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CNN guest David Peisner caught flak Saturday for claiming that the only violence taking place in the fiery uproar underway in Atlanta is being instigated by police. "I think that there’s a real blurring of the lines in the use of the word violence. Is property destruction violence? To some people it certainly is. But, you know, this idea that breaking windows or other acts of property destruction are the same as actual violence against humans, it’s kind of a dangerous and slippery concept,’" he told CNN's Pamela Brown Saturday on "CNN Newsroom."

"You keep using these words ‘violent, violent, violent, violent'… The only acts of violence against people that I saw were actually police tackling protesters," he added. Peisner further suggested the group of rioters was "small" and that people involved in the incident were acting apart from the "Defend the Forest" movement memorializing 26-year-old activist Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, who was killed in a gunfire exchange Wednesday after allegedly firing at Georgia state troopers.
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SW-User
The riots were justified. Police killed an innocent man
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@SW-User
That's crazy on several levels
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@SW-User First the guy shot a state trooper. The state trioper was struck in the abdomen and underwent surgery.

Police returned fire after the state trooper was struck, killing the suspect.

The suspect was not "innocent" and his death was in no way illegal.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@SW-User Even if an innocent man was killed (which clearly in this instance he was not) more violence, e.g., a riot, is not justified.

Violence solves nothing.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@SW-User So when will you apologize for or retract your lie?
SW-User
@HoraceGreenley I'm not apologizing. An innocent man was killed, and the violence was justified. You couldn't care less because he was an environmental activist. That's all
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@SW-User Not at all. Being an activist has nothing to do with it.

But shooting a state trooper means he was not innocent.

You're lying.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@SW-User violence is not the answer. You should be ashamed of yourself condoning riots.
SW-User
@HoraceGreenley I 100% condone riots that are justified. This was.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@SW-User This is a despicable decision that reflects poorly on your character.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@SW-User Who decides when violence is "justified?" You sound like a child.
SW-User
@HoraceGreenley Violence is justified when innocent people who stood for a noble cause are killed.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@SW-User
OK. Thanks for letting everyone know who you are.
wildbill83 · 36-40, M
@SW-User So, attacking innocent bystanders and destroying businesses that are completely unrelated to the incident is justified when a cop shoots someone?

In other words, the next time shoot hoodrat shoots a white cop in Detroit, it would completely justified if we just nuked LA & San Francisco? 🤔
SW-User
@wildbill83 sorry to burst your bubble as you were clearly desperate for people to have been injured or killed but…

The facts are that the protest against the police shooting dead an environmental activist started peacefully but turned violent. Windows were smashed; a police car was set on fire.

When the riot police moved in the violence quickly fizzled out. No one was injured.

Sorry to disappoint you.
wildbill83 · 36-40, M
@SW-User BLM and Antifa "protests" in the past have caused millions in damages and led to several deaths

The only thing I advocate is that they be labeled as hate/domestic terrorist groups (like the KKK has been) and arrested on the spot...
SW-User
@wildbill83 You don't even know what Antifa is... You far-right nutjobs just use it as a catch-all term for anyone who doesn't share your worldview. And again, the violence was justified.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@SW-User A state trooper was shot by a protestor.

Bill knows what ANTIFA is.

You are demonstrating violent and narcissistic tendencies.
SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M
@SW-User Violence is never justified you indoctrinated piece of shit.
SW-User
SW-User
@HoraceGreenley the officers have produced no evidence that Teran shot at them. Until I see evidence to the contrary, the police have once again killed in cold blood
SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M
@SW-User Pathetic. The true answer is to withhold judgement until you have more info. What you are doing is assuming the police behaved inappropriately which is no different than those that assume the perpetrator was entirely at fault.
SW-User
@SumKindaMunster well I could counter by saying you are happy to take the officers’ word for it, which is not exactly evidence. It wouldn’t be the first time the police have lied, after all.
SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M
@SW-User That's not what I said, I said to withhold judgment until all the facts are in.

I noted the strawman response, that is, responding disingenuously to my point and pretending I said something I didn't.

Its all you have apparently. 🤷
SW-User
@SumKindaMunster My mistake, to be fair. I was out and about and typed in a response without reading through what you said thoroughly. Yes indeed, withhold judgment. Other people on this site have already decided to take the officers' word for it, though.
SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M
@SW-User So you didn't read my response properly and rushed to judgement?

Interesting. 🤔