Oh the 75 year old who was pushed to the ground, this sort of thing doesn't help at all....
John Evans, president of the local police union, told the newspaper: "Our position is these officers were simply following orders from Deputy Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia to clear the square...
Then they will be arguing if people were there.
An Akinfenwa statue would be so wide loads of people would have turned up and never have known if others were there too.
I ask myself what I have done, me, myself, and the answer unfortunately is that of just, shed a few tears, shaken my head and said it's not fair.
It's not enough and I need to do more. We all need to do more.
That really upset me.
Innocent people being systematically attacked by law enforcement. A racist, crazily out of control president in the White House and black people getting more and more frustrated and angrier and angrier.
We cannot accept this is a black problem. It is OUR problem and and...
Yup.
Always hope she is redeemable and only brought it up again now because our 15 year old has gone and protested today and my wife was dead set against it.
So, tried to reason with her. She won't listen though.
She said the daughter couldn't go and I said she should if she felt so strongly...
Pointless talking to my wife about it. She says the protestors are just as bad as the police and she can't understand why the blacks are angry about something from 125 years ago.
She also says there is no point ever protesting, because protests never work.
I have no problem with the kneeling, myself.
It will quickly get diluted, but if initially it gets wide media coverage, then why not. And what is the difference between that and just shouting out 'I can't breathe', or 'walk with us?'