A single murder case... sure. The unrest that is spreading around this country ... not so much. This case is a symptom of a much larger problem in this country. And our current leadership has done a whole lot of nothing about it.
Look, there's several ways to skin this cat. You can go in with the national guard backing up the police and shut these protests down. You can negotiate with the leaders of the protests and try and settle stuff down that way. You can try a mix of both ... working with the legitimate leaders that want peaceful change while shutting down the violence with overwhelming force. And everything in between. I have NO IDEA what will work best.
BUT I do know that sitting on your hands and bitching and moaning and blaming other people for the problems WON'T fix them. And the idea that reelecting the guy that's hasn't even tried to fix the problem is some sort of solution is ... well counter intuitive...
Ideally a President would work WITH the local leaders of these cities and states. But those bridges are burned... we can point fingers all day as to why, but Trump and the governors/mayors of some of these places wouldn't piss on each other if they were on fire.
I hear what you're saying, but I don't think any President has ever effectively dealt with this stuff since the Civil Rights era. Obama was useless after Ferguson for instance.
And his reaction led directly to Trump. That's the part people are missing.
I just don't think an elected official can fix this kind of mess. We have morons on social media spouting off "their truth" (that usually translates to bullshit BTW) ten seconds after a video hits twitter. "Oh, the police shot an unarmed man!"
(who BTW was holding a damn knife and had a history of stabbing people)
"The police shot him in the back!"
(because he disobeyed commands and was potentially reaching for a weapon)
"He dragged the girl out of class by the neck!
(partially because the education administrators are so fvcking useless they can't deal with a simple issue without calling the cops)
"They shot an unarmed kid!" - who btw outweighed the cop by 100 lbs and was fighting for his weapon.
Sometimes the facts are not very clear - but rather than wait on clarity we have morons getting the rope ready for a hanging.
We have lost the ability, as a society, to think. To reason. To see nuance. And to wait on facts.
We've lost the ability to trust the media (that's mostly the media's fault IMO)
Instead, we tweet. We instagram. And we show how damn stupid we are.
Oh, and we demand due process for alleged criminals, but not for law enforcement? WTF?
Confession time - I really don't care if NYC, Portland or Seattle burns. They voted themselves into this mess. This is what they want. I know that's wrong, I know that God wants me to care. I know I - as a human being and a Christian - SHOULD care, but perhaps 2020 has finally run me out of empathy for a while.
Chicago concerns me because I know a few people there.
As to the political BS - I do not like Trump's apparent thought that the mayors and governors of these cities and states work for him. They don't. You don't command them to do stuff, you ask what they need. And you do it using a damn phone, not a tweet. BTW - anybody know when we will finally get a cell phone without the actual phone in it? Because I expect it's coming.
My concern with Harris.....er Biden as President is that she, I mean he will cause a host of OTHER problems. And not fix this one.
Sorry for the rambling rant. But I swear to God if there is intelligent life out there, it locks it's spaceship doors when cruising by our planet.