Quote (thesnipa @ May 28 2020 09:24pm)
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.
MLK was successful with the backdrop of non-peaceful riots all over the country at the same time.
By the time charges come out and investigations are done nobody remembers and nobody cares. Really, though, why should they expect the cop to be charged even if they wait?
Quote (Black XistenZ @ May 28 2020 09:29pm)
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.
All well and good except you ignore that the institutions they're criticizing have been using their power to break those communities.
This post was edited by Thor123422 on May 28 2020 08:51pm