Letter to the editor: Use positive actions to bring about change

OK, Pittsburghers, you’ve done it again. You use violent, unlawful protests to protest unlawful behavior that didn’t even happen in your city. What have you proven, what good have you done? Nothing and none, yet you have caused damage and unreasonable cost to your city. What was the looting supposed to prove? Will it ever occur to you that this isn’t the way?

Change begins at home. Try a positive reaction to this negative situation. Get involved, run for office, attend meetings, demand changes and be part of the change. Flood government offices with mail demanding the actions that you think are necessary and keep track of who you wrote to. If that representative does nothing, remember to vote against him or her. You won’t get immediate change, but these violent mobs don’t get any change at all. Instead, sow a seed for change and keep after it, not just when there is a horrible action taken place but every day.

You couldn’t pay me enough to be a police officer, but that is because of you, not me. I’d be afraid, yet that is no excuse for a police officer to break laws that he/she has sworn to enforce. Police brutality is unacceptable. I can understand how someone might lose their temper in some circumstances; I cannot understand others standing by filming and not taking action.

Don’t forget your children. Teach them to abhor violence. We won’t get there overnight, but we didn’t get here that way, either. We can each be a Mister Rogers and make every day a beautiful day.

Eileen Condie

Hempfield