78: More Protesting and Rioting
Police + Public
We’re now five days away from George Floyd’s death and we’re getting to a better place. On Saturday all I saw was police officers using batons, tear gas and rubber bullets. There was a lot of pain.
Yesterday, at first I saw something different. I saw people coming together and some police joining in with protesters to express their stance against police brutality, and to show solidarity with the anti-racism movement.
Here are a few:
In Flint Michigan the Sheriff took of his helmet, instructed all officers to lay down batons and to chants of “walk with us” joined the protesters in their march
At a protest in Camden, instead of throwing up their shields, police there marched alongside the demonstrators
In Santa Cruz, California, the police chief took a knee with protesters with the department and tweeted out:
In Kansas City:
In Fargo:
In Ferguson, MO:
But, wait…
as last night approached, the scene turned ugly. More riots occurred. They started happening all over the place:
In Santa Monica the police tear gassed everyone. In Minneapolis, a semi-truck driver ran his truck through a group of protesters.
It was bad, maybe the worst I’ve seen America in a long time. Trump remained silent.
Some photos from Minnesota and around the country:
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From @brd_dispatch
In Kansas City:
In Utah at @DeseretNews
From @mercnews
In Detroit
Other Stuff
Trump’s star in Hollywood is no more:
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about:
Dogs are the best:
I’ll finish with this one:
Corona
Seems not relevant given the madness, but cases are still trending down.
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Time to get back at it…