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DemocratSinceBirth
May 2020
OP
FM123
(10,053 posts)1. Wow. Powerful and to the point.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)2. k&r to be seen
calimary
(81,318 posts)14. And another K&R to be seen.
H2O Man
(73,559 posts)3. Recommended.
iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)4. K&R. nt
IronLionZion
(45,454 posts)5. So nothing about hating our soldiers and veterans and America too?
Damn, right wingers can make simple issues very confusing.
If public drunkenness leads to daytime public execution in front of many witnesses, then policing isn't much of a deterrent for more serious crimes.
marieo1
(1,402 posts)6. Great Appreciation
Thank you for posting this..........
niyad
(113,342 posts)7. KNR
erronis
(15,303 posts)8. One person taking the knee was to honor our freedoms. The other was to kill.
I hate being part of the same race as that cop. As a police force that condones this. As a country that condones this.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)9. That is brilliant,
in a totally horrible way.
Oppaloopa
(867 posts)10. Were are the great attorney's of the past? Were are our F Lee Baileys ?
We need something to tell our young people to do when they witness something like this. Filming on a cell phone is not enough.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)11. And the right-wing nuts....
just can't get this through their concrete skulls.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)12. This simple act
cost Colin his entire career. Wrong on all levels. He did what he felt was the correct thing to do, bring attention to a terrible injustice in this country.
Celerity
(43,408 posts)13. K & R