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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOk it's time for someone to call for an end to the violent protests.
Someone has to stop this now. I'm sure the president will do nothing but fuck this up more. Anger for not being heard is understood and now is the time to step back and listen for a response. Please enough violence and destruction for now and give the serious people a chance to engage each other. There are people who want to actually work toward solving problems, let's give them a chance.
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Laelth
(32,017 posts)If not the President, who has the authority to call for an end to the violence? Who would even listen?
There can be no peace without justice. - MLK, Jr.
-Laelth
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Of all the bad times to have this scumbag in power...
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)He's also the main cause of the pandemic; having deliberately failed to address it like almost every civilized nation has.
MacKasey
(987 posts)Someone everyone can trust
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Until Trump is gone. The Reality!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)There seem to be some rather suspicious white dudes walking around, casually trying to stir up trouble and encourage looting by breaking windows at businesses. Stop sending undercover cops into the midst of the demonstrations to foment violence.
Shell_Seas
(3,333 posts)That's the only way this ends. And as long as they don't arrest them, it's going to get bigger and spread to more cities.
happy feet
(869 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Mentioning Trump and Barr multiple times was surely designed to fan the flames. That was a clear signal that they intend to block justice.
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)And protests peacefully to demand this now is definitely in order.
uponit7771
(90,344 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)a difference between protesters and rioters. Please don't lump them into the same category.
Amishman
(5,557 posts)The rioting needs to end before more lives are lost. It is all to easy to imagine one of last night's fires spreading to housing, or a frightened store owner firing blindly into a crowd.
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)Amishman
(5,557 posts)sorry, I am suspicious of conspiracy theories in general, and even if true it doesn't explain or excuse everything that happened afterwards.
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)exactly what would happen.
bigtree
(85,996 posts)...and you'll see most of the unrest subside, for a time until there's actual justice.
UncleTomsEvilBrother
(945 posts)...as soon as the murderers are arrested.
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)and government building and demand this. You can be heard without being violent. I hope all the protesters and those who are interested are registered and plan on voting or running for office themselves. The sooner the problem people are removed the better it will be.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)AA community. However, calling for an end to it does not necessarily stop it from happening. Individuals have agency over their own actions.
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WhiskeyGrinder
(22,355 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)line and no longer "victims" the first time they break a store window or throw a fire bomb.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,355 posts)of, "I'm going to shoot you for breaking those windows," and then would shoot people?
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)sarisataka
(18,656 posts)Calling for shooting into crowds that were doing less.
They were wrong and anyone calling for increasing the violence now is wrong.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,355 posts)bigtree
(85,996 posts)...calling for martial law and summary execution of someone affected by those dire situations, determined to steal, is barbaric nonsense.
What is it about the inhumanity of shooting unarmed people (with live rounds, even) that escapes you?
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)I am a white guy living in the most renown entitled and privileged suburb just south of minneapolis whose residents are labeled cake eaters and even I can tell you that the AA population HAS BEEN WAITING AND LISTENING AND NOT A DAMNED THING IS BEING DONE FOR THEM. Of course I grew up on the east side if saint paul and the midway area as well so I have been exposed to the shit that goes on in these communities. But look, it has been decades. Hell longer than that.... AA and POC built this damned country and they are continually held down by the system devised for white folk by white folk. They get treated like shit every damned day. I have to imagine (I have to because I am a white male) that people telling them to calm down and listen and work through it is infuriating on a level that we cannot even imagine.
I dont like seeing buildings burning and all of that but when they kneel we tell them no. When they march we dont ask why. When they speak we as a nation pay lip service in return. When they ask for mercy we kill them.
This is about George Floyd.... But it isnt JUST about George Floyd.
Playing bu the tules is NOT working and us on the sidelines saying that they need to continue to work within the system isnt helping.
obamanut2012
(26,079 posts)qwlauren35
(6,148 posts)It's kind of a no-brainer.
Voltaire2
(13,042 posts)Problem solved.
gibraltar72
(7,505 posts)It won't get better until some sense of justice is served. Freeman neglected to say it was a black cop he got convicted. You can't hold that disastrous of a press conference and not get that exact result.