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1. perl4e+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-07-08 16:27:43
Floyd was killed on Monday. According to the Wikipedia page on the protests, they began the following day, escalated to riots and burning a police station down. Chauvin was arrested on Friday.

So it is not true that everyone agreed from the beginning as it took a week to get to the point where everyone went "oh shit this is serious".

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2. Animal+dj[view] [source] 2020-07-08 18:12:19
>>perl4e+(OP)
I think it's fair to say that there was almost universal condemnation from day one, from just about everyone except the Minneapolis city government. And so the protests started out as a demand for justice from Minneapolis. They later transformed into a wider protest against police violence generally.
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3. perl4e+PI[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-07-08 21:05:17
>>Animal+dj
I happened to read a story today about someone arrested for punching a police dog in Houston. It took one day for them to be charged, and that was because they went to the hospital first.
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