BLM mob beats white man unconscious after making him crash truck
But at no time did he apologize for his White Privilege.™
But at no time did he apologize for his White Privilege.™
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The typical NY Post paradigm of making sensationalist race-baiting headlines.
The beating of the man after he had been safely detained is morally indefensible.
But of course, so is trying to run people over with your truck, and that is certainly what the protestors believed was happening before the truck was stopped. If he had hit a person rather than a tree, would you still be saying that they "made him crash his truck" into that person? This may have been, and indeed probably was, a case of mutual violence. If not, then it was certainly a case of bad judgment. The victim hasn't admitted guilt with respect to the attempted murder charge yet, but he does claim in the video footage that he was "trying to protect someone from being robbed", a dog-whistle that white supremacists have been using to justify multiple homicides and attempted homicides at BLM events over the past few months. Regardless of who this man is or what his intentions are, if you have a plausible explanation as to how one uses a pickup truck to stop a robbery non-violently, I'm interested to hear it. Until then, I'm going to assume that this is a story about two parties inappropriately using excessive and escalating force against each other, which the Post has tried to rebrand as an unprovoked attack on an innocent man by a crazy mob of Blacks, because that sells more papers to their mostly middle-class white audience than unbiased report would.
The beating of the man after he had been safely detained is morally indefensible.
But of course, so is trying to run people over with your truck, and that is certainly what the protestors believed was happening before the truck was stopped. If he had hit a person rather than a tree, would you still be saying that they "made him crash his truck" into that person? This may have been, and indeed probably was, a case of mutual violence. If not, then it was certainly a case of bad judgment. The victim hasn't admitted guilt with respect to the attempted murder charge yet, but he does claim in the video footage that he was "trying to protect someone from being robbed", a dog-whistle that white supremacists have been using to justify multiple homicides and attempted homicides at BLM events over the past few months. Regardless of who this man is or what his intentions are, if you have a plausible explanation as to how one uses a pickup truck to stop a robbery non-violently, I'm interested to hear it. Until then, I'm going to assume that this is a story about two parties inappropriately using excessive and escalating force against each other, which the Post has tried to rebrand as an unprovoked attack on an innocent man by a crazy mob of Blacks, because that sells more papers to their mostly middle-class white audience than unbiased report would.
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How DARE you bring that up, when the poor innocent white guy got BEAT UP!
Don't you know that the standard valuation would be (one beat up white guy)>(155 dead black men or 97 dead hispanics)?
Derec
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I guess beating up white people is, just like looting, a form of "reparations" for #BLM?
Derec
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For people like you and Politesse it's the opposite, as you always defend this type of shit!
ruby sparks
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I think the right thing to do here, based on what we have seen so far, is simply to condemn this unequivocally, and I hope the guy is ok. If something else turns up that suggests he started it, that might change things, especially if he did try to drive his car into protesters. But at this stage saying it was "probably a case of mutual violence" without knowing that, seems premature.
laughing dog
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If the victim in this incident had been trying to run over a police officer, and been beaten by the police, would the same outcry occur from the same people?
Derec
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If the guy was black, there'd be a lot of looting and rioting and 'say his name'ing and the media as well Biden and Kamala would be talking about how great a guy he was and would focus on all the unprotected sex he'd been having. All that judging from similar past incidents.
Relevant to this case though, people have a right to defend themselves, but they don't have a right to revenge attacks. Not even against white people.
Article about the brutal attack:
Portland protesters beat driver unconscious after crashing truck near Black Lives Matter rally
Left-wing extremists in Portland have been rioting for 80 straight days. It's ridiculous that the mayor of Portland and the governor of Oregon are fiddling while Portland is going to hell in handbasket! Where is heavier police presence? Where is the national guard?
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He relaxed
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Don't believe your lying eyes. It was a peaceful demonstration. 
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I am not, in fact, defending either party, and I believe I made that perfectly clear. In bold and italics in hopes that you would not miss it, but all hopes die unborn these days....
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Ah yes, implying that an angry mob lynched someone for no reason is never premature. But asking why the truck was there, and conjecturing based on the testimony of the victim rather than what would sell the most tabloids, would be premature. I wonder at folks whose capacity for skepticism turns on and off like a light.
You know the right wing crowd is making bumper stickers that say "Black Lives Splatter", right? What is your "perfectly innocent explanation" for why this man was driving erratically through a crowd in a truck to begin with?
ruby sparks
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I have read a few reports in reputable papers and I have not yet seen it confirmed what he was doing before the incident, nor any reports of injuries to any one else or damage to anyone’s property. Perhaps it may come out later that he was guilty of what you suggest.
ruby sparks
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Where?
repoman
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It is a chaotic late night scene, not really sure what was happening
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1295264755712528384
ruby sparks
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Is that the same guy, in the blue t shirt and dark shorts, the one who was beat up in the OP video?
If so, it does look as if, at the end of the footage, he was trying to help a transgender woman who was robbed and beat up.
Although he’s also on the scene just before she is assaulted, near the start of the video, although at that stage no one seems to have an issue with him.
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When a black guy attacks a Nazi for trying to run everyone over with a truck, the black guy is the assaulter. A video only showing the assault is put out everywhere on the Internet.
When people drag a Muslim out of a truck who was trying to run everyone over, those people are heroes.
When white people stand up for themselves by destroying property (Tea), get guns, run around tarring and feathering people, stoning others, and murdering more in response to fascism, those white people are called heroes for centuries.
Apparently, this flag ONLY APPLIES TO WHITE PEOPLE:
Because let's just face it, mob mentality in response to fascism or violations of rights or murders happens. It's a feature of humanity that we don't like when we are being rational, but clearly there is a bias in which mob violence is good and which is evil.
When people drag a Muslim out of a truck who was trying to run everyone over, those people are heroes.
When white people stand up for themselves by destroying property (Tea), get guns, run around tarring and feathering people, stoning others, and murdering more in response to fascism, those white people are called heroes for centuries.
Apparently, this flag ONLY APPLIES TO WHITE PEOPLE:
Because let's just face it, mob mentality in response to fascism or violations of rights or murders happens. It's a feature of humanity that we don't like when we are being rational, but clearly there is a bias in which mob violence is good and which is evil.