I posted this several hundred posts ago and still have not received a satisfactory response, despite people continuing to support, or at least excuse, the rioting and looting.
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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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I continue to await an explanation.