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in sight. If you’re involved in the
violence, you are a thug, and you
a threat and no longer attempting are no better than the guy you are
to resist or escape, you suspend protesting against. Do you think
all means of subduing the suspect. by burning down your neighbor’s
But the fact the officer clearly saw business that somehow the DA or a
someone filming him (he appeared Grand Jury is going to indict these
to look straight at the camera) and officers any quicker? NO!
yet continued to keep Floyd pinned Over and over again, before the
to the ground, shows that he obviously
didn’t give a damn.
out, stores are looted and burnt,
facts are even known, rioting breaks
Having been in dozens of fights and truly innocent people are hurt.
myself, sometimes all alone, the Once the truth is learned, no one
mindset is subduing the other guy cares who rebuilds the cleaners,
by any means necessary or risk serious
injury or death to yourself. Me, or the appliance store owned by 3
the liquor store, the corner market
I’m going home to my family after generations of hard-working people?
NO ONE. It’s all BULLSHIT. I can’t
shift and nothing, I repeat nothing is
going to change that mentality. say that enough.
But in MY opinion, Chauvin had no And don’t make this out to a race
reason to keep Floyd pinned to the thing. I don’t give a crap what color
ground and could have simply put you are. You are a criminal if you
him the patrol car that was parked terrorize a community, steal TVs
less than a foot away. Within days, from a Target store and then burn
Chauvin was charged with second-degree
murder, but not be-
And here’s the real kicker. After
down a police station.
fore the entire country erupted in this is over and the community is
protests that in some cases turned back to its “normal self” and Jo
violent and into full scale riots. Blow’s girlfriend calls the PO-LICE
Make no mistake, everyone has because he just beat the crap out
the right to free speech and to have of her for bedding down with his
their concerns heard. If you want bro. The same PO-LICE they were
to protest, do it peacefully and the protesting about. The same PO-LICE
cops will walk along with you. But from the same PO-LICE station they
when you start throwing bottles at burnt down. Now they want the
the cops, burn their cars, vandalize PO-LICE’s help. You just want to
businesses and loot Target stores, say F-YOU. Solve your own damn
you are THUGS and you are disrespecting
the memory of George But we’re the POLICE and we
problems.
Floyd.
always show up, because it’s only
What I think is BULLSHIT, is the a small fraction of the population
people that come out of the woodwork
every time someone dies at thing like this happens. In fact, I’d be
that act like fools every time some-
the hands of police. I’m not talking willing to bet that 80% of the looters
aren’t even from the cities they
about the concerned citizens holding
peaceful protests. The public are destroying. I say find every damn
has a right to protest and show one of them and lock them up with
their anger, but they don’t have Officer’s Chauvin, Tou Thao, Thomas
the right to burn down everything Lane and J Alexander Kueng.
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