People openly shooting at other people, reporters being attacked, a gas station burning.

This might be the worst after police shooting riot.

8/14/2016 12:47:47 AM

4 fires now in #Milwaukee riot:
BP gas station
O'Reilly Auto Parts Store
Beauty supply store
BMO Harris bank building

https://twitter.com/danodradio/status/764685812923502592

8/14/2016 12:54:17 AM

Seems like the violence is waning now.

8/14/2016 1:06:02 AM

Rivalry between Milwaukee's Best and Old Milwaukee is really heating up

8/14/2016 1:08:17 AM

These and other such riots are America's birth pains.

Yes, nearly 250 years after independence, America is still trying to decide who and what it is and wants to be, similar to a very confused young teenager who had a difficult and painful childhood with many loose ends and unanswered questions.

It has go through a complex, protracted, and painful catharsis and rebirth to figure out the answers.

8/14/2016 1:11:39 AM

Old Milwaukee is da stuff

I never see that anymore =3

8/14/2016 3:12:28 AM

I feel like beauty supply stores are always central to these kinds of things.

"Where should we begin rioting?"

"I dunno, is there a beauty supply store around here?"

"Oh, right."

8/14/2016 3:24:35 AM

Let it burn
Wanna let it burn, wanna let it burn
Wanna wanna let it burn

8/14/2016 3:48:54 AM

I often wonder after these events what would cause me to act in a similar manner - or at least what would have caused me to act in a similar manner when I was young and didn't have a mortgage and a job.

8/14/2016 7:03:27 AM

^put your white privilege away.

8/14/2016 7:20:49 AM

I wish I knew how.

8/14/2016 7:22:10 AM

When all hope is lost humans aren't very different from each other.

8/14/2016 8:02:31 AM

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/03/05/390723644/why-is-milwaukee-so-bad-for-black-people

8/14/2016 9:28:41 AM

^

Quote :

"But blacks make up 40 percent of the city"

Right here is why there are so many suspended.

8/14/2016 10:08:36 AM

Quote :

"in Milwaukee, with only 5% of black eighth-grade boys achieving proficiency in math and 4% in reading last year, according to federal data. By comparison, white eighth-grade boys in the city reached 33% proficiency in math and 20% in reading."

damn, everybody that had a brain and a choice left that crap hole decades ago

8/14/2016 10:43:54 AM

lol you can just move and not be homeless

check that privilege and try again

8/14/2016 11:43:45 AM

You act like being homeless isn't the better choice in some situations.

8/14/2016 12:05:39 PM

Another positive and uplifting thread on this cesspool of a racially divided website

8/14/2016 1:26:47 PM

It's pronounced "Mill-e-wah-que" which is Algonquin for "the good land"

8/14/2016 1:38:48 PM

Why are they rioting? Did the brewers win something?

8/14/2016 1:46:19 PM

^Nope, it's just standard practice to riot when a black guy with a criminal record who was disobeying cops is shot. The next step is for mamma to come on TV and say "My baby was a good boy."

8/14/2016 3:46:49 PM

yeah if you're black and commit crime, you deserve to die

8/14/2016 3:50:36 PM

B4C is all

8/14/2016 4:03:06 PM

^^Not true, but people should at least wait to riot until the truth comes out.

8/14/2016 4:10:57 PM

Or until they can restock the Pumpkins, am I right?

8/14/2016 4:22:04 PM

Some inconvenient facts for the race-baiting SJWs:

-The "victim" was resisting arrest and had a stolen gun.
-The cop that shot him was black.

Not that facts ever stopped the SJWs from crying about the fabricated liberal narrative of 2016 racial oppresssion. So by all means, continue to justify rioting and act like the shooting was racist. I guess anyone that disagrees just benefits from white privilege, or, you know, choosing to not commit crime, steal a weapon, and resist arrest.

Quote :

"“We have to take responsibility. We can’t say it is the police or whatever,” he said. “We have grandparents who are in their 20s and 30s and that’s a problem. This is the result of unparented kids with no values or morals. They are hurting.”"

Surely this black Milwaukee resident is simply a racist, right SJWs? It couldn't be that choosing to not raise children has a detrimental impact that directly correlates with the disparities of crime and punishment? But hey, understanding what causes crime, and trying to fix it, is racist, the democrats need their perpetual dependent voting block to think they are victims.

8/14/2016 4:22:48 PM

Lol, who are you even responding to?

8/14/2016 4:28:24 PM

and if you're white in Milwaukee, you deserve to get jumped.

https://youtu.be/xJpWiV-zLoM

8/14/2016 4:33:09 PM

^^^Oh man! It was black on black? This story is lame! Now its back to our regularly scheduled programming.

[Edited on August 14, 2016 at 4:34 PM. Reason : .]

8/14/2016 4:33:55 PM

Too many people on both sides trying to make claims on this shooting before anyone knows anything.

Quote :

"yeah if you're black and commit crime, you deserve to die"

Deserve doesn't have anything to do with it. IF this guy was armed and resisting arrest then it could be a justified use of deadly force.

Quote :

"-The cop that shot him was black."

Irrelevant. The anger in the community is not blacks vs whites, it's blacks vs cops.

[Edited on August 14, 2016 at 5:09 PM. Reason : ]

8/14/2016 5:02:30 PM

^Don't let that info slip out because it doesn't make for as good of a story. BLM in the above video wanted to beat up white people.

8/14/2016 5:24:35 PM

The officer who did the shooting supposedly had his bodycam during the incident, so we'll see more from this incident than in prior events. it will be interesting to see how long it takes for the footage to get released.

8/14/2016 5:30:35 PM

What does Black Lives Matter have to do with the rioters in Milwaukee, or the people in the video above?

8/14/2016 5:49:19 PM

^Supposedly it is BLM supporters.

8/14/2016 5:55:50 PM

I don't even know what that means, people who have used a hashtag on twitter before?

8/14/2016 6:08:54 PM

No. It is not.
Get your facts straight


lol, just like Trump. Make some baseless claim, and then cite "most people" as the source.

8/14/2016 6:10:58 PM

^I'm p-sure Trump is purposely throwing the election

I'm not sure why though

either because he didn't think he'd actually make it this far into the election, or he's trying to secretly help the Dems win (because there's no way in hell he's going to win; I've been saying that for months now and I'm about 95% sure I'm right, especially with the way he's been acting publicly)

8/14/2016 9:26:39 PM

https://twitter.com/timcast/status/765031832115118080

There's a live stream of some protests there, some rocks being thrown at police. There's a good handful of white people among the protesters, even though fox reported they were beating up white people.

Milwaukee has longstanding issues with racism in their public policies, more so than most places, I can see these protests growing even larger than any previous ones.

8/14/2016 11:58:16 PM

Black people disproportionately lack father figures (SJWs don't care)
Black people disproportionately commit violent crime (SJWs don't care)
Black people are disproportionately arrested (SJWs scream RACIST POLICING)

Rioting and burning your own city in "protest" over a likely justified police shooting... and the brain-dead SJWs here are trying to justify it as if it has anything to do with police racism. This is what happens when the democrats and their media convince the rioting morons that they are poor and unemployed because of their skin color rather than their personal choices. The discrete racism of low expectations from the left... keep spreading that "racial oppression" narrative SJWs, it's really helping the black community.

ATTN BLACK PLL: Your personal choices don't matter, you are a victim of "racism" from the vague scapegoat of "society". If you are a criminal with a gun resisting arrest, if a cop tries to arrest you, the cop IS RACIST. Even if the cop is black. Also if you want to riot over a justified shooting, go ahead. The liberals will defend you because you are infallible victims! Riot for social justice! #progress

8/15/2016 1:39:53 PM

I would hope, but I know this isn't the case, people could see that this was not BLM

this is not what BLM is about, this is not what the people who created the movement ever spoke of

8/15/2016 2:13:16 PM

That's the convenient thing about a hashtag being considered a "movement". You can pick and choose which things are "officially" associated with it. Like it or not, this chaos is the result of #BLM and the atmosphere the liberals have created.

The inability of #BLM, and the left in general, to differentiate between justified and unjustified police shootings, leads to this stupidity, because as soon as you start protesting Justified Police Shootings you can't call yourself a "peaceful inclusive movement". When you start emphasizing the race of the victim over the laws that were broken, you are no longer seeking justice, just racial division and outrage.

8/15/2016 2:28:16 PM

did you ever stop to think maybe racism affects the choices a person can make? did you ever think that maybe it is difficult to be a good father figure from a prison cell? or maybe just maybe, environmental toxins, lack of nutrition and poor education inhibits decision making?

the things you blame as the problem are all direct results of systemic racism. cops don't need racist intent when the entire city's existence is racist.

8/15/2016 2:35:27 PM

Yea, I forgot that:

A father's choice to break the law
A mother's choice to get knocked up
A mother's choice to provide inadequate nutrition
A kids choice to drop out of school
A criminal's choice to steal a gun and resist arrest

Is all someone else's fault... Not sure whose but I guess "society" is vague enough of a scapegoat that I can defer blame from personal choices to something else.

8/15/2016 2:58:58 PM

no, it's not convenient

now there are people rioting and looting in the "name of BLM" and now there are people who cannot get the attention they need to move it in the right direction, just people shouting over the next person and the chaos that ensued

don't think for one minute any of this is convenient, convenient would be if we could lobotomize all KKK racist dicks and erase all of the negative history associated around racial tensions.... AND THEN we all just pretend it never happened ...that would make it convenient

but it's not, real change is not easy

8/15/2016 3:01:35 PM

I like how JCE pretends to use logic when trolling, but Big4Country is just straight out with his racism

8/15/2016 3:13:00 PM

There was never a chance to "move BLM in the right direction". It's a George Soris funded outrage factory backed by paid protestors and gullible virtue-signaling SJWs. Just look at the "demands" of #BLM... there's no realistic end goal besides division and racial tension. It's just fabricating racial division before an election. I know the SJWs here like to play pretend "activist" and pat themselves on the back for tweeting their social justice hashtags, but when you start inventing "racial oppression" in 2016, you need to realize that riots and dead cops are the price you pay for votes.

8/15/2016 3:19:53 PM

did you ever stop to think maybe racism affects the choices a person can make? did you ever think that maybe it is difficult to be a good father figure from a prison cell? or maybe just maybe, environmental toxins, lack of nutrition and poor education inhibits decision making?

the things you blame as the problem are all direct results of systemic racism. cops don't need racist intent when the entire city's existence is racist.

8/15/2016 3:27:03 PM

Quote :

"did you ever stop to think"

I'm pretty sure he stopped thinking about this issue objectively a loooong time ago.

8/15/2016 4:31:09 PM

*goes to blacklivesmatter.com
*sees that it doesn't say "let's riot!"

sounds simple. perhaps you could blame other pro-black movements for this while we're at it. black panthers, NSBE, NAACP? their goals and execution are pretty organized and not the cause of this chaos. don't you believe that the kkk isn't responsible for every neo-nazi action? or are they all the same?

8/15/2016 4:45:01 PM

I guess the entire point of differentiating between justified and unjustified police shootings went over your head.

If you equate a justified shooting of a black person with an unjustified shooting of a black person, you are showing that you don't care about the circumstances, only stirring up outrage when the victim is black. And I'm sure someone has already mentioned #BLM ignoring all the other cases of black lives being ended by something besides police (their silence speaks volumes).

So yea, #BLM and the left convinced the dumbest of the poor minorities that they are victims and that cops are racists KKK members, but at least their website didn't say "let's riot".

8/15/2016 5:04:03 PM