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2022-07-05 -Great Cultural Revolution

'City gonna burn': Akron police fire tear gas to quell rioters

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Posted by Fred 2022-07-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Mob Rule

#1 I really think at times the police should ditch tasers, beanbags, pepper spray, batons etc. If you run or resist, you get shot. You stop getting shot when you stop and start complying.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-07-05 10:17|| 2022-07-05 10:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Certainly he made a mistake. Akron police don’t have a reputation for malfeasance. There isn’t a history of bad race relations there to my knowledge. There was more BLM garbage in Cleveland and Youngstown as I remember. The city had been undergoing a refurb lately. Before Covid, I volunteered in a soup kitchen in the city on some Saturdays. The poor were a mix of black and white with few issues that I saw. Not sure how busting windows in struggling businesses will help. I expect it is outsiders doing the same, but it looks like the crowds were pretty small as compared to the BLM Cleveland hijinks.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-07-05 10:29|| 2022-07-05 10:29|| Front Page Top

#3 I'd be surprised if riots are not quickly suppressed while Brandon is in the White House and especially with mid-terms coming in a few short months. The optics are not good. Riots are for when Trump is in the White House.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-07-05 11:33|| 2022-07-05 11:33|| Front Page Top

#4 A statement from the Fraternal Order of Police said that the car that Walker was driving was involved in a police chase the day before he was killed

It's always the same basic story: Black guy breaks the law, resists arrest and ends up getting himself killed. Then the mainstream media goes into breathless hysterics about it as if it's news when it's really nothing new at all. Yawn.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-07-05 11:38|| 2022-07-05 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Analysis -

Investigators and experts on the use of force will sort out this incident, and I don’t know what the final conclusion will be. In the meantime, I have some comments and questions.

* Two facts that are repeated endlessly in the press are that Walker was black, and he was unarmed. He was unarmed because he left his gun on the seat of his car when he fled police on foot. And would the case have made national and international news if Walker had been white?

* What happened here was that police officers tried to pull Walker over for a traffic violation. Instead of pulling his car over like anyone else would do, he led the police on a long chase at high speed. The videos appear to show that along the way, he fired his gun out his window at the pursuing police vehicle. In any event, the police certainly thought he did.

* Police officers had every reason to believe that a suspect who flees a routine traffic stop and fires on officers is engaged in serious criminality, above and beyond those acts.

* Eventually Walker’s vehicle was pursued by multiple squad cars. He finally was cornered but still did not surrender. He pulled his car off the street and continued moving on a boulevard next to a park. While still moving, he exited his car on the passenger side and ran away from the officers. They had every reason to think he may have been carrying his gun, but in fact he had left it on the driver’s seat of his car.

* Multiple officers chased Walker, and one or more tried to tase him. That effort failed. It was dark and it is not easy to see what is going on in the videos; no doubt it was hard for the officers to know what was happening, too. But Walker, having ignored numerous demands that he stop and surrender to the police, turned toward them. Officers thought he posed a threat, that he would fire at them again, and they shot him.

- Powerline

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-05 13:27|| 2022-07-05 13:27|| Front Page Top

#6 What, no astute and articulate comment from LeBron James yet? (unless I missed it)

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-07-05 13:29|| 2022-07-05 13:29|| Front Page Top

#7 And if you look at the video on this, he's wearing a ski mask. You can't tell he's black until they put him on the ground and take it off.

So no, they couldn't even tell who was in the car. On the other hand, he'll only commit vote fraud in the future.

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-07-05 16:20|| 2022-07-05 16:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Days ago Akron cancelled its usual 4th of July festival due to this competing & soon-to-occur festivity.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-07-05 16:39|| 2022-07-05 16:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Stupid way to break up a riot. Use claymores.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-05 22:14|| 2022-07-05 22:14|| Front Page Top

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