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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I'm not going to come down on you for being racist, but I will say that I am deeply offended that you mixed up "imminently" and "eminently".
The thing always escalates, pretty much from the get-go. In this case you had people generally being an unruly mob engaging in civil disobedience, which is all well and good. And then you had a minority of those people thinking "hey, let's break some ####". Those are the people that cause the tear gas to be deployed.
I'm not sure exactly how smashing up storefronts does anything positive. The response, "well, peaceful protesting doesn't seem to have fixed the problem either" is not really a counter-argument. You actually need to explain why this strategy is going to help advance the cause. Who pays for the damage caused? The community as a whole. Whose storefronts are those? Do they belong to police officers? Hell, I'd be surprised if a bunch of them weren't owned by African Americans or immigrant families. What end goal is served by hurting these people?
Again, the initial reaction to this event was cynicism - "I bet they'll just get off easy". Instead, they've been fired and the Mayor is hell-bent on seeing the person who actually committed the act thrown in prison. It seems to me that the best catalyst for change would be to have every eye in the country - including those belonging to Police officers - fixed on that rather unexpected development. That is a message - " take care, officers, because if you treat the life of your suspect with recklessness or indifference, your own life might very soon be ruined". I don't know what message you think rioting sends.
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This.
I get the anger cause watching that video was just gross and pissed me off to no end, I get the want for revenge (though that seems to have been addressed in this case quickly with likely more to come) and I get that its not everyone who is causing damage but those that are can be found among those that are not.
Stopping those who are setting fires and looting has to fall to those they are hiding among. Cops certainly cant go in and do anything about it without all hell breaking loose.
So those who want to exact change and are using mass protesting as a vehicle to do so, must ask themselves what this is all accomplishing other than putting police on edge (which does no one any good) punishing innocent business owners and taxpayers, and possibly seeing more loss of life....and then highlight and stop the looters/arsonists while still protesting lawfully.