“If you are inside, please shelter in place, dial 911, and identify your address, location. Officers will be entering to help guide you to safety.”
Haha, I've seen how police "help." Zero chance I'd ever call them on myself.
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These days might as well.... Go for it... there's a war coming. America's dead and not coming back. We had the mob try to get their guy in presidency... What the fuck more do you need to realize it's not about us or for us. It's all for them ...it's all for greed power and crime.
You're either a boss or a slave.
So die in a hail of bullets while shooting at cops? Doesn't seem like the best solution.
This ain't the first time in American history this happened...
During the great depression when a bank showed up with a Sheriff to repossess and evict, the whole community was there with their guns.
If people hadn't done that, America would have been hurt a lot worse.
The difference is cops used to back down, because they can't win against a whole community where they also.lived. Now people mostly have to stand on their own and cops routinely live an hour plus away from where they work.
I'm willing to bet there are more people with guns in Philly than there are cops, it's just only one group is standing united. If people stood united, the cops would back down and there's be zero violence
But how are we supposed to be united with our neighbors when my favorite color is purple and theirs is orange?? And I mean, don't get me started on the pineapple! They can go fuck themselves if they think I'm going to stand with them!
When it's a choice between a quick death-by-cop or a slow death from having to live on the streets, the choice can be simpler to make. :(
You might be able to eventually improve your life and get off the streets. That won't happen if you're dead.
You literally won't fucking care if you're dead lol?
Sure, it's the solution to all of life's problems.
You've obviously never lived there.
I have one, the only plus was I still had a car to sleep in, at least for a little while before it got towed. Fun fact, I learned about the bank bailouts from my car radio while this was going down. I remember thinking that at this moment if I could I would detonate every nuke on earth and send us back to square one.
You of course realize you can die that way without ever breaking a law or picking up a firearm?
That might be why people are getting harder to deal with.
Car accidents happen all the time, that is why at the first sign of a potentially dangerous situation, I quickly drive into a wall instead.
Better than dying hungry and delusional from heat and thirst on the street because you weren't useful enough to the landed gentry.
Again, there's a possibility you'll get off the streets which is not there if you're dead.
So many people here willing to let this person die for their cause.
At least bag a few cops on your way out, right?
I mean if a cop is talking about a person, any person, the most likely thing they're gonna say is "fuck 'em"
Hard to have sympathy for that crowd. Fuck em.
What makes America worse off today than 40, 100, 200 years ago? America didn't die then when things were worse, there is no reason America would die now.
Are things better? 40 years ago was 1983. You could buy a house on almost any income at the time you could go to school on a minimum wage salary.
Went to school right in Allengheny county, thankfully didn’t get caught up in active shooter situation in the two odd years I was there, but that was in 2009 and ‘murica felt like a very different place back then. It wasn’t bursting at its seams and as fractured as it is right now. Still think of Pittsburgh as my adopted home but from where I am, the country is in a sorry and divided state.