Subj : Re: Peaceful Protesting
To : paul lee
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Fri Jan 08 2021 12:57 am
Re: Re: Peaceful Protesting
By: paul lee to Alan Ianson on Thu Jan 07 2021 05:34 pm
AI>> Because today's pro-trump supporters were not protesting peacefully.
PL> Nor were a section of the protesters from this summer.
That's true. The riots over the summer were a real mess (putting it nicely).
The protesters were protesting the killing of black people by police. I don't support the black lives matter movement but I do support the idea that all people regardless of colour should not need to fear interaction with police or be hurt or killed by police without justification.
A lot of folks seem to think BLM is a left wing thing, I reject that. I don't think it all that political at all, I see it as a policing issue that needs to be addressed in police departments where these issues exist, and I hope we can do that before trouble strikes.
The police department in Minneapolis has made many changes since the George Floyd murder and I hope that those changes will be a success for them going forward.
Another misconception is that the left supports defunding police. That is not true. BLM may support that the left doesn't.
I am not against police officers either. I think that most of them get up every day and do their jobs (that can be a real challenge) to the best of their ability. All it takes is the bad behavior on one cop, or one department and things can go downhill real fast as we saw over the summer. I hope that episode is done now and we don't have to return to that again.
Ttyl :-),
Al
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