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Ahlevah said:
As soon as the first rock is thrown or people stay past curfew, the “mostly peaceful protest” becomes an unlawful assembly and should be ended. The ones who refuse to leave, peaceful or not, should be arrested.
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You don't shoot revery dog because a few have rabies. Throwing rocks and marching are two different things. Curfews should be obeyed.
 
BabaVoss said:
I’m not sure he’ll make it that far. He’s showing serious mental and physical decline.
Trump is like a mad dog that catches the car, He doesn’t know what to do now.
He’s just flailing and flinging his smelly brand of toxic poo everywhere.
He’s doing a lot of damage.
But I’m worried about what comes after.
If someone actually smart - with his level of evil - comes along, we will be in real trouble.
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To your point on Tuesday 06/10 Trump called a meeting with the press. He repeated some things three and four times such as if the troops had not arrived L.A. would be burnt to the ground even though the protests are covering about six square blocks. His latest babble is "IF THEY SPIT, WE HIT." What a poet. I wondered if the VP would certify the 2028 election if he ran and won. I'm not worried about him running he has 3 1/2 years to burn the rights of everyone of us.
 
rhinefire said:
You don't shoot revery dog because a few have rabies. Throwing rocks and marching are two different things. Curfews should be obeyed.
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People have the right to peaceably assemble. When the rocks start, it’s no longer a peaceful assembly. Cops need to ensure order and prevent people from getting hurt. It’s hard to do that when anarchists or other troublemakers are infiltrating protests and using them as cover in order to attack law enforcement officers or destroy property.
 
venice_ca said:
Those protesters setting fires and otherwise endangering safety are being arrested by the LAPD, as they should be.

Isn’t that enough?
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According to LA’s police chief, apparently not:

We are overwhelmed as far as the number of people engaging in this type of activity and the types of things that they’re doing. They’ll take backpacks filled with cinder blocks and hammers, break the blocks, and pass the pieces around to throw at officers and cars, and even at other people. We’ve seen people with hammers breaking the bollards behind the federal building, using concrete fragments as projectiles. We’ve had unknown liquids—who knows what—thrown at officers. There’s no limit to what they’re doing to our officers.
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Ahlevah said:
As soon as the first rock is thrown or people stay past curfew, the “mostly peaceful protest” becomes an unlawful assembly and should be ended. The ones who refuse to leave, peaceful or not, should be arrested.
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Why not only arrest those committing criminal acts and allow law abiding citizens to continue practicing the rights guaranteed by the constitution?

Otherwise the right to protest doesn’t exist.

Do you really want to give anyone the power to stop a protest, even one you could be involved with, simply by throwing a rock?
 
CANON said:
Why not only arrest those committing criminal acts and allow law abiding citizens to continue practicing the rights guaranteed by the constitution?
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You mean have police dressed in full riot gear walk into a group of protesters that ignite into an angry mob when they try to effectuate arrests? That doesn’t usually work out well. On August 11th, 1965, LA cops tried to arrest ONE guy and it erupted into riots that killed 34 people and resulted in the destruction of 100 square blocks of the city. No, I don’t think the police should be required to put themselves in that position.

CANON said:
Otherwise the right to protest doesn’t exist.
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The right to peaceably assemble and protest exists. The right to engage in violence and riot does not. The reason we end up with violence is because we tolerate it.

CANON said:
Do you really want to give anyone the power to stop a protest, even one you could be involved with, simply by throwing a rock?
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First of all, I’m not going to participate in an unorganized “protest,” which is another name for a mob. If I see someone throwing an object at law enforcement and whoever organized the protest didn’t provide for security and is doing nothing to detain this person, I’m leaving. And if it’s more than one or two people it really isn’t a peaceful protest, is it? I look at the crowds attending many of these “protests” and they’re not so much protests as they are angry mobs taunting the police and looking for a confrontation. **** ‘em.
 
venice_ca said:
Peaceful protesters shouldn’t be denied their first amendment rights.
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People have a right to peaceably assemble. Being in a group throwing rocks at cops is not peaceful. 🤷‍♂️
 
Ahlevah said:
You mean have police dressed in full riot gear walk into a group of protesters that ignite into an angry mob when they try to effectuate arrests? That doesn’t usually work out well. On August 11th, 1965, LA cops tried to arrest ONE guy and it erupted into riots that killed 34 people and resulted in the destruction of 100 square blocks of the city. No, I don’t think the police should be required to put themselves in that position.



The right to peaceably assemble and protest exists. The right to engage in violence and riot does not. The reason we end up with violence is because we tolerate it.



First of all, I’m not going to participate in an unorganized “protest,” which is another name for a mob. If I see someone throwing an object at law enforcement and whoever organized the protest didn’t provide for security and is doing nothing to detain this person, I’m leaving. And if it’s more than one or two people it really isn’t a peaceful protest, is it? I look at the crowds attending many of these “protests” and they’re not so much protests as they are angry mobs taunting the police and looking for a confrontation. **** ‘em.
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I see, F*** the constitution or anyone's rights.

Pathetic.
 
CANON said:
I see, F*** the constitution or anyone's rights.

Pathetic.
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Like I said, these aren’t organized, peaceful protests as much as they are assemblies of angry agitators looking to taunt the police and destroy property. They’ll get their rights when they’re arrested. 👍
 
Ahlevah said:
Like I said, these aren’t organized, peaceful protests as much as they are assemblies of angry agitators looking to taunt the police and destroy property. They’ll get their rights when they’re arrested. 👍
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Like I said, pathetic.
 
RaleBulgarian said:
Traitor Trump’s dumbass move to federalize CA NG directly correlates with increasing violence.
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Good.

Get as violent as they need to in order to quell it before it grows like the other LA Riots did.

Smash it hard and quickly.
 
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