How can destroying businesses, looting and violence be considered protesting? Protesting and rioting are two different things. Protesting is taking a stand against something, rioting is just pure violence. I can understand the cause but not the actions.
It isn't protesting. It's stealing and violence against businesses who didn't do a thing against you.
Burning cars is ridiculous also. What has that got to do with protesting a shooting?
Causing all this chaos does not make anyone sympathetic to your cause. I just done't understand all the violence and destruction.
That's all they are doing. I heard reports that around %70 were not even from Charlotte.
Wow, there's a lot of willful blindness in the other answers here.
If your kid misbehaves, you maybe give him a verbal warning. If he misbehaves again, do you give him another verbal warning or do you escalate to a timeout or maybe a loss of privileges? Yeah, I thought so.
If a citizen is convicted of a crime, he might receive a relative light or suspended sentence the first time. If he commits another crime, he is likely to get a stronger sentence. And if he commits a crime a 3rd time, some states (such as California) mandate a 25 years-to-life in prison sentence.
So, a cop shoots an unarmed African-American. Other African-Americans peacefully protest, write letters to politicians, etc. Another cop shoots another unarmed African-American. Other African-Americans peacefully protest, write letters to politicians, etc. And yet ANOTHER cop shoots yet ANOTHER unarmed African-American...and people are shocked, SHOCKED that African-Americans are not willing to repeat the same ineffective level of protest they engaged in before.
Note: that does NOT mean I condone their behavior. I UNDERSTAND it, because it is DEAD F***ING SIMPLE to understand if you admit the reality of the situation. But I don't condone it.
If someone has a reasonable suggestion about how to get cops to stop shooting unarmed Nig...er, poor/urban/ethnic people when peaceful protest has clearly been ineffective at mitigating the problem, I'm all ears. But to pretend that you don't understand why an abused population reacts to its abuse with violence is simply nonsense.
Those are thugs for hire. They are bused in and paid. I don't know who is providing them this time because I have 't read a word about it but moveon.org sometimes is the provider of bused in thugs.
not sure but i dont think it solves anything
The latest videos show that Scott did have a gun. Are the police supposed to just let the criminals shoot them? What I don't understand is why these are called protests when they are nothing but riots.
I guess it's because people become fed up with no action being taken by the government when it comes to their cause, so they take action against the government the only way they can which would be by destroying businesses that generate money for the government. I'm not saying I agree with it, but I can understand the actions. I don't understand physical violence towards other people though, but if we're just talking about destroying businesses, etc, then like I say, I can understand that.
Understand != Agree.
A smart protest does not destroy positive image of protestors and instead makes them understood and can show the lack of morality of the other side that they are protesting against. Rioting is of course not a smart protest and I have suspicion that certain groups are lead to riot exactly to destroy their image and to be divisive.The riot shows the ugliness of a group in a way that can not be denied and is effective at making people hate and distrust that group.
"Hey," They may think, "Since too many people are breaking too many laws to enforce, we could just break into Wall Mart and take some of that stuff we've been wanting. Who's with me?"
"Yeah, I'll take that 55" HD television." One says.
"I'd sure would like to give my daughter a microwave." Another chimes in.
"Let's go." The crowd yells in unison. "They can't arrest us all!"
