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[GHALIB]

#BLACK_LIVES_MATTERS

Death to white terrorists.

its not the first time , it will not be last time riots errupt.
it will be over in a week max

some people on this forum are very hopeful that america is going to disintegrate in one week .

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - A semi-truck drove through a crowd of thousands of protesters who were marching down a highway in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Sunday, witnesses told Al Jazeera.

Live video of the incident showed demonstrators rallying against the death of George Floyd - an unarmed Black man who died on Monday after a white police officer knelt on his neck - running as the truck appeared to charge them. The truck then came to a stop, and protesters begin to gather around it. Police said no serious injuries among the protesters had been reported.

"[We] jumped over the barricade and into the grass" as the truck approached, said Sydney Rubel, who witnessed the incident.

Rubel told Al Jazeera that she did not see the truck coming, but was alerted by other protesters to move out of the way.

Natalie Jokinen, another witness, told Jazeera that she and dozens of others, among them children, had been protesting peacefully when the incident took place.

"We were all sitting down, we could hear the truck getting faster and faster," Jokinen said, adding that she was "just terrified", by the events.

In a series of tweets, John Reinan, a reporter for the Minneapolis Star spoke to witnesses who said the driver drove the demonstrators at about 30 mph (48 kph).

"A truck came. The horns were blaring. It was picking up speed. It was ploughing down the highway into the protesters. It was the most terrifying thing I've ever seen," Reinan tweeted, quoting a witness named Melanie Ramos.

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety said in a tweet that the actions of the driver were "very disturbing" and incited "a crowd of peaceful demonstrators".

Officials said that the driver suffered "non-life threatening injuries" and has been arrested. An investigation has been launched.

Minnesota Commissioner of Corrections Paul Schnell called the incident "significant and great concern".

The truck had a Kenan Advantage Group logo on it. The company said in a statement that it had been "informed of an incident involving one of our independent contractors in Minneapolis". It added it would cooperate with authorities.

Other witnesses told Al Jazeera that protesters were throwing bikes in front of the truck "to try to get it to stop".

Sunday's incident took place on the sixth day of protests in Minneapolis over police brutality and Floyd's death.

Protesters are demanding all four Minneapolis officers involved in Floyd's death be charged. So far, only Derek Chauvin - the white officer who knelt on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes while Floyd pleaded "I can't breathe" - has been arrested. On Friday, he was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...g-protesters-minneapolis-200531153612524.html

rioters and looters should be dealt with ruthlesly .

 

[xuxu1457]

The United States will not collapse, and such riots will occur every once in a while.
America first is white first at heart.
Racism is generally not spoken in the minds of Americans，But it won't go away.
Democracy is to ease this contradiction, demonstration, looting something, and then over, nothing will change.

By the way, he didn't send it today, China!

It is strange that the most comments under this are Indian，such as

 

[Globenim]

Americans dont even know that the Hindu regime is brutalizing Muslims on a daily basis in the most savage ways you can imagine short of massacres. No graphic images are circulated 100 times a day on American media. No graphic narratives are circulated 100 times a da on American media. The opposite, its covered vaguely as some "unrests" and any report quickly pushed under the rug into the archives because of geopolitical interests favouring India.

 

[Enigma SIG]

Well, karma is a bitch unfortunately.

 

[Yaseen1]

when people are looting in u.s it shows that their public is facing economic problems and have not enough money to buy these things,u.s economy benefits few rich people and ordinary people are suffering from joblessness and economic problems,I remember the time when people used to go for prayers in Islamic countries and left their shops opened with no one in them but due to good law and order situation no one ever attempted to loot these shops

 

[Enigma SIG]

its not the first time , it will not be last time riots errupt.
it will be over in a week max

They're powerless to enact change.

 

[Yaseen1]

it seems u.s deep state want to kill trump

 

[Trango Towers]

some people on this forum are very hopeful that america is going to disintegrate in one week .



rioters and looters should be dealt with ruthlesly .

I agree....does that apply to Hindu mobs running in the streets of India lynching minorities? or are they your brother terrorists?

 

[Oracle]

some people on this forum are very hopeful that america is going to disintegrate in one week .

some people wants the world to burn just to see the drama
thats mentality of most of indians for sure

 

[Yaseen1]

these hindus extremist will now justify their crimes in kashmir by saying that u.s police also used similar weapons against protesters but human rights groups of west are only concerned in human rights issues of nations working against their interests and only raise issue of Uighur
Muslims

 

[AfrazulMandal]

The world will ignore the plight of Muslims.

The African Americans have all my support though.

But expecting them to stand in solidarity with Muslims is a stretch. There are exceptions though. But that is what they are. The majority of African Americans do not care much about the plight of Muslims the world over. In terms of Islamophobia they are only marginally behind the rest.

 

[masterchief_mirza]

Pakistan must seize this opportunity to highlight similarities between American protestors and Kashmiri freedom fighters. If Pakistan fails to use this historic opportunity to take action on Kashmir, then we do not deserve it

Be rational and not so emotional. Pakistan has no dog in this particular fight to back. Yes, the issue is worth highlighting, but drawing analogies between this particular issue (a race war in America) and the Kashmir struggle is counterproductive.

If we automatically place all American blacks in the box of kashmiri freedom fighters, are we excluding the feelings of the diverse range of people who constitute the state apparatus in USA? Certainly, some of them will be white supremacists but not all of them are such. Many American police do their job professionally and adhere to a strict code of engagement, using violence as a last resort. Now this does not compare with Indian state policy in Kashmir. Therefore, vilifying the American state as a default position is incorrect and certainly is not an analogy to draw up and attempt to use against Delhi.

 

[AfrazulMandal]

these hindus extremist will now justify their crimes in kashmir by saying that u.s police also used similar weapons against protesters but human rights groups of west are only concerned in human rights issues of nations working against their interests and only raise issue of Uighur
Muslims

The ibn Gau don't need justification. They have been hating Islam for the past 1400 years at least.

 

[Lincoln]

The world will ignore the plight of Muslims.

The African Americans have all my support though.

But expecting them to stand in solidarity with Muslims is a stretch. There are exceptions though. But that is what they are. The majority of African Americans do not care much about the plight of Muslims the world over. In terms of Islamophobia they are only marginally behind the rest.

If I am correct, there was a time when Islam played a role in helping African Americans get equal rights and end state racism.

 

[AfrazulMandal]

If I am correct, there was a time when Islam played a role in helping African Americans get equal rights and end state racism.

That was for THOSE who joined the Nation of Islam. Islam gave them what no other faith/system could.

If all the Afro Ams do so, that will be great. But that is not happening. Is it?