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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
So I'm pretty confident that a white police officer killing a black guy in justifiable situation isn't going to cause violent riots in most cases.
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In most cases, sure. My point was that this is going to keep happening, no matter what the authorities do to try to fix policing (if they actually even do anything beyond the superficial). They should still try to fix the problem, of course. But if the logic is that rioting sends the message "fix the problem or things like this will keep happening", well, they're going to keep happening regardless, even if appropriate steps are taken immediately. I don't really see a way around it.
This is just an unsatisfactory answer, to me:
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Originally Posted by Troutman
I wish civil disobedience would make a difference, but I understand how many feel this is not resulting in any progress.
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This sort of thing won't either, and has the unfortunate side effect of hurting entirely the wrong people. Yeah, I'm sure they're mostly insured, but that's only half of the issue.
Again, I also understand why people would feel that way. I think it's inevitable that things escalated to rioting. It's just really sad that some people seem to think it's justified or good that this happened because
not being violent hadn't solved the problem.