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The Right to Protest Does Not Give Us Liberty to Kill, Steal & Destroy
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18 police officers were injured, two of whom remain hospitalized. Injuries included chemical burns, broken bones, and head injuries.
— Congressman John Lewis
“For Benny there was no line where his activism ended, and his art began. To him, using his brush and his pen to capture the essence and spirit of his time was as much an act of protest as sitting-in or sitting-down was for me. I can see him now: thinking, speaking, articulating what needs to be done and in the next few moments trying to make real what he had been contemplating. He was honest to a fault, and I think it was his determination to speak the plain truth that shaped his demand for justice and social integrity. He never aligned with any political group, but would offer the full weight of his support to anyone he thought was standing for truth.”
At least five were injured in West Philadelphia, where Outlaw reported police cars were set on fire and people threw bricks, rocks, and Molotov cocktails around the area of 52nd and Market Streets during Sunday’s unrest.
Of the 418 people so far arrested for failure to disperse or obey curfew, 314 were city residents, Outlaw said.
With more protest activity in Center City on Monday, police would continue to restrict areas downtown and enforce the 6 p.m. curfew, she said, with assistance from the National Guard and other local law enforcement agencies.
“What you’re seeing across the country right now is unlike any of us have seen. We have been sitting on a powder keg for quite some time and it has burst,” Outlaw said. “You layer that with the level of the anger that’s been pent up, and then you add technology.”
The police department has to adapt to technology's role in the protests and the “countertactics” it allows demonstrators to use, which have changed the way police need to manage crowds, she said. She said people have used coordinated efforts to disperse activity across the city and make police split up, and that police need more resources to manage such situations.
“What happened yesterday is that we were there, we addressed it, and then we could only stay for so long and we had to leave and then it rekindled all over again,” Outlaw said.
“We don’t know what we’re going to be dealing with and it continues to unfold each and every day,” she added.
— Justine McDaniel
In response to the above post and so many traumatic images along with other posts seen on Instagram and all over the place from the Philadelphia Inquirer I would like to say that I born in Philadelphia I refuse to buy the fake news and black lives matter rhetoric where the majority of black community keep claiming the race card while it may have played a part in the individual officer that brutalized and murdered George Floyd I wouldn't give it that much power because if you know anything about the elite and powers that want to rule, dominate & destroy society like George Soros you would begin to understand we are dealing with a bigger fish than one another. I am completely against any & all forms of police brutality, abuse of power along with all forms of abuse for that matter no matter who believes they are justified to act out on another human being for their prior injuries to perpetrate them on an innocent new victim in the present. When will justice be paid? In many instances probably never in this lifetime. Violence never solves anything but to create more of what we all don't want. I do believe the men & cop that murderd George Floyd deserves to be severely punished [even the death penalty] to the full extent of the law but to punish other innocent people doesn't add up to me. It is a lose/lose type of behavior and cannot possibly bring any positive end. What do we tell the kids of all races, beliefs and nationalities that this is the way to create any kind of future or resolve our differnces? Without open dialogue nothing changes.
In Philadelphia as a kid during the 60's & racial riots I didn't understand what was happening I had a couple of my own personal incidents of being racially profiled myself as a young white girl; I was not able to sort it all out or to defend myself but over the years life has a way of teaching you to hang onto anger & hate or look for the balance and seek out compassion. My parents never supported hate, racism or bigotry; I'm grateful for that because it showed me to keep an open mind and not to shut down my heart forever.
Over the last week it saddens me to see people acting out so violently towards one another and towards the Philadelphia police who were not the guilty parties of the murder of George Floyd. And so where do we draw the line? People who are using extreme violence to express their anger will continue to feed their anger and allow it to grow hurting themselves over and over again along with the next generation. There is an old saying "while your out chasing monsters make sure you don't become one"
Many people claim their rights have been violated mismanaged, dismissed and not heard ; that they it was another incident of all whites are bad and from the evil empire with the people of privelege which is far from the truth at least in my part of the world. We all need one another; we are part of the human experience and it isn't always an easy trip. We never know what someone else has been through in life . I have had many injustices throughout my life like every other human being but to go and try and demand others pay for past injustices wouldn't do me or my ancestors any homage. If you are a believer in justice I know that God is our judge, jury and vindicator.
Only God knows a mans heart; what's in yours?
As Gandhi said: "an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind" Putting out fire with gasoline isn't working so far. Lets try and get along so we can move humanity forward. May healing happen for us all.
God Bless you.
- Meg O' Hanlon
— Rob Tornoe
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