Jury Intimidation.

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Why is this only a problem on the radical left?
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Is it only a problem on the radical left?
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Yes. Mostly because we don't have very many actual white supremacists in the traditional sense (KKK has less than 3000 members)

But the few that America does have do not practice jury intimidation.  I'd like to see your proof to the contrary.
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"Yes. Mostly because we don't have very many actual white supremacists in the traditional sense (KKK has less than 3000 members)
But the few that America does have do not practice jury intimidation.  I'd like to see your proof to the contrary." - Greyparrot

'Currently, 'maybe.

But that's mainly due to their support being so weak, I imagine.
Easier to get away with outrageous acts, when one has support.

Depending on how one 'defines the Right, I'm doubtful that they're not without issues themselves.
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Let me guess, by jury intimidation you referring to black pastors sitting with the family of the victim?
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.More like radical left-wing media hounds running red lights to doxx a jury  member.
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because force is more effective than justice
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Who did this? And why are you so convinced this is a one side issue?
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Why am I not surprised Democrats are the real vigilantes?
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because they get it and we dont
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I guess... Democrats used KKK intimidation to keep Jim Crow around for a long time when there were 300,000 members instead of 3000.
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its foolish to think that any historical movement didnt use intimidation,  American patriots tarred and feathered loyalists, the confederacy and union fought a literal war, the civil rights movement was violent despite popular opinion on it today, over half of americans support BLM despite the riots, etc
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"I guess... Democrats used KKK intimidation to keep Jim Crow around for a long time when there were 300,000 members instead of 3000." - Greyparrot
Could the Democrats be identified as a/the Conservative Party, at that point and hapstance of time?
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The word "conservative" means nothing in the age of lobbyist politics.
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Radical leftists already in full violent vigilante riot mode.


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I hope the rioters are arrested and sorted out, they are hurting the left much more than the right wing with their bullshit behaviour. It is them who is fueling an image of BLM and the left wing that is not what it really is at all.

Nothing about left-wing politics supports violent protest in a democratic regime that genuinely lets the populace speak and vote, there is no left-wing justification for this.