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Post by mztfied on Aug 12, 2014 21:41:18 GMT
They do it because they can. It is a way of getting back at society. Makes no sense but just how it is.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 21:45:25 GMT
A riot is the language of the unheard. (Martin Luther King) and that is why many don't understand it. Sure, you have people who may be in it for the rush (because it surely is not about armfuls of toilet paper), but bottom line, riots happen when people are used up, frustrated and scared. Let cops come into your neighborhoods and shoot up your sons, and I'm thinking you'll understand rioting. It isn't the rioting that makes cops overreact - it is the silence and the acquiescence. Cops kill black boys and men because we let them do it. We basically have forced communities to take a stand even if it comes down to rioting. Rioting and looting are two different things.
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Post by ametallichick on Aug 12, 2014 23:06:42 GMT
I would like someone to ask these lunatics what the connection (in their mind) is to their looting of an Adidas store and a Fast Food restaurant (really?) and the shooting of an unarmed teen?
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Just T
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Post by Just T on Aug 12, 2014 23:41:06 GMT
My heart has just been so heavy these past two days just thinking about this. A friend of mine posted on facebook that there are twitter posts calling for riots and looting in "rich, white neighborhoods," posts to terrorize and kill white rich people. I have no idea if any of this is really true, but there is a post going around facebook that has screenshots of these twitter posts. I try not to believe most of what I read on facebook, so I'm taking that all with a grain of salt.
I do feel the need to respond to this:
"It isn't the rioting that makes cops overreact - it is the silence and the acquiescence. Cops kill black boys and men because we let them do it. We basically have forced communities to take a stand even if it comes down to rioting."
For one thing, this suburb of St. Louis has one of the highest crime rates in the country. I'm not sure where I read that at, but I will try to find a link. Cops don't just "kill black boys and men because we let them do it," the town is crime-ridden. Yes, there are many good people who live there. I know some of them. But, I would not want to live there. I still say that reacting in that way, burning down business and stealing from businesses in YOUR OWN COMMUNITY will not do anything to make one thing better. It will only make it worse. Can you imagine how every policeman in that city is now feeling? How fearful they may be and how they may overreact in the future based on what has happened?
If it truly comes out that this policeman shot that boy in cold blood for no reason, I hope he is prosecuted and convicted. But I am willing to reserve judgment until we know for sure what happened. We don't even know if the cop is black or white at this point. I heard that the cars are equipped with video recorders, so I'm sure we will eventually learned what really happened that day.
Finally, like someone else said, rioting and looting are not the same! When you see the videos of people running out of stores carrying whatever they could scoop up, with big smiles on their faces. That is plain and simple just a thug. A thug who probably doesn't even give a crap about the boy who was shot, just saw the opportunity and took it.
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