Proportionate Response When destroying a police precinct is a reasonable reaction. (disgraceful)

slate ^ | 5/30/2020 | STEVEN W. THRASHER

[bitt]

(@brithume The author of this nonsense is a professor at the highly regarded Northwestern University.)

In the early days of the pandemic, did you ever fantasize what we’d do when people could go outside again and gather together? Did you dream of a better, “post-pandemic” America? One with more hugs, more mutual care and concern for our fellow humans, having all gone through (in differing and unequal ways, but still having shared) a harrowing common experience?

People are going out again, all over the United States. But it’s not to celebrate a vaccine or a debt jubilee. The first national connecting event coming out of lockdown is mass protest against police violence after the lynching of George Floyd, and the state’s attempt at suppressing it. The coronavirus—which disproportionately is killing Black Americans—drove us inside. Policing—which also disproportionately is killing Black Americans—is drawing us back out. Almost overnight, the streets have gone from largely empty—though the rate of police killings remained mostly unchanged—to filled with thousands of masked people, often being gassed or beaten. The conditions before, during and after the lockdown are part of a continuum in America—a miserable nation maintained by policing.

For about a decade, I’ve been reporting on police violence in the United States—or rather, I’ve been reporting on the violence of policing, because what I’ve witnessed is that policing is always violent. The order the police protect and sustain is an order in which needed resources remain in the hands of the few. Whether or not they are actually killing or beating somebody, police are always threatening the use of lethal violence (mostly at the poor, disproportionately at Black and other nonwhite people), and that is a form of violence itself. And as I’ve reported on the violence of policing, the encouraging rebellions against it, and

[ptsal]

Before releasing the rioters please run the index of student loans. Will there be a high correlation between the arrest list and the debt list?

[deadrock]

No. That’s why I ask.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Well then, no more police in the areas where these leftist idiots live — and they will not respond to any calls from those areas.

Be careful what you wish for, lefties — you just might get it.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

If a poor white were to break into this moron’s house would he call the police?

It would be a hoot if that were to happen and he were to call them, they would refuse to respond — and let him know why in no uncertain terms as to why they did so.