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LAPD DELIBERATELY shoots an Aussie Reporter with a rubber bullet

madman said:
That cop will now be promoted and will be the next head of security in Washington.
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They will put on desk duty with a hearing before IAD. Their fate will be determined at that time.

Most likely demoted or fired.
 
ncguy said:
so good, you agree
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I don't agree with that statement without a modifier to make clear what is meant, for the reasons I've already described. But if you have to lie about my position to buttress yours, perhaps you should reconsider where you stand.

ncguy said:
she was shot by the police.
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Possibly the worst thing about the Washington Post's cessation of tracking police shootings is the fact I can't point to the lack of an entry in their database for this incident. THe database is still available, however, so perhaps you can show us where they have a listing of a person who was "shot by police" and the "shooting" was actually a less-lethal round.

ncguy said:
because of course if some kid aims a bb gun at you pulls the trigger and hits you, you would complain about being shot.
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"...with a BB gun."

ncguy said:
you wouldn't put quotes around the word because you were, in fact, shot. duh.
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I wouldn't have to because I would always append "with a BB gun" afterward because I want to convey accurate information in a way people will understand what happened. I'm not looking for melodrama.

But you are. Duh.
 
j brown's body said:
On the other hand, we value her being there and don't ask that she be given special rights other than to be left alone to do her job.
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As her job is not standing in the middle of the street, no one was preventing her from doing her job.
 
California cops suck, as a general rule.
 
There's policing, and there's overkill-flexing to prove a point. The LA police force is one of the biggest in the US. They are quite capable of policing events like this themselves, without bringing in the NG and Marines-the chief of police has made that clear. For a few hundred demonstrators that is 100% overkill and an entirely unnecessary show of force.

50 arrests, 600 non-lethal rounds fired: LAPD says they can handle the protests

LAPD says they have made 50 arrests and fired over non-lethal rounds to quell fraught protests. Charges against demonstrators include
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Apply that to Jan 6th ...
or CHAZ in Seattle.

The above opinion is all based in subjective feels, and likely bias, based in the fact that you support the stated goals of the 'protestors/rioters'.

The LAPD may very well be the biggest. They are the also still the biggest WITHOUT an additional 100 arrests a day due to these protest/riots. 100 arrest in a day, over and above their normal might very well be overwhelming.

Granted, I would still likely listen to those on the ground. Chief, officers, business owners etc.
 
Maybe, in your fervour to deport people, you might stop to consider and ask yourself why Trump thinks it's fine to employ illegal immigrants; to build Trump tower, to work at his golf resorts, Mar-a-Lago. No double standards there, right?

Report: Trump Happily Employing Undocumented Workers Amid ICE Raids

The president is fine with an immigrant “invasion” when it’s benefitting him financially.
www.vanityfair.com

More than 100 undocumented immigrants worked at Trump’s Bedminster resort during construction: report

Dozens of immigrants who did not have legal status worked on the construction and operation of President Trump’s resort in Bedminster, N.J., according to a new report by The Washington Post.A…
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Rubio Campaign Press Release - Fact Check: Donald Trump Used Illegal Immigrants to Build Trump Tower | The American Presidency Project

www.presidency.ucsb.edu
 
Oh, you mean like the brain-dead redneck thugs Trump pardoned?
 
snakestretcher said:
Oh, you mean like the brain-dead redneck thugs Trump pardoned?
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Yep. And also like the ones the Democrats/Harris was stumping for and funding to get out on bond.

You might not realize it, but you are proving my point that it all comes down to who side you are one. The hypocritical actions are all the same, from either side, all attempted to be justified or excused.
 
Explain the "Democrat/Harris" thing please.
 

Okay, I considered it. If, in fact, a handful of the Trump Organization’s 22,450 workers in the construction trades are in the country illegally, which wouldn’t be unusual, they still need to be deported. Instead of blaming a business unit of his company for hiring them, they should have stayed home and gotten in line like everyone else.
 
Maybe, just maybe, President Double-Standards shouldn't have employed them in the first place? Or was he too stupid to know they were undocumented? Nah, cheap labour was all he cared about. Probably never paid them anyway, as is his habit.
 
snakestretcher said:
Maybe, just maybe, President Double-Standards shouldn't have employed them in the first place? Or was he too stupid to know they were undocumented? Nah, cheap labour was all he cared about. Probably never paid them anyway, as is his habit.
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I would excuse him for not knowing the backgrounds of all of his 22,450 workers or personally vetting them. It isn’t unusual for companies in the construction trades to hire illegal workers. But American companies that try to play by the rules are placed at a decided disadvantage, which isn’t right. Do you think that companies that follow the law should just suck it up or go out of business? That American workers who were born here should just accept lower wages, since they have to compete with immigrants who came from nations where people are paid a pittance? I don’t.
 
I have yet to find out how the left reconciles its demand for “living wages” with its demand that we retain a permanent illegal underclass that is paid next to nothing because they want cheap labor and goods.
 
Napoleon said:
I have yet to find out how the left reconciles its demand for “living wages” with its demand that we retain a permanent illegal underclass that is paid next to nothing because they want cheap labor and goods.
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Apparently, we’re all hypocrites because we eat vegetables picked by illegal aliens. Maybe the vegetables should be raised hydroponically in a controlled setting, like they do in the Netherlands, where they can be raised with no soil using less pesticide and water but still produce higher crop yields. We may eventually be forced to do that, since many vegetables in the United States are grown in regions were water resources are coming under increased strain, such as the Imperial Valley of Southern California.

 
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