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This is America, whilst technically possible, the average american adult has unlikely walked or even considered walking this distance in their adult life to dat

This is America, whilst technically possible, the average american adult has unlikely walked or even considered walking this distance in their adult life to date. On PBS food desert (comical from outside perspective) documentary the average interviewed person considered five miles / twenty minutes on a bus too far.

kodah 5y ago
https://m.startribune.com/minneapolis-st-paul-buildings-are-damaged-looted-after-george-floyd-protests-riots/569930671/ https://m.startribune.com/minneapolis-st-paul-buildings-are-... > Buildings along a 5-mile stretch of Lake Street in Minneapolis and a 3.5-mile stretch of University Avenue in St. Paul's Midway area experienced some of the heaviest damage. You might be able to say that various people did all the damage, but to my knowledge a smaller group of folks were responsible for the larger damage done.
- ashtonkem 5y ago
  I'd highly recommend you double check the position of the 2nd precinct station on that map, it's in an area that's very lightly damaged. By my count there are only five instances of property damage closer than one mile to the station, and the nearest is 0.4 miles away. The closest serious damage, a destroyed building, is 2.7 miles away and on the other side of the river. Not exactly the map of a station in dire straits worried about getting overrun.
technick 5y ago
I can't tell if this is satire or not because I haven't met one of these Americans in 41 years.
- ashtonkem 5y ago
  I’m not sure if it’s satirical or not either, to be honest. Plenty of Americans can walk a few miles. Besides, it’s not like rioting is something that doesn’t take significant cardio vascular fortitude in its own right. Something tells me that individually lots of those rioters were more than capable of walking five miles over level, paved terrain. The real question is not whether or not a rioter could walk from there to here, but whether the riot will come here without being stopped or dissipating into smaller and easier to stop groups. If the riot disperses and 5% shows up at the other precinct, that’s a pretty easy thing for the cops to deal with; and if it isn’t I have questions about what all the public safety money is being spent for. And that's of course before we look at the terrain. The 2nd and 3rd precinct are on opposite sides of the river. That means that even if you were certain that the riot was coming for the 2nd precinct next, you have a very small number of bridges that you could defend to stop the riot. In fact, cops regularly prefer bridges to kettle and mass arrest both riots and protests, and that would have been the perfect opportunity had it happened.

kodah 5y ago

https://m.startribune.com/minneapolis-st-paul-buildings-are-damaged-looted-after-george-floyd-protests-riots/569930671/ https://m.startribune.com/minneapolis-st-paul-buildings-are-... > Buildings along a 5-mile stretch of Lake Street in Minneapolis and a 3.5-mile stretch of University Avenue in St. Paul's Midway area experienced some of the heaviest damage. You might be able to say that various people did all the damage, but to my knowledge a smaller group of folks were responsible for the larger damage done.

ashtonkem 5y ago
I'd highly recommend you double check the position of the 2nd precinct station on that map, it's in an area that's very lightly damaged. By my count there are only five instances of property damage closer than one mile to the station, and the nearest is 0.4 miles away. The closest serious damage, a destroyed building, is 2.7 miles away and on the other side of the river. Not exactly the map of a station in dire straits worried about getting overrun.

technick 5y ago

I can't tell if this is satire or not because I haven't met one of these Americans in 41 years.

ashtonkem 5y ago
I’m not sure if it’s satirical or not either, to be honest. Plenty of Americans can walk a few miles. Besides, it’s not like rioting is something that doesn’t take significant cardio vascular fortitude in its own right. Something tells me that individually lots of those rioters were more than capable of walking five miles over level, paved terrain. The real question is not whether or not a rioter could walk from there to here, but whether the riot will come here without being stopped or dissipating into smaller and easier to stop groups. If the riot disperses and 5% shows up at the other precinct, that’s a pretty easy thing for the cops to deal with; and if it isn’t I have questions about what all the public safety money is being spent for. And that's of course before we look at the terrain. The 2nd and 3rd precinct are on opposite sides of the river. That means that even if you were certain that the riot was coming for the 2nd precinct next, you have a very small number of bridges that you could defend to stop the riot. In fact, cops regularly prefer bridges to kettle and mass arrest both riots and protests, and that would have been the perfect opportunity had it happened.