We watched the sorry spectacle of aimless destruction. The predictable script from Ferguson and Baltimore was reprised, the same bumper-sticker empty slogans brandished, and the same pointless destruction and looting occurred.
One can be outraged by the injustice that was done to George Floyd, without falsely portraying it as a microcosm of systemic racism by police officers across America. It is nothing of the kind.
According to Heather Mac Donald: “The per capita rate of officers being feloniously killed is 45 times higher than the rate at which unarmed black males are killed by cops. And an officer’s chance of getting killed by a black assailant is 18.5 times higher than the chance of an unarmed black getting killed by a cop.” In sum, there is a veritable Everest of evidence demolishing the fake, phony, fraudulent narrative of systemic police abuse aimed at African Americans. But the one trait that the raging rioters and protesters all have in common, is their deep and abiding commitment to their own righteous rage. What we are seeing in the United States is not riots. It is mob rule. Minnesota Governor Walz said over and over that they sympathized with the protests, that it was right to be angry about injustice. They were especially grieved that some of the looted and burned business were owned by non-whites. Mr. Harrington, the only black at the meeting, was the only one who dared use the word “rioters.” The central message — especially from Governor Walz — was that government cannot restore order. He said police can take only “defensive” action around "important buildings" (the ones not owned by members of the public or paid for by tax payers, in other words) and protect firemen; they can take no “offensive” actions against criminals.
Governor Walz is wrong to say he needs more people to stop the rioting. He needs the will. - Amren