Comments by "dbergerac" (@dbergerac9632) on "Must watch: Woman gives powerful speech to looters on streets of NYC" video.
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We have a long and rich history of protesting injustices. A protest is empty if it lacks a goal. ALL Americans were outraged when we saw the Rodney King beating. White Americans were denied their right to protest that brutality, the right to speak up and to march in protest in safety because of our race. All Americans know that George Floyd was a victim, arrests have been made and trials will be done. It is discouraging that protests are sometimes necessary to speed the engine of Justice, but they did. If the protests now are demanding that juries only do guilty pleas, then we no longer need courts, just lynch mobs. I would think that minorities in America would be the first to reject the idea that mobs and their small violent elements should hold justice hostage to their will. Fear of angry mobs were the cause of many acts of injustice in the courts against African Americans in the past. Where we see injustice, we have a duty to protest. We all should be free to protest without fear of the police or of other protesters. Large protests are a magnet for political radicals who use the mass protesters pull the police away from nice targets for their criminal or political gain. We have all seen real protesters risk themselves to prevent the criminals that follow in their wake and they are American heroes who refused to allow their voices to be hijacked by criminals. The police need to police their own and remember that they are us. We all saw the white faces in these protests, there because police brutality by bad cops is NOT usually racist, it is usually just unfit, evil men with a little power who would abuse any of us, knowing that their brothers in blue will cover for them. As for the peaceful protesters addressing their just grievance, we who were not there still stand with you in our hearts, and votes and ask that when you take over the streets, you GOVERN those streets justly and drive out the criminal parasites that diminish YOUR cause. When these abuses happen you have MILLIONS of allies in that day, and then because a handful of opportunists destroy, assault, and burn, day after day, some of those millions become deaf to you. Please do not allow professional protesters, thieves, and anarchists to hijack your hard work and undercut your massive support, as has happened time and again.
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