Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Stupid political slogans: Defund Police and Jan 6 riots "legitimate political discourse"

 Among stupid political slogans were "defund police" and now the RNC came up with one of their own:" Legitimate Political Discourse" per excusing the Jan 6 rioters who were obviously on video discoursing in violence. Aside from the First Amendment that protects peaceful assembly to address grievances and pointedly leaves out protecting a violent assembly, both stupid slogans needed a lot of backpedals and if and buts to qualify what they ""meant. (Biden repeatedly rejected the defund police slogan so stop painting him as for it, right-wingers...and more money was poured into policing in his first year as president. If the RNC's slogan becomes a mantra, does that mean that the rioters in Seattle and the summer of George Floyd protests which also had some violence were also "legitimate political discourse"? Those who say, well they got off so also should the Jan 6 rioters and applaud Trump for saying if elected again, he would pardon them, might take look at what happened to the vandals and police attackers in the Geroge Floyd protests. As usual, those supporting the right-wing when complaining about unequal treatment of the Jan 6 rioters are quick to make a "what about" the George Floyd rioters. First, it is sheer BS that George Floyd protestors were not prosecuted. Per an Associated Press study "An Associated Press review of court documents in more than 300 federal cases stemming from the protests sparked by George Floyd’s death last year shows that dozens of people charged have been convicted of serious crimes and sent to prison. "https://apnews.com/.../records-rebut-claims-jan-6-rioters...

The difference is the George Floyd riots were mostly conducted by African Americans and the Jan 6 rioters were white. Strange how that works.

There were reforms made in Colorado following high profile cases elsewhere.. https://www.denverpost.com/2020/06/13/colorado-police-reform-bill-passes-legislature/
However, no knock warrants it not included in the 2020 state reforms. Aurora was the first Colorado city to ban no-knock warrants in response to cases elsewhere. Aurora becomes first Colorado city to ban "no-knock" warrants (denverpost.com)

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