While everyone has the right to peacefully protest injustice, vandalism cannot be tolerated. The vandalism cost taxpayers and business owners more than $5.5 million. As long as the destruction remains visible, criminals will continue to target other people’s property.” Krista Kafer
An authentic celebration of Independence Day does not indiscriminately celebrate America’s past. Rather, it celebrates our struggle to fully realize America’s basic moral ideals.
You can’t expect data on violent encounters with police to mirror the ethnic breakdown of the larger population so long as cops are being called more frequently into some neighborhoods than others.
Yes, pockets of racism persist but claims that racism is as bad as ever and is systemic in America are absurd.
It is the nature of government unions to protect the worst employees from getting canned and prevent the best employees from being rewarded. The key word in collective bargaining is after all, “collective.”
Brauchler says that the sanctions are so punitive that he is afraid that many qualified law enforcement professionals will quit and find other work due to the unprecedented uninsurable liability for even good-faith mistakes.
Let’s not lose sight of the many gains that justice-seeking activists have achieved. This weekend people marched to end police abuse, and every political leader I’ve heard from supports peaceful protests and legal reforms toward this cause.
Sen. John Cooke called the Democrats’ statement a gross misrepresentation. “We do not stand in solidarity whatsoever with the anarchists and protestors that destroyed property yesterday.”
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