I’m thinking it would be a wise idea for them to turn the bodycams back on so they can prove that much of anything they claim like this has a basis in fact. At the moment, their credibility is pretty low. Because others are keeping their video cameras running.
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Bullshit, this was done to inflict financial pain. If it was to stop the vehicles, they could have cut the valve stems or removed the valve core. Lying bastards, I really hope we are able to disband the Minneapolis Police. Its the only way to make real change. Otherwise the Police Union will ensure that the Status Quo is maintained. I realize they weren’t involved in this.
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Just a few bad apples. Sort of like the 100s of videos in this twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/search?q=T.%20Greg%20Doucette&src=typeahead_click
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Good to see they were protecting private property!
Make the VANDALS walk home!
Wait…maybe I got that wrong.
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Absolutely true. They should be charged with a felony vandalism commensurate with the cost of all the damaged tires. And then fired. Assholes.
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What a ridiculous excuse for property damage (the police are the “rioting looters”), as if someone hellbent on driving into a crowd is going to stop because they might damage their rims?!
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The police are out of control.
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I saw this the other day - TPM’s account left out this, which which I’ve copied from the Mother Jones article:
The gray car in the video above was the rental car of Luke Mogelson, a New Yorker writer who typically covers war zones and is now stationed in Minneapolis to write about the protests. As the protest on Sunday evening turned hairy, with law enforcement tear-gassing peaceful groups soon after curfew, Mogelson went to check on his car, showing his press pass to officers along the way. (Media were exempt from the curfew.) One officer took a picture of his press pass and said he would “radio it up the chain so everyone knew that car belonged to the press,” said Mogelson. When he came back later that evening to retrieve his car, officers informed him that the tires were punctured. “They were laughing,” Mogelson recalled. “They had grins on their faces.”
Mogelson was among many journalists who came back to flat tires after the protests.
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Oh no it’s all OK since the state was under a public _____________( fill in circumstance of the week here).
“Oh we just had to do something since illegally parking was everywhere.” In the midst of a pandemic where people are not going out as much. 
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Fucking vandals. That is all.
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$50 says no cars bearing a Trump bumper sticker were slashed.
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Strategic deflation is a nice euphemism for destroying private property.
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You know. Jack handles, water bottles. That kind of thing.
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“The calls are coming from inside the house!”
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While the Goths ride for free!
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What’s the effective difference to the cars’ owners whether the property damage is done by “looters” or anyone else? This act undercuts quite a lot of arguments lionizing officers as maintaining civic order as well as arguments demonizing “the looters” because they “destroy property.”
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Cops to tax payers -
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I guess this was Strategic Dehydration?
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Cops enjoy vandalism as much as the next thug…
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