re: Looting and arson breaks out in Minneapolis after protests turn violent

So have any of the arresting officers (particularly the one who left his knee on the guy's neck) been arrested, charged, etc.? I know they were fired. But if their lack of arrest or charge is feeding fuel to the fire, that'd probably be a good place to start.

Here's the thing, while I would not agree with it or condone it. I could understand if they were just destroying police property such as patrol cars or trying to cause damage to the station.

But wtf is the logic for destroying fricking Target and AutoZone. They have absolutely zero to do with this. They don't set police policy or protocol. They didn't hire the cops, nor did they fire them. They do not have the power to make sure the cops get arrested, and charged. They didn't come out as a company and say " George Floyd deserved to die, and the officers are all innocent" So again I ask, what is the logic for destroying businesses and property that is not at all related to the original tragedy.

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But wtf is the logic for destroying fricking Target and AutoZone

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it's not logic. There is anger (justifiable here) combined with mob mentality. It doesn't take much to push that energy in a bad direction.

The city should be forced to pay for any stores damaged or destroyed.

That shouldn't be on insurance.

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The Spleen

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It's amazing to me this country was doing so well and getting close to ending public problems with racism and sexism and instead of celebrating the progress we've made and the freedom we enjoy some diabolical genius invented the "privilege" and "my truth" movement that literally makes race and sex relations impossible.

You can't even talk to a person of a diffent race or gender anymore. Even if you're exactly equal it doesn't matter because of some "privilege" that makes you unequal and that privilege must be acknowledged constantly so as not to realize how equal we actually are in this country.

We took 150 years to slowly claw tooth and nail to develop the most free and most equal society in human history and in the last decade we took a rocket jet pack backwards for no reason other than forced political division driven by a hyper partisan media and unified against us citizens government.

Your thoughts?

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You can't even talk to a person of a diffent race or gender anymore. Even if you're exactly equal it doesn't matter because of some "privilege" that makes you unequal and that privilege must be acknowledged constantly so as not to realize how equal we actually are in this country.

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Agree with the rest of your post but this is completely false.

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You can't even talk to a person of a diffent race or gender anymore.

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some of y'all are losing grip on reality

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I too was saddened by that killing. But wtf is burning down buildings and looting businesses gonna change. They are destroying their own communities. You are doing nothing but pissing people off, which will also solve nothing.

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You think the majority of these rioters give one shite about George Floyd? They just used it as an excuse to loot and act like an animal.

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And not one of them has had any real impact on policies of police departments or government.

Riots are a reaction and I understand it is about anger boiling over, but it seems that anger could be pointed in another direction to do something productive. It does nothing but cause more useless pain and suffering.

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I’d say they may have impact bringing issues forward in ways that can’t be ignored

But in this case, admittedly I haven’t followed CLOSE, but it seems with the department dismissing the officers, mayor calling for charges etc... it doesn’t seem like this is a message that needs to be sent in this manner this time. Granted I may be missing facts along the way so grain of salt on that opinion