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wcmagumba

(5,660 posts)
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 09:33 PM Jun 2025

I'm afraid for our country tonight, the LA protesters are getting inches away from the officers faces and taunting....

I'm completely pro protests but these folks are really pushing it...imo

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I'm afraid for our country tonight, the LA protesters are getting inches away from the officers faces and taunting.... (Original Post) wcmagumba Jun 2025 OP
That's not the way to do it Bayard Jun 2025 #1
I think maybe you are right...what a mess... wcmagumba Jun 2025 #4
Being within the range of their gun is reason enough for them -- did you not see that video making rounds earlier today? W_HAMILTON Jun 2025 #8
Is that the one of them shooting the girl walking home? Bayard Jun 2025 #10
They shoot you anyway? Blues Heron Jun 2025 #21
Could some be provokatuers, or anarchists? electric_blue68 Jun 2025 #2
Crispus Attucks took the first shot JustAnotherGen Jun 2025 #3
They are brave. They are the only people willing to stand up Klarkashton Jun 2025 #5
Where are you seeing this please? IcyPeas Jun 2025 #6
It was on a live stream YouTube channel but I stopped watching it because it bothered me so much... wcmagumba Jun 2025 #14
Thanks. None of the local LA tv channels are live with this. IcyPeas Jun 2025 #16
Where did you see this? It looks calm. chowder66 Jun 2025 #7
Different source Live.... chowder66 Jun 2025 #9
Okay. Here are the protesters. chowder66 Jun 2025 #11
They're chanting Peaceful Protest. chowder66 Jun 2025 #15
Agree. People are walking up taunting them. Commend police for staying cool. We had an immigration protest in my Silent Type Jun 2025 #12
organized planned protests are a different thing stillcool Jun 2025 #20
Oh no not taunting WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2025 #13
Well, hamsters and the smell of elderberries could have been involved - so it could have been severe. n/t Whiskeytide Jun 2025 #18
Don't bring elderberries into this. Lilithschyld Jun 2025 #23
There is no messy taunting in, say, North Korea. Those people A-Schwarzenegger Jun 2025 #19
Sounds like many think the protesters should just leave and let ICE have their way AStern Jun 2025 #17
Holding hands and singing Kumbaya -- Tarzanrock Jun 2025 #22

Bayard

(28,626 posts)
1. That's not the way to do it
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 09:35 PM
Jun 2025

Don't give them a reason to shoot you, people. We don't need martyrs.

W_HAMILTON

(10,089 posts)
8. Being within the range of their gun is reason enough for them -- did you not see that video making rounds earlier today?
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 09:47 PM
Jun 2025

electric_blue68

(25,960 posts)
2. Could some be provokatuers, or anarchists?
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 09:38 PM
Jun 2025

Otoh, some may be getting fed up.
They have to restrain themselves in order to not give drumphf any more of excuse to bring the military.

Yikes

Klarkashton

(4,740 posts)
5. They are brave. They are the only people willing to stand up
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 09:44 PM
Jun 2025

To this shit.
Worrying about how this will affect an election is two years is horseshit. The cops aren't going to stop no matter how nice people are.

wcmagumba

(5,660 posts)
14. It was on a live stream YouTube channel but I stopped watching it because it bothered me so much...
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 09:51 PM
Jun 2025

In might have been the AP stream on YouTube but not totally sure now as there are several supposed live streams but some of these streams are reruns from earlier in the day or even yesterday...it is misleading...

chowder66

(11,861 posts)
7. Where did you see this? It looks calm.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 09:46 PM
Jun 2025

The video image is not from now. If you play it it shows a few protestors at times but they are on a corner away from officers.

 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
12. Agree. People are walking up taunting them. Commend police for staying cool. We had an immigration protest in my
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 09:50 PM
Jun 2025

rube area in February. Pretty good size group.

The protest leaders were walking a 5 foot or so space between police and reminding protesters to stay back. It turned out well, quite peaceful and I think even police were thanking everyone.

One other thing that concerns me is people with big backpacks. I'm sorry, that's what bombers have used and should not be allowed at protests, just like people shouldn't be allowed to go to protests with a rifle hanging around their neck like Kyle Rittenhouse.

stillcool

(34,407 posts)
20. organized planned protests are a different thing
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:27 PM
Jun 2025

than protests forming as a reaction to something happening in the moment. These started as ICE blocked streets and hauled people out of their work places. ICE fomented the rage in the most provocative way possible. People are reacting to that. It's where they live and they're being surrounded by military. I watched it in my county. Not LA...a suburb of Boston. They had several humvees to abduct one middle-aged woman. The neighbors heard the screams, came out into the street, which ICE had blocked, and saw them throw her daughter on the ground, and shove her face into the gravel. The neighbors asked who they were, what they wanted, and all hell broke loose. I don't really understand the taunting, I'd be too scared to do it, but it's not an unusual site. The guns, the presence, the shock of what you're seeing. I don't know. Reminds me of bar fights. The immature crap drunks do, and how so many join in without knowing who they're supposed to hit.

Whiskeytide

(4,633 posts)
18. Well, hamsters and the smell of elderberries could have been involved - so it could have been severe. n/t
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:02 PM
Jun 2025

A-Schwarzenegger

(15,780 posts)
19. There is no messy taunting in, say, North Korea. Those people
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:21 PM
Jun 2025

over there have manners when they never protest. Yes, some say it's a tyranny, but it's very tidy & neat,
with a polite populace who don't hurt the feelings of the the enforcers of order.

 

Tarzanrock

(1,250 posts)
22. Holding hands and singing Kumbaya --
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:56 PM
Jun 2025

always made Nixon give in. Appeasing Adolph Hitler with the Sudetenland avoided World War II -- "Today the Sudetenland, tomorrow the world" and if you are "nice" to Trump he will give in and he will be "nice" to you.

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