Just a thought but maybe politicians should actually do something about racist cops and institutional racism instead of you know saying they disapprove of it.
Like I don’t know introduce legislation or some kind of action to increase punishment on cops that are convicted of murder.
Man there are some good quotes from that old Rumsfeld piece about looting in Iraq:
“Simply putting police back on the street would not be an acceptable answer. In fact, when we entered the city, we found that there were police radios that we’d captured, and the police were calling for … indirect fire in support of the regime. So putting the police back on is not an easy solution for us,” he said.
“While no one condones looting, on the other hand, one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who have had members of their family killed by that regime, for them to be taking their feelings out on that regime,” he said. “And I don’t think there’s anyone in any of those pictures … (who wouldn’t) accept it as part of the price of getting from a repressed regime to freedom.”
If you think about it though, literally everything Sherlock Holmes that wasn’t written by Doyle is “fan fic”, including all of the incredibly successful reboots, re-tellings, movies, TV shows, etc.
I saw that a few times on different streams. Also saw a group of people using a mattress as a shield as the went up and down the street. Guessing there were rubber bullets flying.
Philadelphia is going under curfew at 6pm until 6am.
Center City is already completely closed from Vine to South Street (about 1.2 miles) from river to river (about 2-2.5 miles). Residents and business owners are allowed to walk around, that’s it. Business owners citywide are expected to finish boarding up and be gone/home by 5pm.
They’ve also closed down the Ben Franklin Bridge, one of the three bridges that go from Philly to NJ.
Closures tonight include grocery stores and pharmacies.