BNakagawa

While players might balk at dragging real world politics to the game table, it might be more palatable if a long time adversary was using their knowledge of the heroes to drag them into interacting with riots via their backgrounds and/or disads. 
 
If it was an especially well informed adversary, they might be able to split the team if the core conflict of the riots put key members of the PCs at odds over their positions.
 
If the PCs haven't been meticulous about stray shots or knockback or overzealous use of area effects/explosions, they could be the reason for the riots. 

I'm sorry that I can't recall the username of the poster who told this story on these forums, but the story itself has stayed with me for years. IIRC said poster related this remark from his army drill sergeant to his platoon on their first day of training: "You don't have to earn my respect. That's your God-given right as human beings. But God help you if you ever lose it!"

Trencher, that kinda sounds like you've never tried watching them.

I disagree. You can make blanket statements about the scope of work of another person without having done the same work. Everybody on the streets around the world is doing exactly that. 
 
The council of Minneapolis has expressed  the intent to explore the dissolution of the MPD entirely. 
 
Police all over the country have had countless opportunities to address the problems and universally they all close ranks, resist reform, refuse oversight and ignore any challenges to their monopoly of force. Police aren't part of the solution, they're core to the problem. The solution of Minneapolis might be some portion of a national solution. The structural problem won't go away without a large scale fix. They'll never accept incremental reform and they'll always just go back to their old ways once the heat is off.

if your first response to a potentially violent situation is a police officer whose default response to conflict is violence, then you're just creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

decades ago, police went to court to fight for and win the legal right to discriminate against high IQ applicants.

decades ago, police went to court to fight for and win the legal right to discriminate against high IQ applicants.

decades ago, police went to court to fight for and win the legal right to discriminate against high IQ applicants.

Because there is a long history of police getting away with murder and paying no penalty at all. And people are sick an tired of it.

That assumes a level of self reflection that is beyond the capacity of most of the police. Remember that decades ago, the police went to court to fight for the right to discriminate against high IQ applicants. (and won)

Because there is a long history of police getting away with murder and paying no penalty at all. And people are sick an tired of it.

Chauvin has now been charged with 2nd degree murder. charges being prepared against the other officers present.

It's hardly different from the Boston Tea Party. White extremists instigating the property damage and trying to blame it on people of color.

It's hardly different from the Boston Tea Party. White extremists instigating the property damage and trying to blame it on people of color.

It's hardly different from the Boston Tea Party. White extremists instigating the property damage and trying to blame it on people of color.

It's time we blew this scene. Get everybody and the stuff together...
 
 

TUSH
 
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This is the action of a small fringe of the Michigan populace -- polls show the majority support Whitmer's lockdown measures. But the current political climate is tolerating this kind of activity, and Donald Trump is actually fueling it with his "Liberate Michigan" tweets. Four years ago every level and branch of government would have condemned such expressed sentiments in the harshest terms, and the people running the websites encouraging such violence would have had their asses dragged into court for inciting hatred and armed insurrection.

they make the most ridiculous noises.
 

they make the most ridiculous noises.
 

they make the most ridiculous noises.