George Floyd Riots - Staged Event?

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It's always the same, cheering from the peanut gallery is fun until the problem turns-up at your door.

Former ESPN NBA reporter criticized for hypocritical tweets about George Floyd protests.

'Veteran NBA reporter Chris Palmer was called out on Twitter for a pair of tweets he sent within the span of a few days.
Palmer was offering his thoughts on the protests across the United States in the wake of George Floyd's death.

On Thursday night, Palmer quote-tweeted a photo of a burning building with the caption, "Burn that s— down. Burn it all
down." But shortly after midnight on Sunday, Palmer had a change of tone once protesters showed up closer to where
he lived.

The photo of a burning building was, according to the Star Tribune, an affordable housing development under construction.
The complex had 189 units and was expected to open later this year.



Palmer did delete the first tweet where he said to "burn that s— down," but his tweets since have defended his stance
from the second tweet. When one Twitter user called him out the opposing language in his two tweets, he responded
in part, "don't talk to me about what you don't know."

Chris Martin Palmer
✔
@ChrisPalmerNBA
I took rubber bullets and tear gas yesterday standing on the front lines.
I risked my life trying to get pictures and video.
Don't talk to me about what you don't know about little girl.
https://twitter.com/justkelly_ok/status/...1281642496 …

In another response, he willingly admitted that he's free to change his stance.

Young Shaka
@CoachCo_Coffer
May 31, 2020
Replying to @ChrisPalmerNBA
You can’t be with the chaos one minute then when it’s at your front door you switch up ??‍♂️

Chris Martin Palmer
✔
@ChrisPalmerNBA
You better damn well believe I can.

Palmer, who worked at ESPN for 14 years and Bleacher Report for two years, offered some additional thoughts
on the situation. He tweeted, "Tear up your own s—. Don't come to where we live at and tear our neighborhood up.
We care about our community. If you don't care about yours I don't give a s—."

Chris Martin Palmer
✔
@ChrisPalmerNBA
 · May 31, 2020
They just attacked our sister community down the street.
It’s a gated community and they tried to climb the gates. They had to beat them back.
Then destroyed a Starbucks and are now in front of my building. Get these animals
TF out of my neighborhood. Go back to where you live.

Chris Martin Palmer
✔
@ChrisPalmerNBA
Welp. They're gone. Security called the cops and they swarmed.
Some scattered, others were arrested. (You hate to see it.) Tense moments.
There's graffiti everywhere. We live in a beautiful, safe community and have pride.
These people had no pride and weren't protesters.

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