As some-one brought it up.
As much as I think the anti-lockdown protester were morons there was little to no incidents at the protests.
No-one started shit.
There was at worst the odd heated exchange of words.
In this case the protest seemingly descended into rioting within about 3 hours of them starting.
What are people expecting that people be allowed to burn the place to the ground and everyone not try to stop that?
Except cases where Body Cameras are being involved have been getting called a problem because police are allowed to re review the footage which means it's harder for people to get off by using technicalities about discrepancies in testimony
Also again they have specific demands which you laid out and the question would be if they'd accept Hillary's alternative solutions because they don't match up with the actual demands here.
Since I brought it up, I'll state I already answered it in my original text.
It took 52 days of being 'oppressed' for armed protests to start happening. We're talking of systematic abuse of a people for decades. When our parents were children. When their parents were just coming into their own, stuff like this was happening.
Simply put, you can not treat a group of people like that for generations and expect more and more incidents to go off without a hitch. To sum up, I would wager it would be fair to say that this is is
water torture before, without the proliferation of cameras that document what's going on in the streets. I grew up black in the Bronx during 1980's. I remember being taught that no one would believe me. I remember being taught that people don't come here, so they believe the cops 100%. That it doesn't matter if you're innocent, because no one sees what happens, they will always trust the cops because there's no proof.
I remember feeling so scared. That anything could happen to me and because I don't have the proof necessary to defend myself, people won't believe me and I'll be arrested or harmed without any justice.
And now we have life that we have now. That everything is recorded. That doubt can exist. That the veracity of the continually truthful cops have been found wanting. That the perennial standard of my youth of "Of course he must of have done something, why would cops lie?!" has lost it's once vibrant tune.
And still nothing changed.
The Hope that this was just the fact that people didn't see what happened here in these streets was the only thing that prevented a massive uprising. The belief that all it would take is for the majority to see the actual treatment and would rise up because their fellow citizens.. no, their fellow humans are being treated in such a manner that these people would kill if it happened in their neighborhood.
And they didn't. They shrugged and said whatever. They chose sports. They chose slogans. They chose biases that made things worst for all of us. That progresses the Water Torture to Water Boarding now.
Once again. 52 days for an armed response en masse. Not for anything vile or villainous. To make sure people wouldn't get sick and we could reopen as normal. That was met with a rage that I couldn't believe. Yelling at nurses who are literally on the front line tending to their loved ones and neighbors because these protesters felt restricted and unheard.
In short, my real question is this. If the same treatment that the blacks in Minneapolis have endured for untold decades were visited upon these Michigan protesters, how long before those peaceful but armed protesters would have lead to a street by street shooting war?
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