I've seen several excuses offered as a way to try to life the responsibility that is currently the centered in the Corcoran neighborhood in MPLS, but which extends as far away as N MPLS. This carnage includes, but isn't limited to, recreation of a food desert after years of trying to correct that imbalance, destruction of @400 units of affordable housing in a city that has a massive deficit of affordable housing, the removal of public transit which many depend on, the removal of virtually all drug stores, denying the sick access to prescription, and finally the destruction of a large number of small businesses owned by POC. I'd like to list those here than look into them all later.
1. The "Bricks and mortar isn't as valuable as one human life" defense.
2. The "Well, white people in MI protested because they didn't want to wear masks." defense.
3. The "Riot is the language of the unheard" defense.
4. The "Jesus overturned the tables in the Temple." defense.
5. The "75,000 agitators are coming from out of state to disrupt the peaceful protests" defense and the corollary, the "Don't believe the video you see of "black folks" rioting, looting, and damaging things, it's really white supremacists." defense.
6. The Boston Tea Party defense.
I'm sure there are some others, but for now these are the ones that predominate.
I may also take on the "The police exist to protect our lives and property and to prevent things fallacy."
I'm not going to allow comments on this, I will on the individual posts.
