June 2020 Blues Issue Vol 36 No 6
June 2020 Blues Issue Vol 36 No 6
June 2020 Blues Issue Vol 36 No 6
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in sight. If you’re involved in the<br />
violence, you are a thug, and you<br />
a threat and no longer attempting are no better than the guy you are<br />
to resist or escape, you suspend protesting against. Do you think<br />
all means of subduing the suspect. by burning down your neighbor’s<br />
But the fact the officer clearly saw business that somehow the DA or a<br />
someone filming him (he appeared Grand Jury is going to indict these<br />
to look straight at the camera) and officers any quicker? NO!<br />
yet continued to keep Floyd pinned Over and over again, before the<br />
to the ground, shows that he obviously<br />
didn’t give a damn.<br />
out, stores are looted and burnt,<br />
facts are even known, rioting breaks<br />
Having been in dozens of fights and truly innocent people are hurt.<br />
myself, sometimes all alone, the Once the truth is learned, no one<br />
mindset is subduing the other guy cares who rebuilds the cleaners,<br />
by any means necessary or risk serious<br />
injury or death to yourself. Me, or the appliance store owned by 3<br />
the liquor store, the corner market<br />
I’m going home to my family after generations of hard-working people?<br />
NO ONE. It’s all BULLSHIT. I can’t<br />
shift and nothing, I repeat nothing is<br />
going to change that mentality. say that enough.<br />
But in MY opinion, Chauvin had no And don’t make this out to a race<br />
reason to keep Floyd pinned to the thing. I don’t give a crap what color<br />
ground and could have simply put you are. You are a criminal if you<br />
him the patrol car that was parked terrorize a community, steal TVs<br />
less than a foot away. Within days, from a Target store and then burn<br />
Chauvin was charged with second-degree<br />
murder, but not be-<br />
And here’s the real kicker. After<br />
down a police station.<br />
fore the entire country erupted in this is over and the community is<br />
protests that in some cases turned back to its “normal self” and Jo<br />
violent and into full scale riots. Blow’s girlfriend calls the PO-LICE<br />
Make no mistake, everyone has because he just beat the crap out<br />
the right to free speech and to have of her for bedding down with his<br />
their concerns heard. If you want bro. The same PO-LICE they were<br />
to protest, do it peacefully and the protesting about. The same PO-LICE<br />
cops will walk along with you. But from the same PO-LICE station they<br />
when you start throwing bottles at burnt down. <strong>No</strong>w they want the<br />
the cops, burn their cars, vandalize PO-LICE’s help. You just want to<br />
businesses and loot Target stores, say F-YOU. Solve your own damn<br />
you are THUGS and you are disrespecting<br />
the memory of George But we’re the POLICE and we<br />
problems.<br />
Floyd.<br />
always show up, because it’s only<br />
What I think is BULLSHIT, is the a small fraction of the population<br />
people that come out of the woodwork<br />
every time someone dies at thing like this happens. In fact, I’d be<br />
that act like fools every time some-<br />
the hands of police. I’m not talking willing to bet that 80% of the looters<br />
aren’t even from the cities they<br />
about the concerned citizens holding<br />
peaceful protests. The public are destroying. I say find every damn<br />
has a right to protest and show one of them and lock them up with<br />
their anger, but they don’t have Officer’s Chauvin, Tou Thao, Thomas<br />
the right to burn down everything Lane and J Alexander Kueng.<br />
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