| Pemalite said: What is wrong with the USA? I mean seriously. What the officer did to that African American, killing him, crossed a disgusting line. But to protest in such an extremist way, which has resulted in life and property severely damaged and/or lost is also a disgusting line that is crossed. Two wrongs do not make a right, this is basic kindergarten shit. I think the issue is... Is that it seems cool to "rally against authority" and many people see all police as being the same kinds of people, which is far from reality, you have some idiots, sure, like in any service, but at the end of the day... We are all people, we all bleed the same colour of blood and need to be respected. The USA has lost sight of that entirely. - Wasn't Trump going to make America Great again? Currently hundreds of thousands are dying by Corona, there is violence erupting in the streets, economy is about to go into recession, media's legitimacy is at an all time low, constant mud flinging between left and right, the wall hasn't been built... List goes on. It's honestly a joke at this point. I feel for all of those affected by the current running circumstances in the USA and I genuinely hope things improve sooner rather than later. |
Why aren't you giving the same benefit of the doubt to the actual protesters? How come it's only a few bad apples when it comes to the police but all the protesters are acting in extremist ways?? And most of the lives hurt and/or lost were the protesters when the police acted with violence and instigated the peaceful protests btw.
It's not just this one officer, it's not just this one murder, it's not just this one event. It's decades long police brutality upheld by a centuries old oppressive, systematically racist form of governance that values the lives of black people less than that of white people. This hatred has woven itself into every institution in America. These protests, not the violence agitated by the police, are the manifestation of the voices of people that aren't being heard and that aren't being protected and provided for like they should.
Last edited by tsogud - on 31 May 2020 
