Then, this week, a Minneapolis police officer was filmed kneeling on the neck of a black man named George Floyd. On Wednesday night, peaceful demonstrations turned into riots, and on Thursday Minnesota’s governor called in the National Guard. Now, though, we might be at the start of a long, hot summer of civil unrest. “I would not at all be surprised to see this kind of reaction elsewhere over the course of the next several months.”But if America feels like a tinderbox at the moment, it’s not just because of pressure coming from the dispossessed. This is one reason civil unrest, for all the damage it can cause to communities where it breaks out, has often led to reform.

Source: bd News24 May 30, 2020 06:44 UTC