>>>>>It would be nice to actually go more than 48 hours without seeing something like this happening in Oakland.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bezz-6Q09ng>>>>>I understand that the police have a difficult task of trying to keep order - but this business where they keep attacking people with batons that are lying on the ground defenseless, then arresting anyone recording it is REALLY starting to get under my skin.
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>>>>Maybe the derelicts should head back to their mom's basements or whereever else they may have crawled in from and quit trying freeload on the public.
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>>>Right..and if they don't just violently attack them? Besides their mom's house was probably foreclosed.
>>>Remember the riots in 1992? How did that start? It started because 4 cops were caught beating the crap out of someone, then were acquitted of any wrongdoing during the arrest (as big of a joke as O.J. verdict). If this stuff is still happening next summer there will probably be a repeat - you'd think the city officials and police dept would learn because that wasn't the first time that had happened either.
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>>I remember the whole thing well. Rodney King was a small time crook who only became famous because of the cop beating and someone catching it on video camera. Blacks in L.A. had a long simmering resentment against cops and that video ignited it like a bomb. I watched the whole thing unfold on TV in a rented apartment in Denver, L.A. up in flames.
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>Yep. They looted from the Koreans, Vietnamese, Cubans, and most anyone else who was successful at the time.
I am not defending the looters. That was pure punk behavior, mob behavior.
Blacks and Koreans, there is a long history of enmity there in L.A. It didn't take much to ignite that.
Another of my favorite movies: "Do the Right Thing." A classic.
Sometimes we like to kid ourselves that we are post-racial. We are not. (And neither are the Europeans, so it's not just an American disease). When Obama was elected I had a flicker of hope. I'm not saying everyone who dislikes Obama does so for racial reasons but some sure do. The news here is full of hate crimes, Just the other day there was a story in the Trib about three white high school guys luring a black classmate to one of their houses, ostensibly to hang out with them. They killed him. All three are awaiting trial.
Eh, enough heaviness. Did you see any clips of Patrick Kane's antics at the all star game? He competed in one of the skills contests wearing a Superman cape and Clark Kent glasses. I thought that was pretty funny.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/hockey/blackhawks/sns-ap-hkn-all-star-skills-,0,5913646.story
