Americans Riot For Equality

ICE T sums it up for people who don’t understand the looting:

People are saying.. They should protest like this or demonstrate like that… We tried Taking a Knee… A RIOT is a RIOT.. It happens when the people can no longer take the BS..

— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) May 30, 2020

Canada lacks a moral high ground in this struggle, and is getting worse. Check out the Winnipeg Police defending their purchase of a “tank” a few days ago if you want.

It is not radical to ask if your city should be spending less on policing and more on other services. In Toronto, policing is the largest chunk of your property tax bill — and it’s not even close. (Source: this @LaurenPelley breakdown of 2019 figures https://t.co/a1JWNMlcUD) pic.twitter.com/UrVAFOTEDM

— Elamin Abdelmahmoud (@elamin88) May 30, 2020

Here’s Utah police randomly shoving an old man to the ground for being on a sidewalk they wanted to clear faster than he could move.

Salt Lake City cops shove down an elderly man with a cane for the crime of standing along the street: pic.twitter.com/PCLkHqQtJg

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) May 31, 2020

In the past days CNN has been arrested, and MSNBC has been fired upon in Minneapolis.

https://twitter.com/saskboy/status/1266937922176966657

All this not only stems from the unprovoked police killing of George Floyd, but from hundreds of years of racial violence in America that has never ended.

https://twitter.com/saskboy/status/1266934387536392192

We’re drowning in videos of police abuse: cops cars running over protestors, an officer shoving a petite woman so hard she had a seizure, cops shooting rubber bullets at reporters on live TV.

It’s clear who is escalating violence.

— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) May 31, 2020