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originally posted by: Abysha
a reply to: Gryphon66
The enemy of my enemy is my friend? Or is it "the BLM of my BLM is my BLM"?
In any case, I hope this brings a bit of perspective shift among two types of people that have been manipulated to dislike each other for decades.
originally posted by: tweetie
a reply to: Gryphon66
The Bill passed, 55-3.
Link to Oregonian article
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: Gryphon66
I was looking around for more info about any possible interaction between the respective groups/supporters, and didn't find anything in specific, but I found this and thought it was an interesting read:
The Oregon Standoff, Black Lives Matter, and Criminal-Justice Reform
This was published in The Atlantic on January 5, so just a couple days after the protest/occupation began, and looks at the principles and issues common to the groups.
originally posted by: Boadicea
originally posted by: tweetie
a reply to: Gryphon66
The Bill passed, 55-3.
Link to Oregonian article
Thank you for the update. This article is awful -- but no worse than others I've read. I believe the bill still has to pass the upper chamber before going to the guv for signature (and no doubt she will sign it if given the chance). The ACLU had said they would challenge any bill that prolonged release of the officer's name for longer than 90 days.
What do you think?
I don't think killing the officer who killed LaVoy by some avenging person is the answer but a lot of situations have been getting out of hand way too fast or way faster than in previous times. The public is tense and easily triggered and the cops are tense and easily triggered. It's not a good combination.
Aside from that I find it hard to believe if the Oregon Staties really have been threatened they would have a problem quickly sourcing who it's coming from. I can only imagine if I threatened my state police, they'd be on my doorstep or right behind me in about ten minutes to handcuff me and probably with a SWAT team in tow.