Injustice, then protests, then riots, with incompetence all around.
After George Floyd was apparently murdered by a cop, large crowds protested the abuse and lack of justice. Good.
But then the troublemakers showed up — burning, looting, throwing stones.
It seemed to take too long to charge the offending officers, but now they have been arrested. What else do the protesters want? What is the “justice” that the crowds want now?
P&C say that everyone involved in this mess has done it wrong. The four officers were clearly wrong. The media has been atrociously wrong, as usual. Politicians have shown themselves to be an impotent clown show. And the protesters themselves have not done well.
Two weeks ago, anyone who went to a park to play catch with their daughter, or who wanted to open their business, or to go to church, was labeled by the media as a threat to society. They wanted to kill grandma and bring pestilence and plague on all of society. Suddenly, the rules have changed, and the protesters aren’t subject to Karen’s wrath. Why?
One of the worst aspects of this story is the immediate assumption of racism. It was a white cop killing a black man. Therefore, to some, it must be racism. Why is that the automatic assumption? What if it was a black cop killing a white man, or a white cop killing a white man? What’s the justification for immediately assuming that the cop was motivated by racism?
Now that the cops have been arrested, the protests have turned away from a message P&C can support, and have started going into the fantasy land of “cops are hunting us” and other demonstrably false nonsense from the black lives matter crowd.