(06-24-2020 06:28 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(06-24-2020 06:24 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(06-24-2020 06:15 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(06-24-2020 05:04 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(06-23-2020 04:48 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  Correct. I agree. But the vast majority of the protesters are not rioters. The media emphasizes their actions so they get amplified. What percentage of the protesters do you think fall into the "rioter" category? I think it's < 1%.

As Lad has noted, this thread is better served by commenting on the "demands" from the groups as they relate to Rice. I am guilty of helping steer this off-topic. For any further discussion of this let's move it to the George Floyd thread.

Two things bother me about your 1% estimate:

1. If the protest crowds numbered about 100K in each city, then less than 1000 protesters did Hundreds of millions in damage

2. While 99:000 stood by and watched and cheered without intervening.

The aggregate damages in all cities should be in the billions.

I don’t think your numbers add up.

Tens of billions -- Minneapolis is estimated at 900 million alone.

Quote: Officials in Minneapolis say the looting and property damage that following the death of George Floyd has caused at least $55 million in destruction.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com...tests/amp/

Quote: The property destruction and looting during some of the protests over George Floyd’s May 25 death in police custody will cost insurers at least $25 million dollars — and that’s in Minnesota alone.

That estimate is according to Property Claim Services, an insurance industry company that monitors “catastrophes.” The word has special meaning for insurers, applying to large-scale man-made or natural disasters that will result in claims reaching at least $25 million.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketw...2020-06-04

You can eyeball the news and note that 55 million is drop in the bucket, lad.

Criminy, the precinct building alone is probably at least half that amount, if not coming close to it.

Also, note the term 'cost insurers'. Almost every single commercial insurance policy exempts riots and acts of civil insurrection.

Notice the first link isn’t related to insurance estimates (hence the difference).

I’m just looking for a better estimate than “eyeballs.”

This article ups the total damage for the Twin Cities to $500MM - still half of the eyeball estimate for Minneapolis alone. Did you hear $900MM somewhere?

Quote: Owners and insurance experts estimate the costs of the damage could exceed $500 million. That would make the Twin Cities riots the second-costliest civil disturbance in U.S. history, trailing only those in Los Angeles in 1992, which were also sparked by racial tensions with police and had $1.4 billion in damages in today’s dollars.

https://m.startribune.com/twin-cities-re...571075592/