United States George Floyd Protests, Reactions and Riots

And this kind of disaster is why you don't go 'soft' on rioters and looters in the first place.

If law enforcement had cracked down in MN, not even on the first night, but the second night, this nationwide wave of violence either wouldn't have happened, or would have been seriously curtailed. If law enforcement in the other cities had immediately come out in force, the riots in other cities would have stopped almost immediately.

Instead, we now have dozens of deaths, tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in people's livelihoods destroyed, and it's looking like military force is becoming the only way to stop the violence.

Because Antifa has been very clear that they will not stop until they have completely destroyed any semblance of civil order. They are explicit in their intent to violently overthrow the government, and now that they're fully engaged in all this, it will not stop until they are forced to stop.


Yet again, if the (predominantly democrat) politicians could stop pandering to special interests and using divide and conquer political tactics, we could have avoided all this bloody suffering. Instead we'd still be a nation mourning one unjust killing.
 
Reklos said:
I apologize if this slightly off-topic, but does anyone know any rebuilding funds going around on the net? Seen pics of people's business going up in flames and being broken into, I want to do something to help.
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A local affiliate has a (perhaps-incomplete) listing of the various fundraising efforts out there. A lot of it is going through GoFundMe by folks it seems, which is...both probably good in terms of access but also opens up more questions as to where the money goes and potential scamming or the like. The Neighbors United fund through Midway, the We Love Lake Street Fund, and more individually if desired the Migizi Organization (whose center burned down) are preexisting ones that are registered charitable organizations, so (should/could) be a bit more accountable/trustworthy than a gofundme.

Or maybe my suspicion of gofundmes are misplaced because I have the technological aptitude of a 70-year old grandmother. In any case, those are some possibilities.
 
prinCZess said:
A local affiliate has a (perhaps-incomplete) listing of the various fundraising efforts out there. A lot of it is going through GoFundMe by folks it seems, which is...both probably good in terms of access but also opens up more questions as to where the money goes and potential scamming or the like. The Neighbors United fund through Midway, the We Love Lake Street Fund, and more individually if desired the Migizi Organization (whose center burned down) are preexisting ones that are registered charitable organizations, so (should/could) be a bit more accountable/trustworthy than a gofundme.

Or maybe my suspicion of gofundmes are misplaced because I have the technological aptitude of a 70-year old grandmother. In any case, those are some possibilities.
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Okay then. Thank you for the response hope you're having a good day.
 
Please delete this.

I get the desire to go brutal on the tankies and ancoms who make up Antifa. But images and post like this only give the other side more ammo to smear anyone to the right of Bernie as a racist. Do you know how much greif that causes your centrist allies?

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Random Username said:
I know. After seeing a lot of cultural artifacts in jeopardy including the loss of Stonewall Jackson's flag I know what will one day happen. African American cultural history will one day get it's due all because of the entitled fucks who wanted sneakers and tv sets. Black history month will be removed one day and n words will be spoken more openly.

I have read the hearsay of people asking other ethnicities online like the Mexicans or Hmong who live in the US and it's full of disdain or racist remarks. Whatever statues or cultural artifacts the African Americans have may get lost or defaced in revenge.
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They try that and every Black Veteran will march on Washington in peaceful protest. And there is a damn lot of us. Don't blame several million people for the actions of only a few thousand.
 
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Thread is getting big, so this has probably been mentioned before.

These are the COVID-19 riots. That's the secret sauce here. I've been been telling my wife for months that the lockdowns would eventually lead to rioting, and here we are.


What I think happens next is everyone collectively forgets the epidemic is a thing (IE kept out of the news) so the economy can open and the election can run. Almost without regard to the death rates.
 
Tyanna of Pentos said:
Some updates. The National Guard actually had to engage with live rounds in Louisville Kentucky after being fired upon—one rioteer dead. This marks an escalation to the level of violence seen during the Rodney King Riots or the 60s/70s riots, but it may also be the beginning of containment.
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I reposted this somewhere... And people apparently think the National Guard is in the wrong for returning fire because the person they were returning fire at was in a crowd of protestors...

They also think the article is lying about the gun, and that if there was a gun the protestors would have somehow gotten it away from the person firing it before they could hurt anyone.

I mean, lets just ignore that the person firing from the protestors could have hit anyone and not just the NG unit he was aiming at. And that the national guard has a right to defend themselves.
 
Bacle said:
Could we rename this the 'George Floyd Killing Unrest Thread'?

Just so the man who's deaths set this off is not forgotten in the clamor and evolving situation.
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Mixed feelings on that, on the one hand the incident should be remembered, on the other hand do you want it associated with the rioting, and looting, in the aftermath?
 
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