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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The looting is really damaging the cause. You can tell your kids all kinds of enlightened things, but what they see on the nightly news is young African American males violently shattering glass & stealing. The looting needs to end.

Do you show them the young white males breaking windows and stealing, too? Because I've seen plenty of that on the news and on my FB/Twitter feed, all over the country. When you see that, do you think less of white people?

I suppose racists will find what they are looking for, though.

The curfew doesn't stop looting. Police can still arrest looters. Maybe if they aren't busy harassing peaceful protesters, they'll have more personnel to maintain order in shopping areas.

Here's video of the Friendship Heights CVS looting:
https://wjla.com/news/local/video-friendship-heights-cvs-robbed-looted-during-protests

Not a lot of white people there.

Yep, just like previous riots. Anyone who is over 40 isn't suprised by any of this. Everyone I know feels horribly for George Floyd, but the empathy pretty much stops there. This could have been a great cause.

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What an angry thread. Did you board your windows, OP? If so, you should be fine.

Um, they are just prying the boards off with tools. Duh. We are in a state of total lawless anarchy.

So, in the midst of "a state of total lawless anarchy" -- you've found time to prioritize posting on DCUM? Wow.

Anonymous wrote:Business owner here also. I'm pissed. The "but just use insurance" is not an answer. Your business is shut down for days or weeks doing repairs and replacing what was looted, and then your insurance premiums go up. How is this fair?

I'm all for protesting, as long as it's peaceful. Why is looting OK?

Exactly No One anywhere has said that "looting" is okay. But you know that already, right?

Anonymous wrote:So if police have the resources to deploy hundreds of officers in riot gear to push protesters out of Lafayette Square or kettle them on downtown streets, why can't they deploy those officers to line up in front of all the businesses that are prone to looting?

So the same police officers who are being called names, threatened, etc should now suddenly go and protect property? I thought the movement is calling for the abolishment of police.. or only when it suits them?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The looting is really damaging the cause. You can tell your kids all kinds of enlightened things, but what they see on the nightly news is young African American males violently shattering glass & stealing. The looting needs to end.

For hours of film. During daylight too.

But you and your kids have SO MANY Black friends and surely they aren't looting and rioting so why wouldn't you and your kids be able to avoid generalizations seeing how you're so close with SO MANY upstanding Black people?

Can you avoid generalizations like all whites are racist?

I can indeed and I don’t make such sweeping generalizations, not in private conversations and not even behind the safe guise of anonymity on any social media platforms.
So why are y’all drawing such ridiculous conclusions?
Why are y’all so prone to misperception and so susceptible to stereotyping others?
Every white person always says they got at least a dozen or more close Black friends who they talk to all the time. Why do you call or text them, or send a Facebook message, whatever, and say, “Hey, are you out there looting?”
Odds are these great Black friends of yours who share the same values and ethics will assure you they aren’t and they denounce such activities... Wouldn’t that serve as a clear indication that it’s not ALL Black people who are causing damage?

There WAS a curfew on Sunday - 11pm. Did not work to calm things down. The last two nights have been better with a 7pm curfew, but that is really too early and hurts restaurants and cuts protests too early.

Couldn’t Bowser try a 9pm curfew? Why do early or so Late?

Anonymous wrote:The looting is really damaging the cause. You can tell your kids all kinds of enlightened things, but what they see on the nightly news is young African American males violently shattering glass & stealing. The looting needs to end.

Maybe you should re-consider your news sources? Because I see plenty of footage showing white people shattering those windows.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The looting is really damaging the cause. You can tell your kids all kinds of enlightened things, but what they see on the nightly news is young African American males violently shattering glass & stealing. The looting needs to end.

Do you show them the young white males breaking windows and stealing, too? Because I've seen plenty of that on the news and on my FB/Twitter feed, all over the country. When you see that, do you think less of white people?

I suppose racists will find what they are looking for, though.

The curfew doesn't stop looting. Police can still arrest looters. Maybe if they aren't busy harassing peaceful protesters, they'll have more personnel to maintain order in shopping areas.

Here's video of the Friendship Heights CVS looting:
https://wjla.com/news/local/video-friendship-heights-cvs-robbed-looted-during-protests

Not a lot of white people there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The looting is really damaging the cause. You can tell your kids all kinds of enlightened things, but what they see on the nightly news is young African American males violently shattering glass & stealing. The looting needs to end.

For hours of film. During daylight too.

But you and your kids have SO MANY Black friends and surely they aren't looting and rioting so why wouldn't you and your kids be able to avoid generalizations seeing how you're so close with SO MANY upstanding Black people?

Can you avoid generalizations like all whites are racist?

Anonymous wrote:There's not much looting. The people starting threads about it aren't really store owners, or concerned citizens.

And you know this because....?

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Anonymous wrote:So we should just continue to have cops murder black men because some people might loot during a protest?

The police kill more whites than blacks every year.... but we never see anyone -- including blacks -- protesting about it.

OMG right! White people are sooo oppressed!

I have NO freedoms anymore. Y'all took away my freedom to own slaves. So RUDE! I am so oppressed!

From one black person to another: grow the f**k up. Stop whining and moaning and complaining. Stop taking the bait. Use that voice and mind of yours to take advantage of this time and work to build something new. We've all been hurt. We've all been hurting. Now is the time to blaze a path forward instead of wasting time making stupid comments. You're better than that.

So if police have the resources to deploy hundreds of officers in riot gear to push protesters out of Lafayette Square or kettle them on downtown streets, why can't they deploy those officers to line up in front of all the businesses that are prone to looting?

There's not much looting. The people starting threads about it aren't really store owners, or concerned citizens.

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Anonymous wrote:The looting is really damaging the cause. You can tell your kids all kinds of enlightened things, but what they see on the nightly news is young African American males violently shattering glass & stealing. The looting needs to end.

For hours of film. During daylight too.

But you and your kids have SO MANY Black friends and surely they aren't looting and rioting so why wouldn't you and your kids be able to avoid generalizations seeing how you're so close with SO MANY upstanding Black people?

Anonymous wrote:For business they must have riot insurance. For homeowners you are not covered if you house is on fire due to arson-riot. You will need to add this rider so is lotter burn down you home or damage it and break windows you have mo coverage.

Generally civil unrest is not covered by insurance. Insurance companies cannot afford to take the hit so policies are written to exclude civil unrest.