Chances of Ferguson/Baltimore/Charlotte style unrest here in CO?

[Zundfolge]

That's because Oklahoma isn't a swing state.

That and the "Bubba Factor" ... The Colored folk get too far outta line in Oklahoma and Bubba may show up and put them back in their place (plus there are probably more black Republicans in Oklahoma than anywhere else in the country ... so there's a good chance that Bubba will be black too).

[Sawin]

Seriously? There's that many members here that don't think it can/will happen in Denver? If you look at what's been going on in the other cities/towns, you'll see it's only ever been a couple hundred people.... If you don't think CO has a couple hundred people who will get caught up in the excitement and participate in a "riot", you're naive. All it takes is a couple nut jobs to start a bonfire, break a window, jump on the hood of a car, etc... and you'll have a self perpetuating crowd in no time...If history has proven anything it's proven CO has an abundance of nut jobs....

[ray1970]

The THC levels around here keep people pretty mellowed out. I'd be more worried about someone looting 7-11 for some Twinkies .

[Zundfolge]

The "pot makes people mellow" thing is cute as a joke but its not really true. Pot makes some people mellow, it makes other people violently paranoid. I guarantee you if you could smell the images from Charlotte you'd smell a lot of pot smoke mixed in with the burning police cars.

The simple fact is that there aren't enough blacks here for there to be a widespread unrest. Sure there could be a little flareup on East Colfax or downtown Denver, but nothing on par with Charlotte or Baltimore or even Ferguson.

Also the folk behind these riots know better than to bring that crap to Colorado ... Colorado is a delicate balance right now and if you frighten the white folk here they're more likely to buy more guns and vote Trump than feel all guilt ridden and vote for Hillary.

Also also it gets cold at night here. That alone is a rather big deterrent to rioting.

[Irving]

The bigger factor is that there just isn't the racial divide out here as there is in other parts of the country; although it's difficult to tell when reading all the riot wet dreams people are posting on here.

[Great-Kazoo]

Seriously? There's that many members here that don't think it can/will happen in Denver? If you look at what's been going on in the other cities/towns, you'll see it's only ever been a couple hundred people.... If you don't think CO has a couple hundred people who will get caught up in the excitement and participate in a "riot", you're naive. All it takes is a couple nut jobs to start a bonfire, break a window, jump on the hood of a car, etc... and you'll have a self perpetuating crowd in no time...If history has proven anything it's proven CO has an abundance of nut jobs....

Unless one of the sports teams wins, big, not happening. As mentioned CO is moderately purple, politics wise. Start looting and trashing downtown denver, be a lot of pissed voters pulling Trump in Nov.

Remember the majority of " outraged folk" are OOS paid "defenders of freedom" I wish folks would get away from the 'Ain't enough colored folks here" mentality. The spark gets fanned in to flames by outside money.

1 good spark and there would be bus loads of OUTRAGED citizens come nightfall.

Any shooting, the LE faces some form of charge (politically motivated) hoping to quell the unrest. That female LE who turned herself in. GFL getting anything other than a 3-5 yr sentence.

This other shooting, Black cop and citizen. Goes to show, to the more informed. It's not about color, more so than money causing civil unrest.

[Martinjmpr]

^^^^^^^
What he said.

Possible? Well in the strictest senst of the term that "anything is possible", Yes.

Likely? No, I don't think so.

Most of the cities where these things have happened have had a low-simmer of racial and police tension for years. In the cities where these riots happen, the police are looked at as an occupying force by the residents of the predominately minority neighborhoods and conversely, the (mostly white, middle-class) police who patrol those streets with the same attitude as a soldier patrolling the worst neighborhoods of Ramadi or Baghdad. In that kind of a situation it only takes one incident to set off the powder keg of barely controlled hostility.

Colorado doesn't have the "density" of minority neighborhoods to have that kind of a situation and there isn't as much of an "us-vs-them" mentality between the citizens and the police.

I think another factor is economics - the Denver area is a place where just about anybody who wants a job can get one, including minority residents in the inner city (not necessarily a great or high-paying job, but a job nevertheless.)

The bleak sense of hopelessness that feeds a lot of the simmering rage in these big Eastern or rust-belt cities is usually missing here.

I wouldn't be so bold as to say we'll never see this kind of rioting in Denver, but we'll see it in a lot of other places first.

[Zundfolge]

The bigger factor is that there just isn't the racial divide out here as there is in other parts of the country

Colorado doesn't have the "density" of minority neighborhoods to have that kind of a situation and there isn't as much of an "us-vs-them" mentality between the citizens and the police.

This may be more of a Colorado Springs thing than a Colorado thing, but the vast majority of the black folk I know are military (or retired military). And a big chunk of them are married to non blacks. So they aren't the deep racists that many ghetto blacks tend to be and thus are hard to get all riled up.


Now my home town of Wichita Kansas? I vaguely remember the race riots there in the early 70s and the situation there is much worse than anywhere I've seen in Colorado.

[Ronin13]

So the Liberty Riots of 1768 or the Boston Tea Party weren't organized groups of armed men out to destroy property of their political enemies? Or the riots in Boston, New York or Philadelphia where the Sons of Liberty organized people to march against British troops because of heavy handed taxation and policing tactics? Not saying I agree with the motives or reasons of today's rioters, but don't think that rioting and destruction of property aren't effective in effecting political change. Usually because it precedes a revolution, which are usually not peaceful.

Just a little bit different there... The "riots" during the revolutionary period didn't involve destroying thing indiscriminately. Same reason why I reject the idea "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." False, terrorists kill innocents, our patriots in the 1770's didn't target British civilians.

[sampson]

Have there been "riots"? According to the media they are protests.