Kyle: The Gunman Who Divided America. BBC2 last night
Discussion
If there was no rioting, looting or destruction of property/businesses, this would never have happened.
Rittenhouse was an impressionable, no very bright individual armed with an AR15. The police are in full riot gear, deploying armored vehicles, what is a 17 year old kid with no training going to achieve.
In light of what has happened recently in the UK recently, it would be all too easy to blame the rioting mob. What benefit is there to the wholesale destruction of a town.
The difference, the police unloaded several shots into the back of a person, I don’t know the reason why, they were trying to detain him, it just seems unjustified, and sadly all too common.
Not wishing to post spoilers, I leave it there. I’m surprised such events are not more common place in America.
Rittenhouse was an impressionable, no very bright individual armed with an AR15. The police are in full riot gear, deploying armored vehicles, what is a 17 year old kid with no training going to achieve.
In light of what has happened recently in the UK recently, it would be all too easy to blame the rioting mob. What benefit is there to the wholesale destruction of a town.
The difference, the police unloaded several shots into the back of a person, I don’t know the reason why, they were trying to detain him, it just seems unjustified, and sadly all too common.
Not wishing to post spoilers, I leave it there. I’m surprised such events are not more common place in America.
^ ^ ^ I guess in America they’ve become rather sanitised to this sort of thing. You know when TV stations state “Warning, viewers may find some of the following content disturbing” Well actually I do, I’m still not used to seeing people being shot.
Like yourself, I’m conflicted. Some of what happened in the aftermath, was just sickening.
Like yourself, I’m conflicted. Some of what happened in the aftermath, was just sickening.
I am very anti protest, I'm never sure why we are so obsessed with the concept of protest, largely many are peaceful but all too often they have pockets of, or total anarchy which the message is lost or it becomes the preferred way to get the message across
I feel protesting is massively narcissistic and i have never understood what makes anyone want to go to a protest let alone smash stuff up.
..... now we could argue that stance over and over.
But my larger point is that I'm not selective, so any protest i see especially the ones which have violence and attacking the police or looting is any large or small amount, i find pointless and the people in it stupid
Its not hard in the UK to see that the police and media and many people ARE selective though.
I can happily say these current far right protests are full of utter cretins and thick disenfranchised people and i'll get no labels put on me.. or at least no label's I'd care about...
I said the BLM protests and the pro Palestine protest were stupid and full of useful idiots and i have roundly been called a racist by family etc...
They are policed differently because of 'optics' and the media reports on them differently.... I'm not saying this as siding on any type of protest as i have outlined.... so my stance on protests might very well be wrong, but at least its the same stance for ALL protests...
I feel protesting is massively narcissistic and i have never understood what makes anyone want to go to a protest let alone smash stuff up.
..... now we could argue that stance over and over.
But my larger point is that I'm not selective, so any protest i see especially the ones which have violence and attacking the police or looting is any large or small amount, i find pointless and the people in it stupid
Its not hard in the UK to see that the police and media and many people ARE selective though.
I can happily say these current far right protests are full of utter cretins and thick disenfranchised people and i'll get no labels put on me.. or at least no label's I'd care about...
I said the BLM protests and the pro Palestine protest were stupid and full of useful idiots and i have roundly been called a racist by family etc...
They are policed differently because of 'optics' and the media reports on them differently.... I'm not saying this as siding on any type of protest as i have outlined.... so my stance on protests might very well be wrong, but at least its the same stance for ALL protests...
Edited by Kamov on Saturday 3rd August 09:49
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