Comment by hoten
5 years ago
> It can reasonably be interpreted as: "once people are willing to break the law and start looting, it's not long before there are also people shooting"
That's definitely not it.
Walter Headley, Chief of Miami Police during the 1968 Republican National Convention. On the eve of the convention, he gave a press conference where he said this exact phrase. It wasn't an observation that crime begets more crime. It was a threat.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/08/07...
This. This post is a perfect example of the kind of desperate digging for dog whistles the american left is obsessed with.
IT IS NOT WORKING. To someone outside your bubble you look like a crazy person. Even if you're right, that's not a good look. There are more than enough reasons to dislike, disagree with, hate or fear Trump, but for some reason you people are fucking incapable of finding them and instead hang onto these bizarre conspiracies.