Shoot To Kill Looters

QuickSilver said:
No one is excusing or dismissing.. Yes.. these rioters are breaking the law.. but why do you think the answer is shoot to kill?
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You don't seem to distinguish between Looting & Rioting Silver---Would you agree that they are not the same.
 

QuickSilver said:
What's unfortunate is that these kids are looking for excitement... like most High School kids.. what they don't realize is that they are solidifying the racist attitudes they are protesting against.. I can hear all the "See... look how these people are" "Look how they behave" "No wonder police kill them".. being uttered in quite a few White households. It's not getting the cause any sympathy that's for sure. People are not going to look at this for the pent up frustration that it is.. they are going to feel more justified in the attitutes they hold.
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Wow how things have changed. When I was in high school and looked for excitement, me and my minority friends would crash all of the 12 movie theaters in our city.in a month time.
 
Shoot To Kill sounds like a deterrent but would be escalation. Self defense only. I'm more worried about the people starting fires and cutting fire hoses at this point. This is terrorism as far as I am concerned because it affects public safety on a massive scale and they are trying to make a political statement-I think. Charge these rioters and provocateurs with some kind of terrorism and this will stop.

I'm also appalled at video of the police throwing rocks at the rioters who threw rocks at them. Really? Loaded to the gills with weaponry, protection and hopefully training the police are throwing rocks/objects at rioters? Is a stone or rock an authorized weapon or method of crowd control?

Also heard the police are tagging rioters with paint balls to be identified later?

The whole mess including the man who lost his life/use of limbs is disgusting.

PEACE!
 
Protesters? Yep, nothing says "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen...." quite like looting and burning a CVS drug store. These folks aren't "protesters"; they're thugs, looting, rioting and burning thugs and they need to be treated as such. I'm not much for shooting but I think a little tear gas and some firehoses are called for at this point.
 
jujube said:
Protesters? Yep, nothing says "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen...." quite like looting and burning a CVS drug store. These folks aren't "protesters"; they're thugs, looting, rioting and burning thugs and they need to be treated as such. I'm not much for shooting but I think a little tear gas and some firehoses are called for at this point.
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There won't be any useable fire hoses around if they keep cutting them. Apparently two large building fires right now as well which diverts resources. I think they have water canons on some armored vehicles. National Guard called in. Tanks might tame things.
 
The thugs that descended on Ferguson, MO. last fall succeeded in turning back racial relations in the St. Louis area by several decades. Now, its Baltimore's turn. There have been a couple of developments in the St. Louis area that have not received much media coverage. In the past few months about 85 police have retired, or quit the force. St. Louis is having trouble replacing them. The latest class for new recruits had room for 55 people...29 showed up. Over time, if this continues, there will be fewer police to respond to emergencies...and those who do respond to calls in the "troubled" sections of the city will obey all speed limits and traffic signs, and maybe even stop for lunch on the way. Some of the people in these areas may want to be careful about what they wish for...they may just get it. Perhaps they would feel safer if the drug and street gangs completely took over their neighborhoods.

There is One Proven way to avoid police brutality...Obey the Laws....and If Stopped, act in a respectful manner, and obey the policeman's instructions. That should Not be Rocket Science.
 
From the pictures I've seen, this is NOT a bunch of high school students acting up. This is looting and rioting, and it's not just a bunch of kids -- I daresay it's not just even mostly kids.

I don't agree with shoot to kill over this kind of thing. But we can't just say this is just a bunch of unruly bunch of kids, either -- it's a violent mob, burning and looting. This has to be gotten under control -- no shooting to kill, but the cops just can't just stand around and watch this crowd burn down Baltimore burn, either.

What about all the law abiding citizens who are caught in the middle of this? I had the misfortune to be caught in the middle of downtown Washington during the Washington, DC and Baltimore riots of '68 (I was just trying to get home from work), and it was the most terrifying, surreal night of my life -- cars burning, buildings burning, people breaking into storefronts and looting, people setting fire to cars in traffic -- it was something out of Dante's Inferno.

I don't pretend to know what the answer is, but rioting, burning and looting are not acceptable forms of "protest." How does looting a CVS drugstore help the "cause"?

I give up -- what IS a reasonable way to get this under control???
 
AZ Jim said:
Lon, You do not seem to understand, kids or adults we do not kill to protect property. It is just that simple.
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I agree. I fail to see why the age of the looters and rioters is relevant. They certainly deserve to be punished but not by death.
 
Jackie22 said:
That same question could be put to the police that are shooting kids in the back and by killing them with other unnecessary means.
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What was the reason they went after him anyway, did they arrest him, break his spine and kill him just because he was running? I wish all the protests were peaceful, but I can absolutely understand why they are taking place. The abuse and murders by out of control police officers has got to stop.

Law enforcement is at least starting to wake up and take things seriously, and talking about retraining the younger cops that came out of the academy with a 'this is war, get them before they get us' attitude. There were officers calling into a radio show saying how trigger happy 'bad' cops are not only a danger to the citizens, but a bad reflection on and danger to the entire police force.

Some of the older officers who are there to do their jobs to protect and serve, are just as much against this behavior as the communities are. As far as shooting the looters, that's ridiculous...that would just be them staying the course of taking lives for no good reason. Something has to change, and the ball is in law enforcement's court. Each state and city should be proactive in making some much needed changes, IMO.
 
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake admitted in a press conference on Sunday: that she asked the Baltimore Police Department to “give those who wished to destroy space to do that.” She has since said she didn't say that, but it shows her saying it
on video.

 
QuickSilver said:
What's unfortunate is that these kids are looking for excitement... like most High School kids.. what they don't realize is that they are solidifying the racist attitudes they are protesting against.. I can hear all the "See... look how these people are" "Look how they behave" "No wonder police kill them".. being uttered in quite a few White households. It's not getting the cause any sympathy that's for sure. People are not going to look at this for the pent up frustration that it is.. they are going to feel more justified in the attitutes they hold.
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Very true, QS.
 
Ameriscot said:
So PROPERTY is more valuable than a life?!!
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Well no..... except only certain lives... apparently.

This is very sad... it only gives the haters more fuel for their hatred.. and solves nothing.. BUT... peaceful protesting hasn't done much to wake people up to the brutality against blacks either..
 
QuickSilver said:
Well no..... except only certain lives... apparently.

This is very sad... it only gives the haters more fuel for their hatred.. and solves nothing.. BUT... peaceful protesting hasn't done much to wake people up to the brutality against blacks either..
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Just makes a bad situation worse. But what is the solution?
 
It is interesting to see that the race of the leadership of Baltimore shows how far this country has come even though there is a distance to go...
 
QuickSilver said:
I don't know.... AS... BUT hating and being blood thirsty... even gleeful at the prospect of shooting and killing certainly has contributed to the problem... and is not the solution.
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Hate and anger and violence seems to be exploding! And then so many think guns are the answer.
 
Black female mayor, black police chief, many black police officers, and this has been a big change in many cities...
 

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