Protests, Riots, Death By Cop: Have We Learned Nothing?

[Geee]

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man died tragically after being held in a savage knee-to-neck hold by a policeman. What was the officer thinking? Protests have turned to riots in several of our big cities. Why does this happen? History is a teacher but we ignore its lessons.

The “we” above, however, is more of a “they.” In a nation of about 330 million, those who refuse to learn number only a few thousand: the few law enforcement officers who abuse rather than protect and serve; the elected officials who don’t police the police nor police the riotous, and even tacitly encourage violence; and the rioters themselves who on some instances refuse to govern their own emotions and in others plan to sow societal disorder.

The rest of us, though, say about 329.95 million, who aren’t white supremacists, or bigots, or racists, or feckless politicians pay for their offenses. There’ll be more bad cops until local lawmakers make better hires, and crack the union arrangement that protects the rogues. And another generation of rioters and looters will follow the criminals we have today unless those same policymakers make it clear that outlaw behavior will not be tolerated.

Meanwhile, everyone else just wishes to go about their business in a peaceful society.

But we can’t. We’re interrupted by intermittent societal convulsions, so are confined by curfews, find ourselves hoping violence doesn’t flare up where we are, and watch helplessly as businesses are emptied and burned, their owners assaulted, either while trying to protect their property or in dealing with the financial ruins of a destroyed enterprise.

It’s heartbreaking and infuriating. Just as it was in 1965, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1982, 1992, 2014, 2015 and 2017.

We’ve seen these sad and appalling incidents so many times. Can’t we do better? Well, it’s really not up to us. We’re reliant on lawmakers and true community leaders (not the usual agitators who stoke rage and create division rather than bridge gaps). Unfortunately, too many of the former are ill-equipped for the offices of power they occupy, and too few of the latter have the influence necessary to mend the communities that need it the most.

 

[Valin]

1 hour ago, Geee said:

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I have learned...or Relearned a couple of things

1. Civilization, while a mile wide is only an inch deep.

2. Groups like ANTIFA..BLM...Democratic Socialists of America are A. Serious B. a real threat to our way of life. Think Students for a Democratic Society 2.0

a. Thank God, they Only Wanted To Riot. Think Power...Communications...Sewer & Water.

3. There is a good reason why "Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Democrat"...because This is what you get.

 

I Hate To Go All Tin Foil Hat But......

 

 

[Valin]

@Geee

PS If You Think This Was Bad. Wait until around *11:03 PM Nov. 3 2020. Any Governor/Law Enforcement Leader, National Guard General who isn't thinking about this today is a brain dead moron. I Hope & Pray I'm wrong....But.

* This assumes Donald Trump is Reelected. PLEASE GOD!