May 29, 2020 By: El Jefe Category: Alt-Right Racists
In one of the most remarkable scenes ever on live television, the Minnesota state police arrested a CNN television crew and the reporter as he was covering them closing off a street. Oh, and did I mention that the reporter is black? I’m sure it’s a coinkydink.
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Signage: “First they came for the journalists. I don’t know what happened after that.”
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Here’s what Obama said after journalists were arrested in Ferguson in 2014: “Our constitutional rights to speak freely, to assemble, and to report in the press must be vigilantly safeguarded, especially in moments like these.”
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1266327655365869570
Meanwhile Boss Tweet is doing the “No censorship” thing. Self generated content: Good! Professional generated content: Bad!
As long as Fear’s Leader is promoted and saved from the Statutes of Limitation, we will be getting alternate facts to cover the reality people are living if they are Black/Brown &/or want health insurance…
2Arrest of CNN reporter for crime of covering the news — immediate.
Arrest of 4 cops who murdered a man on videotape.
3Still waiting.
This is a natural result of a Trump presidency! Hope that the stupid people who elected Trump take responsibility for what they have done to our republic!
4The white reporter with them was not arrested.
5No Dan, it’s not due to Fat Donnie, although he encourages it. It’s been happening since Reagan or before. Recording and reporting on the police is vital, yet often results in arrests of journalists without cause.
Someone apologizes, and we’re supposed to forgive the police. After all, they are our friends, our protectors, our stabilizing influence.
And yet, all too often, they are the opposite of that.
6Heads are gonna need to roll in Minnesota over this entire mess. There is simply no excuse for any of it.
7Smacking baby’s hand.~
Edit: Twitter has hidden one of Donald Trump’s tweets behind a warning that it “glorifies violence”, further escalating the social media company’s row with the US president.
The US president’s tweet, posted on Thursday night Washington time, warned people in Minneapolis protesting against the killing of a black man, George Floyd, by a white police officer that he would send the military to intervene if there was “any difficulty”.
“When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” Trump wrote, apparently quoting the former Miami police chief Walter Headley, who in December 1967 promised violent reprisals to protests over stop-and-frisk tactics.
Two hours later, Twitter added a notice to the tweet: “This tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the tweet to remain accessible.”
The warning was accompanied by a link to its policies about public interest exceptions.
For people visiting Trump’s Twitter timeline, or seeing the tweet retweeted on their feed, the warning obscures the content unless they tap to view it. Full article:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/29/twitter-hides-donald-trump-tweet-glorifying-violence
8A friend and I who are old enough to remember the summer of 1968 were agreeing that we’ve seen this movie before. Then I woke to see exactly what I expected to see: rightwingers backing the cops.
I also remember November 1968.
9Trump has – very predictably – focused on the reaction rather than the act. See, it’s not as if a person being publicly murdered in cold blood by a police officer is really all that important — it’s the loss of CAPITAL (be it by theft or destruction) which is really important.
10Has anyone heard a peep from Amy Klobuchar?
11OK. That video of the cops arresting only the black members of the tv crew should be more than enough for the Guv to declare an emergency and send in the National Guard. Lord knows other Guvs throughout the past at least 50 years have send in the NG for far less reasons.
12Gov. Walz just said he got an angry call from Jeff Zucker about the arrest of the CNN reporter and crew. He didn’t say they’ve been released. I assume no police will be charged with this, either.
13Is it OK to say that we live in a police state now?
14Long long ago when I was a USAF officer stationed at Grand Forks AFB North Dakota, located across the Red River (of the North) from Minnesota, Minnesota was considered a progressive state, not a state that condoned or promoted racism! I am deeply saddened by the current conditioned to which it has apparently sunk.
15BFSMan @14,
16Ja, BFSMan, das ist wahr, sagen Sie es laut.
Heil Der Führer!
I too remember 1968 and nothing has changed. And Capt. Dan Minnesota is a progressive state only if you’re white!
17The Scandinavian parts of the Upper Midwest have a long history of being comfy with naziism: Lindbergh, McCarthy etc.
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