thereisnospoon
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Three men. Wearing masks. They looked white....This is what went down according to an eyewitness (on the BLM side):
"Carrie Brown, Martin’s cousin [one of the shooting victims], lives down the street from the precinct house and said she and others were cooking dinner for the protesters when “these four white guys walked up … They had masks and they had a briefcase. I thought they were there to donate [something].”
Brown said that someone in the crowd pointed the men out as suspected agitators and the crowd started to chase them away, heading north on Morgan Avenue.
The men got as far as an alley just north of the precinct house when they started shooting, Brown said.
“When we turned around they started to shoot at us from behind,” Brown said.
The shooters appeared to be wearing bulletproof vests under their clothing, she said.
“It was all scary. You wouldn’t expect anything like that. We didn’t have a security details. Everybody here was peaceful. We didn’t expect these psychos.”
I mean I guess I /could/ see your average Joe not looking for any trouble carrying on around a BLM protest while armed and wearing bullet proof vests, but idk it seems to lend to a "being assholes" scenario in my mind. Though I'll admit the BLM's shouldn't have chased them off so they might have a case for "self-defense" there. But as an average American I'm just seeing a bunch of assholes; be they hecklers at a rally, or chasing people for expressing their first amendment, or w/e - bunch of assholes being assholes on both sides is nothing new these days.
Now how does that appear familiar?