Police do have the right to defend themselves, but they should be held to standards of disproportionate retribution.

I'm actually not trying to bust on you and I know you do get this, I'm just saying. 

Heard the name Tony Timba for the first time today

Ignited tear gas is what destroyed the Symbionese Liberation Army's hideout and the Branch Davidian compound.

Tonight with John Oliver
LastWeekTonight (2014) : Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUdHIatS36A

Comedy Central (2014) : The Daily Show - We Can’t Breathe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KqDIPdCOg

Ironic that its the usual supects...
Sen. ran paul (now against a anti-lynching bill), fox and friends (hannity), Rudy Giuliani ect.

This isnt a new issue.

The Waco cult mainly set their building on fire themselves.  They dumped gas and lit it on multiple sides of building and it went up quick.  It burnt down so quickly because they built it shitty and it wouldn't have passed any building code if properly inspected.

I normally find these sorts of youtube "news" channels to be idiotic, but I find this one - The Majority Report - to be mostly quite good, and tend to dig further into topics in the sort of way C-Span did - not sure what C-Span is like now, but if I'm seeking to find a source that has its finger on the pulse of American Political culture from the 1980s and 1990s, I always go to C-Span... especially considering C-Span has lots of content from those time periods available in very high quality. To me, The Majority Report is kind of the equivalent of that from a number of leftist perspectives:

Sam Seder - hates labels, but I'd peg him as a progressive. He's more of a full picture guy who is very anti-hierarchy. He tends to be pro-governance person who thinks people in small groups can become corrupt. His pro-government view comes in the fact that he believes that if you give people too much freedom that they will exploit.

Michael Brooks - a fierce democratic socialist. He can be very bullheaded on the short-angle change. That is, for example he was much more pro-Bernie, by far, than the other two - he saw Bernie Sanders as the be-all/end-all victory point, while the other two are more wide-angle casting Bernie as one part of a much larger picture.

Jamie Peck - is a libertarian socialist, though she has also called herself an anarcho-communist as well as a communist - and has recently been incorrectly labeled as the leader of Antifa (calling her that is like calling someone the leader of Nintendo fans). She's the most academic of the three, very well read in Marxist text.

One other show I frequent is the David Pakman Show, but I am much less of a fan of it because, even though I agree with Pakman to a very large degree, it's less about dialogue and more about monologue.

Tends to occur with pyrotechnic tear gas... Which should be limited to outdoor use, compressed air canisters are better for fire safety.

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He just released a new video. I think it is very much worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4cea5oObY

Can someone explain the logic of having these protests in the middle of a pandemic that is killing black people at much higher rate. There are multiple sources that say covid-19 is killing black people at rates as high as 4 times the rate of white people and not only in the US. Something needs to be done but I don't understand how getting potentially thousands more killed is going to help. I'm open to opinions here.