Why are people so shocked about all the rioting and chaos that is happening in the United States?

I am torn about this. The #blacklivesmatter hashtag started 7 years ago - and has essentially been met with resentment and ridicule. Rather than addressing the problem the hashtag is meant to spotlight, the discussion devolved into, "Yeah? More than white or brown lives? This is racist."

This tragedy in Minneapolis seems to me, at least, to have burned this issue pure of contaminants. George Floyd may or may not have tried to pass counterfeit bills. It does seem to me odd that if he had just been thwarted in a crime that he would still be sitting in his car within clear view of the location of that attempted crime.

For this uncharged, untried crime, he was executed.

Anyone too dumb to understand that kneeling for almost eight minutes on a man's neck is potentially going to cause harm or death really should not be a police officer.

I do believe most police officers should receive our support.

But the clincher for me is that rioters are being arrested on the spot with no more evidence than prosecutors have against Derek Chauvin and his fellow officers at the scene.

What makes these two situations worthy of far different arrest protocols?

While I'm here - if anyone doubts that the media have their own agenda - at least one newspaper published the information that Derek Chauvin lived on a particular block on a particular street in a particular neighborhood. There can only be one reason for that. Pumping up more violence.

Exactly. It is prophecy being unfolded before our very eyes.

I don't condone it, but dammit, black people have been murdered by cops for decades now. Dr. Martin Luther King tried his best to always encourage peaceful protest. So many of those people took a beating for it.

I can only say that if I am sick over watching on television a man being murdered right in broad daylight, can you just imagine how the community feels? Maybe people know they have to be seen in a big way and make national news, hence the looting and fires.

You know if this never made national TV, Floyd would just be another incident that would go unheard.

Obama's legacy, he was shattered that it was being destroyed. Well now he can rejoice cuz this part is alive and well.

I only hope it doesn't cause more innocent victims than changes, as it's often the case for violent protests.

it's been going on since at least the 50s, periodically, it can't be a surprise after 70+ years of it.

I'm not sure rioting is going to fix it.

And I'm not sure why do they have to
be upset like being dictate by Joseph Stalin.

It shouldn't be surprising. It also shouldn't be more outrageous than the killings that sparked it.

This bull shit repeats itself every election year and people are blind to it.

It feels like everyone released their bottled up anger once the lockdowns ended.

all the rioting going on in the USA ? huh what wtf excuse me what are u talking about

lockdown did not help tempers either

I don't know why. It's not like this is the first time this has happened.