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I Like Toast posted...

if your reaction to someone being shot and killed is to get mad at looters over the people who shot and killed someone. You need to spend a long time working on yourself.

Looters are bad, it's also completely irrelevant and not at all where your mind should be going. It's an obvious attempt to deflect the conversation away from cops killing yet another minority.

No, that's one of my reactions. I don't need to spend any time working on myself. I can have two reactions, and I most certainly can (on rightful ground) call out people who go around beating out windows of businesses that do not belong to them and steal things that do not belong to them because of an atrocity that was committed.

I can have a reaction to someone getting unjustifiably shot and killed by police, and believe me, it's pretty fucking sickening. IMO it doesn't deflect the conversation away, it just shows me both sides. Cops are ruining people's lives and something has to change. Unfortunately, with these actions (the looting), we have absolutely no idea how someone else's life is affected (yes, business owners have potentially lost livelihoods because of damage done to their properties that "isn't covered" by insurance for whatever reason)

It's a giant problem, but you are right, the police killing is the immediate issue, because it is MUCH more of a widespread problem (beyond the United States) than instances of looting. But my mind is still going to think about the other people who are affected because of this chain reaction of events. If correcting the issue with the whole police system fixed all of this, then it would be the ONLY relevant issue. These police shootings prompt looting, but aren't the only explanation as to why these instances of looting exist

Someone in this topic said the looting was justified. If it is, then that means that potentially ruining other people's lives is justified.

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Raul