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American week

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An unspeakable event* has lead to massive rioting in most large cities. An outrage inside a societal crisis inside a pandemic inside a leadership vacuum. Our very own Matryoshka doll.

White cops killing unarmed black men - not an unusual event in the USA. They almost never result in charges against the police, even when a bystander's video clearly shows it was, at the least, an unjustified shooting and needs to be presented to the District Attorney for possible criminal charges. Fortunately, there were many bystanders filming at the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25th. That is our Memorial Day, I might add. There was something about this particular case that touched and enraged the entire population - with certain exceptions - and led swiftly to murder charges against one officer. The other three will possibly be charged, too, since none of them (one a senior officer) stopped the primary perpetrator.

I am sick of grief and anger. I just want to have peace. I don't even expect happiness.

* WARNING: difficult to watch...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMGUAHBFmjk

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 Diane Putnam
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Police departments are now making clear regulations about that. I have read that many forbid that kind of action, but this particular policeman was a training officer and would certainly have known the regulations! That was shocking. The other two helping him were his trainees.
4 years ago.
 Andy Rodker
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I agree with you all but I would add that here in Madrid we have had issues with crowds; this time a Women's Day demonstration at the beginning of Covid-19 when the risks were known by absolutely everyone yet the politicians somehow thought it too politically risky to ban the march. 100s of thousands marched, arm in arm and the virus spiked a couple of weeks later. Many of us were aghast that it hadn't been banned. I still can't believe the stupidity of the politicos who allowed it.
4 years ago.
 Beatrice Degan(MARS)
Beatrice Degan(MARS)
This video was also broadcast on an Italian TV show, not many days ago.
I couldn't watch it all the way through: I couldn't watch George Floyd die pinned on the ground crushed under the weight of those mad and barbaric giants-.
Of course the news was broadcast immediately, arousing in me as in millions of other people anger, rejection, rebellion and suffering.
I certainly do not justify !!the violent reactions, but at the same time I wonder what can be expected when the very ones who should be guardians of the Law and Order feel free and justified by some super power and above all just civil and human rights. to perform these horrible actions.

Nonetheless, I firmly believe in the youngest generations who everywhere in the world have been showing that they absolutely want to put an end to all that!
Will any new decent political leader collect their voices and realize them ?
Thank you Diane.
4 years ago.
 Diane Putnam
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I think of the millions of people around the world who, just because they aren't governed by dictators, now run rampant on beaches, in parks and in protests. I am fully behind the protests, but the timing is terrible - and a dilemma! Meanwhile, I enter my 4th month of nearly total isolation.

I have noticed that great numbers - maybe a majority - of protesters in the USA wear masks. Almost no members of pleasure crowds do.
4 years ago.
 Diane Putnam
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It is surprising to see many police departments around the country making rapid changes in their regulations. So, the protests are working! You are so right about the underlying causes of protester violence, especially the African-American population!

I've never forgotten what my mother said during the 1992 L.A. riots*, "I don't understand why they don't murder us in our sleep." She was the radical left member of the family! ;-)

* About the 1992 riots: tinyurl.com/yylgw5mo <
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