There’s a growing sense in America right now that you can do bad stuff and get away with it. A mounting fear persists that the systems we’ve put in place to keep us safe and secure, and the people we’ve charged to run them, are failing us. Frightening scenes are playing out hourly on the screens we have at our fingertips. Worse, there is a vacuum of leadership that no one is adequately filling.
There is no excuse for allowing violence to continue on the scale we are seeing in major U.S. cities. The laws that we the people have put in place are clear: There is no moral equivocation available in the face of violence and destruction. Criminal violence never equals justice. Peaceful protest is by nature political and there is no role for law enforcement involvement or interest. But once the first rock is cast, law enforcement is compelled to keep order and safety regardless of the underlying issues.
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