Sensational crimes have always made headlines, like driving Uhaul trucks into stores already boarded up to protect themselves (an actual thing here). So yeah, looting will always get the bulk of attention.
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Let the players say what they want to. They have ever right to voice their opinion just like everyone else.
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I agree but the beginning of this thread had some good sports related talk (how the NFL is gonna handle it, fan reaction, possible sponsorship issues, etc). Then it got mucked up-deliberately. All the talk he did about Chicago and everything else is what DC is for.
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No, I get it. If you want to open it up then bring the kneeling issue about players from other sports doing it. I'll give you an example: the NBA is due to start in July, Lebron James has been at the front of all of this recently. It could be said he's the biggest sports star in the world. Do you think he and other NBA players will be kneeling when the NBA decides to play the national anthem next month?

See what I did there? No different then what bleeding did, but he took it even further, and away from what the players are talking about while I just changed sports. I agree that white people, hispanic, native americans, hindu americans and asian americans all others also get killed by cops. That wasn't what Pat is talking about. He (and others like him) are trying to open the discussion about how the issue relates to blacks in this country. That's what they are talking about and that's what the thread has in the title. If bleeding wants to talk about other stuff then create a thread about it and have fun.
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Dane, he wasn’t talking about protestors in the post I quoted.

I’m aware that most people are peacefully protesting.

But I also think there’s more looting/rioting than .4%.
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There is no place at the games for politics. If you don't want to stand for the anthem then stay in the locker room. You not being on the field will be noticed. We go to the games to escape the world for about 3 hours. Relax and root for our team and to forget about stuff for just a little while. The NFL should require everyone on the field to stand for the anthem. If players don't want to, then they should be given the option to stay in the locker room. If you don't want to do either, you can always find another job with your college education. I'm sure it won't pay millions but, you have that option. On your days off, join the protests, sponsor some of the gatherings, go on talk shows and express your opinion, use twitter, Face Book and other social mediums to get your opinion out there. KEEP POLITICS OFF THE FIELD.
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It’s not just about profiting. They’re young kids looking for an excuse to fuck shit up. They don’t really care. They aren’t heartbroken over this.

If you believe that most of the people fucking shit up care, you’re naive and a fool.
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I also don't believe the majority of the people out there are just fucking shit up though. I think that is pretty small compared to the overall number.
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So it’s just a real small amount of people causing ALL this destruction? It’s everywhere and there’s a lot of it. I’ve seen it with my own eyes.

Yes most are protesting peacefully. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t also a significant amount that aren’t.
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4,000 arrests across the country, 560 of which occurred last Saturday night in DTLA and more than one million protesters.

Maybe law enforcement hasn't arrested every looter but that number can't be much higher than 100. It just "seems" as if there are more looters because they're getting all of the attention.
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Their very first demand to the NFL is to condemn racism. Not police brutality, but racism. So how else should one respond to that beyond a discussion about racial issues? Nobody can honestly say this is just about police brutality towards black people. They aren’t even saying that.
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I guess that few bad apples analogy is gonna get spun both ways now...but in reality there are always going to be people who are opportunistic or want to cause chaos that doesn't mean it isn't a minority of who's out there.
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Some places are/were allowing it to happen though, so there won’t be nearly as many arrests as their are offenders.

I think looking at the number of arrests to try to figure out how many are rioting and looting is silly. Most aren’t being arrested.
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Keep politics off the field but what're you're describing sounds a lot like taking away someone's 1st amendment rights. I don't know if you support allowing people to have guns to protect their family (I do) Sounds like you're against free speech, hopefully you're not against the right to bear arms. Is there any other parts of the constitution that you don't like? Where does it stop for you then? Do you want to tell the players what to wear, who to date, let us know where the overreach into ending people's amendments issue stop? Players are people too and have rights just like all of us do.
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That is because the media now is worried about ratings and money. Violence sells. I am old enough to remember Frank Reynolds, Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley and Chet Huntley. I don't remember any of these people having and agenda. It would be nice if the media just reported the facts and let the viewer make up their own minds.
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