The recent riots

[Rekhoem]

Can we get more of this "Riot"-Stuff? It sounds fun and healthy for the server's RP Climate. Stuff EVERYONE can take part in without being looked at weirdly for intruding a situation

[xdthe]

40 minutes ago, Engelbert said:

IRL people will riot over anything, especially if one side make a mistake to trigger the other. But IG riots are often used as an excuse for mallrats and more aggressive gangbangers to go beating, murdering or robbing sprees, while those are not that widespread, they still happen and one single pistol shot from out of nowhere can spark the whole mayhem thing, which I assumed is what happened with cops starting shooting. I am having hardtime picturing cops starting the shootout just because they could. Every cop knows that once they fire the gun, there's a lot more stuff to deal with. And they don't wanna do that if they can contain situation using other means. Cause if they did I imagine they wouldn't be cops by now. I may be wrong, but I heard, that cops were only responding to a battle between two gangs initially.

I mean if a cop shoots a male dead simply because they threw one punch at the deputy after he passed the racial slur. People irl would protest. However I do feel like a lot of people just randomly got involved as an excuse to cause mayhem, I didn’t like seeing sports car owners pull up to the riot when they weren’t even originally involved. In the end though it was good fun for everyone and no harm was done really. The people who fail roleplayed were dealt swiftly by the administration.

[xdthe]

29 minutes ago, Henning said:

Lmao most of you have never been in a riot and it shows.

 

Listen, I wasn’t at this event but I’ve been reading people replies and I’ve been watch the videos. From what I’m seeing? It was a pretty decent replication of an actual riot. Speaking from personal experience? Random bystanders being attacked isn’t unrealistic, in a riot it is complete anarchy and the only thing stopping someone from killing you? Is they not feeling like killing you. I’ve seen people get stabbed, shot, jumped and gang beat at riots in early June. You look at someone the wrong way? Someone doesn’t like you for some reason? You could be attacked and that’s just the cold hard truth.

 

now I’m also seeing a ton of people focus they’re entire debate on if an officer saying the N word was enough justification to start a riot. What people need to understand is it’s not what started the situation that matters, it’s what cops do in response which escalated the situation into a riot.

 

I’m from Minneapolis, I was at the protests for the first week. George Floyd’s death sparked a protest, it was the actions of the police force on night one that started the riot. You don’t get a riot for one singular reason, it’s a mixture of emotions that are brought on by the situation. 
 

On the server we just recently had a video go viral of a deputy using excessive force on someone, the relationship between the black community and Law Enforcement has always been shit. Then you have a sheriffs deputy saying the N word? Sure that action alone doesn’t constitute a riot but when you put them all together it sure does make a nice tipping point.

 

It seems like a small vocal minority is upset about the situation, I really hope that doesn’t effect any future management decisions. From the looks of it, this created Roleplay that will effect characters for months, if not years. For some officers this will be one of the defining moments in their characters story, something that will be baked into the history of the LSPD and LSSD. For the server? The shockwaves from this event will be felt all over the map, creating organic roleplay that the entire community is able to partake in.

I agree, the deputy passing the racial slur wasn’t the sole IC reason the riots erupted. There were numerous other reasons including the killing of Jamal which was unjustified and a cop shooting  someone dead for throwing a single punch. All of these factors combined created a big uproar. People also have to realize that this type of stuff happens in real life, let’s take a look at the LA 92 riots. It all started because of the Rodney king beating, where an unarmed African American male was severely beaten by officers for no reason and the officers passed racial slurs while doing so. This created an uproar, thousands of people were injured because of these riots, including random bystanders. Looting occurred and the whole city was up in flames because of it. These riots which occurred in south central LS and city hall weren’t totally unrealistic and had basis.

[Lucie]

Had some flaws but I totally loved the riots to happen, even if my character wasn't participating. While it created a lot of lag when I was in the area, things like these are a great addition to the server lore, and create conversation topics between characters. I'd love more political rp could arise from the riots, a new democrat or socialist party being created given we already have an in game republican party. 

Edited July 5, 2020 by Lucie

[Wisci]

9 hours ago, Dom. said:

I'm also quite disappointed that a cop who shot into a group of protesters who killed someone managed to get the situation voided even though we'd been roleplaying around the death for upwards of twenty minutes. I wish we could keep things IC for once. What can you do, I guess. Cops can do no wrong.

Unsure if this was responded to, but most of the voided situations were due to poor roleplay / admin punishments.

 

For example, the two shootings at City Hall voided were due to someone intentionally instigated a fight by pulling a lethal melee weapon, changing character and coming back for round two. I don't know if this was to try to instigate more riots, just for fun with poor judgement or what.

[Bospy]

Although I wasn't a participant this is the kind of roleplay I want to foster on the community - dynamic, player-driven. No event team was necessary. No organization was needed. This kind of RP is the kind you'll remember years from now when you're with friends talking about the community. A riot completely out of IC events. I'm fully for it, regardless of what really started it, because what matters is that a spark caused a fire to get lit. Now I get to RP the politics on the Sheriff and trying to throw people under the bus.

[Engelbert]

2 hours ago, xdthe said:

I mean if a cop shoots a male dead simply because they threw one punch at the deputy after he passed the racial slur. People irl would protest. However I do feel like a lot of people just randomly got involved as an excuse to cause mayhem, I didn’t like seeing sports car owners pull up to the riot when they weren’t even originally involved. In the end though it was good fun for everyone and no harm was done really. The people who fail roleplayed were dealt swiftly by the administration.

I sincerely hope that those cops will be punished, shooting a guy who punches a cop isn't in any PD guidebooks or directives, tazers? Yeah those yeah.

[jcat]

11 hours ago, Mecovy said:

I mean I was there as a Dr trying to help people who got hurt, and ended up being attacked physically by one of the protesters,

 

Paramedics are routinely attacked during American riots.

[xdthe]

13 minutes ago, Bospy said:

Although I wasn't a participant this is the kind of roleplay I want to foster on the community - dynamic, player-driven. No event team was necessary. No organization was needed. This kind of RP is the kind you'll remember years from now when you're with friends talking about the community. A riot completely out of IC events. I'm fully for it, regardless of what really started it, because what matters is that a spark caused a fire to get lit. Now I get to RP the politics on the Sheriff and trying to throw people under the bus.

I absolutely agree, this wasn't an event which was started by an admin or a controlling source. It was completely in the heat of the moment type event. Nobody expected that when 2 LSSD squad cars pulled up to investigate a 911 call about the group of black individuals that it would end up leading to a huge riot in the South Central Area of Los Santos. That's what is really cool about this event, as someone who was originally part of the group of people when the riots started it was really cool to see how such a small thing erupted into such a huge riot. I think that the community needs to foster more roleplay like this, as long as it is properly roleplayed and portrayed realistically.

[Dislord]

When mob mentality takes over, erratic and unnecessary violence is very likely.

 

When you gather so many people on this server into one place, there are bound to be a few people that takes things too far and break the rules.

 

Doesn't change that this was one of the best nights I've had on the server in over a year... although that might just be a testament to how boring of an RP'er I typically am.