Shots fired at Police during Dallas Police anti-violence protest (5 officers killed)

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Bubba T said:
First and foremost, I am black American who was born from Nigerian immigrants, so please get out of here with that ignorant ass comment.

I spent a good portion of my life living in Nigeria. I know all about how life is there. People are literally killed in the street and the day just goes on like normal. The police are carrying AK-47s around like a standard pistol. You keep your words short with strangers because you don't know whether or not they are trying to rob and murder you. When the rolling blackouts start to happen you wake up and watch the windows because you don't know if someone is going to try to loot you tonight. You don't know shit about how me and mine lived fam.

I'm watching the news and I'm seeing the same violence I saw in my time there. Yes, it is better, but it's not that much better when we still have people killing each other in the street in broad daylight.
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Nigerian-American here. U.S Citizen. Go back yearly. Dad's from Ibadan, mom's from Lagos.

What are you talking about?
 
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Diffense said:
Personally I don't think the Dallas shootings are a huge setback. There was nothing to set back. Sure, people can "use" it to justify their hatred of the anti police brutality campaigners but what else is new? We already know that black/poc victims have to be absolutely 100% perfect both as individuals and as a collective in order to be worthy of empathy. The marijuana the deceased smoked years ago will always turn out to be his death sentence after the fact. If not the Dallas shooting something else would be used to justify calcified viewpoints.
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If you don't think this is bad for BLM then I don't know what to tell you. This will be attached to everything they do from now on no matter the affiliation.
 
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shadow_shogun said:
It seems they only come out when white people get killed.
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In combination with the suspect(s) being minorities. They don't give a damn when a white guy blows up a school, no matter how white the kids are.

Of course, they also don't care about the underlying issue, gun control.
 
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Re: the bomb bot. My guess is this. You don't just leave a robot with explosives attached to it in the closet. You prep the bot with the explosives at the scene, then you send it in to remote detonate the suspected bomb. A bomb tech is going to make the call for the required amount and type of explosives to properly dispose of the suspected bomb. If from moment one they intended to use this as a lethal device, they probably just loaded more explosives onto the bot and drove it realtively close to the target. In a semi-enclosed space like a parking garabge, it does not take much high explosives to kill someone with the pressure wave alone. You don't have to blow someone up like a cartoon to kill them with explosives. Either way, I have never heard of a bomb bot being used as an offensive tool. But I guess after multiple officers were shot and killed, they didn't want to put anyone else at risk, so why not use a robot. Crazy shit regardless.
 
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It's a shame that the BLM movement is catching most of the blame for this terrorist attack, but I'm rather (pleasantly) surprised that none of these talking heads have blamed the black panthers.
 
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caesar said:
If you don't think this is bad for BLM then I don't know what to tell you. This will be attached to everything they do from now on no matter the affiliation.
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So people who hate them will slander them. Hasn't this been going on from the outset? Nothing has changed.
 
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Krejlooc said:
Who are these mythical people who thought, "you know, I sympathized with your movement about police murdering black people, but I can't anymore because you spit on a flag"?
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Mythical people? Not really funny. But yeah, I ignore people immediately and stop listen to what they say as soon as they start to stomp and spit on a flag. Why? Because it's fucking stupid and makes you look like an asshole. So yeah, you can lose sympathy when you do stupid things while trying to prove a point.
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So the turning point on peoples perception of BLM was simply a few people stepping on the american flag? k den
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For some people? Yeah, it was a turning point.
 
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SoRuffShoNuff

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The scary part about this is im seeing and hearing way too many people with absolutely no empathy towards those cops and are instead saying its about time.
 
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jon bones said:
he's already (smartly) gave his social media accounts to a handler for the day

his response this morning was measured and respectful
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Zero chance that he wrote that (maybe that Don #3?) . Let's see what toxic crap comes out of his mouth during a live interview.
 
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Gattsu25 said:
Former NYPD Commissioner Howard Safir is on Fox News blaming BLM for the shootings.


Host is subtly calling him out.
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Oh, FoxNews is going to have a field day with police officers being killed. White officers at that by a black man.
 
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Cybit said:
Never thought I'd see anti-insurgent weapons used in the States. Holy crap.
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A Marines helicopter being used to fire at Mark Essex, a Black Panther activist who killed 5 police officers in New Orleans in 1973.
 
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BFIB said:
Thanks a lot asshole for resetting the clock. For the first time, we had a Governor specifically bring race into the discussion with police. It seemed like the goalposts had at least moved a little towards the excessive violence actually being an issue here.

Now in one fell swoop, this asshole wiped all that away, and now it'll be all about killing the BLM movement, and the death of 5 police officers and one black man's hatred for white people.
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Has there been positive ID posted for the race of the shooters? I've read a few news stories, but haven't seen mention of race.
 
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Brinbe said:
The all lives matter morons are out of the woodwork now. Fucking maddening.

And no, BLM is not done by any means. But we're in a very different and more divisive world than we were two days ago. Instead of coming together, people will be more steadfast and divided. There's zero room for nuance with the majority of people out there, sadly.
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Better than the "Blue lives matter" crap I'm seeing pop up on my FB feed along w/ the changed profile pictures to the blue line or american flags w/ a blue line through them.

I was hopeful originally that maybe we'd have a bit more dialogue after these shootings especially when it came out that the second victim was a stand up seeming dude w/ a job that people respected (sadly this is a huge issue getting white people to pay attention, when you can vilify the victim like they did Mike Brown it makes it easier to sweep the injustice under the rug) but as soon as this bullshit in Dallas happened I knew it was over, at least in this news cycle. Sure enough, turn on Today show this morning at 7:30, and the police shootings were being covered like a terrorist attack. Now the dominant news will be the cops that were killed, and if the suspects were black, carrying this out to take revenge for the recent police shootings, forget about it. The MSM will cover this like it's a race war and white people will get further and further into their defense positions and nothing will change. It'll die down like it always does, nothing will be done, and will flare up the next time a black person is senselessly killed by police and it's caught on video.

The whole cycle makes me sick and I really, really want to just unplug from the 'current events' news world/social media bullshit, and just start living an ignorant existence. (Which as a white male professional, who lives in an upper middle class, mostly white area, I can sadly/hypocritically do w/out it affecting my life at all)
 
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Raylan said:
Mythical people? Not really funny. But yeah, I ignore people immediately and stop listen to what they say as soon as they start to stomp and spit on a flag. Why? Because it's fucking stupid and makes you look like an asshole. So yeah, you can lose sympathy when you do stupid things while trying to prove a point.
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So you lose sympathy for oppressed human beings because of how they treat an inanimate object in the face of systemic, state and federal disregard for their civil rights.

The Pledge of Allegiance really sunk its teeth deep into you, huh?
 
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Gattsu25 said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter

Here you go.
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Sort of proves my point, there's a lot of decentralized chapters and no one that speaks with the weight of all of them.

I get it, but that doesn't work out well to bring about change untill you unite as one.

We're going to see it here in the aftermath, where random BLM speakers are going to be questioned and never seen again by most people just catching the news. BLM needs one spokesperson to crystalize around and who can Wade through these heavy matters
 
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Sanjuro

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I don't know if it's just me, but I feel strange that most articles are referencing 9/11 in headline like this is a high score.
 
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klonere said:
Where was the good guy with a gun.
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running from bullets,like any good guy with a gun with no training in handling under stress situations
everyone wants to be john mcclane,nobody understand that even the imaginary badass was a trained officer
 
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Friend shares article, "this is what white people can do to support #blm."

First response

"You mean the terrorist organization that just murdered 5 cops by ambushing them from multiple elevated positions without provocation. No thanks. #alllivesmatter."

Is there any truth to this?
 
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MisterFalcon said:
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A Marines helicopter being used to fire at Mark Essex, a Black Panther activist who killed 5 police officers in New Orleans in 1973.
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I thought we had gotten past that point. If the police start breaking out modern anti insurgent weaponry....holy crap.
 
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Mahonay

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Man this is fucking crazy waking up to this. Watching the videos, it looks like a war zone while the shooting is happening. The guy doing the shooting appears to have been armed with some absurd gun power. Absolutely terrifying stuff.
 
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Krejlooc

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Raylan said:
Mythical people? Not really funny. But yeah, I ignore people immediately and stop listen to what they say as soon as they start to stomp and spit on a flag. Why? Because it's fucking stupid and makes you look like an asshole. So yeah, you can lose sympathy when you do stupid things while trying to prove a point.
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That doesn't sound like sympathy at all. That sounds like you tolerate people protesting until they "misbehave."
 
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