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I agree. I live just north of Minneapolis and as I don't condone the damage I understand it. Some people have been oppressed for far to long and finally are getting noticed. People are making sure a lot of the damage is paid for thankfully so I guess if it helps with the anger I understand. ITS TIME THE PEOPLE ARE HEARD!
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Goodfellas wrote If you're more concerned about looting and destruction then you clearly have missed the message they're trying to send.

F*ck those stores, it's all materialistic anyway, all that shit is replaceable. A human life isn't.

I'm from Canada and am a little darker skinned, not black mind you but I couldn't agree more. It was getting to the point where I would see another black man was murdered by police in the states and I wasn't even shocked. It is sickening, I can't imagine what they're going through and I totally see that all their peaceful protests and kneeling during the anthem didn't do shit so i'm glad they have the entire world seeing the disgusting stuff normalized by cops in the states. Back to being of color, I am native american and am generally nervous if i ever went to the states I would be mistaken for Mexican with little to know way to explain myself as they seem to get physical about anything.
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Goodfellas wrote If you're more concerned about looting and destruction then you clearly have missed the message they're trying to send.

F*ck those stores, it's all materialistic anyway, all that shit is replaceable. A human life isn't.
There is a huge difference between peaceful protesting and just theft. What they are doing now is not proving a point anymore. Use your first amendment rights. They are just breaking the law now. I see no messages being sent by someone looting and burning down Autozone / the dollar store.

The officers should be 100% charged.
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Brandon wrote
Goodfellas wrote If you're more concerned about looting and destruction then you clearly have missed the message they're trying to send.

F*ck those stores, it's all materialistic anyway, all that shit is replaceable. A human life isn't.
There is a huge difference between peaceful protesting and just theft. What they are doing now is not proving a point anymore. Use your first amendment rights. They are just breaking the law now. I see no messages being sent by someone looting and burning down Autozone / the dollar store.

The difference is that this has been happening for years and peaceful protests haven't done a damn thing. I believe they also rioted TAX ON TEA in the 1700s, so I mean.. Black lives.. Tea.. **** off. also being up till 4 am seeing videos on twitter as they were posted you have videos of black people trying to get white psychos out of their neighborhood, talking about burning down a mainly black populated apartment building; just a gross example of white privilege and pure racism.
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BLVD wrote If nothing outrageous was done after the fact, that cop would've just been let off and it would've happened again.


I disagree, this wasn't like other videos of police killing black men. There has never been much speculation surrounding this video as to whether it was lawful or not.

To put it in perspective, Devon Tracey is a Youtuber who is famous and infamous for defending the police in a lot of cases where it's questionable as to whether or not the killing was lawful or not. When this video came out he made a video and flat out stated that this was one of the most egregious acts of police violence that he has seen.

If you look at the timeline of events it's not like there was much time for anything to happen before the protests began.

May 25th - George Floyd is killed
May 26th - Protests begin and all four police officers involved in the incident had been fired and the FBI had been called in to conduct a formal investigation.
May 29th - Derek Chauvin charged

People haven't been protesting to get this man arrested and charged. If they were then they should have stopped protesting on the 29th.

This was a lot more comparable to the shooting of Walter Scott. He was a black man who was shot in the back by a police officer while he was running away. That officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Police officers don't get away with killing people when it is this blatant.
They might get away with it if it is questionable, but there is nothing questionable about the killing of George Floyd.

OP wrote Peaceful protests haven't done a damn thing. I believe they also rioted TAX ON TEA in the 1700s, so I mean.. Black lives.. Tea.. **** off


"Peaceful protests haven't done a damn thing"

Martin Luther King Jr might disagree with you there.
The fact that race relations have come so far in the US in the past 60 years are specifically because of peaceful protests.


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Protesting for police brutality/racism to end is a good thing.

Using that as an excuse to burn down, loot, smash and destroy property isn't. Saying "black lives matter" and then burn down a self employed black business is retarded.

Its no longer a protest, but a self gain riot. Its a shame because I saw videos of hundreds laying down peacefully saying "I cant breathe". that's how you protest. Now the government is just gonna retaliate and punish those involved and probably wont consider changing a damn thing.
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people who think stealing a tv will combat this issue is laughable, these are just lower level people who use time to get free stuff
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I think there are certain videos circulating online to show negatives from both parties. At this rate it's a fully blown riot. The police have harmed children / adults / every race it doesn't even matter if they're black anymore.

I also saw a tweet saying "if you're uncomfortable with racism, then you're a racist." I feel like anybody who is racist in this day and age are very uneducated and don't want to learn about the past and to come to terms with what has happened and is still happening with the oppression of black people or any minority.

However I agree on the fact that burning of buildings and the destroying of cities is a **** retarded idea and anyone who thinks it will cause damage to big corporate company's are naive. How can it be a logical thing to do when plenty of black family owned business and stores will have this done to them?

I'm from the UK and white so I can't imagine what people are going through over in the US as the brutality over there seems completely different than here. What I will say is that I stand with any minority and as MLK was a theologian he believed in being a pacifist and wouldn't want people resorting with violence, especially on this scale. "a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love"
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I think the officers involved should be prosecuted, but these riots are silly in my opinion, peoples houses/shops are being damaged.
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JoeExotic wrote Autopsy results come back it wasn't strangulation that killed him. Is what he did wrong? 100%. The 4 cops should be in prison. Now, what all these rioters are doing are plain out retarded. Trying to protest about racism by robbing stores and burning down hundreds of buildings? Yeah, that says a lot. Seems legit.

A little looting? 170+ buildings were looted or burned down in less than 24 hours in St. Paul alone lmao.


I know when you posted this it was the case, but an independent autopsy paid for by the Floyd family has come back as showing the primary cause of death being asphyxia. So now it's just deciding who to believe, and I believe the independent pathologist. We have a video showing a police officer kneeling on the neck of a man who consistently says "I can't breathe" for almost 9 minutes, so the answer to me is clear.

As for the rioting and looting, I can't really blame them. While there are obvious issues with burning buildings and looting, people in this country have been consistently ignored, shamed, and mocked for non-violent protests. Just look at the Kaepernick kneeling protests. That was an excellent form of peaceful protest, and it was mocked by the media, laughed at by the Trump base, and Kaepernick lost his job because of it. This happens time and time again, where people are encouraged to take advantage of their first amendment rights to speech and assembly, and then are just completely ignored and nothing happens. Inevitably people are going to get fed up with that tactic and are going to explore alternatives. Look at Hong Kong, the violent protests are seen as brave and a fight for freedom against a dangerous state. Here though it's seen as hoodlums making unnecessary noise. There's differences between the groups, but bottom line is they are both fighting for their right to exist safely.

Just my 2 cents.
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