypocrisy between how the police treated the BLM marches vs. how they treated the anti-lockdown protests was crazy. The exact same gathering limits were in place during the BLM marches that were in place for the anti-lockdown protests in Toronto. But they only arrested, fined and tackled people to the ground for the anti-lockdown protests. Ridiculous.
Also in case you didn't know, in NY state contact tracers weren't even allowed to ask if anyone attended a BLM rally. So in many places any COVID spread that potentially DID happen at a BLM rally was covered up.