In places where things have calmed down, scenes like this are playing out:
"The protestors and the rioters are two different groups of people." 1:08
I believe her. The protesters here a few weeks ago after Sean Reed was killed were mostly peaceful--in any case, they weren't destroying property. Over the past few days, I've seen several videos of black people telling white people to stop tearing up their neighborhoods. What is it with overpriveleged white youth and vandalism? In the upper-middle-class neighborhood where I grew up, my car was vandalized several times. In the fairly seedy part of Denver where I used to live, it was egged once or twice. It's never happened here in Indianapolis--but maybe it's because I never park on the street. Cars get broken into quite a bit if there's anything in them worth taking, but I hardly ever hear about one being vandalised.
In any case, with the troublemakers out of the way, the protesters and police came face to face without the other set of troublemakers: demagogues and social media. They are communicating and even finding some common ground. If the plan was to start a civil war, it's starting to look like it backfired.
"The protestors and the rioters are two different groups of people." 1:08
I believe her. The protesters here a few weeks ago after Sean Reed was killed were mostly peaceful--in any case, they weren't destroying property. Over the past few days, I've seen several videos of black people telling white people to stop tearing up their neighborhoods. What is it with overpriveleged white youth and vandalism? In the upper-middle-class neighborhood where I grew up, my car was vandalized several times. In the fairly seedy part of Denver where I used to live, it was egged once or twice. It's never happened here in Indianapolis--but maybe it's because I never park on the street. Cars get broken into quite a bit if there's anything in them worth taking, but I hardly ever hear about one being vandalised.
In any case, with the troublemakers out of the way, the protesters and police came face to face without the other set of troublemakers: demagogues and social media. They are communicating and even finding some common ground. If the plan was to start a civil war, it's starting to look like it backfired.
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