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I checked out my city and state on here. The vast majority of the incidents listed are not even close to police brutality. This is clearly put together by someone that has an agenda and doesn't know what they are talking about. Unfortunately this is junk.

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Well my city and state has police destroying journalists' equipment, indiscriminately doing drivebys, and exploding a bystander's eye with a rubber bullet not shot according to the manufacturer's recommendations.

So confident in your statement you made a new account. Would you care to link some of the incidents that feel are not even close to police brutality? You could also make a PR to remove those.

In this day and age, it's a wise move to make a new account and protect your identity. Nobody wants their live destroyed ("canceled") for a comment. That's what it has become, and it will only get worse.

It's a git repository which accepts pull requests to crowdsource information. If you've got some ideas to improve it, then do so.

This repository is not junk.

Can you share which city and state that is? For my own state (NY) all of the ones I looked at are legit.

Do they accept pull requests?

Which is your city and state?

You made an account to make vague and unsubstantiated accusations of "an agenda," then call protestors "communist street gangs"?

Can you please provide actual reference material to back up either the "agenda" claims or the communism stuff?

A BLM leader has openly admitted to being "trained marxists". [0] [1]

[0] https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herse...

[1] https://youtu.be/HgEUbSzOTZ8?t=52

All of this from a Google search.

What, exactly, does that have to do with an entirely separate repo showcasing police brutality?

I'm having trouble understanding your line of argument unless you're claiming conspiracy and that this repo is in fact being ran by secret marxists. Or that all of the protesters are actually marxists. Which is insanity.

I've seen those before. So a basically unknown neo-marxist group gloms onto a grassroots movement. So what? Are you daft enough to think they speak for them now?

And, ffs, what does on earth does "trained marxist" even mean? I repeat my question: is it like a "trained capitalist"? If not, why not?

And what is your problem with that?

That proves that there is a hidden agenda within the black lives matter organisation.

What organization?

If they openly state their desires, that is the opposite of being hidden.

The point is, people should know that they are supporting an organisation that has Marxist leaders.

Which one? Who trained them? Why? Where was this 'open admission'? What is their intended outcome?

A BLM /leader/, plus the claims the organization itself makes.

Yet, when I have provided recent evidence [0] in one of the comments, it gets gaslighted and flagged. Says it all really.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23694041

What do you think "trained marxist" means, in practice?

Seriously, because Associate Professor in Community Organizing doesn't sound nearly as scary, does it?

Do you think capitalism is racist?

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