US Politics Mega-thread - Page 2333

On May 29 2020 13:13 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:
Really weird decision to not arrest the officer immediately, giving room for tensions to escalate like this.

On May 29 2020 13:15 Zambrah wrote:


In a USA where cops regularly kill black people with no consequences that decision doesn't seem that weird, really

On May 29 2020 13:31 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote:
If they kept it to the stations, sure. But it never ends there. I have friends that are like family in that city. If there's just wanton looting and rioting, it won't solve anything.

Incremental change isn't the problem. It's that there is no change. There is nothing being done to protect people of color from living their lives in peace without being spooked every time they hear a siren wail. It's about leaders condoning actions of recorded murderers who happen to be officers being protected by a law that no person of color gets the same benefit of.

The problem isn't incremental change and mass looting/rioting isn't going to solve the issue at hand. The problem is ultimately, they don't care about us or our livelihoods in the same degree that they value theirs.

Take over the stations, but leave the communities at large out of it.

EDIT: I'll say this: the live stream crew on ground are dedicated and it looks like they got some locals to help provide security as they report.

…I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation’s summers of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention.

On May 29 2020 14:05 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:
Well thankfully Trump is defusing the situation now by saying he's ready to get the military and shoot everyone...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266231100780744704

On May 29 2020 14:35 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote:

I saw something like that over on IG. You can't screen the protesters and you can't condemn the peaceful ones that are mixed in with bad actors. That's a given. I wish for once that with this evidence, there are charges brought against the cop for perpetrating a crime in order to inflame tensions that were already high.

From top to bottom, there needs to be figurative heads rolling for this. If charges/arrests aren't made before the weekend, expect the city to continue burning.

On May 29 2020 14:16 puppykiller wrote:
Why has no one brought up voting? You can vote for local officials and an individual can run on police reform. It would be a very popular platform in Minneapolis even before this incident. People are acting like rioting is their last resort and it's a totally BS rationalization. It's simply that right now there's a ton of angry people with a ton of time on their hands and rioting is the fastest way to FEEL like your making a change. I'm so ashamed of the people around me who are supporting this.

On May 29 2020 14:53 Zambrah wrote:


How long have police been killing black people for no good reason and getting away with it in the US? Politicians won't solve this issue, its often enough a national tragedy for a blip and then people just hush it away with the news cycle. Politicians wont change SHIT unless it benefits them, and I doubt they see much benefit in breaking up police unions.

I'd also argue that rioting is DEFINITELY making more of a change than waiting to vote for some theoretical candidate who cares about police reform. One of those two things is actually doing something, the other is waiting for something to happen. The people in the US who are repeatedly being killed by the police don't have to wait to pray someone eventually maybe hopefully but probably not handles this in the squeaky cleanest way while people die waiting for it to maybe eventually probably not but hopefully happen.

On May 29 2020 14:53 Zambrah wrote:


How long have police been killing black people for no good reason and getting away with it in the US? Politicians won't solve this issue, its often enough a national tragedy for a blip and then people just hush it away with the news cycle. Politicians wont change SHIT unless it benefits them, and I doubt they see much benefit in breaking up police unions.

I'd also argue that rioting is DEFINITELY making more of a change than waiting to vote for some theoretical candidate who cares about police reform. One of those two things is actually doing something, the other is waiting for something to happen. The people in the US who are repeatedly being killed by the police don't have to wait to pray someone eventually maybe hopefully but probably not handles this in the squeaky cleanest way while people die waiting for it to maybe eventually probably not but hopefully happen.