I agree with your sentiment regarding law and the public etc but I still think pandering to this sort of vandalism by select groups will cause far more trouble than it prevents
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Agree completely, it is nothing but vandalism, bugger what happened years ago ,this is just a mob being allowed to run riot and getting away scot free. As for the BLM shite George the druggie should not have resisted but he was another waste of space, the Cop should have got a medal not a prison sentence, he used a method of restraint that is taught in the US services when "fight or flight" kicks in you do what is necessary.
The facts are though Rangie is that a United States of America Court listened to all the evidence and found the police officer Chauvin guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. No matter what the perceived circumstances were from a general public point of view, the court's jury decided the white officer officer acted as judge, jury and executioner and held George Floyd down by the neck for a far longer period than is acceptable in US police practice, as confirmed by white serving and retired police officers when giving evidence. The jury reached their verdict, as the Bristol Crown Court jury did, based on the law of the land, not social media opinion.
However, the BLM movement was not just down to that incident, although it acted as a catalyst for many decades of bitterness held by the black community in the USA over proven injustice and discrimination, especially by white police officers. This was reflected in a smaller way by the protests in the UK and blew up into something even bigger as old frustrations rose up. Yes discrimination is a worldwide challenge, and has been for centuries, but in our democratic societies we should attempt to address the white vs. black issues once and for all. I have witnessed that type of discrimination in both the US and UK, which is far from pleasant especially when threats of "I will shoot you n..gger" is publicly made with a white man with a hand gun in the former country in front of my young children and my American friends when told of the incident responded by saying "that is very common"!. In the UK I have seen many times how the Met. Police white officers have acted against black men, especially if they are driving an expensive car! My black friends have also described the level of discrimination that can be dished out.
This must stop, and although the dubious toppling of the Colston statue has proved to be a focus for white protests, it is nothing compared to what the black, and Asian, communities can suffer everyday. The legal system in both the US and UK is now recognising the mistakes of the past, as is their societies generally. People may disagree with the legal verdicts, but as said previously, they are what counts. That is no more, no less, of what you and me would expect if we ended up in a court of law.