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ForgedCrank

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17. Protests do
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 09:21 AM
Jun 2025

not include violence and attacking and assaulting law enforcement, and it does not include interfering with law enforcing operations. I'm not sure when rioting became fashionable and acceptable. Seems we have been calling out a bunch of people and prosecuting them for doing that in DC a few years ago, but now it's Ok? So is this kind of rioting acceptable? If so, how do you differentiate this violence from that violence?
The answer is: this was a riot, it was a violent riot, and the guy who got hit by the vehicle was blocking the vehicle from trying to escape what is very obviously a violent mob (which he was a part of). You've been around here for a long time and I generally respect your grounded opinions, so I'd like to hear the justification for all of this.

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ICE ran over protester in LA [View all] orangecrush Jun 2025 OP
That's not ForgedCrank Jun 2025 #1
It is still hit and run. nt moniss Jun 2025 #2
Guy running backward and fell Dumpy Jun 2025 #16
Any time and for any reason if a vehicle contacts a pedestrian moniss Jun 2025 #19
Vehicle didn't contact a pedestrian Dumpy Jun 2025 #34
It doesn't matter if the pedestrian steps in front of you. moniss Jun 2025 #39
The vehicle didn't hit him. Dumpy Jun 2025 #40
Absolutely correct k_buddy762 Jun 2025 #5
He sure is. Swede Jun 2025 #6
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2025 #12
Morning Sunshine! GP6971 Jun 2025 #15
lol what on earth WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2025 #13
Protests do NOT just happen on sidewalks. MineralMan Jun 2025 #14
Protests do ForgedCrank Jun 2025 #17
Nope. Sorry. MineralMan Jun 2025 #18
Sorry about? ForgedCrank Jun 2025 #20
My comment, like your post, is my opinion. MineralMan Jun 2025 #27
You are correct. ForgedCrank Jun 2025 #37
The violent mob is the one roaring into communities, sowing militarized terror and tearing families apart, and it must WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2025 #21
I believe ForgedCrank Jun 2025 #22
You're right, I forgot to mention the violence of a criminal response for a civil matter, the violence of defunding WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2025 #23
While I ForgedCrank Jun 2025 #24
I was typing a line-by-line response to your post until I got to this one: WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2025 #25
Exactly. MineralMan Jun 2025 #28
Protip: k_buddy762 Jun 2025 #29
Protip: WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2025 #30
So post them. k_buddy762 Jun 2025 #32
The real truth ForgedCrank Jun 2025 #38
Awful. Left a man lying on the ground and took off fast. AloeVera Jun 2025 #3
Exactly. The day we start trying to B.See Jun 2025 #7
crowds and vehicles are incongruent k_buddy762 Jun 2025 #4
So are barricades and vehicles. orangecrush Jun 2025 #11
That's why ICE wears masks IronLionZion Jun 2025 #8
I was thinking the same about trials. In a correctly run U.S., these "agents" would be brought to court eventually... C Moon Jun 2025 #9
The newscasters are absolutely unbelievable fascist idiots Prairie Gates Jun 2025 #10
And this is just the beginning. J_William_Ryan Jun 2025 #26
"Protest" isn't necessarily confined to following the rules. David__77 Jun 2025 #31
It was not wrong to say abolish ICE Passages Jun 2025 #33
Protest on the sidewalk? Not always. cbabe Jun 2025 #35
Do we ever find out what the hardened criminals they're after actually did? OneGrassRoot Jun 2025 #36
ICE doesn't care flamingdem Jun 2025 #41
Where's "a good guy with a gun" when you need one ???? Jack Valentino Jun 2025 #42
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