Burning stores in Chicago, and defacing shuls in Los Angeles are probably the best way to ensure that the lessons of George Floyd’s death will never be learned. Any support for the cause of those disgracefully treated by authority will be overtaken by revulsion at those claiming to fight it.
People take items from a store hours after a solidarity rally calling for justice over the death of George Floyd (Photo: AP Images)
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olice killed an unarmed black man, angry protests snowballed into anarchy and looting across the country, as store windows were smashed, cars burned and the initial trigger was forgotten as phalanxes of riot police fought to restore order.
George Floyd, Minneapolis 2020?
In fact, that was Mark Duggan in the London Riots of 2011, as what began with protests against police brutality culminated in nurses and teachers looting TVs in a five-day rampage that cost local businesses $400 million.
While London was still burning a decade ago, I had a conversation with a left-wing academic which resonates again today. The justification of supposedly anti-racist violence that I heard on that train journey was a textbook example of the elite sympathy for violence that ends up destroying legitimate causes.
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