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Nevilledog

(51,063 posts) Sun Sep 6, 2020, 07:22 PM Sep 2020

Thought exercise. Imagine a pro-police rally. And a car filled w/ BLM protestors plows through crowd

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Thought exercise. Imagine a pro-police rally. And a car filled w/ BLM protestors plows through crowd (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2020 OP

Chances are they'd have shot the lot of them right then and there. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2020 #1

And then held a press conference to declare "they were no angels"... regnaD kciN Sep 2020 #2

NYPD gets protested for being assholes, their solution? Become bigger assholes. FIRE THEM ALL / HIRE uponit7771 Sep 2020 #3

That car would have looked like Sonny's from the Godfather. Ferrets are Cool Sep 2020 #4

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,659 posts)

1. Chances are they'd have shot the lot of them right then and there.

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Sun Sep 6, 2020, 07:31 PM

Sep 2020

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)

2. And then held a press conference to declare "they were no angels"...

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 6, 2020, 07:35 PM

Sep 2020

...based on one of them having been cited for jaywalking twenty years earlier.

(This is even if it was clear that the BLM driver and passengers had driven into the crowd accidentally.)