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Propane Jane: I agree wholeheartedly with Susan Rice; I'm glad this is getting attn. As the weekend passes, we're getting more info from around the country about what they're finding about hate & extremist groups, coming from Russian groups as in Mueller Report.
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Propane Jane: During the 2016 election, they were looking for all matter of #BlackLivesMatter protests to instigate. Now they're doing that all over again.
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Propane Jane: Russia is influencing the entire psyche of America and of the entire world. Go out & be a menace to society, and Trump does that too--it's what he does best. Instead of calming things down, Trump pours gasoline on it.
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Propane Jane: Remember, before these riots, we were talking about the pandemic, the coronavirus, that we needed to wear masks & cut the spread of the virus.
Rick: What a great way to spread the virus, with all these riots.
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Propane Jane: Many of us were abiding the social distancing, wearing masks, and doing so responsibly.
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Propane Jane: For the last 3 1/2 years, we should have been in the streets, protesting. Now we're in a pandemic. As a black person, we're not going to let another black person's life be taken without protests. We're taking this risk to still make our voices heard
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Propane Jane: If you're a foreign instigator, wanting to take advantage of our civil disobedience, you'll come in & stir things up. You won't care about spreading the virus.
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Propane Jane: Like MLK said, a riot is what people are doing when they are unheard. That's the voice of the unheard. It's a white man's privilege to only give a damn about the property [damage].
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Propane Jane: Arrest the looters--I guarantee you that black people who fear for their lives will not do anything to put themselves in further danger.
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Propane Jane: What steps would have prevented protests in the middle of a pandemic?
~Don't kill an unarmed person.
~Every time this happens, they refuse to arrest the offenders.
~The police are the judge, jury, & executioner--the police protect their own.
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Propane Jane: If I didn't wake up today planning to kill someone, but I still killed someone, they're going to arrest my ass. The cops who get off with impunity for killing black people are overwhelmingly white cops.
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Propane Jane: I don't think any demographic of people should be okay with the police being able to kill people and getting away with it. I don't think the police should be militarized.
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Propane Jane: I rely on our police in my work in an acute care psych setting & am glad for them. We need to work together.
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Propane Jane: Part of the reason this happened is we have too many guns on the street--the police are outgunned by the population. Citizens have guns, sometimes a lot of guns, incl with lots of magazines. They have the ability to kill cops.
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Propane Jane: As soon as a cop gets on the stand & says they feared for their life, they get off. How can we make it so the police don't fear for their lives? Agree to a gun buy-back? Not allow open carry?
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Propane Jane: I think we need to address the gun issue anyway; hopefully that would trickle down to making the police feel safer in the public.
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Propane Jane: People who do bad things need to be held accountable for them. The frustration we feel is from watching Trump & his party get away with thing after thing after thing w/ nothing being done.
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Propane Jane: We impeached Trump but the Senate refused to remove him from office, so there was no accountability there.
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Propane Jane: I work in psych ER; I have people swearing at me, lunging at me, swearing at me...but we don't kill them. How long do you think I'd last at any hosp in America if purposely gave them a high dose of medicine to kill them?
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Propane Jane: How long do you think I'd last at any hosp in America if I gave combative psych patients a high dose of medicine to kill them? You can be there's be an investigation, my malpractice insurance would go up...
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Propane Jane: Someone told me it must be a requirement for the police to fail a psych eval. These abuses are part of a pattern. When you have careers with power & guns, like military & police, we need to weed out that type of behavior.
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Propane Jane: A person with a military background would make a good police officer? Okay, well, do they have PTSD? Are they fit to be an officer?
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Propane Jane: Google the Stanford Prison experiment.
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