so glad i don't live near rioting assholes. the situations fucked but how does terrorizing the city accomplish anything.
Its easy to judge from a distance. I don't like the idea of riots, but I have studied it close enough to know exactly who is to blame for every major riot in California history: the police.
Watts 65- Caused by a reaction to police misconduct
LA 92- Caused by a reaction to police misconduct, and the subsequent approval of such actions by the justice system
Oakland 09- Caused by a reaction to police misconduct, and the lack of any response by the justice system to take him into custody
now
Oakland 10- Caused by a reaction to poliice misconduct, and subsequent approval by the justice system again.
Every single one started as a result of police misconduct. People go crazy when they feel that the people that are supposed to be maintaining law and order don't. I've stopped judging the people who lose their mind knowing that a cop could kill them anytime and get away with it, and started judging our unjust system. The people in these riots are responding exactly as Thomas Locke predicted people would once the social contract was broken, and in all of these cases, the social contract was broken. This is common and predictable human response to injustice.
So instead of blaming the repo man, I blame the bastards who refused to keep up their side of the deal.
You know who is to blame for the riots?
Johannes Mehserle (supposedly there to keep the peace, has murdered a man in cold blood and now caused 2 riots)
And The Justice system- which does not do justice for the poor or people of color, and protects those with power
Why do you think they were so damn predictable? They oppress and oppress and oppress and it gets approved by society. Eventually shit explodes. Unfortunately it doesn't always go to the right places, but all in all, blaming people for riots that anybody could have predicted and most predicted would be bigger is a bit odd, since we all know what the catalyst was, and it wasn't some sort of lack of morals that assholes like faster! probably would claim, why is everybody so quick to jump on the people of Oakland? Why not blame the justice system, who was willing to sacrifice an entire city to cover up the misdeeds of one scumbag cop?
You gotta realize, riots aren't necessarily planned out political actions, most are simply explosions of uncontrollable anger by an entire community, and to be surprised at this is blaming the wrong people.
What the fuck did that judge expect to happen?
What the fuck did that jury expect to happen?
What the fuck did that PIG Mehserle expect to happen?
The fault of all of this is on Johannes Mehserle and the judge and jury in the court case. Anybody would have predicted this, and I don't think it was good. It was an example of the justice system caring more about the cops than the community they supposedly protect.