— BallerAlert (@balleralert) May 30, 2020The true irony is George Floyd was murdered for allegedly using counterfeit money to buy some cigarettes.
Floyd, a Houston native who had worked security for a nightclub, was arrested for allegedly using counterfeit money at a store to buy cigarettes on Monday evening.
I've decided to wait and see how things play out before writing any commentary on these protests. Information about them is still quite fluid, there is clearly a lot of dynamics and opposing forces. One thing is certain this is way beyond George Floyd now.
Perhaps if they had arrested and charged Chauvin when the video went viral they might have pacified Americans with a third degree murder charge. Perhaps if they'd arrested and charged all 4 officers after waiting 4 days they may have been able to avoid the chaos.
But the U.S. empire doesn't want to avoid the chaos, the U.S. empire needs the chaos.
What I am observing is that the American public has lost it's faith and respect for the justice system and police. This is much bigger than George Floyd, he is simply the hero that broke the camel's back and now a symbol of something more.Assemblywoman Diana Richardson was pepper sprayed by #NYPD at what should’ve been a peaceful protest. pic.twitter.com/982ewAVpZW— A N G E L A | R Y E (@angela_rye) May 30, 2020
It goes beyond police murders of P.O.C. as well. Take for instance Jeffrey Epstein and every other fucking rich dickhead. The cameras cutting out prior to his "suicide", the questions about the autopsy. There's a Netflix documentary now about what a piece of shit he was rolling in his riches. Justice?
The utter failure and racist criminal stink of the U.S. justice system, the country with the largest prison population on the planet, has finally discredited itself to the point that the police are no longer considered police in the eyes of the public, nor should they be, and enough so that despite the destructiveness of the riots the protests seem to be maintaining a level of support.
Back in 2014 my late friend Michael C. Ruppert did a feature with Vice, his last before his suicide. In it he described what the police in the U.S. had become: a paramilitary force that had declared Americans the enemy. He discussed how they had been taken over via the Patriot Act at a Federal level.Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling “light em up” #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForGeorge #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/bW48imyt55— Tanya Kerssen (@tkerssen) May 31, 2020
You want to know why the actions of the police and the words of the government officials that supposedly operate them seem to differ? Take for instance the governor of Minnesota apologizing for the obviously deliberate arrest of a CNN news team, only for police nationally to deliberately target reporters everywhere tonight.
The police in these instances now are operated by Homeland Security, and they're simply a shell of the banks and the CIA.Earlier tonight in #Minneapolis, The state patrol playing the role of the overdraft fee in human form in front of this Wells Fargo.— ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ๐, ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ก๐ผ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ (@BankBetterGuy) May 31, 2020
Scary stuff this evening.
I consider myself media, folks.. I am telling the story the best way I can.#protests #minneapolisprotests #protest pic.twitter.com/owPwsu5XyD
Ali Velshi says the cops started firing for no reason, totally unprovoked. No doubt MSNBC will fire him next week.— Turncoat Don (@TurncoatD) May 31, 2020
Sorry Ali for laughing about the rubber bullet to the leg. But it was kinda funny. #Minneapolisprotests #VelshiLives pic.twitter.com/DrieIztaG3
Myself, photographer, and producer just made it back to the car. We were with a group of media and thought we were in a safe spot. We kept saying we’re media. Police tear gassed and pepper sprayed the entire group. Everyone ran. It was insane. It happened so fast. pic.twitter.com/Wl3Fzzlsnw— Ryan Raiche (@ryanraiche) May 31, 2020
The cops just shot out by back window. And it was completely unnecessary. This after tear gas, being ribbed by a bully stick and other atrocities. And I had my press credentials visible. Coverage of today to follow on @StatusCoup. #laprotest #GeorgeFloyd pic.twitter.com/pSdLtSIAXq— Lefty-Desiree McLeftyFace Slaps back w/ Milkshakes (@TinaDesireeBerg) May 31, 2020
This is the moment Minneapolis Police fired on our CBS News crew with rubber bullets. As you can see, no protesters anywhere near us- we all were wearing credentials and had cameras out. Our sound engineer was hit in the arm. #cbsnews pic.twitter.com/UAy7HYhGnL— Michael George (@MikeGeorgeCBS) May 31, 2020
CBC’s @OrmistonOnline reports she was shot in the shoulder with a rubber bullet in Minneapolis.— Laura McQuillan (@mcquillanator) May 31, 2020
She reports she and her camera operator were in a parking lot that had been cleared of protesters when she was shot.
And yet she delivers her live hit like a pro. pic.twitter.com/6yxhuSOO2U
A man with a video camera and a PRESS helmet runs after being hit by... something... apparently some sort of pellet fired by police pic.twitter.com/OpH2Q60ry4— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 31, 2020
Philly police pin young black man to the ground with their knees, swat our field reporter with a baton for filming the scene.— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) May 31, 2020
"Beat it."
"I'm a journalist, sir!"
"I don't care what you are. Beat it." pic.twitter.com/llguNcdTlx
Minneapolis: A photographer was shot in the eye.— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 31, 2020
Washington, D.C.: Protesters struck a journalist with his own microphone.
Louisville: A reporter was hit by a pepper ball on live television by an officer who appeared to be aiming at her. https://t.co/bXfZOUilOG
Back in 2014 I found a video of crowd control training. I found it so important I posted it to my blog but sadly the video has been removed (I'm not sure when that happened, and I've been unable to find it again). I can only describe what I saw in it for you now: what it showed was police learning how to attack unarmed protesters. None of the training shown in it had any sort of aggression on the protesters part aside from words. And the response they were being trained in? Unhinged aggression.Minneapolis Police slashed every tire on my rental car, as well as every tire of every car in this parking lot. pic.twitter.com/lchFplYQ0n— Andrew Kimmel (@andrewkimmel) May 31, 2020
Our police are trained for this in Canada too. While the U.S. was outfit over multiple protests and Homeland Security other nations have been preparing too. The G20 as it toured the globe provided excuses for numerous western nations to outfit their police force with excessive crowd control hardware. Police forces from all across Canada went to Toronto to participate and were likewise armed from it.
The G20 provided excellent cover to arm and test the equipment, as well as the systems, the capacity for officers to attack citizens and journalists, and the response from the citizens for when the real shit finally hit the fan from all of the building inequality and the ponzi-conomy. Something eventually inevitably was going to give.
The G20, being Canada's only large scale training exercise provides a textbook example of the tactics that will be deployed and have been deployed now with the George Floyd protests.Dude dropped some knowledge on CNN just now ๐! #GeorgeFloydProtests #Minneapolisprotests #CNN #riots2020 pic.twitter.com/bZmQgGxCE8— Mike Humphreys (@MikeHumphreys11) May 31, 2020
Press for Truth put a documentary together on the G20, watch it to see the tactics in action.
How to unleash a police state in 4 easy steps!
Step 1) Wait for or plan a protest that directly challenges the state's legitimacy. Most protests don't really challenge the power of those in control as they focus on policy as opposed to the system's structural violence. Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and G20 however fit the bill.
And at this point it isn't just Black Lives Matter either, wake up whitey, the police aren't exactly your friend right now either are they?
Step 2) Allow the protest to develop into something that gains attention. With the G20 this was easy, the media was even "predicting" the "trouble" that was going to come later. While with something spontaneous like George Floyd it may take a few days for traction.
Step 3) Unleash the agitators. During this phase the protest will be infiltrated by paramilitary undercover cops.
This happened at the G20 as well. The riot will be allowed to run un-opposed by the police presence they have waiting for the unsuspecting public. The destruction is used to try and turn popular opinion against the protests. They may leave cars abandoned to be burned, and encourage looting and rioting via their agitators. It's not to say that all the rioters are police, but typically they are trained in how to lead crowds into action.NYC friends, I noticed all the undercover cops are wearing white arm bands, probably to recognize each other. Be careful. pic.twitter.com/DjRYBemW3b— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) May 30, 2020
The police will also act out to anger the people.THIS WAS STAGED! THIS WAS AN OLD COP CAR THAT WAS RANDOMNLY PLACED IN THE ROUTE OF THE PEACEFUL PROTEST IN LA. THIS WAS A STAGED CAR. THEN LIT ON FIRE #BlacklivesMaters #LosAngeles #blm #GeorgeFloyd pic.twitter.com/30ZwKuQdLk— Jordan Saint-Pierre (@jordansntpierre) May 30, 2020
NYPD hitting a protestor with a car door in BK. Wow it’s almost like this isn’t really about protecting the public. pic.twitter.com/9DTIv1QYe9— Zeeshan Aleem (@ZeeshanAleem) May 30, 2020
Questions raised over masked white man with umbrella seen calmly smashing windows before Minneapolis riotsJust watched the Oakland cops pounce on this black couple standing on the sidewalk. #GeorgeFloyd pic.twitter.com/lvBDYxkFqA— Shane Bauer (@shane_bauer) May 30, 2020
Step 4) Once the public justification is made it's time to unleash the police.
The police do not oppose those actually rioting, the police oppose the peaceful. The old. The fragile. The young. The journalists. The people.This is from Atlanta. Watch the tide of cops in black riot gear slowly come in as the small group of protestors try to get out of the way.— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) May 30, 2020
It is both surreal and the perfect picture of what this country is.
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In Houston, Texas the police on horseback just rode over a woman peacefully protesting against racist police violence. pic.twitter.com/GeHjH3mmDj— redfish (@redfishstream) May 30, 2020
Because it's the American people that have been declared the enemy.
"If those protestors had just gotten out of the way we wouldn't be talking about this situation," @NYCMayor actually literally just said on NY1, re the video of NYPD cars ramming into barricades in Brooklyn— Jessica Pressler (@jpressler) May 31, 2020
#BREAKING: Happening now in Detroit!#LosAngeles #GeorgeFloyd #JusticeForGeorgeFlyod #georgesfloyd #GeorgeFlyod #LA #GeorgeFloydprotest #AtlantaProtest #Minneapolis #minneapolisriots #BlackLivesMatters #BlackLivesMatter #USA #NewYork #Atlanta #AtlantaRiot #JusticeForGeorge #RIOT pic.twitter.com/DOB92dVUCI— Faruk Firat (@FarukFirat1987) May 30, 2020
Holy crap. pic.twitter.com/KXOgEE5gt9— Lindsey Adler (@lindseyadler) May 31, 2020
.— FinchHaven Photography (@FinchHaven) May 31, 2020
In Seattle a seven-year-old girl got maced full in the face by a Seattle cop
Here she is moment later with her PPE mask still on
There is video
The cop refused to identify himself; his badge number is circulating
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And the future is now.Salt Lake City cops shove down an elderly man with a cane for the crime of standing along the street: pic.twitter.com/PCLkHqQtJg— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) May 31, 2020
Atlanta has deployed a child militia at Lenox Mall fitted with riot shields and batons. What the actual fuck is going on? pic.twitter.com/zTtmw5mDTN— Fox Wound (@foxwoundband) May 30, 2020
Please take 9 minutes of silence in honor of hero George Floyd.
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