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Large Protests Breaking Out Nationwide (Original Post) sfstaxprep May 2020 OP
People are pissed. roamer65 May 2020 #1
I think just about everyone is getting fed up with this and the bullshit. n/t RKP5637 May 2020 #3
Hope they are using social distance and masks. jimfields33 May 2020 #5
From the photos, they are clearly not social distancing. LisaL May 2020 #6
I was in the grocery store and the young maybe 16 year old cashier had his under the nose jimfields33 May 2020 #8
In MA you aren't required to wear a mask if you virgogal May 2020 #15
Wow. jimfields33 May 2020 #22
california stores have signs now saying masks must cover mouth and nose Demovictory9 May 2020 #18
Interesting post. Kingofalldems May 2020 #24
I guess suddenly a pandemic doesn't matter. EllieBC May 2020 #17
Think how many of We the People are fed up with remnants of slavery? elleng May 2020 #2
F'en racists just pass it along, generation after generation. They just love that RKP5637 May 2020 #4
KR! Cha May 2020 #7
Why are they protesting? Pretty much everything is allowed. tavernier May 2020 #9
It's about the police murder of a black man, not about the lockdown. Crunchy Frog May 2020 #10
Oh, sorry. Of course, that makes more sense. tavernier May 2020 #12
We have an intolerable situation that nobody is doing anything about dalton99a May 2020 #11
People are sick to death of authoritarian racist policing greenjar_01 May 2020 #13
I think we've just seen the metaphorical straw that broke the camel's back... abqtommy May 2020 #14
I hope this is a turning point against tyranny. ancianita May 2020 #16
Let us hope it is not used as a turning point toward tyranny. Hermit-The-Prog May 2020 #19
Absolutely. Great and wise point! We think things are bad now, but ... ancianita May 2020 #20
7 steps to becoming a dictator ... Hermit-The-Prog May 2020 #21
And Putin is smiling. Be safe out there. (Nt) FreepFryer May 2020 #23

LisaL

(44,973 posts)
6. From the photos, they are clearly not social distancing.
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:10 PM
May 2020

And for whatever reason, some people seem to think that mask worn on their chin has magical powers. WTF is the point of wearing mask if it doesn't cover your nose, mouth, and instead is sitting on your chin.

jimfields33

(15,760 posts)
8. I was in the grocery store and the young maybe 16 year old cashier had his under the nose
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:13 PM
May 2020

I said I don’t want to be a jerk but the mask needs to be over your nose. He said I can’t breath with it on as I have asthma. I was speechless to say the least.

I just hope these great heroes who are representing injustice do not get the coronavirus.

EllieBC

(3,010 posts)
17. I guess suddenly a pandemic doesn't matter.
Fri May 29, 2020, 01:25 AM
May 2020

Seems like suddenly no one cares. Which is sad because that’s all that is needed is more outbreaks.

RKP5637

(67,102 posts)
4. F'en racists just pass it along, generation after generation. They just love that
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:06 PM
May 2020

hatred and racism.

tavernier

(12,375 posts)
9. Why are they protesting? Pretty much everything is allowed.
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:17 PM
May 2020

Is it because they want those of us who will continue to isolate because that’s what we choose to do, to be punished for it? I guess I don’t get it.

tavernier

(12,375 posts)
12. Oh, sorry. Of course, that makes more sense.
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:50 PM
May 2020

Here down south we’ve just heard a lot about anger over the lockdowns. And I haven’t been on the tv for a couple of nights due to graduations of relatives that were virtually televised.

dalton99a

(81,426 posts)
11. We have an intolerable situation that nobody is doing anything about
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:22 PM
May 2020

and people are fucking pissed off.

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
13. People are sick to death of authoritarian racist policing
Thu May 28, 2020, 11:57 PM
May 2020

The police in the United States are totally out of control. People have had it of living in fear to a completely lawless gang of violent thugs.

The image of four or five cops "managing" a person by literally choking him to death while he posed zero threat at all is a last straw, a long time coming. Police officers really aren't more important than anyone walking down the street.

Enough already. Basta. Police need to get their shit together or the people will sort them. Period.

ancianita

(36,014 posts)
16. I hope this is a turning point against tyranny.
Fri May 29, 2020, 01:20 AM
May 2020

I hope police everywhere know that protestors are among their communities, and are Americans' loved ones.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,309 posts)
19. Let us hope it is not used as a turning point toward tyranny.
Fri May 29, 2020, 02:21 AM
May 2020

That thing in our White House would love to send the military marching through the streets.

ancianita

(36,014 posts)
20. Absolutely. Great and wise point! We think things are bad now, but ...
Fri May 29, 2020, 02:32 AM
May 2020

it could and might get so much worse.

That's what protestors are saying right now on camera. They're pretty sure that thing might.

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