LA Riots Reborn: Protests and Uprising in America After the Death of George Floyd

In 1992, The United States would live though one of the most infamous in its history, when riots broke through Los Angeles when video of local cops brutally attacked Rodney King was released. When the officers were acquitted in a trial months later, the city's black community was not pleased. After the verdict, riots broke throughout the area - with businesses destroyed, people killed or assaulted, millions in property damage and an image that LA would never recover from for years. King himself spoke out on the carnage, and famously asked "Can we all get along? Can we get along?".

The us vs. them image and mentality of the black community vs. local law enforcement remained and reverberated for the decade and into the new millennium - especially throughout the 2010s, where anger, frustration, tears and calls for justice consistently reached fever point after the deaths of regular African Americans by police officers. -- are many whose lives were unfortunately and unfairly taken. The latest victim of such is George Floyd of Minneapolis, who was killed by police officer Derek Chauvin, while his fellow cops watched. Chauvin would later be arrested and charged with third degree murder and manslaughter.

After the video of the deadly incident went viral, the black and brown communities (and a large portion of the Caucasian community) responded with (mostly peaceful) protests in several major cities across the U.S. I fully support the protests, as it is the best way of waking up the ignorant and showing that black people are also human and are not just thugs and jail bait, and that sometimes, the police are evil monsters using their profession to take down black people who didn't deserve it.

Unfortunately, various law enforcement across the country made things worse by treating the protests as a terrorism uprising and disrupted them with rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray, physical attacks and arrests. Seeing police take down and seriously harm people who did nothing wrong and treat them are terrorists makes me furious and tear up a bit. Making it even more so is our brain-dead imbecile of a president; he's tweet-called for the military to step in and kill them (one recent tweet included the infamous, racist and disgusting phrase "Looting leads to shooting") and called for the the U.S. to fall under a "martial law". Plus, he called the governors of of states under protests and uprising "weak". All while hiding in a bunker below the White House (with the outside lights shut off like it's Halloween and everyone is hiding from trick-or-treaters!) What. A. PUSSY.

At one point led DC police to tear gas a group of protesters just so he can take a dumb photo-op in front of church. When November 3 comes around, take your anger to the polls and vote this stupid, psychotic, dictator-wannabe orange fat-ass out of the Presidency.

This would lead to looting in stores of differing sizes. People are stealing from stores in the name of George Floyd. He wouldn't want this.

Listen, folks. If you want to protest police brutality and such, go ahead. I support your fight and perseverance. But if you're gonna loot and steal from other people who built these stores and put their blood, sweat and tears into their hard work, then stop what your doing, go home, look in the mirror and see yourself as the monster that you really are. Because of people like all of you, these stores are now closed and boarded up; other people can't get their food or their prescribed medicine or anything important to survive. Fuck shoes or clothes and the like. You've ruined the good fight for those who really want to fight the good fight and nothing else, and ignorant people will see this as racially-charged guerrilla war. Black people caught looting, some white people caught looting, some white people caught  faking a looting. It's disgusting. Plus, there still is a viral disease out there; there's a chance you'll catch it. Give up the idiocy and don't desecrate the memory of a man who wouldn't do such a thing. He may have been caught with a counterfeit $20 bill; but he also died despite it. Find the right lane and stick with it. Fight for the black community's right to live freely and safely, and don't embarrass us all because you want a new pair of Adidas and a bag of chips at fucking Family Dollar.