Blue mustache wrote:Here's an explanation from a rioter:
https://youtu.be/Wf4cea5oObY?t=1904
I couldn't find a censored version so click at your own risk.
im sure you are pretending to be dumb now
Blue mustache wrote:Here's an explanation from a rioter:
https://youtu.be/Wf4cea5oObY?t=1904
I couldn't find a censored version so click at your own risk.
William one eye wrote:https://youtu.be/xiYZ__Ww02c
Meliva wrote:The fact you even consider George floyd innocent is laughable. Now yes, he did not deserve to die the way he did, I will say that much, that was plain police brutality, but calling that man innocent? He was a career criminal, who did a lot of horrible things. Now again, that doesn't justify police brutality, just like police brutality doesn't justify destroying things and killing ACTUAL innocent people.
The system isn't broken. It has flaws, and sometimes things slip through. News flash though, EVERY system, no matter how much time and effort and work is spent into making it, is going to have flaws, it's not always going to work the way it's supposed to, and sometimes bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people. Humans are flawed beings, and anything we make will have flaws. Then when you have flawed beings working in a flawed system, that makes it even more likely for crap to happen.
Their is no way to fix it to where it will be a perfect system. Perfection doesn't exist as far as I'm aware. That's what you don't seem to get Blue. You are a naïve idealist, who doesn't seem to understand that at the end of the day, humanity is just a bunch of smart animals with a lot of problems and faults, and no way to solve all of them. Maybe someday, FAR into the future we might have a solution, but that day is not going to be within any of our lifetimes.
And no, rioting over george floyd can't be justified in any way. Again, the police in question are on trial. Yet before the verdict is even given, you have idiots killing innocent people and destroying buildings that had nothing to do with any of it. How would you feel blue, if when you came home one day, you saw family dead, and/or your home destroyed. Would you still think that it was in ANY way justified?
It doesn't matter a damn bit to me who/what/why of the rioters, whether they be far left, right, centrist, KKK, BLM, all of them are idiotic criminals doing idiotic things.
And defending those who did it due to oppression? I guess David Dorn trying to stop someone from robbing a pawn shop was oppressing his right to rob the place. I guess the children who died were oppressing the rioters right to super late term abortion.
Not to mention the fact that you yourself just OPENLY admitted you were planning to cause property damage yourself, just exposed yourself that you were not a peaceful protestor, you just didn't find a target to hit. Violence breeds violence. But you can go ahead and tell yourself it was justified in some way. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Blue mustache wrote:I haven't really mentioned this, but my view of the riots is a lot wider than I've said before. My view about them changes often as well.
Here is my view:
Rioting isn't necessarily the answer, but can often be fully or partially justified
I understand why the riots happened
I will verbally defend the rioters who did it because of oppression
I do not agree with the people who came from out of state and destroyed my city
Many of the rioters were actually KKK and white supremacists trying to start a race war
I carried around a hunting knife and some spray paint to vandalize the racists' cars (I never actually saw any but I knew what to look for)
So I'm not "pro-riots" but i do think that we as a country had this coming, we were warned, and when nothing changed this is what we get. I support peaceful protesters. I understand why the riots occurred and I'm not going to verbally attack the rioters who did it for a true cause because, well frankly this country needed to be woken up.
I understand that some innocent bystanders died during the riots. I'm not going to defend that because it is tragic. And I don't support the killing of innocent people (which happens to be why the entire thing happened in the first place). It isn't a matter of how the police should do their jobs anymore, we are past that point. It's a matter of what their job should be.
I could throw out hundreds of ideas of how to improve the police, but that even isn't enough. the system is broken. Police are able to kill innocent people and then hide behind a union. Police are able to use excessive force and get away with it. I remember when Philando Castile was shot by a "nervous" police officer at a routine traffic stop. I didn't know him, but I know people who knew him. I left my elementary school partway through elementary, he was hired the year after. Then I was reunited with my old friends who had stayed and who did know him. It was truly heartbreaking hearing recordings of students crying over his death being played on the radio. And as if we weren't angry enough, the officer didn't get convicted. He shot Philando four times in the chest when he reached to get his license. His 4 year old daughter and his wife watched the entire thing in horror. That is an obvious red flag that something is wrong and there needs to be change. The system is broken.