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Stacey Abrams adviser said burning police car, smashing windows isn't 'violence' after anti-cop chaos

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Atop adviser for Stacey Abrams' voting rights nonprofit defended anti-cop activists who set a police car ablaze and smashed windows while protesting the death of an environmental activist this past weekend in Atlanta.
Marisa Pyle, a senior rapid response manager at Abrams' Fair Fight Action, who also worked as a senior manager for Abrams' One Georgia leadership committee during her most recent failed Georgia gubernatorial run, rushed to defend the anti-police protesters and the ensuing chaos'
"You cannot commit violence against a window or a car. Killing a human? Now that, that is violence," Pyle wrote on Twitter this past weekend.

Burning down a proprietor's business isn't violence?
That explains Seattle, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Ferguson, Portland,etc.....
 
Ideologues usually say some wacky stuff

Anyone want to take a bet
On if she is on the other side of that window being broken how quickly it is violence
 
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Someone better tell all of those women out there with husbands who punch holes in walls, smash TVs and throw things against the wall when they're mad that they aren't violent people. I'm sure they'll agree.
 
Arson is a violent crime, but I'm not sure it should always be. Arson of buildings puts lives at risk (eg a squatter or security guard) but not so much a cop car.

Still, we don't get to change legal definitions. Burning a flag is not arson, but burning a car is. It doesn't have to make sense.
 
Are we going to have to add "nonviolent" (along with "mostly peaceful") to the list of euphamisms for left wing rioters looting, burning and destroying property?
 
Bum said:
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Atop adviser for Stacey Abrams' voting rights nonprofit defended anti-cop activists who set a police car ablaze and smashed windows while protesting the death of an environmental activist this past weekend in Atlanta.
Marisa Pyle, a senior rapid response manager at Abrams' Fair Fight Action, who also worked as a senior manager for Abrams' One Georgia leadership committee during her most recent failed Georgia gubernatorial run, rushed to defend the anti-police protesters and the ensuing chaos'
"You cannot commit violence against a window or a car. Killing a human? Now that, that is violence," Pyle wrote on Twitter this past weekend.

Burning down a proprietor's business isn't violence?
That explains Seattle, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Ferguson, Portland,etc.....
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Smashing a window is a property crime, not a violent crime.
 
Josie said:
Someone better tell all of those women out there with husbands who punch holes in walls, smash TVs and throw things against the wall when they're mad that they aren't violent people. I'm sure they'll agree.
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That's threatening behavior, but not violence. Violence is against a person, despite your appeal to sexism.
 
Taylor said:
"Mostly Peaceful" and "Nonviolent" are now left wing euphamisms for rioters looting, burning and destruction.
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Destruction can be non-violent without necessarily being "mostly peaceful."

Interesting that you include crimes of trespass and theft (ie looting a place that someone else already broke into). Perhaps to you, property has human rights?
 
Ug make hammer said:
That's threatening behavior, but not violence. Violence is against a person, despite your appeal to sexism.
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Violent Behavior means conduct and/or behavior, verbal and non-verbal, including but not limited to, verbal and/or physical aggression, attack, threats, harassment, intimidation and other disruptive behavior in any form, or by any media, which causes or could cause a reasonable person to fear physical harm by any individual(s) or group(s) against any person(s) or property.
 
Violent crime is a crime.

Property crime is a crime.

Both should be persecuted in accordance with the law. Neither should be excused. Period.
 
Fox News told you that the rioting was worse than the cops shooting and killing a human being.
 
Stacey Abrams is an x2 loser who Biden passed as a VP candidate over another unqualified candidate in Kamala Harris.

Abrams should just...... go away. She is an embarrassment to the Democrats.
 
Ug make hammer said:
That's threatening behavior, but not violence. Violence is against a person, despite your appeal to sexism.
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Nope.

vi·o·lence
/ˈvī(ə)ləns/
noun

behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

violence
noun
vi·o·lence ˈvī-lən(t)s ˈvī-ə-
1
a
: the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy

violence
noun [ U ]
US /ˈvɑɪ·ə·ləns/

extremely forceful actions that are intended to hurt people or are likely to cause damage
 
Perhaps we could solve the whole "people rioting because of the violent actions of the police" problem by making an example of and prosecuting the police who do it. Then we would have fewer rioters to make examples of.
 
Ug make hammer said:
Arson is a violent crime, but I'm not sure it should always be. Arson of buildings puts lives at risk (eg a squatter or security guard) but not so much a cop car.

Still, we don't get to change legal definitions. Burning a flag is not arson, but burning a car is. It doesn't have to make sense.
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We should hope that no one gets injured when the cop car, just filled up with gasoline, don't kill anyone if it blows up.
Yet here we are, arguing about nuances and definitions.
 
Bum said:
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Atop adviser for Stacey Abrams' voting rights nonprofit defended anti-cop activists who set a police car ablaze and smashed windows while protesting the death of an environmental activist this past weekend in Atlanta.
Marisa Pyle, a senior rapid response manager at Abrams' Fair Fight Action, who also worked as a senior manager for Abrams' One Georgia leadership committee during her most recent failed Georgia gubernatorial run, rushed to defend the anti-police protesters and the ensuing chaos'
"You cannot commit violence against a window or a car. Killing a human? Now that, that is violence," Pyle wrote on Twitter this past weekend.

Burning down a proprietor's business isn't violence?
That explains Seattle, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Ferguson, Portland,etc.....
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I think we need to be careful about broad-brushing all looting, rioting, burning, and destruction of property as "violence".

People sometimes do stupid things when they're angry but if they're really, REALLY angry, we have to allow for a little nuance...
 
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Taylor said:
Are we going to have to add "nonviolent" (along with "mostly peaceful") to the list of euphamisms for left wing rioters looting, burning and destroying property?
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Just the usual from the left, changing the definitions of language to either protect those they support and politically agree with, or to destroy those that they don't politically agree with.
The left's shifting sands of language redefinition.

Also in the news: Water is wet, and it must be a week day who's name ends with a 'y'.
 
Josie said:
Someone better tell all of those women out there with husbands who punch holes in walls, smash TVs and throw things against the wall when they're mad that they aren't violent people. I'm sure they'll agree.
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"Well, Officer, he destroyed the house with a sledgehammer, killed my cat with an axe, then burned all of my belongings in a fit of rage, but no, now that you mention it he never became violent."

😂
 
Lovebug said:
We should hope that no one gets injured when the cop car, just filled up with gasoline, don't kill anyone if it blows up.
Yet here we are, arguing about nuances and definitions.
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This isn't Hollywood. Cop cars aren't made of dynamite.
 
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