Elsewhere, William Sullivan of American Thinker said:
Let’s imagine for a moment that it actually was Floyd’s death that drove them to the act. The owners of the business had precisely nothing to do with Floyd’s death, so even then, in what meaningful sense would this be considered “justice”?
Imagine this moral question differently. Imagine that my friend has his car stolen, and the thief is arrested, awaiting trial. A lot of people like my friend have their cars stolen these days, I conclude, so I’m understandably angry about it. Rather than await justice from the courts, I instead find some other innocent person who has some expensive wheels, and assault him and steal his car.
Now, I would, and should, go to jail for that crime, and for good reason. And that’s because the other person has innate rights to property, and those rights are every bit as important as, say, my right to life and liberty.
It is this American “social right” which the rioters are explicitly challenging, and demanding be replaced by their brand of “social justice” that is more akin to communism than anything American governance has ever been.
For most of the rioters, this isn’t about race. It’s about unmaking America. And we’ve been cobbling the path to this moment for a long time. What we do now will determine whether or not America’s future is as a constitutional republic or a new socialist experiment that is based upon countless failed ones.
“A handful of criminals and thugs who tore up the place,” were the words Obama used to describe the perpetrators of the violent behavior.
Speaking at the White House on April 28, 2015, a day after the rioting erupted, he said there was “no excuse for the kind of violence that we saw yesterday.”
Mediavine
“When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they’re not protesting, they’re not making a statement – they’re stealing,” Obama said. “When they burn down a building, they’re committing arson. And they’re destroying and undermining businesses and opportunities in their own communities that rob jobs and opportunity from people in that area.”
“That is not a protest. That is not a statement,” he said. “It’s people – a handful of people taking advantage of a situation for their own purposes, and they need to be treated as criminals.”
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Trump said the same and gets called divisive.
Justice went out the window as fast as the brick went through it.
Exactly right. As a "person of color" friend pointed out to me, as lawless as the Rodney King rioters were, they at least waited until an unfavorable jury verdict before they rioted.
Why doesn't anyone in the media have the balls to point this out?
“ For most of the rioters, this isn’t about race. It’s about unmaking America..”
I’d say that’s true for all of the ‘protesters’. It’s why when asked why they are there they regurgitate a series of lefty bumper sticker slogans. They know full well these protests are likely to result in destruction. Similar to ‘moderate Muslims’ failing to denounce their radical brethren, the ‘peaceful protesters’ are complicit regardless of intention.