Don M.
SF VIP
- Location
- central Missouri
As could be almost expected, Minneapolis is experiencing riots and looting in the aftermath of this police related death a couple of days ago. It's bad enough that the police have to be involved in such an incident, but the Idiot people who engage in this criminal activity as their warped idea of "protest", will only make things much worse for the residents of that area.
This is quite the same as what happened in Ferguson, MO., a few years ago, when a similar situation led to days of rioting, burning and looting. We were in St. Louis, a couple of years ago, and on a whim, drove through Ferguson. There was still visible damage of empty damaged buildings, and a drastic absence of any commercial consumer stores. The ultimate damage of this kind of stupidity falls on the shoulders of the decent people in such a region....as they no longer have stores, etc., nearby, and their lifestyles have suffered as a result.
Protest might be justified in such an incident, but when it deteriorates into this kind of chaos, it's pretty hard to have much sympathy for those who participate, IMO.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/protests-looting-erupt-again-minneapolis-203508355.html
This is quite the same as what happened in Ferguson, MO., a few years ago, when a similar situation led to days of rioting, burning and looting. We were in St. Louis, a couple of years ago, and on a whim, drove through Ferguson. There was still visible damage of empty damaged buildings, and a drastic absence of any commercial consumer stores. The ultimate damage of this kind of stupidity falls on the shoulders of the decent people in such a region....as they no longer have stores, etc., nearby, and their lifestyles have suffered as a result.
Protest might be justified in such an incident, but when it deteriorates into this kind of chaos, it's pretty hard to have much sympathy for those who participate, IMO.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/protests-looting-erupt-again-minneapolis-203508355.html