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This is false for both Seattle and Portland. Like pretty much everything else you’re saying.

Absolute nonsense. I was there, repeatedly. They shot first and either then made an announcement or never made one.

Example: they announced a curfew via text a few minutes before it went into effect. Many didn't get this because they didn't have their phones with them. Tear gas and flashbangs had already been deployed with zero warnings from police.

It is not helpful or okay to assert such falsehoods with confidence.

Larry has been reading some very reputable stoke-the-racial-fear blogs!

That’s a pretty disgusting and shameful comment.

No, it's not. I did a search for the string "lawnchair_larry" on this, the second page (i.e. the low-quality page) of comments on this story. It shows up 15 times. Then I went to the third page (i.e. the really low-quality page), opened all the hidden "[more]" subthreads, searched again, and found the string another 10 times. (Nothing showed up on the first page!) You have a lot to say. I read quite a few of these excretions, and found nothing but prejudice, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and unwarranted fear. You should better educate yourself about the situation in this nation and you should be a better person. The fact that you feel more empathy for abusive white cops than for their minority victims is a fact about you, not about the world.

shame on you for judging the quality of a post based on its page number on hacker news. it's like you couldn't be more shallow if you tried.

if you call someone racist don't back down.

Wow, those are some serious charges!

Ok, I’ll bite. It’s racist, by the way, to point out the cops race. So that tells us a little about you.

I challenge you to show me a single example of:

1) A conspiracy theory

2) Prejudice

3) Misinformation

4) Racism

5) Feeling more empathy for abusive cops (of any race) than their victims (of any race).

All my info is either from primary sources, actual data, documentation, or first hand knowledge, not news or blogs, so no need to get cute with the snark. Try to have an adult discussion?

No one relevant agrees with your tired attempt to redefine the word "racist". By the way like 90% of all the white Americans I've ever met I certainly have done and said racist things. It isn't the end of the world, to admit that. Apologize and move on. Don't persist in error.

I can't believe you've trolled me into this. Twenty minutes of my life, down the drain:

1) conspiracy theory

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24283872 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278910

2) Prejudice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24279521

3) Misinformation

4) Racism

5) Feeling more empathy for abusive cops (of any race) than their victims (of any race).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24284044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24283485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24283514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24283587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278990

6) Unwarranted fear

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24278910

The first one is literally on the BLM website. Not a conspiracy theory. Go read it.

Second one said Seattle’s lost their black female police chief. Basic fact, not a conspiracy theory.

Third one also contains no conspiracy theory.

3 strikes, you’re out. I assume the rest are more links of me not saying anything close to what you purport. Which I knew, because I didn’t say those things.

Your list for racism was empty, btw.

you really did waste twenty minutes

You were in both portland and seattle? have you considered your correlation to madness? Is it a 100% correlation? I'm sorry, but are you saying protesters didn't have their phones on them? As opposed to literally every other protester who is filming every unfortunate human interaction at every protest?

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