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: 0.204s | source

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user982 ◴[29 May 20 07:52 UTC] No.23347378[source]▶

'Trump's phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" is an unattributed quote of Walter Headley, Miami's police chief in 1967. It was a threat to citizens who were upset that police had terrorized a black teenager by holding him over a bridge.' (https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/status/1266246092393336838)

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kortilla ◴[29 May 20 07:56 UTC] No.23347413[source]▶

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An unattributed quote?

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1. logicallee ◴[29 May 20 08:19 UTC] No.23347576[source]▶

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The OP means that Trump didn't use quotation marks or mention that it was a quotation. (I myself didn't realize it was a quotation.) There is no attribution or quotation marks in the tweet.

I found the attribution of the quote very informative and am very surprised it is currently downvoted. My own summary of the tweets is also downvoted, not sure what I could/should add to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23347395

I tried to neutrally summarize the tweets, in case people wanted to know what they said without clicking.

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