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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I don't think so. I think you'll see the mother of all crackdowns.
Law enforcement is itching to play with its new toys. They're already running facial recognition software on rioters.
They'll throw Chauvin under the bus as they damn well should, but the police state will then pivot to using this as a teaching moment of exactly the wrong type -- experimenting on responses to social unrest in a single city to find the best ways to snuff out unrest on a broader scale which may accrue from economic fallout from the virus.
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You don’t know Bob Kroll, the police union president (who appeared on stage with 45). He hasn’t said much yet, but I don’t think he will throw Chauvin under the bus.
At the moment, the police are basically gone. Yesterday morning, after a night of riots, the only policing saw anywhere in the city were clearing out a homeless encampment near the looted Target (there were certainly looted goods in the but kicking people out with no place to go is questionable). This morning, after even more rioting and a police precinct burned down, I saw exactly one police squad car. They’ve fled the city.
Today, unlike yesterday, there are a bunch of state troopers and national guard holding a perimeter. What happens after dark? Who knows?
The mayor has declared an 8pm curfew. Who is going to enforce it? The cops who have taken the last several days off? Troopers? National Guard?
