Comments by "Scott Charney" (@scottcharney1091) on "ABC News"
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@Funnyfresh420 Is there any reason to doubt the accounts of fecal matter being tracked/spread around? To be sure, I would definitely like to get testimony from cleaning crew members, police, and anyone else who would have encountered it. Regarding Sicknick, the initial reporting about the fire extinguisher came from police sources, but in any case he was definitely sprayed with chemicals. Diaz, the M.E., clearly stated that the events still led to Sicknick's death, since such levels of stress and trauma can trigger strokes. Indeed, the legendary Dr. Cyril Wecht says that the death could be classified as accidental, a homicide, or undetermined.
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@MladenVass Statues are erected to honor someone, in various contexts. That's not in dispute. Most of the Confederate statues in the US were erected during periods of civil rights agitation, in order to intimidate Black Americans and anyone supporting them. They are monuments to white supremacy, and this was made clear in (for example) the speeches made at their dedications: https://hgreen.people.ua.edu/transcription-carr-speech.html
The effect hasn't somehow gone away.
The Sons of Liberty toppled a statue of King George III, melted it down, and made bullets out of it. Were they wrong to do so?
In 1956, when Hungarian rebels rose up against the Stalinist regime, they toppled statues of Stalin and his cronies, took symbols of the regime out of flags, etc. At the end of the Cold War, many Soviet and Warsaw Pact statues/symbols did come down, in particular statues honoring hated spy boss Felix Dzerzhinsky. Yes, making the Nazi salute or displaying the flag is a felony in Germany, among other places. In fact, several European countries ban display of Communist iconography.
Yes, I know my history.
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