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This is what actual brandishing looks like (lemmy.world)
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Top text: Like a lot of people I’d forgotten about these fucks Screenshot of a tweet from @ClimateDefiance reads: Patricia and Mark McCloskey brought weapons to a protest. They were honored as keynote speakers at the 2020 RNC. Included image depicts a man with glasses in a pink polo, Mark McCloskey, pointing a rifle at people off screen next to his wife Patricia McCloskey, a woman in a striped shirt, who is also pointing a pistol at protestors at a the June 28, 2020 St. Louis, Missouri George Floyd Protest.
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[–] 33 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Trump’s rhetoric was similar to that of Los Angeles-based federal prosecutor Bill Essayli, who tweeted over the weekend that, “If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you.”

Have they seen the multiple angles of footage of this?

Man had a phone in one hand and the person he was helping up in the other.

Unless he had a third hand somewhere, I struggle to see where the fucking gun was.

They really be taking the old GOP doctrine to psychopathic levels just to own the Libs.

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  • [–] [S] 35 points 9 months ago

    They’ll put whatever spin they can on this to justify the actions of their gestapo.

    Jon Stewart says it best:

    “They’re lying. We saw it. And that’s how brazen they lie when they know we’ve seen the truth. That’s how they lie when they know we know. Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them. And maybe that more than anything was why Alex Pretti reall was a threat. Because he was brandishing a weapon, a handheld aluminum, 1080p, 60 FPS, weapon of mass illumination. Because there is nothing more dangerous to a regime predicated on lies than witnesses who capture the truth.”

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Besides which, law enforcement is not legally justified in shooting you damn near no matter what you do. A cop is not a court of law. A cop is not a jury and judge. A cop is not an executioner. Their legal jurisdiction extends to getting you in front of a courtroom and nothing else.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    local nazi supporter on my Facebook basically says it's his fault for being stupid because he should have announced that he had a gun when he began interacting with them

    I'm sure that that would go over well

    edit: anybody willing to approach ICE/CBP and loudly declare that they have a gun on them?

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