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[NEWS] Violent UC Berkeley riots force cancellation of Milo Yiannopoulos event
Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on February 03, 2017, 06:30:59 PM ---if they were trying to stop the rioting than it was the stufftiest, lackluster effort I have ever seen
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1. Selectively picked and edited footage of the riots is in no form whatsoever proof of what you're claiming.
2. The mayor being an starfish is a completely different, completely irrelevant topic.
3. Yes, it's a full on conspiracy with absolutely no actual evidence to back it up. Believing it is just as bad as believing the whole "golden shower" incident, if not worse.
4. Even if everything you said was 100% correct, it's still not the university's fault at all. They did everything they could, organizing the event in the first place, calling the police and, while trying to keep the safety of their own staff in mind (Which would include retreating if necessary, campus police are not meant for this sort of thing), trying to control the riots themselves, and then being forced, to protect the safety of Milo himself, to cancel the event. They did not do a single thing wrong here. Annoying Orange threatening to take away their federal funding is an absolute disgrace to the entire country.
rambo1220:
Ip, if the police were actually told to do something then the riot would've been dispersed and we would've seen walls of police with batons and riot shields ordering them to stand down, but we saw none of that, even if the footage was carefully selected (for god knows what narrative) to not include the police, we would still be seeing police reports and eyewitness accounts depicting a large police presence, but there was none.
And immediately stop with the "this is a full on conspiracy theory!!" stuff because no where does it involve any sort of theory whatsoever, and it is completely relevant to the mayor, he runs the city for forgets sake, how is it not relevant to him?
Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: rambo1220 on February 03, 2017, 07:19:04 PM ---Ip, if the police were actually told to do something then the riot would've been dispersed
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And you know this how? You literally just claimed that the mayor told the police to stand down.
rambo1220:
--- Quote from: Ipquarx on February 03, 2017, 07:31:09 PM ---And you know this how? You literally just claimed that the mayor told the police to stand down.
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are you actually serious here? This came about from the simplest form of using process of elimination.
If the police were there, we would've seen lines of them approaching with batons and riot shields. If the police weren't there, we would've not seen or heard about a police response.
simple cause and effect, in this context, if the police were actually told to do take care of the rioters, we would've seen them take care of the rioters.
Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: rambo1220 on February 03, 2017, 07:36:13 PM ---are you actually serious here? This came about from the simplest form of using process of elimination.
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I'm 100% serious. If your conspiracy theory (And yes, I will continue to call it what it is since you have no evidence that it's true) is true, then by the very premise of said conspiracy theory, the police were called by the university and then told to stand down by the Mayor. Mayors fault, not the university.
And your "process of elimination" is evidently flawed here because the police were called. This is indisputable. There are pictures of police in riot gear on the campus. Do I know why the riot wasn't stopped? No. But neither do you, and you have no evidence to any reason as to why it wasn't stopped.