Violence erupts after officer-involved shooting

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55. I'd say that's entirely your interpretation, my read on that is it qualifies as a strawman

It's pretty clear that this is really more about a triggering event that released emotions related to pent up frustrations, and a sense that lawful approach to myriad problems faced by Milwaukee's black community aren't working.

My personal feeling, about this, and I have thought a lot about this because I actually sleep about a mile and one-half from where last nights violence happened, is that this rioting is the social equivalent of the pychological phenomenon of self-harm.

There's no way to identify and lash out at what is an amorphous constellation of social players and circumstances that perpetuate, and deepen, discrimination and misery for Milwaukee's black population. In that state, lashing out at features of their own neighborhoods is one of the few doable anger releasing reactionas, and so it is done. IMO it's done as a displacement behavior because proper targets can't be identified or reached.

One could argue whether or not there is ever a proper target for civil violence. Certainly the memes of the day are about lawful behavior and the notion that civil violence is never legitimate. But, putting the high ideals of establishment supporting memes aside, I think history and human nature suggest expressions of social violence actually are the way things often get attention.

Attention is surely needed. The larger community of Milwaukee, it's suburbs, and Wisconsin in general, has done a pretty good job of ignoring what BLM is trying to communicate is an increasingly a desperate frustrating struggle to survive and experience fair social relationships within the framework of community structure and function.

Wisconsin didn't get rated as the Worst State and Milwaukee didn't get rated as the Worst major city for blacks to to live in without things being bent far outside of reasonable expectations.

There shouldn't be civil violence, but then Black people should be treated like their lives matter.