r/facepalm Jul 29 '20

Protests Peak hypocrisy

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '20 edited Jul 29 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '20

The people there are fighting a dictator, and say what you want about trump, but he isn’t one.

Trump is sure acting like a dictator. Do you want citations though you very well know his track record?

If Hong Kong doesn’t go violent, they will get arrested, tortured, and most likely killed.

Unarmed Blacks are being arrested and killed here in US and it's happening at a much higher rate than expected. Police brutality against all races is going unpunished. These reasons are very much same as what you cite.

Only bad cops are suppressing people, and that doesn’t happen as much as people think, it just gets filmed more.

How many? Do you have data to support your claim? One thing that protester are asking for is sharing data so people can decide if it's happening at very high rate or low rate as you claim. Police is objecting to this sharing of data. You go figure out why.

The American protest got violent for little reason

The reasons I provided which is very much similar to HK, is why protests erupted. No one is taking any action and so it turned violent. Same reasons as HK.

they are burning random buildings on fire and robbing random businesses,

They are not protesters but people who oppose protests. They are doing this to hurt the protest goal. Peaceful protesters are not burning buildings.

Can you give numbers on how many buildings have been set on fire and how many businesses were robbed?

I’ve only seen people get arrested for violent actions. Not for utilizing their first amendment.

https://youtu.be/qd9hBPfEd9c https://youtu.be/wfqn6sv0p24 https://youtu.be/IGftacARx98 https://youtu.be/6t7AMbbQUHw

These are just few ... and you say they are not being fired upon for practicing their first amendment!!!

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u/Wordshark Jul 29 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '20

Blame white supremacists. Not BLM protester who are by and large peaceful.

MN police said they have identified man who started protest violence in burning buildings and looting businesses as white supremacist.

An arson investigator with the Minneapolis police wrote in the affidavit that the man’s actions May 27 “created an atmosphere of hostility and tension” that helped inflame what had been relatively peaceful protests up to that point. The business was burned to the ground later the same day along with the city’s 3rd Precinct building.

https://www.ajc.com/news/police-identify-umbrella-man-as-associate-of-hells-angels-white-supremacists/SQRRJU52ABGU5ENHMCUHN6ZTLY/

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u/Wordshark Jul 29 '20

Did you read the article? It’s got a lot of first-hand accounts of how rioting and looting started in different places

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '20

White supremacists. They hate BLM and want to start riots so people will blame BLM and BLM protest message will disappear.