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Originally Posted by Igottago
People have died during these riots. Some of them black people. Yeah its easy to think its all worth smashing up a few windows it if it changes things, but there are victims and lives destroyed in this type of reaction too, but no one is talking about that.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-people-killed |
And for the life of me I cannot escape the idea that any of these people would have lost anything if the cops just didn't do the stuff they're doing... I cannot simply get around the fact that an oppressive police force killing innocent people Carte Blanche with no repercussions unless caught in the act didn't destroy those businesses or allow rioters to do the things they did.
If we are talking about accountability first and foremost the priority has to be towards the police and their racist behavior, everything else is a direct result of their actions. It does not make it right that people lost their livelihoods or in some cases their lives but negating the cause because loss of life happened on the rioters side should not and can not negate the reckless loss of life caused by those in power.
IMO we are still mid cycle of the government playbook where its tit for tat and people blaming rioters and right wingers bringing in boogeyman arguments against anarchist behaviors during protests.
Nothing has changed yet, its all the same until the courts bring actual justice for Floyd and others like Breonna Taylor. If that doesn't happen its just the same old song and dance.
I wish that people would stop trying to pry focus away from the real problem by trying to bring light to the travesties looters have committed under an opportune circumstance.
Its likely they'll be identified and given harsher convictions than the actual people who started this whole mess in the first place. And that is the problem.
Edit: I had to remind myself that the police force is only one third of the equation regarding the systemic racism in the U.S, we still have yet to see the other two actually be the leaders of the changes needed and that governments and the judicial system.