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Rules Recovered From The Floyd Riots (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago by rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Dear Americans,

I am not an American. Were the Floyd protests anywhere near as chaotic as they were portrayed in the press? I recall hearing that most protests were nonviolent, just slightly property-damaging. Thanks!

Sincerely, rambling_lunatic

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[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 months ago

I went to one in California. They kettled us in (basically surrounded us) with armed riot police and then fired tear gas shells at us from mortars.