Sooooo I went to a "protest" last night to see what it was exactly. I mean we all see the clips of the ones that go extremely wrong. I wanted to see what a regular protest looked like so I went to one. I got off work at around 10 PM, got to the protest around 10:30. It was pretty lame. Just a big crowd of people. I saw a few things spray painted on walls and windows of shops.
SWAT along with the national guard and regular police with
riot gear were there. I got bored so I left at about 11. Then I hear it got interesting. It turned into a riot like you see on Fox or CNN with people raiding and looting shops, breaking stuff lighting crap on fire; the whole nine yards. Then the police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the crowd. Well starting today, they instituted a
curfew of 8 PM, which is absolutely government overreach, but at the same time, they cannot have these riots continue.
I always thought the protesting was fine, and that the looting and other criminal activities that these protests seem to devolve into are not, but it never impacted me directly. This happened 5 minutes from where I live. I do not get it. It is really simple.
Justice for George Floyd? How is breaking into the local jeweler's shop and stealing thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and doing more thousands of dollars worth of damages
justice for George Floyd? How are you going to complain that you're being targeted by cops and then do criminal stuff, making the cops target you?
The officer who killed George Floyd has been arrested. Floyd is getting
justice, the right way. Injustice isn't going to bring him back.
Everything else in life is going about the same too so just fuck me apparently; my new boss likes me though.
@Morganator
Those pictures you posted, why does it have to be a race thing? I haven't seen any evidence to suggest the officer was racist, just a douche bag shit head who sucked at his job.