I agree, the police officers that are reacting on everything with violence on peaceful protesters are a sad pitiful excuse for weak human beings.

Glad we are in agreement 😊

"2 people are confirmed to have been killed by the police, one was reportedly sleeping in his car. The other also unarmed."

>You tell me this. What can you show me to back up these statements?

A fashion shop near my home has been hit. I ask myself "what did these people do to anyone to deserve this?"

Nothing. They did nothing to anyone to deserve that...

I just got back. Didn't want to stay as it gets late since NY is having a curfew.

I went to spring street cause i saw on twitter that's where people were and that they were heading towards the Brooklyn bridge. SO when I got off the subway the first thing I saw were 30 cops marching towards the protests.

Before I caught up I walked around and a lot of stores were robbed in the area and graffiti was everywhere. Felt really bad for the small business owners. Some stores that had yet to be looted were fortying their windows and doors with some type of wood before the night protests happen. There were blocks where every store had wood all around.

When i caught up with the protest most were peaceful and were chanting. The cops kept pushing them back so some that tried to push back at them were arrested.

There were lots of cops. I've never seen so many cops before and this was the afternoon and evening. Can't imagine what goes on at night if you're actually there. 

A store can be rebuilt. You can't bring people back from the dead last time I checked. 

While we are spending a lot of time talking about the direct response to these protests (ie, the actions of the police), I think we need to talk about Trump.

Is there anyone here who can defend Trump's complete disinterest in even trying to be a leader? His entire playbook has been to attack, to provoke, to call for violence, to call to "wipe out" the movement, or when all that fails, to step back and place blame. His words are dangerous and they are undoubtedly contributing to the unrest we are seeing. The way I see it, there are two ways out of this: One is to move forward and make broad reforms while the other is to suppress and silence. Trump seems to have no interest in reform. He has instead called for the police to be more violent and demanded they dole out "retribution".

How can anyone support this? Even if you disagree with the violence of these protests, how can you look at Trump and see a positive force in any way? It is absolutely despicable the way he has been handling this crisis.

And to those who are on the left, but will not vote for Biden, how can you make that decision in good conscience after seeing Trump so nakedly embrace the tactics of fascism?

Indeed, you cannot bring back the dead, no matter how hard you riot. Riots can only claim more lives.

No, but you can force justice. 

That cop is arrested only because the powers that be are scared of these riots, they tried to hold off arresting him for several days before finally being forced into doing the right thing. 

"Peaceful protest" would not have accomplished that. 

The only reason that cop, who murdered a man on camera, is not going to be back working the streets 6 months from now is because of violent unrest. It's the only language the powers that be understand. 

Colin Kaepernick tried to bring attention and change to this issue "peacefully" and what did he get? Zero change, a bunch of whining from white critics that he "can't do that", and black listed from his profession. 

What did the merchants bringing tea to the colonies do to deserve that?

Riots can -only- claim more lives? You don't think they can achieve anything else? How about ... if they promote changes to a system for the purpose of reducing loss of life?