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[quote=Anonymous]I've made several valid points and brought up several relevant perspectives in the hopes of furthering discussion but to no avail so I'm out too.

But before I go let me say this...

Yes rioting and looting and destroying property does immeasurable damage to communities, but so does falsifying accounts and arrests and planting evidence and trumping charges and profiling citizens.

Communities are just as damaged when innocent people are arrested and jailed and in extreme cases killed.  Communities are just as damaged when police perpetuate toxic environments and relationships with the communities they serve by undervaluing the concerns of law-abiding citizens who are in the majority and over-emphasizing their focus on the criminality of a much smaller segment.

Not a perfect analogy but consider...
If you have a classroom of 30 kids and 28 of them have their hands raised in response to a question the teacher presented but two students are giggling in the back is it important to stop them from disrupting the rest of the class, yes!  But it shouldn't shift the teacher's entire focus away from those other 28 students who aren't acting up.  The teacher still has a duty as defined by their profession to dedicate themselves towards the majority who need that teacher's instruction.

Again, not a perfect analogy but you get the point.  You have an overwhelming segment of citizens who aren't in jail or under suspicion of any crime expressing their concerns about police as it relates to racial profiling, misuse of force, and police misconduct but those concerns are by and large ignored in favor of focusing on ramping up police sweeps on citizens and pulling over motorists who "look" suspicious and escalating conflicts with citizens if they fail to conform immediately - the very opposite actions of what the majority is calling for an end to.

As the once despised but now revered Dr. King once said, "A riot is the language of the unheard."[/quote]

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