Another lit match in a pool of gasoline:
Yes, about that:
Perhaps it is time that issues of police brutality and racism are not clouded or otherwise distorted by those who are willing to cover a multitude of faults.
I can't imagine why this particular fellow (or anyone, really) is worth burning down one of the few places of business open post-lockdown. What is achieved beyond mere primal thuggery? The unemployment of desperate citizens? Further artificial wedges between people?
Pleading through tears Monday, the family of a black man killed by Atlanta police outside a drive-thru demanded changes in the criminal justice system and called on protesters to refrain from violence amid heightened tensions across the U.S. three weeks after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.
An autopsy found that 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was shot twice in the back late Friday by a white officer who was trying to arrest him at a fast food restaurant for being intoxicated behind the wheel of his car. Brooks tried to flee after wrestling with officers and grabbing a stun gun from one of them. ...
“Rayshard has a family who loves him who would have gladly come and got him so he would be here with us today,” she said.
Yes, about that:
Perhaps it is time that issues of police brutality and racism are not clouded or otherwise distorted by those who are willing to cover a multitude of faults.
I can't imagine why this particular fellow (or anyone, really) is worth burning down one of the few places of business open post-lockdown. What is achieved beyond mere primal thuggery? The unemployment of desperate citizens? Further artificial wedges between people?
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