See too many idiots who think the arrest of this one cop

[edhopper]

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solves the problem.

Not here, but keep seeing people say "Why are they still protesting when the cop has been charged?"

[Pobeka]

1. Media continues to say protests are because of Geoge Floyd murder.

So the priviledged folks don't even get true message of what the protests are about in the 5 second sound byte.

We haven't had anything remotely like good mass media for a long, long time.

Disgusting...

[jaxexpat]

2. My neighbors are comparing personal arsenals.

The curfew in Jacksonville is confusing. Years ago Duval County and Jacksonville combined to be the first US city to create a county-wide government. The whole county is "the city".
The 'powers that be' declared a curfew for the city. So here in the street, 3 guys discussing a neighborhood power outage, the conversation devolved into telling each other what they are prepared to do when/if the rioters came to our little block. After one neighbor explained that he has 3000 rounds of ammo my part of the discussion got silentish. Until I asked him if he could mow his lawn with that ammo. The street meet disbanded. He was seen later that afternoon mowing his lawn using conventional weapons. I think it was a 42" Troy-Bilt.

[LizBeth]

3. Watching all the number or times the cops across the nation are being filmed showing clear racism in

approach to handling a lot of these situations and abusing their power during protests about abuse of power is very eye opening and validation in the reasoning for the protest themselves. It is not this one cop, or four cops but were are seeing across the nation, it is within the police department.

It also seems like some departments have a better handle on it which goes to what I have been saying for over a decade. It starts at the top. Look at Houston, a large city and the way the police chief talks and the difference in their handling the protest comparatively.