I guess the purpose of the protests downtown is to bring attention to corrupt police activity? I could get behind that, but what we see is angry anti-establishment types just trying to start shit. There is no way any of those white kids gets up in the morning mad at the situation or upset about what happened down in Minneapolis, enjoy a hearty breakfast, drive in that bad traffic, look for a parking spot, pay $20 for the day, oh, looked for a nice piece of cardboard to write something profound like "Cops Suck" before, then walking into the mayhem only to get shot at with a rubber bullet or get maced with pepper spray.
Wife and I have been watching the mayhem since last night and all we see is assholes trying to destroy the city they claim to love. Why if the protests are supposedly about coming together and having the police force understand that black lives matter, then do we see over and over masses of people breaking into high end stores to loot, people targeting cop cars with Molotov cocktails to burn them. If you assholes paid taxes, you would realize that the cop cars you are burning will just get replaced with new cars us taxpayers are going to buy.
I honestly feel bad for George Floyd, the way the police officers crushed him to death is scary and no one should die this way, but what was he doing prior to getting manhandled? Was he out helping at his local church, or volunteering at the local library, maybe helping a little old lady cross the street? Nope, he was possibly using fake bills to buy cigarettes. Then hanging out in his car with his buddies. People always seem surprised by this, but I don't have time to sit and hang with buddies, the only people who do, to me, are troublemakers. When the cops come around, listen and do as they say. They might be dicks, but if you listen you'll probably survive. Can't guarantee that if you decide to know more than the arresting cop.
Same idea with this Ramos dude in Austin. I am not saying he did anything wrong and probably didn't deserve to die like he did, but when the cops show up 3 cars strong, stop with the attitude. Mamas, start teaching your kids to say yes sir and no sir to officers and others they should respect. I've seen too many videos where people start conversations with cops by cussing at them and throwing shit in their direction, what do you expect from the cops? They are going to back away cause you're super tough and have attitude to spare? No, never, the cop will have to win and now it's ego vs ego. Why did he attempt to take off? People who are innocent don't do that. I fully support the cops having to get tougher when people aren't listening. Are we going to let random civilians win in 1 to 1 arguments with cops? Should we start teaching cops to apologize to sketchy looking dudes to keep the peace with society?
I am sorry both of these dudes died at the hands of cops, but cops are taught to escalate force. Ramos was shot with rubber bullets first, I know that would get my attention and I would drop to the ground and make a beautiful starfish pattern. I wouldn't take off and challenge the cops to shoot me some more. It is really hard to see what led to Floyd landing on the ground, but once they sit you in the back of the cop car, the cops are pretty much done with you. The wouldn't put you in the car to drag you out the other end and continue kicking the shit out of you, he made himself get out the other side. He was already handcuffed, makes no sense the cops would have done that, it takes a lot of energy to load a dude in a car then unload him out the other side.
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