I can make an educated guess. The majority of these protests have minimal issues. But maybe for the ones that do, try what you say and see what happens
And on the scale of things negatively affecting the Black Community this is a miniscule problem.
At best 2-3 blacks were unlawfully killed by police last year while thousands were murdered by other blacks along with 10’s of thousands wounded in shootings committed by other blacks.
The entire movement was predicated on a lie and continues to be.
I actually understood the burning of the precinct more than the burning of the autozone and looting of target. For a moment, there was a focused movement afoot.
Sheet of the bull in this thread. @WuWei you are mr macho with the guns and skills to protect yourself and your family. So destroying the police is no skin off your back.
But our social structure is built upon a nation of all sneakysfdudes.
We used to tell kids that policemen were their friends. And they were. What happened? Here’s what happened… they were treated like abused dogs. And to defend themselves they got mean… they HAD to get mean or die. So now you want to put the mean junkyard “dog” down even though the ones who beat on the “dog” are getting celebrated. You can replace all the cops with nice guys who follow all the rules and after awhile - if you let them get beaten with the frying pan over and over - they will become mean junkyard dogs too.
What happened? Here’s what happened… they were treated like abused dogs.
That’s not at all what happened. They were never our “friends”. They stopped living in the communities they “serve”. They stopped getting out of their cars except to bust heads or take money. They started shooting kids for playing with toy guns and not crawling down a motel hallway right.
What did Philando Castile do?
What Justine Damond do?
How about Daniel Shaver?
Treated like dogs? Yeah, somebody is, it ain’t cops.
Note, I’m not saying they should have burned it to the ground, but it makes sense that they did. If that was all that happened, and protests continued peacefully…99.9% of America was absolutely behind them. They could have wrote their own check in terms of police reformation. But the lawlessness underlined the necessity of those they were against. It made it a lot tougher for some to understand, let alone join their movement.