RIOT police arrest hot lady thats wearing a summer dress.

[MickeyW]

I think it's absolutely bizarre that people seem so focused on her dress . . . and that you mirror that in your thread title. Hot?

Like - who gives a ****? I'd think that her appearance is far from the topic that should stir a response, here.

Right on.........

 

[Enola]

What I find amazing is how easy this is all accepted as legit. Convenient well dressed, very pretty black woman who just happened to travel from NYC to Dallas (or wherever it was taken) on spur of the moment of taking time out of her busy schedule, and a photographer in JUST the right spot to take the photograph with nobody within distance of her to mess up the perfect shot of the camera and nobody sees red flags waving on the whole set up. Which is exactly what it is, I'm betting. A scripted, set up, paid person who agreed to do it for "the cause".

I have ocean front property for sale in Arizona. Anyone interested? Just steps from the pristine beach, too! Cheap! Butler included.

 

[Enola]

THIS one speaks volumes.

 

[HonestJoe]

Rather, at a bare minimum it shows how militarized the police have become, in the face of peaceful protest. Do you really think that's a good thing?

If she was the only protester they could have expected to encounter you’d have a point but they were obviously facing a much wider issue that the picture is being quite deliberately used to present. You can’t certainly make an argument about the specifics of police policies, procedures and response in these kind of circumstances but you can only reasonably do that in the context of all of the rioting and violence that was promised and expected.

 

[Thoreau72]

Your take on this is without merit....and assholish.



And who's fault is that??? Certainly not the police!

I'm not trying to assign fault. I was merely offering a comment regarding the power of the photo, comparing it to the photo of Tianamen Square.

 

[Harry Guerrilla]

I'm not trying to assign fault. I was merely offering a comment regarding the power of the photo, comparing it to the photo of Tianamen Square.

Not even remotely similar situations.
That woman was in no danger from the police, the dude standing in front of a tank, in a country with a known authoritarian regime, most certainly was.
They're not comparable, not even close.

Hyperbolic load of ****.

 

[Socrates1]

Photo of police in riot gear arresting protester in a dress strikes chord on social media




#NoMoreKentStates.

This was nothing more than the liberal press trying to influence optics and making all this seem a lovely peaceful protest . How about showing the police getting pelted with stones .

 

[jamesrage]

What indeed? They're wearing more body armour to face their neighbours and fellow citizens of Baton Rouge than soldiers in Iraq did. Did they name Baton Rouge after police billy clubs?

There was nobody to her right...

So you are saying police should not wear any sort of protection in case the protests turn into a riot or deadly like in Dallas? Maybe on that tiny island that you live on that has a tradition of being ruled by inbreeders the protests don't turn violent or deadly.But here in America protests can turn violent and deadly. When protests turn into riots the rioters throw ricks, bricks, molotov cocktails and other things at cops and everything else or can become deadly like the one in Dallas.A photograph that only capture a small area doesn't show whats behind the woman. There could be a whole mob of black lives matter protesters behind her.

 

[Thoreau72]

Not even remotely similar situations.
That woman was in no danger from the police, the dude standing in front of a tank, in a country with a known authoritarian regime, most certainly was.
They're not comparable, not even close.

Hyperbolic load of ****.

Funny, Harry, how many other posters have compared the photo to TS. The comparison must be quite a bit closer than you are able to perceive. :mrgreen:

 

[Caine]

Got to admit the optics are terrible!

You're missing the part about "proportional response" - she's clearly passive & unarmed! :doh

So, they should have removed protective equipment that they were wearing as a precaution to this event (and as a precaution to the fact of what occurred during a Dallas protest under the same "movement") in order to make this arrest so that it "looked" better?

I really don't see your point at all.

 

[Caine]

Justify it however you want, but if you can look at that photo and not see there's something going wrong in this country, you're far different person than I.

Optics like this broadcast around the world only solidify the growing perception that America is becoming a militarized police state. And there's truth in that.

It's become too much to turn a blind eye, and the results can be seen nearly every day on the nightly news ...

When police are shot down using military tactics during a protest by the same exact group (Black Lies Matter), then of course they need to respond using protective equipment.

I still don't see your point.

They "Look Scary" because the **** they FACE is Scary... You know, like 5 officers and many others getting shot up with a rifle.

 

[Caine]

What are you expecting? Do you think they should take off the riot gear and put down their guns before approaching any young female protestors and then put it all back on to deal with the violent rioters who could be just out of frame for all we know?

She’s clearly playing a role in the protests and is in the middle of the road. She appears to be unarmed and peaceful but sadly that’s not an assumption officers in this kind of context can take on face value. They seem to be very gently and peacefully trying to lead her away though. They’re in the riot gear because they were (quite rightly) expecting a riot but it’s not as it they’re actually using it against her.

Not only that, she may very well be peaceful, nonviolent, etc.

But she ain't the only person there, and officers have been assaulted by others in the process of dealing with an arrest.

 

[Caine]

Where would she be hiding any weapons? They could have shot her just in case, I suppose. Does it need three heavily armored policemen to take out a girl in a summer dress?

Again, she isn't the only person in the vicinity.

Try to think outside of the photograph please?

 

[Caine]

As far as I can tell she is not resisting arrest and, quite possibly, asking for it. What crime, exactly, was she being charged with that the police were not also doing in order to make the arrest?

Look at that photo and tell me if the police had already blocked the road. Perhaps after a judge sees that photo then a "blocking traffic" charge will be dismissed. While I generally do not agree with blackliesmatter claims, to expect protestors not to be as disruptive (in your face?) as possible ignores the whole idea behind "civil rights" protests historically.

Nobody would care if they simply planted signs on their own lawns (stayed in the hood?) or held their protest rallies out in some remote field, park or on a website. Will the police hold union strikers to the (new?) "never block traffic" standard to keep scabs out or make the news?

I am not advocating that the police "go all Baltimore" and let rioters loot, set fires and otherwise destroy property but until that peaceful protest line is crossed I can see not overreacting to people simply "taking it to the streets".

The riot control methods these officers are using are necessary to clear the protesters from the roadway and get the roadway opened back up again.

I was trained, by FEMA in these tactics before the DNC of 2012. Not only is this an acceptable method to deal with riots, it also prevents the protestors from getting run the **** over while police try to get them to stop clogging the street.

 

[Manc Skipper]

Again, she isn't the only person in the vicinity.

Try to think outside of the photograph please?

I never claimed she was. She's facing a solid line of 100 geared-up officers, yet she's the one charged with blocking the highway.

 

[Caine]

I never claimed she was. She's facing a solid line of 100 geared-up officers, yet she's the one charged with blocking the highway.

Its possible because she demonstrated that she was going to refuse to leave the roadway?

I wasn't there.
You weren't there.

Yet you presume to make assumptions as to the officers motives.... what SHOULD have happened, or question why they did what they did based upon nothing more than a photograph????


This one is for you,

 

[Manc Skipper]

Officers' motives? You got me bang to rights. I don't recall mentioning them, but since you have introduced it it must be true, right?

 

[Harry Guerrilla]

Funny, Harry, how many other posters have compared the photo to TS. The comparison must be quite a bit closer than you are able to perceive. :mrgreen:

Yes apparently the day before there was a massacre of protesters, just like then. :roll:
The comparison is do goodery and insulting to people who were actually killed in TS.

 

[KevinKohler]

I never claimed she was. She's facing a solid line of 100 geared-up officers, yet she's the one charged with blocking the highway.

Along with the guy behind her....you know....who took the image...which, judging from the wide angle lense used, must have been pretty close to the scene, as in, 5 feet from it, and likely, the mob of people behind him.

 

[Abbazorkzog]

 

[Juggernaut]

Along with the guy behind her....you know....who took the image...which, judging from the wide angle lense used, must have been pretty close to the scene, as in, 5 feet from it, and likely, the mob of people behind him.

link Yes, the mob is staged behind the camera. The police were clearing the roadway of people. Did anyone mention that the building in the background is the police station. Obstructing a 6 lane highway in front of the police station is a show of stupidity, not strength.


Link/ I call publicity stunt. She's from New York ( something the articles and social media folks fail to mention) . So, she came all the way down here just to stand in middle of the road at a, give or take, 100 person protest. I'm not buying it.

 

[VanceMack]

Yay! Tonight, no BLM assholes killed any cops.

Its rather ironic that we have dead copes in several states and all people are triggered on is the riot gear cops are wearing...not the mindless ****heads rioting.

 

[Manc Skipper]

Along with the guy behind her....you know....who took the image...which, judging from the wide angle lense used, must have been pretty close to the scene, as in, 5 feet from it, and likely, the mob of people behind him.

That would be the press mob on the sidewalk... There's at least one pic around with a big camera-lense in the corner.

 

[Manc Skipper]

link Yes, the mob is staged behind the camera. The police were clearing the roadway of people. Did anyone mention that the building in the background is the police station. Obstructing a 6 lane highway in front of the police station is a show of stupidity, not strength.


Link/ I call publicity stunt. She's from New York ( something the articles and social media folks fail to mention) . So, she came all the way down here just to stand in middle of the road at a, give or take, 100 person protest. I'm not buying it.

She's a nurse, on a mission from God, and has never had any involvement with the police before.

 

[Thoreau72]

Yes apparently the day before there was a massacre of protesters, just like then. :roll:
The comparison is do goodery and insulting to people who were actually killed in TS.

We, or at least I, are talking about a photo Harry. Just a photo, and the impression/impact it has on any individual or audience.

It is reminiscent of the classic photo from TS. That is all. :mrgreen: