Re: Los Angeles Has Surrendered

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:50:35 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>:

Mon, 9 Jun 2025 19:27:13 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>:

Were these the same 'reports' that told you everything was 'mostly
peaceful', Dimensional? The crowd sizes were a helluva lot further
north than 100.

https://ibb.co/HDVhqC0s

Unless the scenes I saw were from somewhere outside the United States,
what I saw wasn't peaceful at all.

Then you weren't looking very hard. Yes, there were protests that
weren't peaceful, but there were also protests going on with large
numbers of people that were completely peaceful. Though the violence
is what is always going to get covered the most.

Do you think the chief of police uses a crystal ball, shawn, to make
decisions about predicting violence breaking out once large numbers of
people start protesting? Can he take that chance?

I remember the George Floyd protests of 2020, the aftermath of which was
bad in Chicago but nothing like Portland or Kenosha. There was march
after march after march, intending to disrupt commerce and business (to
the extent there was any during the pandemic shutdown). During a huge
rally blocking the expensive retail shopping area along North Michigan
Avenue, to which a large police presence had been called, cops failed to
notice massive gangs of looters in another retail area just two blockks
west. I'm not buying into conspiracy here that the looting was organized
by the same people who organized the protest, but it absolutely was not
coincidental and an outcome desired by those who had organized the
protest. There is no question that they were deliberately tying up
police resources and that property crimes would escalate.