George Floyd Protest/Riots

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NashVol11 said:
As peaceful protests continue, LAPD budget could be cut by up to $150 million to reinvest in communities of color
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From the article...

In all, Mayor Eric Garcetti pledged that the city would “identify $250 million in cuts so we can invest in jobs, in health, in education and in healing,” especially in the city’s black community “as well as communities of color and women and people who have been left behind.”

How do you invest in healing? This is part where people are going to get rich. Plus, if I'm paying a ton in taxes in LA County I'd like to have a say-so in this.
 
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NCFisher said:
No, and in fact I posted the transcript link in my recent replies.

You mean this video?: You and your 'styrofoam cup".

The transcript proves you wrong. "The video" proves you wrong.
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Remember how I explained that, of all the people on this forum, you’re one of two that I instinctively don’t trust? I’m sure you remember, you whined at some length about how great your credibility is.

First: watch that video, again. Look at that crowd. Listen to the reporter’s words as she describes them repeatedly and at length as a peaceful protest and that it was the police escalating tensions by boxing them in. She says repeatedly that it’s only a few people behaving violently.

Second: read this portion of the response to the same question that elicited the “expand the perimeter” excuse from your linked transcript:

William Barr: (38:16)
Unfortunately, because of the difficulty in getting appropriate units into place, by the time they were able to move our perimeter up to I street, a large number of protestors had assembled on H Street. There were projectiles being thrown and the group was becoming increasingly unruly. And the operation to what… They were asked to three times if they would move back one block, they refused. And we proceeded to move our perimeter out to I Street.

Now you know why, when I see you editorializing the contents of some link or making some representation about what you saw elsewhere on the internet, I just assume you’re mistaken or lying.

I think more than enough has been said to explain and justify my opinion. I stand by what I’ve said and see no reason to change my mind with respect to the impetus for clearing the crowd or the appropriateness of how it was done. Maybe next time, start your rebuttal with a sentence that doesn’t mischaracterize the my statement and I’ll bother reading to the end.... But I doubt it.
 
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