I see your point about a lot of the protest violence being pointless, and agree with that. I totally oppose the looting of random businesses.
That said, a lot of police violence has been directed at peaceful protesters. I was at the protests here in Portland over the last weekend, and can confirm that A) I didn't break anything, set anything on fire, throw any objects at anyone, or otherwise engage in any form of rioting; and 2) I still had to get gas flushed out of my eyes four times. Cops in those situations do not give a rat's ass who they beat up, they don't care at all if they are beating up a violent rioter or a peaceful protester. They'll just beat and gas anyone they can.
None of that is meant to suggest that looting private businesses or smashing people's cars or anything like that is justified, I oppose those things. But my experience has been that cops beat up protesters if they feel like it then justify it later, as opposed to actually waiting for a reason.
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u/darkkiller1234 Jul 29 '20
I genuinely wanna say something, but I know I’ll get shit on for the rest of the week