30 years from now, some liberal will point out the food desert and the suspicious dearth of businesses in south Minneapolis and blame it on racist redlining...

And they will be right, because neighborhoods that are abused by the police are also suspiciously the neighborhoods that black people were shoved into during the age of redlining, and that kind of thing doesn't disappear in one generation.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on May 28 2020 08:12pm

checking my stations

ABC: Dancing With The Stars
CBS: some police procedural I don't recognize
NPR: some taped segment about covid-19

Not saying you are wrong, but... these riots wont help their situation. Not at all. If anything, they will make things even worse for the residents of the area.

i'd agree if we had examples of property damage in response to cop killing without looting. one leads to the other, people aren't responsible enough to just burn something. nor are they doing it in a calculated way aimed at police or the city. private residences, businesses unrelated to the cops or city, etc. this isn't a political protest in earnest, its unbridled rage mixed with opportunist looting.

and while I don't agree with what happened yesterday, that was more protest driven. then those people went home, slept on it, and 10x more people seeing last nights looting showed up just to loot. knowing it would come from whatever protest the tinderbox became. tomorrow will be more if the national guard doesn't get a hold of the situation.

I saw a video of a BLM member chastising looters, that should be the response. this is no longer a protest, its a looters riot.

we're 3 days from when George died, maybe 2 from when it went fully viral. and the mob demands he is instantly arrested and charged. we created a system of investigations that has been churning out convictions and removals of officers at an unprecedented rate in the last decade. its a system designed to get justice. but the twitter/facebook generation cant even wait 4 fucking days before rioting. if the guy was charge by this time, great, id be fine with that. but charged in 3 days or we burn the city. fucking children, plain and simple. now if the guy does get charged it tells every city in America that if u want results just light a match. we don't live in a civilized society working towards systems that we trust that lead to justice, we're a pack of reactionary emotional idiots. filled with even worse people who will take any opportunity to get a 68" TV on the wall.

What should they do then? The system went from actively punishing their attempts at advancement in one generation to using drugs as an excuse to lock up as many as they could in the next.

When the system has fundamentally failed what's left? They can't even kneel on TV without it being a controversy. When there are no avenues for change, people get violent. It doesn't come out of nowhere.

It's the same as why poor eat crap food. When time and money is limited you go with things that take less time and money. Well, when justice is limited, you go with the avenue that uses less justice.

#fakenews cowards. their most dastardly ability is the ability to ignore things and make them 'not newsworthy' (in their opinion)

Minneapolis isn't Detroit. and reacting to no charge in 3 days with lighting the city on fire gets a "what should they do then" from you? lol.

if no charges were announced, ok. if he was acquitted, ok. if he got an award for the murder, yes, then please burn shit. but cops doing their job to get evidence for a murder investigation that is likely pending?

maybe they should just go with twitter's response "the video is enough for 1st degree homicide", said a bunch of idiots who haven't even taken intro to law.

maybe the city is working to cover this up, maybe theyre working on justice. but 3 days isn't enough time to get that signal, and the looters don't care anyways. they just want TVs. bad apples spoiling the bunch. they should have smashed a few cop cars and headed home. or sit in businesses rather than burning them.

"peaceful protests never get anything done". people just forgot MLK was a person I guess, maybe he really does need a month instead of a day and a few streets in poor areas. even X regretted his tactics by the end. no one learns tho.

What should they do then? Connect communities across the state and country, organize protests, get an unprecedented amount of peaceful people on the streets in coordinated fashion.

Instead, this eruption of violence reinforces the racist stereotype that large gatherings of black men inevitably end in violence and looting.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on May 28 2020 08:29pm