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In reply to the discussion: Re: Baton Rouge [View all]Martin Eden
(13,538 posts)56. The authorities were not defeated by force of arms
On the contrary, after the police couldn't manage the situation the authorities brought in a greater force which restored order. What happened in LA in the wake of the Rodney King verdict involved widespread rioting and looting, though there were gun battles including armed store owners who banded together to protect their property:
Open gun battles were televised, as in one well publicized incident where Korean shopkeepers armed with M1 carbines, pump action shotguns, and handguns exchanged gunfire with, broke up, and forced a retreat of a group of armed looters.
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You have a valid point in that a commission and reforms of the police Dept. followed, which very likely would not have happened any time soon if not for the severity of the riots.
This is not remotely a good analogy to the Civil War, which prompted my initial reply.
And my last question remains unanswered by you:
Do you applaud the Dallas shooter and see his actions as a winning strategy to end police brutality and racial bias?
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Brown had little to do with Lincoln winning the election but a lot to do with southern secession.
Hoppy
Jul 2016
#20
Brown's raid apparently prompted several southern states to form, arm and train new
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#24
If Lincoln lost, the South wouldn't have seceded in response to the election.
Martin Eden
Jul 2016
#41
The LADP ran outta my neighborhood so fast you'd think the devil was on their heels
bravenak
Jul 2016
#52
The LA insurrection defeated soundly the LAPD (the force in question) and
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#55
The LAPD were defeated. That's all that's been at issue, as far as I'm concerned, per your
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#57
"organized mass resistance or even unorganized mass resistance is another matter entirely"
Martin Eden
Jul 2016
#59
Inferring from your most recent post, you seem to believe the system is capable of reforming
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#60
Back to John Brown. He and his followers represented the fringe of the fringe at the time. Most
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#62
Douglass may have been cool to Brown's entreaties before the raid, not wishing to embark on what he
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#64
John Brown's raid was perhaps one of the last turning points leading to the Civil War . . .
brush
Jul 2016
#53
Yup. There are many ways to fight injustice. There's talking, economics, and then there's force.
craigmatic
Jul 2016
#12
er, you're equating people asking simply to not be shot to "right wing anger"?
Schema Thing
Jul 2016
#14
People are not asking not to be shot. They are raging about black men being shot
Democat
Jul 2016
#17