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Re:US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance... by ikeyany on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:24PM (#23356271)
The rule of law must be preserved when it comes to property damage, but it must also be preserved when it comes to murdering black men.

In addition, saying that people are rioting because of only one isolated incident is not true and reductionist. There is a history of law enforcement treating black people's lives as unimportant.

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Re:US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance... by TallGuyShort on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:28PM (#23356306)
Yeah just to be clear I completely agree with both of those points. But that's only adding even more reasons why it's completely unacceptable for the riot response here to be anything but completely law-abiding. The police already have no moral high ground here IMO.
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Re:US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance... by ikeyany on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:57PM (#23356573)
Why would you expect people to protest peacefully anymore? This was tried for years. Remember Colin Kapernick and kneeling?
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Re:US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance... by TallGuyShort on Friday May 29, 2020 @07:10PM (#23356666)
I'm not sure what part of my post you're responding to, but I don't expect people to protest peacefully anymore. I fully support Kapernick and think criticism of him was ignorant and wrong.

Maybe "riot response" is an ambiguous term, but I'm saying the response to the riot has to be completely legal, responding to a parent poster who was saying that it's okay for police the break the law in their response, which I strongly disagree with.

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