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Last night during the protesting and looting in Minneapolis<\/a>, I viewed a few of the videos and read a fair number of the live reports of what was happening.\u00a0 If I were to summarize the situation as I perceived it, it would be this:<\/p>\n

Quite a few peaceful citizens were out assembling in protest, as is their constitutional right, and as they well should have been doing, in light of the recent egregious police brutality that needs to have ended forty years ago.<\/li>\n

Some lawless citizens, black and white, male and female, took advantage of the situation to loot area businesses.\u00a0 (Said based on the videos I viewed that showed assorted persons leaving Target with their stash, most either eager that their faces not be filmed or at least in a hurry to exit stage right.)<\/li>\n

Pillaging and burning ensued, as well as at least one fatality, and precisely who was doing what, why and how, is more difficult to parse out \u2014 we can imagine that\u00a0some<\/em> of that gratuitous violence was the work of revolution-inspired protesters being utterly stupid and vicious, some of it was the work of criminals who just like to destroy stuff and hurt people, and some of it no doubt happened at the hands of people who would be hard pressed to articulate quite where they fell on that muddied spectrum.<\/li>\n

The police were not amused. Also: This level of uprising is beyond the present ability of the city police to manage without resorting to slaughter.\u00a0 No surprises on either of those counts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
As is our habit these days, commentary is falling into two over-simplified narratives:<\/p>\n
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Oppressed persons . . . something something something . . . therefore the civilian violence is excusable.<\/li>\n
Lawless criminals . . . something something something . . . therefore the police brutality is excusable.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Consider the possibility that there is a different way of assessing this situation that is both more accurate and more productive.\u00a0 I propose as an initial attempt:<\/p>\n
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Because we live in a broken-down, crime-ridden society, many if not all police officers are operating in a state of heightened fear and over-reaction.<\/li>\n
Our morally-askew culture doesn\u2019t promote violence and impulsiveness selectively \u2014 therefore the humans who are working as police officers are\u00a0also<\/em> being programmed to behave violently, just as is happening to other citizens.\u00a0 Google \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d if you aren\u2019t sure what I\u2019m talking about.<\/li>\n
American citizens are rightly outraged by the way that unwarranted police violence has become a commonplace.\u00a0 This happens even against affluent white people in liberal states<\/a>.<\/li>\n
Racism is clearly the motivator in many (not all) cases where African-Americans are the victims of police or civilian violence, and likely the motivator in many (not all) other cases.\u00a0 This is a serious issue that, see book recommendation below, plays a significant part on all sides of the societal-violence problem.<\/li>\n
Something is clearly very, very wrong when there is a steady flow of reports from around the nation that involve the police killing people while apprehending suspects in non-capital crimes (such as counterfeiting), as well as killing innocent bystanders<\/a> in the process of apprehending unequivocally dangerous persons.<\/li>\n
The fact that we live in a violent, lawless society \u2014 the sort where a peaceful protest inspires pillaging and burning \u2014 in no way undermines the cause of the peaceful protesters demanding the police knock it off with the violence and lawlessness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
This is not a left or right issue.\u00a0 It is not conservative or liberal.\u00a0 It\u2019s not even religious or secular, though religion has plenty to say about morality and right living.\u00a0 Thus:<\/p>\n
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You can be a veil-wearing, husband-submitting, ultra-conservative, ultra-religious housewife on the extreme right, or you can be a gigolo on the extreme left who dresses like such a gal for the annual pride parade, and\u00a0come to the same exact conclusion on this issue.<\/em><\/li>\n
You can own all the guns or want to outlaw all the guns and\u00a0come to the same exact conclusion on this issue.<\/em><\/li>\n
You can Adore Trump or Trust Biden\u00a0and\u00a0come to the same exact conclusion on this issue.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The police not-killing civilians is not a partisan policy position.\u00a0 It\u2019s a normal decent human being position.<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
It is, nonetheless, a difficult position to legislate.\u00a0 Just as the problem is complex, so are the potential solutions.\u00a0 As it turns out, there\u2019s a bit of contemporary military science<\/a> that has assessed the factors that make human beings more willing to kill more easily \u2014 and therefore given us some information on how to decrease the likelihood of brutality as well.\u00a0 It\u2019s worth a look.\u00a0 Initial book review is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
$\"Carved$ <\/p>\n
Artwork courtesy of Wikimedia, CC 4.0.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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