RedPed
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And that would be a pretty darned good reason. Watching those three precincts burn in Minneapolis was a beautiful sight. When they build the new ones they can literally and figuratively start from scratch and root out the corruption that caused the protest in the first place. I don't know how old you are so I don't how much you would have seen about the Rodney King incident but yet still those feckers have not learned their lesson.I don’t agree - it gives people an excuse to get caught up in riots.
If people riot in London this weekend it’s entirely on the back of whats happened in the US.
People can protest if they feel they’re “not onto a good gig” but that doesn’t give someone the right to set fire to buildings or for people to attack emergency services in the middle of a pandemic!!
the George Floyd video made me feel sick to my stomach, but riots are not the answer!
People have tried the 'we shall overcome', arms linked in solidarity approaches yet nothing has changed. The biggest change has been social media and phone tech which have outed those racist pigs. And if not for those two things, black people would still be police and redneck fodder to this very day.
So yeah, in the grand scheme of things, burning a few buildings that can be rebuilt again is not going to hurt anybody and if it makes people take notice then great. I honestly don't understand why people don't get this? We're not talking about whimsical, opportunist destruction here, we're talking about reacting to decades, upon decades of oppression?