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by bastard_op 1148 days ago
> "I didn't go out there to fight anyone," Carmignani told CBS. "I'm trying to get them down the road, go to the park."

Yeah, well doesn't seem that way to anyone else.

Guess this is what it's become. At what point to do they cordon off San Francisco as a zone of abandonment and urban warfare now? Seems on par with South Central LA of the 80's, only that had less shit involved, literally and figuratively, just bullets.

I'm waiting for dramatization, Escape from San Francisco, starring a de-aged Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken. Maybe Elon Musk can airlift him out with spacex/tesla from Fremont.
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Mountain_Skies 1148 days ago
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had a couple of episodes set in San Francisco of the twenty first century that's looking more and more of an accurate prediction. It even had a wall to keep the impoverished away from the rest of society, so who knows how much more predictive it will end up being.
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NoZebra120vClip 1148 days ago
The reason that Black Lives Matter today is because gangstas have owned the streets for 40+ years.

It is certainly unjust that any innocent should die at the hands of a police officer, but it is not unexpected, that after 40 years of no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners gang warfare in the streets of every major metro and urb, that police have developed an itchy trigger finger when it comes to confrontations with the general public, who have typically been quite well-armed and combat-ready.

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foogazi 1148 days ago
> The reason that Black Lives Matter today is because gangstas have owned the streets for 40+ years.

This is about the Fire chief bear-spraying homeless people

> It is certainly unjust that any innocent should die at the hands of a police officer,

By definition

> but it is not unexpected, that after 40 years of no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners gang warfare in the streets of every major metro and urb

This statement doesn’t match reality

There’s no justification for police violence

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cafard 1148 days ago
I would point out that George Floyd, whose death brought on protests, riots, the proliferation of BLM signs, etc., was not shot, was in fact in custody.
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