Being a Tough Guy Ain’t as Easy as it Looks!
The movies always make it seem so simple!
Greg Bovino in action:
The video is worth a watch.
First and foremost, can someone tell me what the protestors are doing that would deserve tear gas? People standing there and yelling/blowing whistles is constutitionally protected under the First Amendment. Indeed, the fact that he is so lackadaisical about it rather underscores that there was no threat. When various administration officials bleat about “riots” and “obstruction” by protestors, keep these kinds of videos in mind.
Second, the fact that he fumbles around to get the pin out of the canister rather undercuts his tough guy image. It is further a reminder that real life isn’t an action movie.
Third, the poetic justice of the gas blowing back towards the ICE operatives is just the chef’s kiss of it all.
This morning’s ambient temperature in downtown Mpls is -20F with the windchill being -38F, ICE will be on ice today
@Sleeping Dog: Houston (and Texas) are in full panic mode today with a little prediction of freezing rain and two days of temps in the 20s.
When I first saw the photo above of Bovino, I thought he was wearing a Nazi uniform.
@CSK: In case you missed it: Greg Bovino’s Costuming Choices.
Sadly, Bovino’s pathetic cosplay is rather effectively distracting from the savage treatment his agents are raining down on the human being in the grey coat they have wrestled onto the snowy pavement behind him.
Has a general strike ever taken place in America?
I can’t recall any offhand.
Bovino is same personality type as Trump. A classic bully. Always punches down and always sucks up. Acts the tough guy except when there is push back.
@Steven L. Taylor:
I DID miss it. Damn.
@CSK: Indeed.
Seeing how geared up the ICE/CBP guys are – camo, sidearms, “556 Duty Rifle,”tear gas, pepper spray, etc. – makes it all the more laughable that Herr Miller tells Trump they need to be protected from protestors by the National Guard. Seems like Bovino watched Inglorious Basterds and modeled himself on Christof Waltz’s smarmy Nazi.
@CSK: “When I first saw the photo above of Bovino, I thought he was wearing a Nazi uniform.”
He is.
@Scott:
…and so Ted Cruz has decamped to that well known Blue State California hellhole of Laguna Beach.
As others have noted, he looks like Don Knotts.
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@ChipD: Bovino does present as Deputy Barney Fife. Sheriff Andy did let ole Barn have a gun, but made him keep the one bullet he was allowed in his pocket.
@Kathy:
Not above the level of a city. At higher levels, most of the national unions like the Teamsters oppose general strikes. Minneapolis had a sort-of general strike in 1934, organized by the Teamsters. Police shot 67 of the strikers. Interesting that much of the “strike” in Minneapolis today is by business owners rather than labor. Interviews by reporters seem to be of small business owners who are staying closed, not workers walking out.