Fixed it for you.
There are videos circulating on twitter of cops around the country unloading and stacking bricks by locations where protests were scheduled. The most recent one I saw was in Boston. No, I'm not posting the video due to language.
Yes, ALL categories are equal opportunity.
Agree. We had an amazing, huge peaceful demonstration in Miami on Sunday. No problems at all, and the organizers did such a great job the police were mostly invisible. At the very end, a handful of looters broke windows at a CVS and tried to loot it, but the lawful demonstrators stopped them.
Agreed - but PLEASE, NO MORE PROTESTS!! The looters and arsonists are just following social media to find out where the next big protest is, then following them to start trouble. The trouble then continues through the night, then they move on to the next protest, again, finding it on social media. This is a FACT!! The LAPD did a breakdown of the people they arrested on the first big night of looting - 95% were from out of the area (not outside of LA, outside of So Cal). We knew 24 hours in advance that Long Beach was going to get looted, and boy did it ever! So PLEASE, PLEASE just STOP. Find another way to affect change. Write a letter to the editor, show up at a City Council meeting, or heck, run for City Council. Voter participation is so low you'll probably get elected. Anything but the protests - they are doing far more harm than good.
Looting and protesting is NOT the same thing. I respect and advocate the Constitutional right of all citizens to protest. It's unfortunate that some people think the two are synonymous. As for writing to the editor, et al. we're past that. At least I hope so.
I never said it was - I said (and this is a fact), the looters and arsonists are FOLLOWING the protesters and taking advantage of them by causing trouble wherever the protests are. Pretty sneaky - it allows them to organize the trouble without doing any actual organization. The organized effort of the looters is just impossible for the police to get ahead of. Without the protests, the looters would either have to organize the effort (doubtful, or at least it would leave a social media trail that the police could use to actually arrest people), or they would be so disorganized that the police could handle it. If we can all stay in place for months at a time, we can certainly put a pause on the protests long enough for law enforcement to get ahead of the situation, same as the hospitals and COVID. Not saying don't affect change, in fact DO affect change. Just take a couple of deep breaths and find a better way to do it. The protesters have popular support - it can be done in other ways.
I was referring specifically to the first sentence of your post:
I'm glad you know the difference but others might read that and no further.
Or maybe 10 days?
Let's be real here - one of the causes is the fact that we have been cooped up so long and that unemployment is at unprecedented levels. We predicted the day SiP went into affect that there would be riots and looting. This was long before any of the horrible news occurred that led to the protests. I was basing my prediction on what I experienced in '92 though, not what I was seeing in 2020. I really hope that we've learned from '92 - it wasn't the Rodney King beating that sparked the riots and looting - it was the acquittal.
Everyone involved in criminal behavior has an agenda. It may or may not be racial, and racism flows in all directions.
