Joe speaks out

[BonnieBengal]

(06-02-2020, 09:40 AM)Hoofhearted Wrote: Sorry Bonnie, not trying to be rude, just having a conversation. He died protecting American lives and what America represents. I am sorry for your loss. I am prior military as well and have seen a couple of my brothers die in front of me while serving operation Iraqi freedom on the Theodore Roosevelt. One was thrown off the side of the ship from a plane, and one I seen his head crushed by a wave hitting the side of the ship. But you have to ask yourself why are they rioting, looting and destroying businesses? Is there something we are not listening, seeing or observing? Is there something that we as a society can do to listen and learn from what they are saying? Because I am more upset at the police brutality than the rioting and looting, because if we can stop having police brutality, this rioting doesn't happen.

I'm sorry for your losses too.  However, when the riots include attacking, injuring, and even killing police officers, how do you justify that?  Now a retired African American Police Captain, David Dorn, has been murdered in cold blood during these riots.  Is he not as important as George Floyd? Where's the media outrage?  The crazy thing is, the majority agreed, Republican, Democrat, and Independent,  this was excessive force in the George Floyd case. The vast majority, including me, agreed the police officer Chauvin should be tried and convicted in a court of law.  I agree with peaceful protests, but what justice is it when the protesters against the murder of a black man start murdering black men? I strongly believe that Antifa is the group committing the majority of the violence for their own purposes, and they don't give a rat's ass about George Floyd or anything besides their own agenda.