Joe speaks out

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(06-06-2020, 04:56 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Those officers were enablers of murder just the same as the so called peaceful protesters who stand by and enable the violence to
happen and march with the Antifa shits. And...

They wanted Liberty.

There's ample evidence of protesters stopping looters/vandals.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchPeopleDieInside/comments/guvlgu/streamer_tells_protesters_to_flip_truck_then/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwidobZU1oY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Al_OCpYFk
https://www.foxla.com/video/690357
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8375121/Protesters-LA-NY-Washington-DC-stop-looters-raiding-stores.html

Meanwhile, 57 police officers resigned from their post on the emergency response team (the team that principally responds to riots and to "protect" peaceful protests) in protest when 2 police officers were suspended (and subsequently charged) for assaulting a peaceful protester on camera.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/05/buffalo-new-york-police-officers-suspended-shoving-man-ground/3153626001/

The vast majority of protesters (and supporters of protesters) condemn the rioting and looting but acknowledge that it is an inevitable consequence of the oppression of the voiceless.

It's like what Martin Luther King Jr. said:

Quote:Let me say as I've always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. I'm still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and justice. I feel that violence will only create more social problems than they will solve. That in a real sense it is impracticable for the Negro to even think of mounting a violent revolution in the United States. So I will continue to condemn riots, and continue to say to my brothers and sisters that this is not the way. And continue to affirm that there is another way.

But at the same time, it is as necessary for me to be as vigorous in condemning the conditions which cause persons to feel that they must engage in riotous activities as it is for me to condemn riots. I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation's summers of riots are caused by our nation's winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention.

The people who don't like the rioters will often only quote the first paragraph, FWIW.

Ignoring the peaceful protests creates the violent protests, which in turn makes the peaceful protests look much more reasonable by comparison. It's a cycle that has repeated over the course of human history. Hopefully, we break that cycle the next time peaceful protests occur in the future and just listen, rather than condemn.