Black Lives Matter: Philadelphia Super Bowl Riots Reaction Glaring Example of White Privilege

[jberryhill]

73. And you are missing the point that a unpermitted block party is different from a permitted one

Police weren't going to "break up a mass of humanity" which was assembled pursuant to the city closing the streets specifically for the purpose of holding that assembly.

Yes they did indeed break it up later in the night after the allotted time, and yes they did make arrests of people in that assembly who were out of order. More arrests are likely to follow as well.

You and others here seem to think that these people gathered in these places spontaneously, as in a civil disturbance. That's not what was going on in Philly at all. There were designated places for "masses of humanity" to assemble throughout the town. So OF COURSE police weren't breaking up the crowds.

Police don't break up the crowd in Times Square during New Year's for the simple reason that is WHERE PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE.

The bad behavior that is being posted as somehow representative occurred at places and moments which were difficult to get to, but your point that the "police aren't going to try to break up a mass of humanity" assembled in a place where they were directed to go BY THE POLICE AND THE CITY, is just silly.

Yeah, if a hundred people gather on Broad Street under circumstances where the street has not been closed for that purpose, sure, the police are going to break it up.

But it seems that nobody outside of Philadelphia understands that there were designated party zones throughout the city, which were cordoned off for the purpose of whooping it up generally, and that, naturally, persons of all races and genders got out of control on the fringes of some of them.