Why are they rioting now? The offender was charged for the only thing that he could have been charged for. Or did they expect 1st degree murder charges?
The ONLY reason for any rioting is the media portrayal of the outcome.
The first headlines I saw actually portrayed this as a positive, just action.
And actually the officer who acted the most negligently *is* indeed going to be prosecuted.
If the media portrayed that as a just and righteous result, then there would be celebrations today.
And then I saw a story that the family was upset with the turn of events. Confused, I read and saw the narrative change almost immediately into the idea that this was an awful and unfair development.
And so people are outraged.
It's the same reason why I saw a guy during the Gulf War paint his rear view window with "Nuke France, Invade Iraq, Take Their Oil" (this man was actually a French teacher and neighbor, who was enraged that the French did not want to invade and occupy Iraq because reasons).
It's the same reason people rage about "turning Iraq/Iran/Syria/Lebanon/etc into a glass parking lot!"
But no one is outraged that a neighboring tribal Semitic ethnostate has, not just weapons of mass destruction, including biological diseases, or illegal chemical weapons, but nuclear weapons, which they obtained through espionage and theft of US military material, and to this day defy all international treaties on nuclear weapons. If the media told a different story, everyone would be ranting and raving and wanting to destroy this nation, but instead we are told they are our literal greatest ally.
The media could easily whip up a crowd into a frenzy over a
Louisville black man executing white strangers at a restaurant.
We could be marching in the streets demanding an end to pan-African violence in our streets after a
black man killed a 5 year old white kindergartener riding his bike, and talking about how Africans simply cannot coexist peacefully with European peoples, but instead most people don't even know this happened because of the way the media handles the story.
This whole Louisville story is about an indictment, which is meaningless. Derek Chauvin, who knelt on George Floyd's neck at the beginning of all this madness, was indicted THE NEXT DAY for causing the death of Floyd. The Breonna Taylor thing for some reason was stretched out for months before they took action (THAT would actually be an interesting question for the media to look into). But indictments are inconsequential. Any prosecutor will tell you that you can "indict a ham sandwich" because indictments are basically rubber stamps and are close to 100% successful. I have actually never read of an indictment that a grand jury failed to return.
The REAL news will be the prosecution, trial, and particularly the verdict and punishment. Of course, that all depends on how the media spins those events. They could be completely unimportant stories, or they could be the cause for a civil war. Or something in between. It's all how they spin the message. As a famous German man once stated, In a Democracy, it is rule by media.