{"id":176482,"date":"2020-06-06T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/06\/why-do-we-not-see-an-agressive-police-presence-at-right-wing-protests\/"},"modified":"2020-06-06T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T23:35:00","slug":"why-do-we-not-see-an-agressive-police-presence-at-right-wing-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/06\/why-do-we-not-see-an-agressive-police-presence-at-right-wing-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do We Not See an Agressive Police Presence at Right Wing Protests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the same reason that you never saw Miley Stewart and Hanna Montana together in the eponymous show:  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">POLICE OFFICER TELLS PROUD BOYS TO HIDE INSIDE BUILDING BECAUSE THEY&#8217;RE ABOUT TO TEAR GAS PROTESTERS. THE OFFICER SAID HE WAS WARNING THEM &#8220;DISCREETLY&#8221; BECAUSE HE DIDN&#8217;T WANT PROTESTERS TO SEE POLICE &#8220;PLAY FAVORITES.&#8221; iTs JuSt a FeW BaD ApPlEs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GeorgeFloyd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GeorgeFloyd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/babygate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#babygate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sbcpbH2iVu\">pic.twitter.com\/sbcpbH2iVu<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Taylor (@sprtneo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sprtneo\/status\/1268929732327821313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not surprised that this happened in Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon used to have a provision in its state constitution prohibiting black people, and in the 1920s, it was arguably the most Klan dominated state in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Still it raises a broader question, how do you keep white supremacists out of the police force, or as in the case of the Minneapolis Police, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/crime-justice\/2020\/05\/minneapolis-police-union-president-kroll-george-floyd-racism\/\">keep them from becoming the head of the police union<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the same reason that you never saw Miley Stewart and Hanna Montana together in the eponymous show: POLICE OFFICER TELLS PROUD BOYS TO HIDE INSIDE BUILDING BECAUSE THEY&#8217;RE ABOUT TO TEAR GAS PROTESTERS. THE OFFICER SAID HE WAS WARNING THEM &#8220;DISCREETLY&#8221; BECAUSE HE DIDN&#8217;T WANT PROTESTERS TO SEE POLICE &#8220;PLAY FAVORITES.&#8221; iTs JuSt a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,368,364,526,398,401],"class_list":["post-176482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-racism","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}