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Originally Posted by UnknownJinX
Protesting is fine but this is no protesting. Again, I see things that are trying to justify what's going on. There is no justifying any of the violence and looting. And they aren't even directed at the cops(which I don't condone but at least it would make sense).
As I said, a lot of protests start out alright and then become a crap show.
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And those people are being arrested...will be procesecuted Maybe not all of them are getting caught, but they're being caught when they can and arrested and charged with crimes and will almost certainly be found guilty.
Even if it's not happening at the time of the crime, they have video footage and will track them down wherever possible. The justice system is good at punishing people.
Lets see if they can be just as good at punishing themselves for crimes as well.
These particular riots are a good mix of angry protesters, external groups looking to make a situation worse, and violent responses to non-rioting protests by police.
It's not something anyone wants but it appears to be something we as a people need to have happen before anything serious is changed in the system. It hasn't changed in the past with non-violent protests. I'm sure if the colored people could "strike" the police and the police suffered for it, we'd be able to avoid this... but you can't strike the police. How else do you make the unresponsive people in charge feel pain enough to do what they d ont want to do? How else do you make injustice apparent so that it can't continue to be ignored? Doing it the right ..civil way hasn't been working and this isn't an issue that can wait longer than it has. It's not a want or a privilege. It's basic human rights that are being trampled on based on skin color. Demanding that they try to redress that the way that hasn't been working is unrealistic. We should be more upset that it has come to this for basic equal treatment by people we pay to protect and serve the community more than we are upset that some property is being vandalized. We should be pursuing those cops (not just these particular 4 but all of them) that kill people without need or hurt them unnecessarily just as strongly as we pursue and want to prosecute people who damage businesses or steal cars. But we dont. We are letting bigger crimes go unpunished because they're not happening to us and we've let it be that way for way too long and have ignored attempts to change it. That's the crux.