Walsh and Gross say they're not going to let violent outsiders ruin Boston; Rollins says rampagers will be prosecuted, but tells whites that black rage is real

This line about outsiders coming in is pure bullcrap and only meant to distract from the real issues that people from Boston have with the police force and the inequality in this city. These are people expressing their rage at the system that brutalizes them and ignores calls for justice in our community, not "outside agitators" for politics. 50% of arrested protestors were from Boston and even more from the immediate outside communities (Cambridge, Quincy, etc.) that obviously are affected by what happens in their large neighbor. These are widespread local issues of police brutality and injustice that need to be addressed.

BPD disgraced themselves last night. There was no reason to attack a peaceful crowd with gas, but they needlessly escalated the situation. Walsh should be demanding resignations, not handing out pats on the back.

How long are we going to keep up the premise of the "outsiders coming in here to mess things up but we're Boston Strong" bs when over 50% of those arrested are local to Boston and/or immediate surrounding towns?

Given that the majority were arrested for Breaking and Entering of a Building Nighttime for Felony can't we just own up to the fact that a large group of people took advantage of the situation and looted while simultaneously residing in Boston instead of trying to construct a narrative that implies everyone in this town holds the moral high ground.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but unless there's some other list of folks arrested for rioting that hasn't been published, it sounds to me like this is a local problem that needs to be dealt with in house because I'm having a hard time squaring the circle that a large number of outside agitators disrupted a peaceful gathering to the point where BPD lost control of the situation and mayhem broke out from the State House to the Fenway Star Market.

Someone help me out here.

She took a cheap shot at Commissioner Gross calling him management which is code for uncle tom. She also insinuated the rank and file are racists. At least you can count on Rachael to tell you how she truly feels.

as in, why the insistence on a binary between “outsiders” and good people? The latter (the majority comprised of all skin colors) wish to peacefully express “rage,” and then there are no less than three other groups exploiting the police formation: the group operating as a black bloc (generally anarchists under black flag), and anarcho-communists (under black and red flag and hammer and sickle), and organized crime (in this case groups conspiring to loot).

The anarchists are regulars to any protest that draws a police formation (e.g. amongst the counter-protestors to the “free speech rally,” and amongst Occupy “whose street? our street” marches), and they reliably do the same things in every gathering they utilize, which are provoking the police formation into attacking the gathering and, when successful, smashing property. Their intent is to find themselves with sudden non-anarchist allies in a melee against law and order.

Because the anarchists are so predictable and ever-present in protests/rallies of a ‘power to the people’ orientation, looters can generally make independent plans to spring as soon as the anarchists draw the police into a firestorm and smash away. Gucci and Louis Vuitton were obvious marks of the looters, and random smashings by anarchists provide added impromptu opportunities for looters coming prepared to steal.

As to why the anarchists (those who kick off the chain of events) are predominately of white skin and the looters predominantly POC, the anarchists are not as much interested to comment, but social media offers a treasure trove of explanations from POC as to why POC looting is justified, e.g. this thread titled “What’s your honest opinion on the looting? Black followers only” in which black respondents offer the following answers: material things don’t even begin to replace lost lives (also said as “merchandise can be replaced, black lives cannot”); it’s a start of restitution; white-owned businesses must pay, and big corporations can afford the losses anyway (said also as rich people have insurance anyway); “no justice, no peace” means whites do not deserve peace until blacks have justice; white colonizers have stolen from POC and so POC should steal from Whites; stealing is better than killing as a release valve for the rage; hurting the economy is the best way to get attention for the cause; America was built on the back of slaves and so everything belongs to blacks; and it’s not looting, it’s reparations.

https://twitter.com/BEYUPDATES2/status/1266755668779950080

Folks for the sake of everyone -- the racial rhetoric has to cool off

This is no longer a political game where one can take some viewpoint and "spin" the facts to meet your ideological perspective. Before any discussion of underlying causes can occur the Mob Rule and open insurrection must end!

There are many legitimate gripes by many groups who have been wronged over the centuries. None of the mixture of guilt by my ancestors coupled with rage by due to wrongs to your ancestors or even wrongs done to people currently alive is new or immediately going to change.

Armenian-Americans are still blaming Turkish-Americans for the genocide of 100 years ago perpetrated by no-one who is alive -- they even have an unfolded rubric's cube on the Greenway to commemorate the event.

What is new and threatens the very fabric of society is the equivocation on the part of the political types to fail to condemn in the most direct and unadulterated terms the wanton destruction and looting of the city. A city which had no part whatsoever in the original "cause" for which everyone is protesting or at least agreeing is a legitimate concern

None of the protests or the rage justifies in anyway what happened later -- after the families and college students went home

The very fabric of society began to unravel and the political types didn't permit the proper response by the police.

This is a failure of the political types to honor their oath of office is a recipe for disaster on a huge scale. If the public at large can not depend on the political leaders to set the proper parameters for civic behavior -- everything is at risk. There are nowhere enough Cops in Boston or any city to respond to all of the potential misbehavior. We are just lucky so-far in Boston to not have had wide-spread arson, and gunfire as have happened in a number of major cities.

The Governor, Mayor, Attorney General, Suffolk County DA, U.S. Attorney, and all of the various politicians in office and those running for office need to immediately get onto the same page and say in no uncertain terms:

Arson, Looting and Mob Action will not be tolerated and those involved will be hunted down and dealt with to the full extent of the Laws of the City, Commonwealth and US -- there will be no hiding place for them!

Rachael on point, not a fan, but she got it right this time.

Does it not seem obvious to everyone else that the BPD used strategic tactics to keep everyone in the common thus escalating the tension ?