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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point of looting is to show you have power over something when you otherwise feel you do not have power.

It's like kicking the dog when you get home from work after your boss yells at you.  Transference.[/quote]

Fine. But saying, "well the looters feel frustrated" only works in the short-term. What about the future of this neighborhood. People still live there, work there. On a small-business level, who will want to invest in this place. What stable families will want to stay. The violent individuals are doing long-term damage.[/quote]

Totally agree.  The protesters and general community want money to be spent on a community center, rec center, job training... ummm no... all that money that could have been spent on the community is now going to be spent buying new police cars and fixing up the streets.  It's just idiocy to burn things down.  Frankly, I think MB's stepfather should be charged with inciting violence for screaming "burn this bitch down!" over and over.  I don't care how you are "grieving" -- we are trying to have a society here and that means we expect even grieving parents to control themselves.  There is no excuse for that.  None.

Seriously, I need to stop watching CNN b/c Sonny Hoskin and the whole MB-machinery are going to turn this law and order Dem into a Fox News lovin' Repub!  I never thought I'd go down that road, but this whole thing pisses me off.

First they complain that the police are too forceful with the protester (in Aug.) now they are complaining that the police "let Ferguson burn" (implying the police wanted Ferguson to be burned down).  There is just no reasoning with people like this.  I need to disengage from the news.

It's too bad MB instigated his own death.  If you punch a police officer several times, run away and then come back toward him when he's telling you to stop,  --- these are facts -- you are going to end up dead or seriously hurt.

Contrast this with the case of a white man killed by police in Springfield last year... he never touched the police officers and he was shot dead.  That's a case of potential police excessive use of force.  That's a case that has legs.  MB's case? the facts just aren't there.  [/quote]

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