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Visit serazin's homepage! Posting Rules. Though most of the crowd remained peaceful, WPLN reports that there were some skirmishes with officers, and a patrol car was smashed.
The Tennessean reports that a crowd gathered at the Metro Courthouse later in the evening, where some smashed windows. Sometime after 8 p. At p. And you had mostly white agitators breaking its windows, spraying graffiti, and trying to set it on fire. Eric Brown, the African American coordinator of Economic Opportunity and Empowerment for Nashville, had his office fire bombed at the court house. Corncaster May 31, am. Charlotte May 31, am. The people doing the burning and looting are animals.
Actually, that is an insult to animals. They are unfixable. So gross. Taff Martin May 31, am. Understand the cause then the effect can be fixed. Jack W May 31, am. Trigger May 31, am. These often white agitators are not combating racism. They are an inadvertent party to it, while fueling rage and retributions from the other side with their unjust actions. Both sides need to stop justifying the unjust actions of the extreme of their ideology just because it satiates their anger.
Also, there have now been multiple murders tied directly to these riots, so this is not just about property.
People have been killed. There is no justification for murder, on either side. Musiccityman May 31, am. Is it racist to point out that blacks commit an inordinate amount of crime, and are duly punished for it? Thanks for that Kyle! Paddy May 31, pm. I have disagreed withTrigger on many things in the past. His comments here are mostly spot on. At least today you learned something. Must make you feel smart. Jake Cutter May 31, pm. Big Tex May 31, pm.
Sir Adam the Great May 31, am. The heck of it is, many of these businesses just opened back up. Several up-and-coming artists work at these places to try and make ends meet while their careers take off.
Being justifiably angry and protesting is one thing. Destroying the livelihoods of uninvolved third parties is criminal. Cobra May 31, am.
So may people still seemed more concerned with the riots and looting than recognizing what has driven this group over the edge in the first place. ChrisP May 31, am. In , the British passed the Tea Act which raised taxes on, well… tea. In response, the colonists raided merchant ships and threw the tea -again important for this story- into the bay.
They were tactically precise in the message they were sending. A cop in Minneapolis kneeled on the neck of a black man, killing him. Not only that the colonists threw the tea into the bay, destroying it, not grabbing everything they could and running off with it.
As a historical FYI, that company was basically a state-run monopoly, so in essence it was a protest against the government. Cobra May 31, pm. Well, how nice for you. Elk Tracker May 31, pm. Black Americans are much more likely to experience physical aggression from police officers. That needs to be fixed. However, they also commit a disproportionate amount of crime. That needs to be fixed too. In the meantime, there are hard working black Americans caught in the middle of all of this who need honest problem solving, not political rhetoric.
Cheering on the fire setting hurts blacks and everyone else. They tried peaceful protesting. They were dismissed and villainized.
Hell, even Jesus violently drove the money changers from the Temple. Blacks have been given preferential treatment in this nation for the past 55 years. The result has been an abysmal failure.
Facts are facts. Tom Smith May 31, am. Rusty May 31, am. And he will be remembered long after these fools burning and rioting are gone. They wont even be a footnote. J May 31, am. Lindsey May 31, am. I work downtown. Our store got hit. We had to close early yesterday because they were already up the street setting cop cars on fire when we left.
I can tell you that myself and the people I work with have fire running through our veins. More than ready to do what the cops are not allowed to do, if the situation calls for it. I have taken lunch breaks and done my homework on the steps of the Ryman in the alley.
I consider that building to be my place. The Ryman getting hit is what made it extremely personal on a whole different level. By the way, there is a brand new African American Museum directly in front of it. Just for a realistic picture of what it was like yesterday: The protest was not arranged to come down Broadway, to our knowledge. It was supposed to be up the street.
That fucking mayor led the pack down 4th avenue and up Broadway. You want to talk about some pissed off customers, employees, and tourists? When we were leaving, I saw several kids with their families. One little girl was about 5 years old. She had a princess dress on. When we were walking to the parking garage, we followed behind an older couple probably in their 70s or older that had gotten dressed up to come downtown.
They were holding hands. I live right outside of Nashville and right down the road from a police station. I could hear all of the sirens heading to the interstate to make their way down there as the situation progressed after I got home. It was disturbing. The ones who did all of this yes, I know, white, black, Hispanic, etc.
They are not slaves. In fact, I believe it was last year that a beloved business man white went to meet some prospective tenants two black people to show them a rental he had. When they got there, they shot, killed, and robbed him. You know what the family did? They mourned, kept his business open, and I pray are coping with the loss with any peace they can find. Another white business owner was shot by robbers black.
I think that was last year, too. His family reacted the same way. So, the ones who did all of this and will continue to do so have more rights than me. I have more rights than the cops. The mayor of Nashville did not cause it, but he sure as hell encouraged it. The Opry Mills mall already is. The hobos run the downtown streets — before all of this started yesterday, one of them threw shit, yes, shit, into one of our stores.
The managers had to close it down for a while to clean. I know that my values are opposite of most that read this site, but I hope all of you have a blessed day. Thanks for a boots-on-the-ground perspective.
Kraner May 31, am. I hope Roberts and Ernest Tubb records stay open.. Tex Hex May 31, pm. This has been coming in the USA for quite some time. When Colin Kaepernick and Co. Those protests, as far as I am aware, were generally peaceful. I believe that the black community think they have no other way to display their feelings. But they are wrong. Rioting and looting will get them nowhere.
It will only reinforce the thought process of those bigots who are supporting the status quo. Also I believe that calling for a lock down at 10pm at night is simply stupid.
That should have been down hours earlier. That only put police in an impossible position. Now is the time for real leaders to step forward. The leaders of that movement proved that it can be done. Everyone needs to get out of the groupthink mentality. What are you on. Your next door neighbors are black. Hurray for you. Do you really expect them to tell you how they feel.
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