Matt Agorist – The Free Thought Project June 6, 2020
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A common theme is starting to appear across all the stories of police violence against protesters in the past week. That theme is that the protests remain largely peaceful until police begin kettling protesters and attacking them with rubber bullets and tear gas. Multiple instances of protests turning violent all appear to have the same catalyst behind the violence — cops acting as the instigators. As the following case illustrates, even when the cops try to instigate a fight, up to and including shooting a homeless man in a wheelchair, people resist the urge to get violent.
There has been a lot of looting and destruction in Los Angeles since the start of the protests last week. However, on Tuesday, protests remained entirely peaceful. This was in spite of the fact that cops opened fire on protesters with rubber bullets and doused them with tear gas.
Dozens of peaceful protesters were documented trying to seek cover from the fire as cops shot them with “less than lethal” projectiles for being out past curfew.
It is important to point out that many of the arrests we are seeing involve violations of unconstitutional curfews which have been enforced across the nation — not actual crimes. When citizens refuse to be silenced and do not go home when told they have to, police begin a process known as kettling which provokes violence by trapping protesters in a fight or flight type situation.
Essentially, people who stay out past the curfew are being kettled by cops who do not allow them to leave and then are tear gassed, pepper sprayed, beaten with batons, and then arrested.
This tactic is highly controversial because multiple instances have captured cops abusing people who are innocent, including the press, and bystanders who are not even participating in the protests — like innocent homeless people in wheelchairs.
According to a report out of the LA Daily News, officers were enforcing the curfew in Los Angeles when they opened fire on peaceful protesters. Caught in the fire was an innocent homeless man who was shot right in his face with a rubber bullet. As seen below, after being shot, the man slumped over in the wheelchair and began bleeding profusely.
DTLA earlier: “completely unarmed homeless man in a wheelchair that had NOTHING to do with our protest.” “They proceeded to inappropriately shoot “non-lethal” rounds directly at his face, which is against the proper procedure for firing rubber bullets.”
DTLA earlier: "completely unarmed homeless man in a wheelchair that had NOTHING to do with our protest." "They proceeded to inappropriately shoot "non-lethal" rounds directly at his face, which is against the proper procedure for firing rubber bullets." pic.twitter.com/MMdEkutgCx
— Chris Scalzo (@thescalzinator) June 5, 2020
As the Daily News reports:
Officers and then paramedics tended to the man, but his condition was unclear. LAPD spokeswoman Officer Rosario Cervantes said Wednesday the department had no comment on the incident at this time. A photo of the man and his injury was being reviewed by the department.
This happened on Tuesday and is so egregious, so over the top and despicable that it should be on the front page of every major outlet. However, there are literally so many stories like this one, that it is impossible to break through the divisive chatter in the mainstream.
As we reported on Friday, for example, 13 days ago, if cops were recorded conducting a drive-by shooting at kids walking down a sidewalk in their neighborhood — allegedly enforcing a 7:00 p.m. curfew — this would be a national conversation. Instead, it’s been reduced to a blurb in local media and buried by countless other stories.
The same cops who shot a man in a wheelchair are the same cops who conducted a drive-by shooting on children.
According to witnesses, the following footage was taken in the area of Fountain and Highland avenues in Los Angeles.
In the video, we can see a deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff department leaning out the window in a “drive-by” fashion before opening fire on a group of teens on the sidewalk.
We have no way of knowing what transpired prior to this shooting. However, nothing the officers are doing is within department policy.
As the group of teens turns and runs, pepper balls are seen exploding on signs and cars before rubber bullet gun shots can be heard. It was a scene out of a dystopian fiction, but it was real and happened in the land of the free.
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Cops are normal people. They make good and bad decisions, mistakes, and do shit they regret. My best friend was a cop. He regrets busting people for pot, but he had been convinced pot was a terrible drug by his bosses, and he enforced the law. Water under the bridge, eh? Punish the perps, cops or not. Correct their faulty behaviors. Maybe the rioters should pay for the damage they cause. That would help.
The police (para-military police state) are political, or more specifically a polical football to be kicked by sheeple and the political classes. When the sheeple protestors and fake news jump on the police, the elite are laughing and politicians actually get traction with the majority of sheeple who aren’t protesting. I am not protecting the police. There are many careers which attract certain types of people & roles that hold a lot of power or access (paedos), tends to attract the wrong kind of person. Then we have the infitration of protests. Who were the people who pulled down Edward Colston in Bristol?
My wife is from Bristol. Black Africans were selling members of their own families (indirectly) to Colston. This is not a back & white case. White people were slaves in Britain before the export and import of black slaves started. I am not condoning slavery, but there are many seccessful black Britons who wouldn’ be what they are today, so maybe they have some guilt?
You could view current immigration/migration as a form of modern slavery. The awful conditions created in distant lands & I refer here in the main, to North Africa and the Middle East. These conditions were created by Western deep states and they were warned this would lead to a migration crisis, but they still went ahead. Easy conclusion, they wanted the EU and UK to be swamped with what are in effect, modern day slaves & even if they don’t work for a couple of years, they get benefits (debt) which they spend in Western economies, so you can see why the elites likes it. This is growth with out making society wealthier.
Brexit disaster, layer caked by Covid, layer caked by protests & yeaterday we could see the regimes delight, as some regime muppet read out absulutely precise protestor numbers for the entire UK which the BBC News made a big point of making sure this was branded into the sheeples brains, or lack of brains.
Aye blah blah blah.Im fed up hearing stories about what might have gone on in the past but were you there .No.So you don’t know what went on.Muddying the waters does not make right wrong or wrong right.Kiddy on viruses ,illegal lockdowns,police and establishment thugs pushing fascist ideals oh and don’t forget the stupid flag.
Many of these people who are engaged in the present situation have done so claiming and declaring their slogan” Black lives matter” and are mistakenly blaming the white population for the horrors of history . They have decided to over look some of the facts of history whereby a great many of the black slaves from Africa were prisoners held by tribal chiefs from their own wars , they were then sold off to slave traders from various places and shipped off to the Americas to be sold again into slavery , there we two sides to this side of history but but the BLM group choose only to see one side.
What a completre and utter load of b0 ll 0x!! Typical pig ignorant rant of a non article from someone who Hates the police but LOVES the Anarchist ANTIFA!! I hope they take you down real soon and I hope it is painful because YOU are a member of this TERRORIST and TRATOROUS gang!! Time to pay the ultimnate price you waste of air!
I support the police always will, when i was a kid my dad WOULD put his uniform on and go to work as a Policeman. As i approached my teenager years the gravity of his job started to have an impact on me. Mum and i would be so worried he would be shot in the line of duty.
After 25 years he became a Police Prosecutor.
Police are underrated in t oodsys world and are so quick to be marginalized by the Jew Media.
I happened to be at the Led Zep riot in Tampa Florida~ 6/75? I never knew it was called ‘kettling’, but that’s what the Tampa cops did.
Everyone locked in the stadium got their heads batoned, etc.
It’s a long story, but we were among the last ten people who got out of the ‘kettle’ before they locked in folks 20 yards behind us.
We DO need cops, these days, without doubt. I question how many of the events were as described in the article, which usually is a GREAT site.
RC
One thing, that the article above didn’t mentioned… Is that the one shot in the wheelchair was a white privileged man , so it does make it O.K. for the cops to shoot him …