Bad Boys II

[HarleyDog]

(05-31-2020, 04:47 PM)Dill Wrote: Good questions, Harley.

If you are referring to a sign held by a protestor, your guess is probably as good as mine.

And here's mine: the signs express the thoughts of angry young people, who think they need to ratchet up the level of civil disobedience/disorder to get authorities to act. Hard to get more specific than that. I'm sure a trial and punishment for the police officers involved would be part of the "justice," but I doubt that is all.  They likely want to see the problem of police violence addressed as a systemic problem.  That means some announced and monitored changes in policy, police training and the like.

They have already had some success, in that now the officers involved have been arrested.

I had to turn it off tbh. It was pissing me off, depressing me, etc. Lot's of emotions, and I had to get some yard work done. I was pretty glued to the TV yesterday but to the best of my knowledge, I didn't know they arrested all the cops on the scene. I think there will be some leniency on the others tho, and I say that only because some may have been rookies and didn't know what to do? Who knows? Only speculation.

I appreciate your POV. I posted in another thread (can't recall which one at the moment) that I think the police need more attention. This thing shouldn't have happened. But I also realize these guys see some crazy stuff on a daily basis and a cop is usually the first on the scene for everything. Rather it be an accident, fire, etc. I don't think we give enough funds to properly make sure these guys are taken care of emotionally. I wouldn't doubt there are several walking around doing their jobs while suffering from PTSD. 

I am not excusing the actions of the office who killed Floyd by any means. I just think we really need to step back and figure out why we are facing what we are today? There is a much bigger discussion to be had than this incident ( I use that word incident uncomfortably because it's more serious than that). As a nation, we have a lot of work to do and IMO it's not going to happen because the violence is overshadowing the topic which should be dealt with first. That's probably not going to happen now because we will focus our attention on how better to prevent or minimize damage in future riots than we will spending on the actual problem at hand. Before we get there, something else will happen and shift focus. When this happens, George Floyd dies until the next time something horrible happens like this. Then it will be rinse and repeat. So sad.