Do heads of state somewhere not-stated to the public have some sort of social media diplomatic immunity?
I think it's a point of contention (colored by existing political views) as to whether or not Twitter is selectively fact checking here.
Hopefully this isn't too controversial, there's a lot of hostility already in this thread, and I don't want to contribute to it.
The phrase is the equivalent of “reaping what you sow”.
The tweets didn’t offer “sending in the police” it threatened to send the military in. Which isn’t the police.
Word matter. The fact I’m m reading this comment here is sad.
Fact checking with partisan media sources does imply picking sides.
You’re getting downvoted for a fair call out. There’s a deeper rot in this country where a select group believes freedom and fairness is something they can own and define, screw reality or objective fact. Anything else is biased and a conspiracy paid for by Soros, Obama, Hillary, Muslims, Hispanics, and the “swamp”.
Needless to say there's also been some reporting and concerns of provocateurs among the protesters here as well using it as an excuse to inflame riots or start looting.
Maybe you didn't see that part because Twitter has hidden the tweet?
The looting in Minneapolis is a) rather ancillary to the larger protests against the police, b) an American tradition going back to colonial times, and c) a mix of opportunism and antipathy to US hypercapitalism. A few small stores have been damaged but the destruction has mainly been targeted against corporate retail outlets.
Personally I have never been part of a riotous protest, but in an academic sense I believe that destruction of commercial property does more to force a change in police activity than destruction of police cars and other public property (things that ultimately belong to the people themselves).
You can bet that there are more powerful people in the business community there, than on the police force.
I don't believe this is actively in the mind of most rioters, but I think it is part of the reason that rioting has a major impact on American politics.
That's reminiscent of the very brutal police practices that sparked this chaos in the first place.
Shooting rubber bullets at rioters and looters is standard practice pretty much everywhere in democracies, and in non-democracies they tend to go straight to lethal ammo.
“Not picking sides” often means siding with the status quo. That might be fine but it’s not the same as not picking a side.