Update (2100ET): Tensions continued to flare in Los Angeles, where a police SUV was filmed ramming through a blockade of protesters - nearly running over one in the process. Gravel Institute @GravelInstitute
No group, protestors or civilians, have been anywhere close to as violent and sadistic as the police have been tonight.
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Sophia Lee 소현 @SophiaLeeHyun
Omg. It’s happening.
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Elsewhere in Los Angeles:
Sophia Lee 소현 @SophiaLeeHyun · 3h Replying to @SophiaLeeHyun
All in wait. One guy screams at them, “Eff you! You’re not the only ones with guns!”
Sophia Lee 소현 @SophiaLeeHyun
Businesses are boarding up their windows in preparation for another possibly chaotic night.
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Gravel Institute @GravelInstitute ·
The mayor of Minneapolis is a Democrat.
The governor of Minnesota is a Democrat.
The Minneapolis City Council has no Republicans.
Don't tell people "voting blue is the most important thing." They've been doing that for decades and it hasn't worked.
Update (1911ET): A little over an hour has passed since Philadelphia's 6pmET curfew went into effect - because nothing says "deescalation" like a daytime curfew - Sunday night's "demonstrations" are already devolving into sickening violence on par with what we saw last night.
Around 1pm local time, looting broke out at a strip mall in Santa Monica and elsewhere across LA, while the situation in West Philadelphia worsened, with the rioters and looters spreading - while peaceful demonstrators continued their demonstrations in some cases offering a convenient cover for the criminality of looters - in LA, Philly and elsewhere.
The situation is getting so bad, Santa Monica just moved its curfew to 4pm - 30 minutes ago - because of the looting. LA County moved its curfew to 6pm local time. Tampa Florida announced a curfew starting at 7pmET (45 minutes ago).
One notable scene in Santa Monica showed looters attacking an Amazon van and running off with packages.
Why are the drivers even out after Amazon asked them to turn back? Could it have something to do with the company's plans to end COVID hazard pay?
A report from California officials claimed the situation in Santa Monica was "deteriorating rapidly", and that "police have been called in from other parts of California to assist."
More looting going on in West Philly with nobody coming in to stop them. Some exasperated locals wondered whether the elected Democrats in the city would use force to protect small businesses, as videos showed several big box stores, including a family dollar, being looted.
One looter traveled all the way from Indiana to Santa Monica to join in the looting.
Intermingled with familiar images of nonviolent demonstrators were clips of looting and unprovoked cruelty, like this gang of street hooligans setting a homeless man's belongings on fire in Austin, Texas.
Twitter users flew into hysterics over this video of a tanker truck "plowing" into a crowd of protesters. Except nobody was seriously injured - at least not according to initial reports - and a closer examination merely shows the driver approaching a crowd, then stopping, before being mobbed by "peaceful demonstrators".
The_Real_Fly @The_Real_Fly
VIOLENCE ERUPTED OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE
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