A single gunman holding dual German-Iranian citizenship murdered nine and then himself in Munich.
Hillary Clinton has chosen Virginia Senator Timothy M. Kaine as her vice presidential running mate.
The Miami area police officer who shot the supine Black man by accident when he meant to shoot the sitting autistic Latinx armed with a toy truck...for reasons known only to him...is Jonathan Aledda. He has been placed on paid leave by his department while he and the police union work on a better explanation. A commander of the same North Miami Police Department who just made Commander a week ago, was also placed on non-commanding but paid leave for announcing on his police radio, "He's loading his weapon," you know, the weapon neither the intended nor the actual victim had.
And so another turn of this cycle and the question posed here after each previous turn, "How does this end?"
If I see a protester, whatever (s)he is protesting, I am going to go up to the protester and sincerely thank him for his social conscience and activism.
On the more likely occasion I see a police officer, I am going to go up to him and thank him.
We need to break this cycle. My gestures will not break the cycle but protesters and #BlackLivesMatter protesters are embattled. And the American police officer is embattled. They stand in separate circles. They need to stand in the same circle. And I will do that. In one idiot blogger they will see one idiot blogger standing with each of them and implicitly arguing that they need not, and should not, stand in separate circles, they can each stand on the same common ground. If enough of us do that each group will see that they have our support and those who get what we're doing, it may make them think.
What would really be a supreme gesture is if #BLM activists thanked police officers, rode with them on their shifts. And if police officers joined the protesters and applauded them.
If enough #BLM protesters applauded the police and enough police applauded the protesters back, you'd have all these mini-Gettysburg reunions going on rather than all these mini-Gettysburg's. It would calm everyone's nerves and clearly mark out common ground. They would be very moving gestures and images and would break this cycle.
That is how, or as good a "how," as I can think, to end this.
Hillary Clinton has chosen Virginia Senator Timothy M. Kaine as her vice presidential running mate.
The Miami area police officer who shot the supine Black man by accident when he meant to shoot the sitting autistic Latinx armed with a toy truck...for reasons known only to him...is Jonathan Aledda. He has been placed on paid leave by his department while he and the police union work on a better explanation. A commander of the same North Miami Police Department who just made Commander a week ago, was also placed on non-commanding but paid leave for announcing on his police radio, "He's loading his weapon," you know, the weapon neither the intended nor the actual victim had.
And so another turn of this cycle and the question posed here after each previous turn, "How does this end?"
If I see a protester, whatever (s)he is protesting, I am going to go up to the protester and sincerely thank him for his social conscience and activism.
On the more likely occasion I see a police officer, I am going to go up to him and thank him.
We need to break this cycle. My gestures will not break the cycle but protesters and #BlackLivesMatter protesters are embattled. And the American police officer is embattled. They stand in separate circles. They need to stand in the same circle. And I will do that. In one idiot blogger they will see one idiot blogger standing with each of them and implicitly arguing that they need not, and should not, stand in separate circles, they can each stand on the same common ground. If enough of us do that each group will see that they have our support and those who get what we're doing, it may make them think.
What would really be a supreme gesture is if #BLM activists thanked police officers, rode with them on their shifts. And if police officers joined the protesters and applauded them.
If enough #BLM protesters applauded the police and enough police applauded the protesters back, you'd have all these mini-Gettysburg reunions going on rather than all these mini-Gettysburg's. It would calm everyone's nerves and clearly mark out common ground. They would be very moving gestures and images and would break this cycle.
That is how, or as good a "how," as I can think, to end this.
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