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justintyme
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Posted: 05/30/20 6:10 pm ::: |
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Apparently the governor and the mayors aren't aware that the online arrest records show the addresses of those arrested. Or they thought no one would check.
Jail records show most arrested in Minneapolis riots have Minnesota addresses
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Of the 45 people arrested for rioting, unlawful assembly, stolen property, burglary or robbery on May 29 and May 30 so far, 38 had Minnesota addresses, according to publicly available jail records reviewed by FOX 9. |
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That's Hennepin county. The mayor of St. Paul was the one who made the claim about that one night, and St. Paul is Ramsey county.
The estimates, however, are based upon interviews with ground level forces and community activists. Because of COVID-19, very few arrests are actually happening other than for the most serious offenses. To get a full picture would need to see statistics of all citations issued.
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tfan
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Posted: 05/30/20 6:17 pm ::: |
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He quoted George Wallace in a tweet. That days about everything you need to know about his mindset. |
You don't give the quote but I don't think you are correct. As I mentioned when pilight said it, using looting/shooting in a sentence is from 1967 by Miami Police Chief Walter Headley. But Trump doesn't "quote him". This opinion article printed by multiple outlets titled In threatening to shoot looters Trump takes a page out of George Wallace's playbook makes no mention of him quoting Wallace but was written after the looting/shooting tweet.
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tfan
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Posted: 05/30/20 6:27 pm ::: |
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Perhaps calling the protesters "thugs" in a tweet? Duh. |
He was calling the rioters "thugs". Perhaps you read about, among other things, a police station being burned down?
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Posted: 05/30/20 6:30 pm ::: |
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tfan wrote: |
Apparently the governor and the mayors aren't aware that the online arrest records show the addresses of those arrested. Or they thought no one would check.
Jail records show most arrested in Minneapolis riots have Minnesota addresses
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Of the 45 people arrested for rioting, unlawful assembly, stolen property, burglary or robbery on May 29 and May 30 so far, 38 had Minnesota addresses, according to publicly available jail records reviewed by FOX 9. |
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That's Hennepin county. The mayor of St. Paul was the one who made the claim about that one night, and St. Paul is Ramsey county.
The estimates, however, are based upon interviews with ground level forces and community activists. Because of COVID-19, very few arrests are actually happening other than for the most serious offenses. To get a full picture would need to see statistics of all citations issued. |
The lead statement I see talks only about arrestees being out of state, and in the Twin Cities. But there is another quote that talks about "some of those protesting" but it ties them to groups and doesn't give a location.
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State officials said that around 80 percent of those arrested in the Twin Cities on Friday had come from outside Minnesota |
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John Harrington, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, said there were approximately 40 arrests across St. Paul and Minneapolis on Friday night. He said some of those protesting had been linked to white supremacist groups and organized crime. |
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minn-governor-fully-mobilizing-full-national-guard-blames-out-state-n1219601
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justintyme
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Posted: 05/30/20 6:39 pm ::: |
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ThreeBall25 wrote: |
Perhaps calling the protesters "thugs" in a tweet? Duh. |
He was calling the rioters "thugs". Perhaps you read about, among other things, a police station being burned down. Or perhaps you saw the video of a Target being looted? |
And "thugs" is a loaded word that is freighted with racism.
The fact that he doubles down on these phrases over and over again and refuses any form of self reflection when called out is the point.
Take what we saw in central park. Now imagine that Karen was caught on tape or on Twitter doing or saying something similarly racist again and again. At some point you stop saying "the words" or "the act" is racist and feel 100% comfortable saying the person is capital "R" racist.
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justintyme
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Posted: 05/30/20 6:56 pm ::: |
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This is just bad reporting from NBC. I listened to the press conference live.
The "State Offical" who used the 80% figure was the governor. And he made no reference to arrests. He "estimated"--and was clear it was unconfirmed and unofficial numbers he was tossing around--that 80% of the rioters/people causing the destruction were not local. He then suggested there were reports of white supremacist groups and drug cartels involved. He also drew a specific distinction between people he was calling "rioters" and those he was calling "protesters". His numbers were all about those in the first group and not the second.
The mayor of St. Paul was the only one who spoke of "arrests" specifically. And all he said was that he had been informed that those arrested so far in St. Paul on Friday (the press conference was at 1:30 am) had all been out of state. He was not making any claims about the "Twin Cities" as a whole, and of no timeframe beyond what would have been a few hours from when the rioting picked up on Friday evening until when he spoke.
It sounds like NBC conflated these two and turned it into one statistic of 80% of arrests across the entire area and over a much broader timeframe.
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Posted: 05/30/20 7:08 pm ::: |
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ThreeBall25 wrote: |
Perhaps calling the protesters "thugs" in a tweet? Duh. |
He was calling the rioters "thugs". Perhaps you read about, among other things, a police station being burned down. Or perhaps you saw the video of a Target being looted? |
And "thugs" is a loaded word that is freighted with racism.
The fact that he doubles down on these phrases over and over again and refuses any form of self reflection when called out is the point.
Take what we saw in central park. Now imagine that Karen was caught on tape or on Twitter doing or saying something similarly racist again and again. At some point you stop saying "the words" or "the act" is racist and feel 100% comfortable saying the person is capital "R" racist. |
What word do you think Trump would use if there was rioting in an all-white city? I think he would use thug. That is, he would treat both races equally. Now if black people (not white racist police) tell him that they don't like the term and he still continues to use it, then I would call that racially insensitive. But the few black people Trump talks to (Republican/conservative) probably don't have a problem with the word.
Barack Obama in 2015 referred to rioters in Baltimore as thugs, as did the black mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake. Black Columbia professor John McWorter told NPR that while it is not in the definition, today thug is a "nominally polite way of using the N-word". But did Barack Obama use a polite version of the N-word to refer to rioters?
https://www.npr.org/2015/04/30/403362626/the-racially-charged-meaning-behind-the-word-thug
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justintyme
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Posted: 05/30/20 7:15 pm ::: |
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Thanks for that Genero. That highlights this perfectly. Wish there was an easy Twitter embed function on these boards, but since there isn't I know how much work it is to grab these and present them in a workable format. It's much appreciated.
And with Trump, while the Tweets are bad, it's the fact that he does it again and again. Maybe you could have given him the benefit of the doubt at one point, but it takes a ridiculous amount of mental gymnastics and selective amnesia where we pretend that each and every one of these statements of his happens in a vacuum to continue to do so. At some point playing the "but what he really meant" game just gets absurd.
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Posted: 05/30/20 7:37 pm ::: |
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Thanks for that Genero. That highlights this perfectly. Wish there was an easy Twitter embed function on these boards, but since there isn't I know how much work it is to grab these and present them in a workable format. It's much appreciated.
And with Trump, while the Tweets are bad, it's the fact that he does it again and again. Maybe you could have given him the benefit of the doubt at one point, but it takes a ridiculous amount of mental gymnastics and selective amnesia where we pretend that each and every one of these statements of his happens in a vacuum to continue to do so. At some point playing the "but what he really meant" game just gets absurd. |
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Posted: 05/30/20 10:44 pm ::: |
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Wow. Shit's hitting the fan in a lot of cities tonight. Philly, LA, San Fran, DC, Minn, Dallas, Chicago... |
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Posted: 05/30/20 11:13 pm ::: |
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Wow. Shit's hitting the fan in a lot of cities tonight. Philly, LA, San Fran, DC, Minn, Dallas, Chicago... |
Don’t go to sleep on Pittsburgh. |
Sorry, my CBSNews Pittsburgh station is showing LA.
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justintyme
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Posted: 05/31/20 2:20 am ::: |
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justintyme wrote: |
He quoted George Wallace in a tweet. That days about everything you need to know about his mindset. |
You don't give the quote but I don't think you are correct. As I mentioned when pilight said it, using looting/shooting in a sentence is from 1967 by Miami Police Chief Walter Headley. But Trump doesn't "quote him". This opinion article printed by multiple outlets titled In threatening to shoot looters Trump takes a page out of George Wallace's playbook makes no mention of him quoting Wallace but was written after the looting/shooting tweet. |
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/where-does-phrase-when-looting-starts-shooting-starts-come-n1217676
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Wallace, a Democrat who fought to preserve segregation during his political career, also used the phrase when he ran a third-party presidential campaign in 1968. According to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he said the same thing to his supporters during a campaign event in Pittsburgh's Civic Arena: "When the looting starts, the shooting starts."
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Posted: 05/31/20 5:39 am ::: |
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ABC had a 7pm PST show about the situation and the St Paul mayor was on and said that he had been given bad information when he said that none of those arrested were from Minnesota (or the area?). He said “I’ve had to walk that back”, but he didn’t give an updated value for in-state/out-of-state arrestees. He did say that he had been told that they are a number of people at the protests who were from outside the area/city (can’t remember term).
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Posted: 05/31/20 11:47 am ::: |
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Wow. Shit's hitting the fan in a lot of cities tonight. Philly, LA, San Fran, DC, Minn, Dallas, Chicago...
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Our apartment building was broken into last night. Windows smashed at the entrance, lobby vandalized. Elevators were eventually shut down for protection. We barricaded our apartment door before going to be and trying (unsuccessfully) to sleep.
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Posted: 05/31/20 2:06 pm ::: |
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Ghod, cops are the biggest snowflakes in the world. They can't stand even stand slight scrutiny, let alone criticism.
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Posted: 05/31/20 2:18 pm ::: |
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Wow. Shit's hitting the fan in a lot of cities tonight. Philly, LA, San Fran, DC, Minn, Dallas, Chicago...
Too many cities to list. 😢
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Minneapolis/St Paul was very quiet last night. All it took was a curfew, closing of all the major highways, and full use of the Minnesota National Guard. Needed all this right away, but that’s in hindsight.
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justintyme
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Posted: 05/31/20 5:06 pm ::: |
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Wow. Shit's hitting the fan in a lot of cities tonight. Philly, LA, San Fran, DC, Minn, Dallas, Chicago...
Too many cities to list. 😢
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Minneapolis/St Paul was very quiet last night. All it took was a curfew, closing of all the major highways, and full use of the Minnesota National Guard. Needed all this right away, but that’s in hindsight. |
Well, except for the people getting shot by canister bullets on their front porches as the police scream "light 'em up".
And the media members arrested.
And the tear gas/rubber bullets being fired into protesters.
If this had happened "right away" as a preventive measure rather than reacting to the city burning already, it likely would have caused an escalation as it would have felt disproportionate and authoritarian. It's already borderline tough to swallow with the burning.
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