benjipwns
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So you can't understand why someone might steal or burn down a building? You can be scum and your actions still be understandable.
Ferguson: Police Kill 18yo Black Male; Fire Gas/Rubber Bullets Into Protesting Crowds
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That always happens during riots. People go crazy and don't realize they are hurting their own community. They burn down the stores and places where their own neighbors work at, they steal from their neighbors, and in the end their neighbors leave further destroying their own community.
Not at all. The people running that gas station had nothing to do with the incident.
Fnord
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And the business owners are responsible for this in what capacity? The employees of these businesses are responsible in what capacity? Or are you saying it's perfectly okay to riot and loot completely innocent and uninvolved businesses and/or homes because you have a beef with the police?
his baby need some shoes his aunty needs a purse! Winter coming real soon, so he need a fur!
DAMN
It's a good thing they can resort to looting. That stolen 18 pack will show them we won't stand for this shit any longer. Same goes for these new clothes and that iPod from the burning Radioshack down the street.
Velcro Fly
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I think it's clear that the people protesting/rallying and the people who are looting/rioting are two different groups.
CountAntonius
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FeenixRising
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Velcro Fly
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This is what it's all about. Justice and making sure something like this never happens again. Rioting and looting isn't going to accomplish any of that.
Gordon Shumway
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lol..yeah, I hear you.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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your avatar should be pointing up
People looting don't care about the dead kid or the situation in general, they just want some free shit while there's confusion. Rioting isn't exactly a useful thing to do either, put this is pent-up frustration at a system that views people as walking corpses.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Definitely. Peaceful protest earlier:
And then somehow that metamorphosed into this:
I've only recently been following this whole riot situation but if theres any good to come out of it it's that this image isn't lost in the end.
Shamrock7r
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Absolutely, but unfortunately I can see the media completely twisting it into being one in the same.
benjipwns
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That will just give them more time to steal people's stuff or kidnap them for voluntary transactions. They don't even get paid vacations for those crimes.
kame-sennin
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Yes Virginia, riots can solve problems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot
Not to mention all the labor movement related riots. Without rioting, you folks would still be working twelve hour days.
Many governments and political systems have fallen after riots, including:
Tsarist Russia
The Confederate States of America, for example after the Southern Bread Riots
Ancien Régime
British rule in India, when bread and salt riots hastened the withdrawal in 1947
Governments across the Middle East and North Africa during the Arab Spring
Tsarist Russia
The Confederate States of America, for example after the Southern Bread Riots
Ancien Régime
British rule in India, when bread and salt riots hastened the withdrawal in 1947
Governments across the Middle East and North Africa during the Arab Spring
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot
Not to mention all the labor movement related riots. Without rioting, you folks would still be working twelve hour days.
link to the feed?
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Couldn't have said it better.
The start of the looting made me think of this bit of 90s cinema.
http://postimage.org/
Velcro Fly
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I thought the same thing. I don't know whether to think less of myself for that or not. It honestly wouldn't have shocked me =/
CountAntonius
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Whats more likely to happen is the media stops talking about the unarmed 17 year old killed by the police and starts showing vine footage of people looting and destroying property instead.
I don't think this situation is comparable. These people are rioting for purely selfish material reasons. It's despicable.
Oh for sure. If I know the STL Fox team well enough, everyone who participated, hell maybe even blacks in general, will be targeted as rioters.
vas_a_morir
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I heard a guy on the news who said a guy who said "i'm a teacher; I'm here to support your cause' got jumped at the protest. Is this the same guy?
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Some white kids from my neighborhood drove up to LA to loot during the Rodney King riots. They didn't see Brad from Sublime, though.
The problem is that in modern America there is no ideological escape from liberalism, so rioting turns away from political objectives with clear programs and goals into crass materialism since money/trinkets are the only things that matter, the things which define life. Ties right into alienation from production etc... (edit: which as a sidenote always makes me sigh when people go "But what about the businesses? They're harming the community!!" Well yes but at the same time that's missing the point of why people have no economic power and thus desire material items and decide to go loot them when they get the chance).
Violence is useful when put towards progressive ends. This is just sound and fury and opportunism, but it is still important to recognize the causes (not just police brutality and racism but the capitalist system which underlies it all and causes people to have such goals).
tkscz
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Damn it, it's the Timothy Thomas riots all over again.
Link for those who don't know what that is.
Those riots didn't do shit then and they won't do shit now. What makes this worse however is that it started out peacefully. They were being defended by the whole internet about how peaceful this was. Then this shit. I just can't guys, not again.
Link for those who don't know what that is.
Those riots didn't do shit then and they won't do shit now. What makes this worse however is that it started out peacefully. They were being defended by the whole internet about how peaceful this was. Then this shit. I just can't guys, not again.
I'm pretty sure this just takes all media sympathy from the community and gives it to the police that have to try and patrol those areas everyday.
Clockwork5
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That is the true tragedy of the looting (in addition to those who may be harmed).
Many will not be able to separate the peaceful protest from the criminal looters. And the child killing cop will become an afterthought... Its sad.
Some of the smaller towns still use older Ford Crown Victorias. Buy them from the bigger cities when they upgrade.
Clockwork5
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That depends greatly city to city. Anywhere from brand new to about 10 years old.
Velcro Fly
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i heard someone say the home depot parking lot was like the old west earlier
Holy shit!
benjipwns
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Working hours and conditions and representation aren't selfish material reasons?
Years range all over the US. It all depends on the budget of the police department, the condition of the cars, and local laws ruling safety for emergency vehicles.
For example, in big cities, cars get replaced every 3 to 5 years but depending on the unit they may keep their cars for decades. I know that our swat had a police wagon from 1985 until the year 2011 because they hardly ever used it.
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