US Police got unreal equipment, look at their firearms in the vids. And some of the armored vehicles I presumed were owned by the National Guard, but nah, its actual police equipment. our bizzies drive Skodas ffs
I doubt it but the US police went at this all wrong. The best way to deal with a protest is to try and contain and let it die out naturally, eventually people have to get their asses back to work, or just get tired of it all. The cops have gone on the attack, brutally, so its escalating and escalating. Every single time the government of a country has tried to beat down a protest they've mostly lost... except for Bashar Al-Assad apparently.
So Trump orders the military to fire tear gas and rubber bullets on a peaceful protest, so that he can clear the area to get a photo op of himself holding a bible. Anybody want to have a go at defending Trump here ?
Spot on. He needs them votes. If he was just relying on the backwater gun-toting redneck vote he'd never have got into power in the first place. He needs the bible belt, the middle america republicans. Right now a lot of white christians in the burbs are worried whether their homes, shopping malls and flash 4 by 4's are going to be next. If things go tits up, he knows they'll turn their back on him. The photo op didn't come after the tear gas. The tear gas and moving the protesters was part of the photo op. That and holding up a bible is symbolic like he's leading a crusade. He's drawing the battle lines for middle amercia... or trying to.
CNN summing it up perfectly. It was a ‘made for TV moment’ orchestrated by Trump for a campaign photo op.
One thing I'll say about Trump, he's not making the same mistake as Nixon with the protesters. He's making new ones... all his own
Those states would have voted for him anyway. As will the states that vote for a Democrat will do also. The states where it's usually a close race, there are a few, I don't know which they are, will probably all vote Democrat after this. That's how he's going to lose it.
