You don't have to own a gun to legally carry it though.

You do have to be 18 to carry it in Wisconsin.
These are all mostly irrelevant, much lower counts compared to the laughably inapplicable first degree murder charge the liberal DA just threw at him
malice aforethought = being chased by people armed with guns while you run towards police

In a country of 340 million we can count unjustified police shootings of blacks on our fingers. Hardly comparable to the Arab spring where swaths of ethnic minorities were mistreated. Hardly comparable the pretty basic human rights violations and blatant inequality of some of the previous revolutions.

e. incremental change here is police body cameras and accountability for wrongs. Not temper tantrums worth hundreds of millions and charging cops with murder regardless of legal definitions.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Aug 26 2020 11:36am

Depends on the state. It seems like he's an out of state minor so this just seems like extremely poor judgment on his part. I think it's a beautiful thing when people are armed during a peaceful protest. That clearly wasn't the case here.

Target: "Mostly peaceful protestors keep burning down our stores. Thank goodness insurance came through, let's try to squeeze another target in safe suburban community 'a' instead."

Ten years later Democrats are crying about food deserts.

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We need to address the underlying issue of poverty and crime in black communities. That's fundamentally the problem. Public sector unions and accountability are oxymorons, so there's work to be done, but the racial component has little to do with police and everything to do with their socio-economic circumstance.

Don Lemon accidentally has a moment of clarity about defunding the police

https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-don-lemon-tells-rioters-not-to-riot-or-defund-the-police

The narrative of peaceful protest being successful is itself a half-truth. Yes, many leaders were non-violent, but other leaders weren't, and both played important parts. The final push for civil rights may well have never happened without the violent followups to MLK's marches.

The bus boycott got black people the right to sit in the front of the bus on paper, but it resulted in a violent backlash that resulted in them sitting in the back of the bus for their own safety and new laws that barred interactions between races, so effectively there wasn't a real material change in circumstance.

The real story is more complicated than "nonviolence is good and effective, and violence is bad and ineffective".



It is impossible to separate police from race and socioeconomic circumstance.

The policies that resulted in worse socio-economic circumstance were enforced by the police as a direct continuation of the abuses that the police perpetrated on the civil rights marches and enforcement of Jim Crow.

Law enforcement is not something you can separate from the law, and socioeconomic circumstance is not something you can separate from laws.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Aug 26 2020 11:45am

If you think this is "just about unjustified police shootings" then you aren't paying attention. I'm not trying to COMPARE injustice, I'm just pointing out that change is often violent and this rosy picture of people peacefully marching and enacting massive change is extraordinarily rare.

I 100% agree with you on accountability for wrongs and body cameras. There is still A LOT of resistance to that. Obviously, the most egregious death is Breonna Taylor and there is STILL no accountability. There's quite a bit of work to do still.

He was clearly acting in self-defense in the shots that were filmed.

Just like American patriot and hero George Zimmerman.