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No. Continuing to push looting as THE big issue here is the sign of a racist. How many posts have you made about the arson vs. the injustice of the police not being arrested yet?

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[b]The focus definitely needs to go back to the injustice tbat was done by the police.[/b]  The problem is that it's hard for people to support the actions of some of the rioters now that they started looting.  If they are serious about getting support from these rallies, then they really need to stop breaking things and looting stores.  I get that these may have insurance but a lot of people will become conflicted now because supporting the rally would seem to support these actions as well.  I understand that not everyone is doing it, but the small percentage of people who do are ruining it for everyone.  Maybe they just went TV here in the first place to take advantage of the situation, idk, and no, just because they are angry doesn't mean they should go around trashing and looting.  They point of the rally should be to draw attention to the injustices.[/quote]

Focus on the actual issue....the extensive racism and the dirty cops who think they are untouchable.

As I posted earlier:

[i][b]The fact that these officers were being filmed by bystanders and still continued to engage in that conduct shows you everything about the culture of the Minneapolis Police Department,” said Michelle Gross, the president of Communities United Against Police Brutality. “They feel they’re immune to any kind of accountability. They feel they can get away with it.” [/b]

While politicians and activists in Minneapolis embrace the language of racial justice, some critics say they often fail to put those words into action.

There have been some hard-won police reforms, including a change to the use-of-force manual requiring that officers intervene when they see colleagues using excessive force.

One of the biggest challenges to reforming the department, analysts say, is the city’s powerful police union. It established its power in local politics in the 1970s, when Charles A. Stenvig, a former head of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, served three terms as mayor on a “law and order” platform.

Lt. Bob Kroll, the head of the union, was accused in Chief Arradondo’s lawsuit of calling a black congressman who was Muslim a “terrorist” and of wearing a motorcycle jacket with a badge that said “white power.” Lieutenant Kroll did not respond to messages seeking comment. [/i]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/minneapolis-police.html

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