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Yeah, those are generally the undercover cops. 
They throw a brick and leg it, which means the cops now get to beat the hippies down (liberal protestors cops hate, cops are buddy-buddy with conservative ones), and then arrest everyone after they get their bloodlust out. They give themselves a dozen new medals, talk about how they're all that's between society and chaos, jerk each other off a few times, and the protestors are quietly let go without charges 48 hours later -- and then quietly sue the city, which gets settled out of court, and the cops get another medal and jerk-off session and a higher budget.
If they can't get a brick-thrower in, the cops will just kettle a chunk of the protest up somewhere and demand the protestors "disperse". Of course the cops herded them somewhere where there literally is no where to go, so they don't disperse because they can't and then the cops tear gas them then beat them down. 
Same results, Medals, jerking off, quite releases and settlements, bigger cop budget.
Cops are the biggest fucking racket in America.
We pay those bastards fucking time and a half to beat the shit out us.
In light of another tragedy, a gentle reminder that comments advocating death or violence will result in an instant ban i.e. comments like "Don't shoot X, instead we should shoot Y" or "Turn our guns away from X and towards Z".
^(Hope everyone's day is going well otherwise.) >

Am I reading this right?  Officers originally arrived and saw casings at the gas station, but no victims.  Later they discovered victims because they went to the hospital?  Was there no blood on the scene anywhere? >

The victims self-transported to local hospitals. Ambulances cost hella money. I can understand why folks would rather self-transport. >

This is a very American situation. Get shot, drive yourself to the ER because you can't afford the ambulance bill.
Then presumably don't pay those medical bills because they don't have insurance, and have shit in collections already anyway. >

Get shot, break a leg, pull up my insurance app and figure out which hospitals are covered. Now hopefully all the doctors at those hospitals are, just gotta find all their names and look them up. A+ best healthcare in the world. >

Politicians gave us reason to hurt our neighbor. >

That’s some psychological trauma >

People get caught up.. real shame. >

Couldn’t there be an organized effort from the people, the used to be middle class, why couldn’t we protest but in a big way. I feel like we’re all so beaten down anymore. But we could organize a peaceful protest. A gentleman’s agreement. A day where we just recognize we were a happy healthy middle class and we’re still here. No violence, no discussion of anything but everyone choosing just one day where we don’t clock into the jobs we don’t even like. Just for a cause. We can make a dent right? There’s more of us. >

The thing about peaceful protests is that the cops show up and start the violence. >

And all it takes is a few people who want violence for it to go bad.