The one thing I haven't seen is city officials asking the protesters "what will it take to regain peace?"
As long as Detroit police chief and the other police departments across this country let right wing white supremacy fascists militias wander the streets with Loaded military Assault rifles freely!!!
They are just any obstructionist republican fascist supporter!!!
The police only protect the wealthy and their corporations!
Of course this is not one size fits all, sure is close to what is currently going down in this country now!!!
The Right Wing is not the problem, They are not constantly "peacefully" demonstrating.
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." Frederick Douglas
"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” Frederick Douglas
It's amazing how few people understand this, whether we're talking about political power, economic power of the employer, power differentials between genders or the power differentials between domestic partners. They seem to often naively expect the other party to wake up to what they're doing without stimulus. Change rarely comes about except through pain.
Maybe they need to stop sending provocateurs into peaceful protests.
Totally agreed!!!
All the so called riots and fire bombings can be directly linked to these white supremacy fascists militias, sponsored by trump and the obstructionist republican fascists who are directly owned out right by wealthy and their corporations!!!
One of the first things needed is for the powers that be is to see us as the ones they are paid to protect. We are not an enemy waiting for them to find guilty. There are bad apples in the basket, but that doesn't mean the whole harvest needs to be considered rotten.
Agreed, but why would the powers that be suddenly do that when it means they will have to concede power?
Yeah, but if you don't do anything about that "bad apple", it ruins the bunch.
I so sick of that metaphor. If it were true more cops would be tossed into jail based on the testimony of other officers. As long as they back each other up when one commits a crime by lying on reports and lying while testifying in court, there are no GOOD ones, just a bunch of gangs.
Most of the violence has occurred only after the cop thugs start pushing and inciting violence.
The "Law and Order" part.