A thoughtful perspective. People extrapolating horrendous instances of policing, convince themselves that's all there is. I'm not saying that there aren't terrible incidents, some with racial aspects, others without - let's not forget that there have been George Floyd type police incidents that have happened to white people too - but there are countless police in the profession for exactly the right reasons. They put themselves in harms way and, as you say, save lives.

This incident came at an unfortunate time, as it was shortly after the black guy out jogging was gunned down. More a spark once again lit a fire, than specifically about George Floyd and the event politically taking centre stage is unfortunately not particularly bad news for democrats (rally the base) or republicans (switch attention from pandemic hysteria). We see people on both the left and right reacting very angrily to selective footage that matches their world view. Social media a powerful medium and can be used to disproportionately influence peoples thinking, further warping their perspectives. But I don't see that changing anytime soon.

Edited by BlueJay (07 Jun 2020 4.39pm)

Easily explained. Yet another Trump claim that lacks substance...
"The biggest payroll surprise in history, by a gigantic margin, likely is due to a wave of hidden rehiring."

Perhaps because the police have decided not to arrest people for fear of escalation.

Monuments have been defaced in London whilst in Bristol the "protestors" have pulled down a statue they didn't like. That is not peaceful protest it's criminal damage. Don't like a statue then there are legal ways of having it removed.

One more point

Indeed. However, "white privilege" and racism is projected onto all white people, regardless of presence. Plenty of evidence of single parent white children being neglected and abused. No privilege there.

Note that a common theme of underprivileged young people is absence of a father.

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

There's no doubt he's happened upon a strategy that boosts shares, at least – i.e. deregulate and cut taxes (not exactly rocket science) but I suppose the question is, to what end? Re-election and letting someone else pick up the pieces when the whole thing collapses again and people find out they've been played once more to the benefit of big business, and more specifically, some of Trumps own big businesses.

Obama is held up as a deity of the left but people forget that he is just as complicit in the continuation of the economic shambles that was 2008 – rehired all the same people that were the very architects of the financial crash and failed to grasp the opportunity of regulation and actually making the ratings agencies accountable... I'm in danger of sounding like a rational version of a certain someone

Anyway, back to Trump and credit. As I've said before he played the China trade issue well but I really wouldn't give him too much credit over the economy (not saying Obama should be given it, mind). Anyone can do what he's done and create a spike in the corporate economy. It's the real economy that people should be looking at, and who/how much banditry he's prepared to engage in to get re-elected before he passes on the hot potato

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

Just seen part of our history being torn down in Bristol, ok, most of us have never heard of him, but it is our history. What next, Winston Churchill and Queens Victoria's statues being torn down.

This has overstepped the mark, and the black community will loose any sympathy we had for them.

Perhaps we should replace the statue in Bristol with one of Donald Trump.