Originally Posted by
Mantra
It was pretty surreal to look out our windows last night and see fires burning all over the place. I've been through protests that got pretty crazy, even been arrested a couple times, but I've never been through anything quite like this. Maybe I'm still just reeling from all this, but it really does feel like something has cracked in our collective spirit here. People have fucking HAD IT. Everyone I've talked to for the last couple days, there's this feeling like we're all at the end of our rope. This is just too much. There needs to be consequences. You can't just break a man's neck and walk away scot free. People are tired of being terrorized. This shit can't keep happening.
And I see these clueless people getting all upset about about the fires and the looting, and it's like, these people just don't fucking get it. There are no "proper channels" or "appropriate venues" left for addressing something like this. At least nothing that actually works, nothing that results in a massive, permanent change. The very fact that these cops are still free is the very proof that this system doesn't work. If we had an actual functioning justice system, none of this would be happening. But you can't spend decades treating a whole community like pure shit and expect there to be no expression of outrage. One way or another, the hurt and the anger has to go somewhere, and when all the "appropriate" ways of pursuing justice are blocked off and rigged and broken, this becomes the only thing left to do.