Let. The Motherfucker. Burn.

[ancianita]

From Techdirt's Tim Cushing:

...The message is clear: cops are the problem, not the solution. Burn the shit that means something to them -- the stuff that protects them from the people -- and see where we all are at the end of the day.
Let's take the long view. What has this accomplished? Here's a list of riots sparked by police violence against minorities -- one dating back nearly 60 years.

1965: Los Angeles
1967: Newark
1967: Detroit
1968: King assassination
1980: Miami
1992: Los Angeles
2001: Cincinnati
2014: Ferguson
2015: Baltimore
2016: Charlotte

...Cops haven't changed. And they haven't changed despite having every reason to.
Several dozen cop shops are operating under consent decrees with the Department of Justice because they can't be trusted to not violate rights en masse on their own.
The rest are still acting like it's a war zone out there, cladding themselves in cast-off military gear and equipment even as crime rates remain at historic lows.
It's tough to be a cop out there, say cops, even as unimpeachable data says otherwise to a bunch of impeachable cops.

But let's just say you're arguing that riots/protests/looting don't solve anything. Let's look at the data again. Here are the years where nothing happened:

1966
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
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2011
2012
2013
2017
2018
2019
Did not attacking cops help then?
Did leaving retail outlets intact make policing better?
Did a lack of looting force cops to realize their systemic bias was hurting communities?
Did all of this non-action bring us to a better place in terms of our relationship with law enforcement? (Those of you who are not minorities can put your hands down. Thanks.)

Short answer: it did not. The boot stamping on a human face forever is the past, present, and future. This image was personified by Officer Chauvin, who placed his knee on the neck of a human being suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill until he died. And continued to perform this inadvertently symbolic move for nearly another three minutes after that...


Let the motherfucker burn.


https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200601/08223344619/let-motherfucker-burn.shtml?fbclid=IwAR3WCxxBNCGEY9kBtxVBUaQhYC2tjtDaLEgjydb0lJuhhjnZVfETekZEn1w



Atlanta



New York



Chicago

[msongs]

1. link to original source? nt

[ancianita]

2. oof! Coming right up!

[demmiblue]

3. OFFS.

[mr_lebowski]

4. The author makes some good points ... I'll leave it at that (nt)

[ancianita]

6. I was going to ask who you're talking to, Menlo Parque. And that you might want to rethink that.

[MenloParque]

7. Lol

Yeah I skimmed and didn’t realize it was not your original thought but a copy paste job. But yeah that author living in a violence porn fantasy that’s for sure. I mean really this guy is jerking off to the thought of police stations burning?

[MoonlitKnight]

8. The failure of the police to police themselves

Has removed their right to police others.