Posted on 06/09/2020 5:29:06 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Though many of the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd began with peaceful intentions, anyone familiar with protest culture today must realize that an undercurrent of violence and anarchy always lies beneath the surface. Just look at Philadelphia, where last week’s initially peaceful protest quickly devolved into a flame-throwing rush of destruction.
According to the Philadelphia Police Department, 378 fires were set in the city and 246 commercial burglaries were committed during the unrest. At first, Mayor Jim Kenney and new police commissioner Danielle Outlaw blamed the fires and looting on a small group of outsiders, but they later had to eat their words. In fact, official arrest data showed that 181 of the arrested were from Philadelphia, while 46 came from outside the city (with 30 having no address). The worst of the rioting and looting occurred over three days, long enough to call into question Kenney’s contention that the agitators and looters were just a small band of troublemakers. Occupying a city and rendering police helpless are feats beyond the capacity of ragtag rejects.
I live on the outskirts of Fishtown, a section of the city touted by the New York Times several years ago as a revitalized urban paradise with chic restaurants, art galleries, grooming shops, and soy vegan cafes. Before its resettlement by migrating millennial Brooklynites and real estate moguls, Fishtown was home to working-class Irish, Italian, German, and Polish families who worked in nearby factories. Today, the factories are converted condos, but the children and grandchildren of those early factory workers still live in the rowhouse neighborhood and mix freely, if not always ecstatically, with their wealthier new neighbors.
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Danielle Outlaw...hahahahahahahahaha...whoa...hahahahahahaha
How about those of us who didn’t vote for him? Your comment is facile and cruel.
As a Fishtowner I am so glad that you are enjoying our suffering. May it never happen to you. If it does you can be sure that I won’t be yukking it up good and hard.
I didn’t vote for it and none of us deserve it. Get back to me when it happens in your town. Then it will be my turn to gloat about your misfortune.
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