kcar wrote:
 
They didn't get the memo?

Those antifa thugs...oh wait...

Tensions flare in Washington as thousands gather for pro-Trump demonstrations

Police Response Slowed. The Community Stepped In. -bloomberg.com

In Minneapolis this summer, 911 response times increased as officers left the force. Instead of asking for more police, some residents reimagined public safety for themselves.

Members of Agape in downtown Minneapolis, after they were called to help respond to looting.
Steve Floyd

Pouya Najmaie, founding member of the Powderhorn Collective.
Emilie Richardson/Bloomberg

Trump Backers Block Highways as Election Tensions Play Out in the Streets
Law enforcement authorities are increasingly worried, not just about what they have already seen, but also about what has been threatened, especially online.

 sirdroseph wrote:
 
Yeah, in the 60s both major parties wanted to send your white asses to Vietnam along with the black men. Nothing like it getting personal to motivate people.

 R_P wrote:
 

i think it is silly for people to do something like this

however it looks more like an escort

and where's the state troopers/law enforcement?

surely secret service is on board

 sirdroseph wrote: 
As a draft card carrying eyewitness and participant, this is a completely true statement.

The hash tag pussies of today just do not have a clue.

Vehicles flying Trump flags try to force a Biden-Harris campaign bus off a highway in Texas.

Watch the new documentary

Antifa: Rise of the Black Flags. The true history of the anti-government extremist group's century of violence.

WATCH on Vimeo

antifamovie.com

Steely_D wrote:

Or pull down a statue and declare "There, fixed it!"

Pampered modern society just looks silly plotting revolution. Even when the issues are serious, it is hard to take the people raising them seriously.  I would have been in the streets in the 60s as well.  This isn't the 60s on so many levels.

Teenage Mutant Cop
Kyle Rittenhouse sent to Wisconsin to face charges in Kenosha protest shootings

Whaddya call Trump dismissing paying several cities for their security/police forces covering his rallies?

Richard Spencer says that antifa sucked all the fun out of college appearances, calls it quits

Peaceful protesters!

For those interested in a factual read about Antifa.   

If there's anyone left who still defends Antifa, read this. 

RealClear Investigations: Roots of Antifa: This 'Idea' Has Violent Consequences

Video surfaces showing Philadelphia police bashing SUV windows, then beating driver while child was in backseat

 haresfur wrote:
 

it seems that snarky response is quite valid.
Philly is another situation that reveals how poor training is failing officers,
and more significantly the public
too many cops with guns, and lacking proper training in how to deal with stressful situations
why not develop a better taser, for most cops to carry
and  reserve guns for highly trained officers
i believe i read somewhere that about 90% of what an office does is respond,
after a crime has occurred. 

 kurtster wrote:
 
Sell the bullets and buy tasers. Problem solved.

 kurtster wrote:
 

This Philadelphia Inquirer story doesn't seem to fully back you up on Tasers, Kurt. According the piece about 1/3 of Philly officers have received the training for Taser use and are required to carry Tasers. The police force has asked for more Tasers in its budget request. It also reveals that the Philly police and courts were quite familiar with William Wallace and his bipolar disorder. 

The two officers who shot Wallace weren't carrying Tasers. Regardless, it's not clear why they fired around a dozen shots. Wallace's wife told police when they arrived at the scene that Wallace was bipolar. Philly police had been called to that address two times earlier that day in response to "reports of disturbances."

"Defunding" doesn't necessarily mean less money for police. It can also mean more money for social services to help police deal with mentally disturbed people. According to the piece, the police force has a behavioral health specialist available to dispatched officers via radio, but that specialist wasn't available at the time. 

Philly police had been called many times to Walter Wallace Jr.’s house, sources say, sparking questions about why he was shot

Police were called dozens of times in recent months about problems at Walter Wallace Jr.’s home, and had responded twice on Monday to reports of disturbances at the West Philadelphia house before two officers answered a third call and shot him as he approached them with a knife, according to law enforcement sources.

...

But the confirmation of previous visits, by sources not authorized to publicly discuss them, fueled growing questions about the police response to what Wallace’s relatives have described as a mental health crisis.

A lawyer for Wallace’s family, Shaka Johnson, said that before the shooting, relatives had called 911 asking for an ambulance — not police officers — to help mitigate the 27-year-old’s spiraling condition. Calling the shooting “unjustified,” Johnson said that Wallace’s pregnant wife had told officers when they arrived that her husband had bipolar disorder.

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Wallace had been in and out of court for nearly a decade, with convictions for crimes including resisting arrest and robbery. Court records show that city judges routinely sought to get him mental health treatment.

During a Tuesday afternoon news conference, the police commissioner said that the department was “still backtracking to find out what the officers knew” when they arrived Monday afternoon at Wallace’s house on the 6100 block of Locust Street. Outlaw also said a new city program to put a behavioral health specialist in the police dispatch center only operates during limited hours, and that the assigned counselor was not in the radio room at the time of the afternoon call regarding a disturbance at Wallace’s house.

Law enforcement sources said that before Monday’s calls, police had received 31 radio calls since May concerning that address. Some calls were considered low priority, while others included reports of a person with a weapon, threats, or assaults, the sources said.

The first two calls to police on Monday were reports of domestic disturbances. Chief Inspector Frank Vanore said at the same news conference that the third call was a report of a man with a knife.

...

Outlaw said neither officer who fired was equipped with a Taser — which uses electroshocks to temporarily stun its target. According to a department spokesperson, 2,301 officers, or about a third of the force, have completed the proper training to carry Tasers and are required to carry them while on duty.

The U.S. Department of Justice in 2017 recommended that all Philadelphia officers be issued Tasers to carry at all times, a standard Outlaw said the department still aspires to meet.

She said the department had asked for additional money in its last budget request to “continue to outfit our officers with Tasers,” but did not provide details about how many might be purchased, or when universal adoption would be complete.