'To focus on the damage and looting misses the point. Were it not for the killing of George Floyd, and the history of police behavior, there would have been no protests.' (via latimesopinion)
, a single arrest and beating of a black man unleashing years of community frustration. These upheavals reflected years of rising anger in African American neighborhoods over the conditions of their existence and the excesses of police departments that, as the motto says, were there to protect and to serve. Then came the 1991 police beating of Rodney King, all the proof Los Angeles needed that history does repeat itself.
And no, police violence does not justify the rampages that erupted in Minneapolis. But as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.more than a half-century ago, “a riot is the language of the unheard.” To focus on the damage and looting misses the point. Were it not for the killing of Floyd, and the history of police behavior, there would have been no protests.
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