However, DA Rollins and Representative Pressley have to be kidding.
They cannot condone vandalism, tacitly or in any other way. DA Rollins has done that, and Representative Pressley is supporting her against the police.
You cannot both demand that the police protect the public and excuse the damage done by rioters. Store owners are part of the public; they have rights.
If DA Rollins and Representative Pressley want to patrol store fronts to try to talk to looters approaching with bricks and other implements of destruction, they can. If they're not going to face the violence themselves, fulltime, then they shouldn't excuse it.
If DA Rollins wants to continue Tweeting about "white fragility," I can't stop her. I don't know if DA Rollins and Representative Pressley think that I have spent 6 of the past 9 years in an alternate universe of Boston-area homeless shelters, but I want to assure them both that I am no stranger to witnessing real violence. Shelter brawls don't happen every day, but they are frequent enough that on one occasion another homeless woman leaned over and asked me if she could get some popcorn. I don't know what DA Rollins' definition of "white fragility" is; would she care to elaborate?
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