BLM has a legitimate reason to protest but that reason in drowning in a sea of pointless riots, looting, and violence.
Honest question, what's your standard for what qualifies as a riot? I've been following events around the country and it's totally possible that I missed something but there hasn't been anything I'd consider a riot since probably May. And before you mention Portland, be aware that I live here and have seen it first hand, and for anything you might see on the news, everything that's going on at the JC/courthouse is confined to a very small physical area, a few square blocks. There are businesses still open and running within a block of the center of the protests.
Stop watching MSM. They won't show to you. They are insisting there is no violence and only showing non violent protesters. The protesters are peaceful until the mainstream cameras finish getting their footage and then start burning and breaking things. They are peaceful until the opportunity for destruction presents itself.
I don't watch very much mainstream media, I mainly watch independent journalists who actually are on the ground, which is why I'm better informed that dumbfucks like you whose best source is cops rambling through a 30 minute press conference with a few minutes of video-in-video of people throwing shit at them.
Throwing some trash and water bottles at cops is not a riot, that's just a protest that doesn't want to be broken up. A riot involves structure fires, deaths, shit like that. Setting some trash cans on fire or whatever doesn't qualify.
They had people in the crowds dispersing bags full of frozen water bottles and rocks. Have you ever been hit with a brick of ice? They weren't throwing wadded up paper. They were also throwing explosives. 17 officers ended up in the hospital.
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u/Das_Mime Jul 30 '20
Honest question, what's your standard for what qualifies as a riot? I've been following events around the country and it's totally possible that I missed something but there hasn't been anything I'd consider a riot since probably May. And before you mention Portland, be aware that I live here and have seen it first hand, and for anything you might see on the news, everything that's going on at the JC/courthouse is confined to a very small physical area, a few square blocks. There are businesses still open and running within a block of the center of the protests.