A certain elected official who lives there for the time being had a huge tantrum. Why? Because he didn't like that @Jack asserted his ownership of Twitter on Wednesday. The stochastic terrorist-in-chief yesterday had his biggest in-office tantrum yet when Twitter advised users to fact check the buzzard.
Said tantrum occurred on the same day that a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, apparently with full intention, by kneeling with his entire weight on Floyd's neck for 7 minutes.
Consequently, protests are raging in several US cities, including Phoenix, as this is posted.
Phoenix Police have ordered protesters downtown to disperse.
An Unlawful Assembly has been declared in the area around Wesley Bolín Plaza due to criminal activity and a current danger to our community. Please leave the area including sidewalks, private property or roadways.— Phoenix Police (@PhoenixPolice) May 29, 2020
Is that how Phoenix Police controlled a crowd around Wesley Bolin Plaza that was armed to the teeth bitching about the necessary stay-at-home order issued by the Arizona governor because of the Covid-19 pandemic? Did they demand that crowd immediately disperse?
Who is responsible for the current unrest in Phoenix?
Police chief Jeri Williams? Maybe, maybe not. It's not like she hasn't had to deal with protesters, even protesters riled up by the stochastic terrorist-in-chief.
But really, a great deal of the responsibility rightfully falls directly on the shoulders of the president, given that his response to being fact checked was to bully social media platforms with a dubious executive order.
“In terms of presidential efforts to limit critical commentary about themselves, I think one would have to go back to the Sedition Act of 1798 - which made it illegal to say false things about the president and certain other public officials - to find an attack supposedly rooted in law by a president on any entity which comments or prints comments about public issues and public people,” said First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams.
Jack Balkin, a Yale University constitutional law professor, said “the president is trying to frighten, coerce, scare, cajole social media companies to leave him alone and not do what Twitter has just done to him.”More recently (also Friday morning May 29) Twitter took the more aggressive action to hide a Trump tweet for violated rules because it glorified violence.
The social networking site Twitter hid one of President Donald Trump’s tweets early Friday morning.
“This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence,” Twitter noted.
“However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible,” the president’s favorite social networking site added.
In the tweet in question, Trump referred to protesters as thugs and said, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
Again, I recommend you buckle your seat belts, it's going to be a very bumpy ride for the next 157 days.
Oh, and if Chief Williams needs ideas for de-escalating the protests this evening, I found this with a quick internet search.
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