Louisville A Tinderbox: BBQ Owner Dead, No Body Cam Footage, Police Chief Fired | Talking Points Memo

Louisville was on edge Monday after the shooting death of a black barbecue stand owner overnight.


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Trump just declared war on our Democracy.

It is now up to We the People to resist.

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It just never stops…

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Fuck this fucking asshole.

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Does Trump think troops will go against the citizens of this country?

Even if they are deployed, they will ā€˜take a knee’.

Trump will not succeed in this lawlessness.

He has thrown down the gauntlet, and he will not survive.

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@pluckyinky reported on this earlier on another thread.She said Louisville was going to be burned.

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Not sure why twitter is acting like a sloth.

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All these years I thought Kent State was a deterrent…

Turns out it was a rehearsal.

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The chief was scheduled to retire on July 1so it’s not even a real punishment.

Source: https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/louisville-police-chief-steve-conrad-to-retire-in-june-in-wake-of-controversial-breonna-taylor/article_b168c718-9b92-11ea-a1cc-4fda5c80c570.html

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Can’t be said enough today.

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Sad sad last few days.

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When does Bunker Boy officially declare Kristallnacht? Call on the boogaloo bois to get things started. They’re armed and ready.

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Because turning of your body-cam is SOP during situations fraught with danger, misunderstandings, etc.

What the fucking fuck.

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Believing this is just fucking dumb. If the body cams footage works for the Cops they hand it over. If it does not they delete and say the cam was not on. In many places not activating a body cam is punishable but the punishment is damn sure no where near as serious as what cam footage of a murder would bring about.

They were on. Recorded gross over use of deadly force. So this.

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This and as Tom Cotton is advocating the military shoot to kill Americans.

Trump did talk about American Carnage in his inaugural speech. Well, we have it now, the horror in cities around the country, mishandling the cornavirus, the economy, the environment, etc. etc. He is burning it all down.

Bringing what he does best: chaos and unrest, fear and anger, division and disruption

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Well, he seems to have found his Reichstag Fire.

We’ll likely see a roundup of the usual suspects, like the Palmer raids.

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How old are you? ā€œ4 dead in Ohioā€ā€¦and Military used force against protestors in DC today.

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His mother just buried her daughter in January.

ā€œHe fed all the policemen," Riley said. "Police would go in there and talk with him and be with him. He fed the police. He fed them free. All he did on the BBQ corner was trying to make a dollar for himself.ā€

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Wait, is this against the armed thugs terrorizing lawmakers in the Michigan capitol? It’s kind of late…

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TPM, is it so hard for you to find a picture of the victim?

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