#Looting

Fiona Kelliher

fiona_kelliher

Back in downtown San José near city hall, where intense police standoff played out during #GeorgeFloyd protests yesterday. Protesters filling about half a block so far, heavy police presence @mercnews

JKR

jacobrepko

A thread on rioting / protests. This is from a friend of mine. Not my words, but I agree wholeheartedly. If you do, RT. #BlackLivesMatter #protests #minneapolisriots #GeorgeFloyd #riots

FoxtrotCop 🇬🇧🚔

Foxtrot_Cop

THREAD: Mark Duggan wasn’t a ‘victim of police violence’.He was a ruthless, violent criminal who lived by the gun & died by it.He was shot by professionals keeping the public

Sister Helen Prejean

helenprejean

I saw the video. I made myself watch the full atrocity, hearing George Floyd’s hoarse whisper, “I can’t breathe,” to Officer Derek Chauvin, pressing his knee on Floyd’s neck for

Jonathan Zittrain

zittrain

Lots going on here: Twitter labels this tweet for violating Twitter’s rules about glorifying violence; the tweet stays up because of its “public importance” test; Twitter further disables retweeting without

Engineer Who

Engr_Who

A long but a must read thread about Shrinathji, Nathdwara (Mewar) and Maratha looting of the temple. People know about marathas' atrocities in bengal and their looting at sringeri temple

Igor Schatz

Copernicus2013

Like most Americans I have seen the video of the tragic death of George a Floyd earlier this week at the hands of a Minneapolis cop.. it’s truly sickening.. and

Adam Kotsko

adamkotsko

Police do not exist primarily to prevent or punish crime. They exist to regulate access to space, and they manage criminality -- including generating it where it otherwise would not

Colten McCumber

Mccumber_Colten

What have we become? This doesn't solve anything, this doesn't bring anyone back or rewind the clock, this doesn't make what has happened right or ok. Looting, destruction, and harming

Open Art Data

OpenLinkArtData

#Provenienzforchung Challenge- Can you:1) Identify the #Art Looting Red Flag Names in these provenances?2)Tell from the text who owned the artwork 1933-1945?(source: Harvard Art Museums; selection: "Thannhauser" mentioned in the

Tom Brady

TJABrady

History has always been a topic that has captivated my learning and is probably the reason why I decided to become a Social Studies teacher. I truly miss having deep,

Writer of Wrongs

onyxaminedlife

Reminder that the point of a protest is not to persuade. Protests begin where persuasion has failed; the point of a protest is to force concessions by making the status

قیصر خان

Qaiser__Khan

I read this poem in my 4th grade English textbook:Don't believe in war, ladYou can never win a fightWar constricts the heart, ladA pair of boots too tightYour mighty horses

gaylex ⭕️

thehankconsucc

I have admittedly a shitty memory, but I feel like I see a lot more people reacting to and trying to support BLM right now than I did during the

Nigel

Dfskle

Cops started the violence. Not protestors, not “outside agitators”, not “white anarchists”. You’re falling for the state’s propaganda if you’re snitching on anyone who broke shit, sorry. A person of

Maynard Manyowa

iAmKudaMaynard

#Thread - I don’t comment as much on politics of late, for reasons I will explain at the end of this thread. But here is a once off and what