The rioters are already using extreme force. We can't just let this go on.
Hard to stop, look at how long they've been trying to quell the riots in Hong Kong....they've used every method there..
Criminals. A55holes, ignorant fools, scumbags, thugs, a mob, rioters, etc. Anything which accurately describes what they're doing.
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Fair enough, maybe domestic terrorists is incorrect. What would you like to call these people?
The US has developed a system which uses low sound emissions which makes a person instantly soil themselves but it is indiscriminate and will affect anyone downrange...(including in dwellings). So innocents will be affected too.
BUT, nothing says "go home" like drawers full of nastiness...
Substitute the word police for the word rioters in your statement and you have the basic underlying premise of what we're looking at. What happened to George Floyd wasn't an isolated incident, that's the whole point. If more people had been as outraged by the previous occurrences of police brutality as they are about this mess, we wouldn't be watching this unfold.
I see what you did there....
These things tend to run their course for a few days and then fade out for a few years.
So your saying that the action of some bad cops is a reason to let rioters destroy that cities, peoples businesses, and kill innocent people?? I can see the protest but not rioting. That takes away from what happened.
..They certainly did, the riots in Hong Kong also went on for months and months with the damage to that city still being dealt with...they poured fuel down the storm drains and lit it hoping it would get to the police lines.
Not at all. Protests, riots, and looting are three separate actions. I'm perfectly fine with protests, I understand the destruction of public property during a riot, but destruction of private property and looting is never acceptable. Not is the attacking of innocents. I agree with you completely that what these people are doing isn't helpful in pursuing a meaningful change, in fact it makes change more difficult to achieve.
Exactly....they are achieving the complete opposite of what they are trying to gain...all this is doing is pissing off people and taking away from the root cause of the action.
I agree except that the destruction of public property is acceptable. Individuals have jobs at public places, it also makes it impossible to get to work. Plus you and I have to pay for the damage via taxes.
They have, both. This is nothing new. There are countless examples across the globe and throughout history of societies erupting like this.
Well, since Americans have been rioting about this particular issue since the 1960's, I'd suggest changing the police. This will eventually settle down, and can be prevented from happening again by enacting meaningful change in police oversight.
They'll continue for a few days yet. Then people will move on to whatever the next level of this game we're calling 2020 is.
Burning government vehicles and buildings is acceptable to me in extreme circumstances, and I believe this qualified. I'm far more concerned about drawing attention to a structural problem than I am about inconveniencing a few government workers, folks who as we both know are more than likely to keep getting paid during the rebuilding.
