Posted on 06/08/2020 2:48:41 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
The killing of George Floyd has reverberated across the world, with protests reaching across the Atlantic.
Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck for nine minutes. A video of the incident sparked national outrage. Chauvin has since been fired and charged with second-degree murder, an elevation from the original third-degree murder charge.
While many protests following his death remained peaceful, in cities like Minneapolis, Washington, D.C. and New York City, violence erupted and led to looting, vandalism and buildings set ablaze.
Violence consumed countless mom-and-pop businesses, many owned by minorities and immigrants, leaving behind a desert of small business, with little recourse but to plead for the public to donate to online fundraising campaigns. Insurance is not a panacea for destruction caused by looting in most of these cases.
Some have downplayed the looting and violence. Politicians, along with sympathetic members of the national media, lined up to apologize or justify the destruction. Seattle Councilmember Tammy Morales said “what I don’t want to hear is for our constituents to be told to be civil, not to be reactionary, to be told that looting doesn’t solve anything” at a council session Monday. (RELATED: Here’s A List Of Media And Politicians Who Downplayed Violence And Looting)
Sally Kohn, a liberal political commentator, tweeted: “Property is insured and can be replaced. Lives cannot. Check your priorities, America.”
Less than ten unarmed black men were killed by cops last year.
Death isn’t the issue. Thousands of black men were murdered by fellow black men in 2019... those lives don’t matter.
The ONLY lives that matter to ‘mob rule’ totalitarians are ones that push their political agenda forward ... This is really sick.
Point remains: don’t violate the law and you won’t encounter the police.
Grossly false.
You should ask Lt. General Flynn about that one.
Boom!
“HE GOT WEEEED! HE GOT WEEEED!”
"led to" is not the same as "caused". Unless you are saying lacking the "loosies" law the police would have found some other pretext to accost Eric Garner. In which case you might be inadvertently conceding he was being harassed by the police.
An excess of "pretext" violations and "rebuttable presumptions" are the basis for many interactions with police, especially (but not only!) in liberal jurisdictions. I like to say that laws requiring a police state to succeed as intended are a magnet drawing a police state into existence.
Part of the prohibition on selling “loosies” stems from the fact that cigs are prohibited to minors, for good reason. Are you in favor of kids buying and smoking cigarettes? That’s not easy to regulate if people are selling singles on the street. The selling has to be done by the pack, by merchants, which helps to ensure there is a check on minors obtaining them.
So why is Bidens staffers and all left wing groups bailing them out>
Do you honestly think white racists got upset over a black man dying from a white guy who then go out and protest. They then do black power signs write black lives matter, go and write on buildings anarchy signs, and other left wing slogans.
Money line, thanks.
sorry you lost me. What do you mean money line in response to what I said?
Misleading title. Yes, David Dorn was murdered, but some of the deaths in the article were accidents. There may in fact be more than 15 murders by rioters if and when when the full story comes out, but some of those deaths listed were not murders.
Meant that was a line that is a winning argument.
OK Got it LOL
Are you saying laws on taxation shouldn't apply to some people BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN? Or that low income people should have tax free subsidized cigarettes?
Surely you're NOT saying that... right?
How about gasoline. Equally high taxes on that... should black citizens get a free pass on paying taxes every time they fill their tank because they're black? No, that's racism. Real racism.
Why not contact cigarette manufacturers and request smaller packs... Or hit up legislatures on reducing 'sin' taxes... Taxes that primarily hit the poor. Or ask legislatures to pass 'sin' taxes that hit 'the elite'. High taxes on all bottles of wine in restaurants that costs over $80 a bottle? Then watch how the 'elites' worm their way out of it and copy that?
Lots of solutions OTHER than breaking the law.
Eric Garner bought a pack of cigarettes and paid the tax on them. If he wants to sell them individually after that, I applaud him.
Do you have a problem with that?
It’s got to be painful to be a member of a racial group that has such a bad reputation for criminal behavior... while being a decent person...
Yes, white people and every other racial group has violent members but nothing compared to the black community.
That’s sad but true.
And it goes back to the early civil rights movement in the 60’s... And yes, it is the fault of two groups. One of them being white liberal ‘elites’... The other group is Uncle Tom’s not strong enough to maintain leadership after SNCC hijacked MLK’s highly moral and ethical challenge to REAL institutional racism.
The reason police are in those neighborhoods constantly is because people in those neighborhoods call 911 when someone is breaking into their home, beating up their child, fighting with their husband or wife, turning in a rapist...”Yes, and how tall did you say he was?” When the description includes things like “6 foot three and black” the cops aren’t going to drive over to a white neighborhood and pull over short white blond men.
This is a complex issue with incentive patterns that go waaaaaay beyond loot and burn solutions.
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