Lack of family values and moral principles. Some of the victims and their families forgave him, and some of them did not. Pausing Luxury | NY SoHo boutiques boarded up as #COVID19 cases surgeMORE: https://t.co/IxojbpzbvY pic.twitter.com/8YzStWFzyQ, The “Magnificent Mile” in Chicago today. In absence of that, and in the presence of racial violence and discrimination, some people lose faith in democratic institutions. Millions rely on Vox’s explainers to understand an increasingly chaotic world. @DMatamala pic.twitter.com/Ag2SU2iJ2a, San Francisco looks like a town expecting a Hurricane, with storefronts boarded up, and people lining up at stores, while others wander around without any apparent destination or plan, as if propelled by Brownian motion. “They’re gonna keep on killing us, as long as we just sit down and just take it.”, “I just want to say one thing to everybody out there, I don’t give a fuck what you do,” she added. Even when the economy and the news advertising market recovers, your support will be a critical part of sustaining our resource-intensive work, and helping everyone make sense of an increasingly chaotic world. One protesting in the grass, one pressing on the back of a man’s neck. "Basta de estar en casa, no tenemos dinero para pagar, tenemos que comer". Federal officials are now investigating more than 800 arsons and 76 explosive devices used in the “protests.” Meanwhile, Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced major budget cuts for the LAPD, the city’s “thin blue line.”. They were at times even an effective mode of political advocacy prompting biased stories to reflect on biased business practices. “But in a system of government that provides for peaceful change, there is no cause that justifies resort to violence.”. By that night, protesters and demonstrators gathered to express their outrage, and were further agitated as police pepper-sprayed them. Quiz: Can you guess the code names of these U.S. presidents and their first ladies? “Looting is not protesting. America’s government repeatedly fails to provide meaningful avenues for peaceful change.
Democrats can't smear Amy Coney Barrett Elected officials have options for expanding social justice and progress in communities long denied it. But until politicians heed demands to end police brutality, America will continue to struggle with periodic riots and unrest, as it has for generations. Really? Copyright © 2020 The Washington Times, LLC.
Biden’s rebuke of rioters and adulation of peaceful protesters reflects a bipartisan sentiment. It looks like Chile in November. This is one of several scenes of unrest depicted in the University of Massachusetts Amherst historian Traci Parker’s book Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement. ... How dare you! On Sunday, August 23, Jacob Blake was shot in the back by officers as they attempted to arrest him in Kenosha. This looting is having a real-world effect: as half a billion people across the globe could be thrown into poverty and as 43 million Americans are projected to lose their health care coverage, CNBC reports that “America’s billionaires saw their fortunes soar by $434 billion during the U.S. lockdown between mid-March and mid-May.” It’s an ongoing outrage, fostered by the Looting Party’s socialist policies that have destroyed the black family and turned cities into crime zones. Rioting and unrest, while tragic and destructive, remains a historically familiar and rational response to state violence and weak democratic institutions. This is evident not only in the upheaval that stretched from Atlanta to Wisconsin this year, but in the periodic upheaval that has repeated across the last century. Hungry people are desperate people, and desperate people do unpredictable things. And so in a real sense our nation’s summers of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay. It’s hard to escape their false narrative, peddled by CNN, the major networks, every major newspaper and most politicians. Because I’m here to say that, and fuck the police.”. Whoopi Goldberg melts down over Trump tax story: 'I don't understand. pic.twitter.com/XseFzhSuts. Instead, the heroes held up in media are the family members and activists who forgive their attackers or retain faith in the political system. All fancy stores boarded up. Your Own Due Diligence Is Recommended Before Buying Or Selling Any Investments, Securities, Or Precious Metals. One only has to look at the rioting and looting going on right now in America. Overworked, under-staffed, sick and quarantined police, law enforcement and US ‘military’ forces. If looting and rioting have no place in a well-functioning democracy, then perhaps we should pause to consider that these are signs that Americans are not, in fact, in a functioning democracy. This same complex communal response helped fuel the riots in Kenosha last week. No shared sense of community or country. “Riots are an integral part of the country’s march towards progress,” the Fairfax County, Virginia Democratic Party smugly tweeted. But, if you feel that Colin Kaepernick’s taking a knee during the national anthem was ill-advised, you want police to murder black men. “In 2019, police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous,” Heather Mac Donald wrote in The Wall Street Journal.