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Re:US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance... by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:11PM (#23355607)
Agreed in general. In real life it can quickly become quite messy. For example, I have zero issues with HK rioting after all other venues are exhausted. It is difficult for me to argue that HK is magically different from the rest of the world. I do not advocate violence, but I understand the instinct to inflict pain after pain is inflicted upon you. The sooner we understand that, the sooner we can make it a little less bad place to live in.

That said, rioters here seem more like opportunists than protesters..

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Re:US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance... by TallGuyShort on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:14PM (#23355642)
And there's definitely some shady stuff going on with the videos of the person who broke windows at AutoZone.

Unfortunately, I think the police department's handling of this has only encouraged rioting. I would give them the benefit of the doubt if the officer was suspended pending an investigation or review. But he was fired. That's a mountain of paperwork and HR involvement - so they were probably pretty certain they couldn't defend what he did. But they didn't arrest him, which I'm pretty is less of a bureaucratic headache, until after the rioting.

Maybe someone can give a plausible and reasonable explanation for that sequence of events, but from where I'm sitting this just screams "rioting got our attention".

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