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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 05, 2021, 01:14:15 pm
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Proud Boys leader held for burning Black Lives Matter flag
Tue, January 5, 2021, 1:23 AM EST·3 min read
The leader of the far-right Proud Boys group has been arrested in Washington DC on suspicion of burning a Black Lives Matter flag last month.
Enrique Tarrio faces misdemeanour destruction of property charges, police say.
He has reportedly admitted torching a banner taken from a black church during a rally in December in the city.
President Donald Trump has been urging supporters to gather in the capital this week for another demonstration.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/proud-boys-leader-arrested-burning-011119907.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_11
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How about that!? A right wing burns a BLM flag and gets arrested. Yet if BLM torches a city, and all it's flags, everyone looks away and calls it a "nonviolent demonstration"? :shrug:
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On one hand, the flag did not belong to him. On the other, if he wanted to fight it in court he has a hugenormously valid Selective Prosecution argument he can make.
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If someone goes to jail for burning a flag that was not his, why do we permit hundreds of vandals desecrating public property, toppling statues and blocking roadways?
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ANTIFA!
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If you want to know who 'rules' over you
You only need find the ones you are 'not allowed' to criticize.
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Must be fake news (/s)
@Jazzhead says Trump and his minions are the ones "actively attempting to foment civil war."
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On one hand, the flag did not belong to him. On the other, if he wanted to fight it in court he has a hugenormously valid Selective Prosecution argument he can make.
This divide is going to get much wider during the Biden administration.
I agree with you on both points you made. You don’t have the right to destroy someone else’s property but that should not just apply to one group
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Political prosecutions belong in the third world. Of course, Washington DC is as close to a third world country as you can find at this latitude: Zero middle class, high crime, low trust, unreliable services.