Pro police D.C. rally draws "hundreds" of supporters

[jmdrake]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pro-police-rally-draws-hundreds-in-washington-d-c/

[aGameOfThrones]

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[muh_roads]

http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2015/01/17/fd9dccd7-ac73-4182-8188-908643e5726c/thumbnail/620x350/187ee8d0802a7831130cba1ddb1ffcd7/pro-police-rally.jpg

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[CaptainAmerica]

http://www.tokyohobby.net/blog/2009/08/30/marushin-colt-saa45-peacemaker/

[Origanalist]

It took me a minute to figure out the headline was misspelled. I was trying to figure out what prop police were. :p I tried to start an account at CBS to but kind of botched it. So I used a different screen name, can you guess which one? :D

[kcchiefs6465]

I guess the new thing is to put blue light bulbs into your outdoor lights in a show of support for the police.

Apparently there's some Facebook challenge or something.

[DamianTV]

... meanwhile, when people gather together in groups of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS in protest, it barely even makes a by-line.

[fisharmor]

Is this like the million man march, where they just added an extra zero?

[Christian Liberty]

http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2015/01/17/fd9dccd7-ac73-4182-8188-908643e5726c/thumbnail/620x350/187ee8d0802a7831130cba1ddb1ffcd7/pro-police-rally.jpg

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A total perversion of the Biblical text. Being a peacemaker means being non-violent if at all possible, police use violence against the peaceful all the time.

[charrob]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUyma0hWuCM

[tangent4ronpaul]

OK, a decent turnout, but it sounds like the attendees were all cops and their families. Wonder what the turnout would have been if they invited the community. I'm guessing pretty disappointing. That would have probably sparked a counter demonstration that would have dwarfed theirs.

Chanting "Thank you" - umm, thanking themselves?

Lots of custom printed jackets, flags, signs and a banner. Sounds expensive. Wanna bet the taxpayers picked up the tab?

Those flag poles are actually illegal down there under park police rules, but you know - some animals are more equal...


This reminds me of what happened when O'Mally shoved some of the most draconian gun control measures in the country down MD's throat. The reporter and photographer chose 3 of the most fringe looking pro-gun protesters and pulled them to the side. Taking their picture to the background of an empty field - with their backs to the thousands of pro-gun protesters there who where largely is suits.

When they took the anti-gun protesters picture, they did it closeup with them packed in like sardines listening to someone speaking. They really had too, there were only 15 anti's there and several had out of state plates.

A couple of the old time legislators commented that they had never seen such a large crowd (pro-gun) even during Vietnam. This, of course, never made the papers.

The Dem legislators who were being buried under mail against the bill and who's voice mail was constantly full acted like they would work with the pro-gun people and water down the bill to be more reasonable, listened to everyone objecting to it (it took days) then turned around and not only passed the full bill, but also several amendments that made it worse!

Anyway, the newspaper picture, close up and with flags in the background reminded me of this media manipulation.

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[UWDude]

It's all media manipulation.
Gotta love the sign being made by "Empire Graphics"

[Weston White]

I have to state that I truly, truly dislike how the police who are injecting themselves into these protests are doing so in a counter-intuitive, fumbling fashion. One would expect them to travel the high road and seek solidarity among those they are professionally paid to serve, but sadly they are not. Rather, they are pitting this further into a pointless evolution of us-versus-them. This issue is so vastly bigger than merely #BlackLivesMatter or #PoliceLivesMatter—the underlying issue here is that #AllLivesMatter and #EveryLifeMatters. The police turning against its citizens is a battle they are going to undoubtedly lose.

And a sidenote: Why is everything being catered to social media blurbs now? It might be cute, in usages here and there, but over the long-haul such practices cannot be socially healthy.

[Ronin Truth]

And the policeperson's families turn out in mass, followed up by a potluck supper. LOL!

[A Son of Liberty]

http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2015/01/17/fd9dccd7-ac73-4182-8188-908643e5726c/thumbnail/620x350/187ee8d0802a7831130cba1ddb1ffcd7/pro-police-rally.jpg

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[jmdrake]

OK, a decent turnout, but it sounds like the attendees were all cops and their families. Wonder what the turnout would have been if they invited the community. I'm guessing pretty disappointing. That would have probably sparked a counter demonstration that would have dwarfed theirs.

I wouldn't call "hundreds" for a march in Washington DC a "decent turnout." One megachurch could get that many people out.

[jmdrake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUyma0hWuCM

LOL. They barely covered the steps of the Lincoln memorial.