I could find it easy to support rioters if they destroyed the right things....

[HEyHEY]

Foot locker? Some small business? Why not destroy BART stations or the police station or the transit headquarters.

That's why I like the rioters that trash banks. Even street riots should have a purpose.

[SunnySong]

1. In Oakland they attacked African American owned businesses.

:mad:

[HEyHEY]

2. but even then, why attack a white business? THey did nothing.

As soon as rioters go after the actual guilty parties, then we'll see change.

Did the French destroy all the bakeries? No. They stormed the bastille.

[cliffordu]

3. I thought they destroyed the soap factories.

[HEyHEY]

4. hiyooo!

[cliffordu]

5. KIDDING!!!! I'm teasing all my French friends/....

and our new French-Canadian overlords.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

11. Parts of LA have never recovered from the Rodney King riots

When you burn your neighborhood business don't be surprised when they are not replaced and its one helluva hike to a decently priced grocery store.

[Skink]

6. It depends on who wins the NBA finals.

that's as close as we come. Of course Lebron mad a quick exit from Cleveland.

[tblue]

7. It's dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.

It's just a small percentage of the protesters who act like such idiots, but that's still too many. That is no way to support a community. Where's Jesse? Where's Al Sharpton? I would imagine someone like that would jump in and calm things down, give people a way to move forward.

[WinkyDink]

8. Gated communities are first on my list.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

12. The gates are natural choke points and make it easy to take out attackers

Lest you think I jest, there were a few bay area communities near Oakland thinking along those lines.

[HEyHEY]

13. even then, did they shoot they guy? No. Destroy those responsible

[razorman]

9. Just so long as they leave my stuff alone.

[lostnfound]

10. Wish our government didn't have a nasty habit of sending in provacateurs

Wish it was simple enough to point the finger at 'the menacing crowd' and know that they were actually reponsible.
Whenever I hear reports of property destruction during riots I always wonder 'who knows..'
Sometimes things are what they seem and sometimes they aren't, so who knows...
Hearing the report on DemocracyNow! vs reading some ridiculously biased report from the San Francisco, it was two different worlds.
The voice of the mother of the dead man impressed me with her dignity during this devastating time.
Hearing the voice of one of the protestors talking about how she lives and works in this neighborhood whereas the police that were there live somewhere else in the suburbs and drive in, how they showed up in riot gear after a while and changed the tune telling everyone to disperse..it left a little different impression. Is the new mode to let the 'little people' complain quietly for a couple of hours in the daytime, then when the mix shifts away from the families and toward the young or the radical, find a reason to shut it down.
The Pinkertons have been super-sized.