Black Lives Matter Protesters Were Just Shot by White Supremacists

Physically attacked then chased.

Sounds like a justified shooting.

originally posted by: Gryphon66
Where is the "chased off" narrative coming from?

Let's be real about what happened, as far as we know.

There was a group of BLM and other protesters outside the police station who have been there for several days.

They witnessed another group of people standing nearby, not invovled with the protests acting in such ways that made some of the protesters anxious. Some protesters "escorted them" away from the main group (which likely means some sort of body blocking or pushing or what have you ... counter "intimidation" as it were, probably a bad idea at best, but then, to be fair, weapons and shooting) at which point the shooters turned their weapons on the group, injuring five people.

Three people are now in custody for the shooting. At least one of those is a White male, mid-early 20s. No evidence of "white supremacists" no evidence of body armor (as Deny Arrogance pointed out).

HERE is where the chased off narrative comes into play. It was posted by Boadica but apparently over looked.

Page 9 by Boadicea"Carrie Brown, Martin’s cousin, lives down the street from the precinct house and said she and others were cooking dinner for the protesters when “these four white guys walked up … They had masks and they had a briefcase. I thought they were there to donate [something].”

Brown said that someone in the crowd pointed the men out as suspected agitators and the crowd started to chase them away, heading north on Morgan Avenue.

The men got as far as an alley just north of the precinct house when they started shooting, Brown said. “When we turned around they started to shoot at us from behind,” Brown said."

ALso other reports also contradict the escorting off of these men peacefully and that they were literally ran off. If it was peacefully and not with malice they would not had been shot at.

originally posted by: PresidentCamacho
Physically attacked then chased.

Sounds like a justified shooting.

I am Not Sure

seems like the protesters do not want any other message put forth.

originally posted by: deadeyedick

originally posted by: PresidentCamacho
Physically attacked then chased.

Sounds like a justified shooting.

I am not sure

seems like the protesters do not want any other message put forth.

Of course. how else can they maintain public sysmpathy if they dont appear as white as snow?

Anyone who committed crimes should be treated equitably before the law.

We'll see what happens with more evidence.

The idea that the racial divide in this country is created by those who point out the racial divide is ridiculous ... And anyone who denies that White cops shooting Black kids in questionable circumstance after questionable circumstance after questionable circumstance doesn't have anything to do with that divide is simply fronting for a political agenda (as is clearly seen here).

a reply to: yuppa

So, armed individuals started shooting protesters in the back as they were walking back to the protest, according to your witness?

I forget, shooting folks who are walking away from you is self defense in the current narrative ...

a reply to: Gryphon66

Why not just go and read the reports instead of butchering other peoples words and statements.

It was said that they were threatened and chased until they began to fire on the others.

So far none of the reports make sense but a more clear picture is being shown and it is looking like the people being labeled white supremacist are not that and the protesters sought violence against a small group simply because they showed up.

a reply to: deadeyedick

Do you notice that the only "reports" you and some others here are listening to are the ones that paint the shooters in the best possible light?

"Some said"

"it was said"

"... there have been reports ..."

Right ... well, that's conclusive evidence ... particularly when, like you, folks have already made up their minds.

I actually predicted above that this narrative would be shifting to a mob attacking poor innocent but coincidentally well-armed bystanders.

Glad to see I nailed that one ... actually I'm not ... I'm appalled.

a reply to: Gryphon66

A person at the scene said one of the victims had been shot in the stomach, and was undergoing surgery overnight at HCMC.

Jie Wronski-Riley said angry protesters moved the men away from the encampment at the police station. Wronski-Riley heard what sounded like firecrackers and thought, “surely they’re not shooting human beings.” Two young black men on either side of him were hit, one in the back and leg, the other in the arm.

StarTribune

How does one get shot in the stomach running away?
For all we know white boy was in fear for his life, and shot one good, and others were hit by stray bullets.
This narrative that black kids getting shot by white cops "in questionable circumstance after questionable circumstance after questionable circumstance" is racism and if you don't buy it you have a political agenda is absurd.
Could it be there are a lot of white males that are policemen and a lot of black youth are little violent bastards?
I think that may be just as good an explanation as yours.
Who has the political agenda?

8 shots and 5 hit? Seems like they were pretty close quarters to me.

a reply to: harvestdog

"For all we know"

"it's possible that"

"that may be just as good"

Got facts?

originally posted by: harvestdog
Could it be there are a lot of white males that are policemen and a lot of black youth are little violent bastards?
I think that may be just as good an explanation as yours.
Who has the political agenda?

The question is why go there in the first please and with guns, some likely crappy guns. Let the angry self centered college brats who do not know how good they got it play their games, and get on with their own lives.

originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: harvestdog

"For all we know"

"it's possible that"

"that may be just as good"

Got facts?

Your comments are not better--full of speculation as well. Yet you berate others who do the same as you, just because they're holding a different viewpoint. That's a pretty translucent tactic, there.

So, do you have any facts that conclusively disprove some of the viewpoints against which you are arguing?

a reply to: Gryphon66

Do you notice that the only "reports" you and some others here are listening to are the ones that paint the shooters in the best possible light?

No I have not noticed that and you are wrong in thinking that.

I have not listed any reports and have held my comments to be about the links provided here.

The picture is becoming quite clear that the protesters were out of control trying to allow only those they want to be on the street to be on the street and even went so far as too chase them away.

Hell if they were to use rational and tried to verbally state why the others were not welcome there at the time then I would have something to work with but to just flat out seek violence for wearing a mask in the cold Is not tactful.

a reply to: Boadicea

Nm

originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: yuppa

So, armed individuals started shooting protesters in the back as they were walking back to the protest, according to your witness?

I forget, shooting folks who are walking away from you is self defense in the current narrative ...

How do you get shot in the stomach while walking away? Some of them were obviously not walking away but were facing the people being chased. And the witness's statement after they chased them away is very weird. Up till that point the Statement makes sense,but the part about them being shot in th eback dont jive with the wound patterns it seems.

OH something i saw on live tv last night. protestor..sitting nose to nose with a white cop trying to provoke him into getting him out o f his face On camera. Doing the typical puffing up and acting like he gonna hit someone. And of course a lawyer saying hes just practicing free speech by silently protesting in the cops face. Guess he dont realize that personal space is a part of freedom as well.

so according to the latest video on the thread from a couple of the protesters they basically seen someone video tapping the protest and even said that one of them had a BLM sign but then they demanded that they stop filming and remove their masks although i bet the BLM'ers left theirs on...hmmm this is getting interesting on what authority do they have to demand someone removes their face protection in the blistering cold and why? because if they were white they were gonna tell them to get the f**k out of there? yup makes total sense to me. oh and not to mention that one of the protesters socked a guy in the face because he refused to remove his mask but yes yes yes thats completely rational.

The camera man gets hit quite a few times. 3 or 4 times, from the looks of it.

Not surprised there was more to the story.....

Black Lives Matter...like in this video....they are just trying to protect themselves from the terrorist cops and white man...

Link

Wow, black people care so much about other black people they 'run his pockets' .

So, if this is not indicative of all black people then why are all white people the same?

Because BLM is racist. Bottom line.

They state themselves...

"Founder Alicia Garza summed up the philosophy behind Black Lives Matter as follows: "When we say Black Lives Matter, we are talking about the ways in which Black people are deprived of our basic human rights and dignity. It is an acknowledgement Black poverty and genocide is state violence. It is an acknowledgment that 1 million Black people are locked in cages in this country–one half of all people in prisons or jails–is an act of state violence."

State violence towards poverty? Does EBT not go to black people in this city (insert sarcasm)
Locked up? Uh, don't commit crimes. How is this the fault of anyone but yourself? White OR black....
Genocide? By your own people. The ones that you are saying you are protecting. Black on Black violence is an epidemic.

You can only bully people for so long until they start to fight back. That is what the government wants. Division. If we all stood together we would wake up and truly march on Washington.

originally posted by: SlapMonkey
a reply to: Boadicea

Nm

Um... correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that means nevermind? Forgive my cluelessness -- sometimes I'm a little slow figuring out acronyms...