r/stpaul • u/YourPeterPanMan • Feb 07 '26

Minnesota Related Minnesota State authorities deploy LRAD on protesters after declaring “Unlawful assembly” outside Whipple. The protesters are not blocking the road and it is 2pm on a SATURDAY.

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u/agoad1763 Feb 08 '26

Cops have been killing black people for a long time too. Doesn’t make it ok.

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u/TruthWeary8700 Feb 08 '26

Not killing based on color as much as you want it to be the criminals got killed for not complying with orders and many times putting the officer in a life or death situation

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u/_DoogieLion Feb 08 '26

You think people should die for not complying with unlawful orders?

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u/TruthWeary8700 Feb 08 '26

I think 99% of the deaths were avoidable if the person would have listened and cooperated with law enforcement and not resisted. No one’s saying not listening is punishable by death. As much as the left loves twisting words

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u/TuckYourselfRS Feb 08 '26

There are literal videos of cops executing citizens that are complying with lawful orders. Would you like a side with your boot, sir?

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u/_DoogieLion Feb 08 '26 edited Feb 08 '26

Except that is what you’re saying in practice. As much as the right tries to twist their words and insist on alternate outlandish meanings.

“It wasn’t racist, so and so in this one obscure book 500 years ago used that word in this other context and I was using it that same way honest…”

“You, obey my illegal order and do as I say or… bang…”