re: Thousands of protesters trapped by NYPD on Manhattan Bridge

Anarchist come in all colors and from both ends of the political spectrum.

Having a well formed structure in an anarchist group is counterintuitive

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Very convenient that while we have streets full of whites and blacks protesting together, all we want to talk about is rioting.

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We as in tigerdroppings. The media is only talking about police brutality and the riots are peaceful until police cause unrest. Just did a quick scan of the internet, and only tigerdroppings is talking about the multiple officers that were shot in St Louis.

No one cares though to hold the media responsible for only reporting a narrative that fits their very biased, liberal agenda. Maybe we should all start looking at major media and major sites like reddit and twitter for only making certain issues popular and not reporting all the news.

The only issue with media and major social media sites performing this way is that they are setting the perception for the entire country by suppressing news that can counter their agenda. Right now you have a country seeing this issue as black and white. I am a very active reddit user. They still suppress the hell out of any subreddit that doesn’t fit their agenda too. Any even potential conservative subreddit either becomes a troll subreddit, or constantly gets trolled.

I’m going to put on my tinfoil hat for a second, but I truly believe this divide has been greatly impacted by outside countries meddling around with our media. Just like I believe we probably played a good sized roll in helping the situation in Honk Kong escalate like it has. Just world politics trying to frick with each other by finding a weak spot in their society.

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Very convenient that while we have streets full of whites and blacks protesting together, all we want to talk about is rioting.

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True. However, you left out the part where, at least according to the MSM and social media...
“Its all Trump’s fault!”

The problem is, you have people who are instigating as many protestors during the day to become rioters. So now peoples focus are either one police brutality or rioting and destruction. So how can you focus on fixing the problem if you worried about people potentially burning down multiuse buildings (which just happened in Virginia with families still in the building while it was being set on fire). Even if the protest stays peaceful, how can police focus on reform if they are having to prepare for a worst case scenario every night following the daytime protest.

If people want true change and reform, they should follow what Killer Mike said. Go home, actually plan a strategy to demand reform, and then have you words heard right and effectively instead of being combined with the violent acts proceeding these protest.

In risk of someone crying because I mentioned where I live but the Austin group has made a list of reform demands. They meet at the APD HQ downtown everyday and then march down to the capitol. Outside of some overzealous jackasses blocking I35 (like 100 feet from the APD building) over the weekend, it’s been just the peaceful march. Every night while they’re in front of the police HQ, cops will come out and engage with them, and almost every convo ends with hugging or something similar. They’re doing it for like 45 days or something or until the reform happens. APD and the mayor both say reform is coming, so I guess we will see.

I think this is what happens when the protestors are mostly locals without any influence from higher powers with agendas. The arrests over the weekend were almost entirely people living in the area, and there was no burning or mass destruction or widespread looting. I don’t think that’s a coincidence. I guess we aren’t important enough for soros or whoever to send chaos our way.

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But unless you do it lawfully, you should understand your actions have consequences. If you don’t go through the proper channels, either you should be okay with the consequences for your cause or finding a different solution to be heard.

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I 100% agree.

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But it is a very liberal city all around and probably more of an exception to what’s happening in this country than the norm.

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True, but we had an APD officer shoot and kill an unarmed guy here just over a month ago. I figured it would be worse since the anger is directed at the police department responsible. It’s not directed at a proxy for those responsible for George Floyd.

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No judgement here, I’ve had mine on. There’s definitely something going on, and I wish more people were concerned about figuring out what it is.

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Sadly, part of the entire message is the submission of free thought

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