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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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1061 points danso | 1 comments | 29 May 20 07:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.425s | source
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2019-nCoV ◴[29 May 20 07:32 UTC] No.23347204[source]▶
How is that glorifying violence?
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rootlocus ◴[29 May 20 07:33 UTC] No.23347212[source]▶
> when the looting starts, the shooting starts.

What part of this isn't?

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2019-nCoV[dead post] ◴[29 May 20 07:36 UTC] No.23347228[source]▶
It doesn't unequivocally say that at all. 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"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

1. hoten ◴[29 May 20 07:43 UTC] No.23347286[source]▶
> 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...

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