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In reply to the discussion: NYPD says protesters had weapons, gas masks and 'Death to America!' pamphlets [View all]paleotn
(18,080 posts)35. Not to sound too conspiratorial, but all this feels scripted.
Like more mucking around with American politics, and the impressionable among us, by bad actors both foreign and domestic. It feels like a lot of folks on the left are being played but can't quite bring themselves to see it. Some seem to have gone down the rabbit hole like MAGAs. Strange times we live in.
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NYPD says protesters had weapons, gas masks and 'Death to America!' pamphlets [View all]
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
May 4
OP
I think there are more people like this involved than some would like to admit.
TwilightZone
May 4
#1
Unfortunately as a NYC'r there have been too many NYC leo that -haven't- acted professionally. Doesn't mean they are...
electric_blue68
May 5
#47
Don't try to gaslight us, please. We'll form our own opinions without your copious proclamations.
AnrothElf
May 4
#26
I hope the NYPD comes clean on exactly WHO they confiscated those things from...
Think. Again.
May 4
#5
A good point, though. Hopefully truth will out one way, or another. The thought did cross my mind
electric_blue68
May 5
#48
are you talking about Islam? Ok so what about nypd cops who are Muslim, then what
WhiskeyGrinder
May 4
#23
"Romanticizing the protests occurring on college campuses". That sounds very DU-ish. n/t
elocs
May 4
#13
Was going to say there'll be insistence it's conspiracy fake news because police bad. Way too late, of course
betsuni
May 4
#24