I immediately thought of the LA riots of 1992. Almost 30 years ago and has anyone learned anything?
Fake committees that don't do anything, that are pure grift were put into place and exist to this day, I'm not sure what else.I immediately thought of the LA riots of 1992. Almost 30 years ago and has anyone learned anything?
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Not the impression I got from this thread:
In fairness, I don't see Rob as one of those "bust $#!+ up" anarchists. But I don't think any place needs outsiders coming in to an already volatile situation.SO and I would like to be in Minneapolis protesting right now - but can't wisely do so due to travel risk. It could be said that if there were no pandemic, we'd be working and unable to go - true enough - but it still bites anyway.
I have so so so much respect for the activists on the ground and do dislike myself a bit for not being there.
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The Ferguson riots were the same here, picking up steam in subsequent days due to out-of-towners wanting in on the action.The real protestors with sincere intent went home at night, but that’s when the destructive element came out.
As an aside, I watchEd the video clip of the Cup store owner where George Floyd was picked up, or maybe he was the manager? Anyway, the guy with the Arab name. Boy did he come off well on the video. Man they should hire him for regular PR work for I don’t know What, but hire him! He was well spoken, sincere, and convincing.
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However, in the initial post of this thread, started a bit later in time, Rob says:
Seems to indicate it is a Phoenix-located protest he didn't go to.
I think it would have been foolish to self-deploy to a disaster zone to "protest", whatever that would mean in these circumstances. Working locally though doesn't seem particularly problematic.
I saw the Minnesota governor's presentation today, he seems like a decent leader.
Talked to my son earlier today. He called to tell us he was leaving his home in Minneapolis but not yet sure where to go but to let us know he was ok in case we called. There were fires all around, people protesting the last few nights in the streets in front of his house and down the street, altercations with police, gun shots all night, neighborhood stores trashed, police station and apartment building still burning. He was being texted that the white supremists were being called into the area with guns (I don't know who was texting). These were not locals (as SteveinMN) also stated. He was really freaked by it all. He said to watch unicorn riot on YouTube to see what is happening.
I don't know.....there were violent protests in Columbus Ohio as well. https://fox8.com/news/protesters-sto...isperse-crowd/
750 or so miles doesn't seem to be far enough away from the source to keep people from acting out and I understand there's been similar mayhem in other cities as well. It's getting hard to tell the difference between protests and riots.
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