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It doesn't matter, in this very specific case at least. It's symbolic now. They will get far more out of that store in flames on the news than they ever would have staying in fact.I think they're going to take a strong look at their P/L from this store before any of this.Cvs will have a couple of triage trailers and generate huge pub for rebuilding. It's a marketing opportunity.I am more concerned about bobs pharmacy than cvsProb bc it was burned and destroyed. But that is just a building owned by a corporation so who gives a ####? I can take a guess...TobiasFunke said:This is a ridiculous straw man argument. I never said the problem is limited to law enforcement. I didn't endlessly point my finger at law enforcement. I have condemned rioting repeatedly in the Ferguson thread and now this one too. I never said I had the solution.fantasycurse42 said:$5.7MM over 4 years in a city with well over 500,000 people doesn't sound like a huge chunk to me, do you want robots to enforce the law?... The problems here go well beyond those who are hired to enforce the law... To endlessly point your finger at law enforcement is foolish... This behavior yesterday is unacceptable and I'd be happy if the penalties for inciting riots like this were increased 10 fold.TobiasFunke said:I've never worked in law enforcement so it's difficult to say. But I feel confident that I would not make it regular practice to beat up innocent people without justification. I would not have beaten the #### out of an 87 year old grandmother and told her "#####, you aint no better than any of the other old black #####es I have locked up." I would not have slammed an innocent pregnant woman to the ground. I would not have taken down a 4'11, 107 pound innocent grandmother and ground her face into the concrete. And I would not have cost the city millions of dollars and fueling completely justified distrust and anger for law enforcement in the process. And yes, I don't think I would forcefully shove an innocent man with his hands up to the ground, or thrown rocks at protestors, or arrested journalists for doing their (very important) job.
But sure, let's absolve the police of these many, many horrific acts and ignore the justifiable resentment they cause in the community because their jobs are hard.
I don't know the solution here, but neither do you, nor does the African American Mayor, or the African American Police Commissioner.
All I did was ridicule your preposterous knee-jerk defense of clearly improper police behavior because "their jobs are hard." Ignoring the sins of law enforcement here is a huge mistake, because that's obviously a source of a lot of the frustration in the community. And for that matter, why is there so much more outrage about people looting a CVS than there is about police beating up innocent grandmothers and pregnant women and many many other innocent people? Would anyone here even know about those incidents without the Gray death and the protests? Hell I bet the majority of the posters here condemning the looting still haven't read that Baltimore Sun investigation even though I've now posted it twice.
Prob grandma and grandpa who rely on the largest pharmaceutical carrier in their neighborhood. They might have difficulty conveniently obtaining life saving or altering medication for the next few months as this store is rebuilt (or if it is rebuilt). They might care and this might cause some outrage.
To add, I think a lot of people who depend on meds, might be highly highly inconvenienced for quite some time. A lot of these people are in bad shape and inconveniencing them is dangerous to their health.