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Please explain why you think property is the same importance as human lives being destroyed by people who were sworn to protect them.

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I won't go as far as equating property to human lives, but do remember the vast majority of businesses looted or burned were small, already hurting from Covid-19, and a large number of them black owned. Sure, these people's business owners weren't killed, but everything they worked for during their life is pretty much ruined.

Do you have data supporting the claim that most looted businesses were small?

This is something that's repeated very often on news media with zero citations to the datasets from which they derive their conclusions.

Would be interested to see your sources because folks like myself are highly skeptical about unsubstantiated claims, especially when they serve ulterior interests. In this case, small business rhetoric supports mostly the large businesses that want to suppress wages and avoid workplace protection regulations.[1]

[1] https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-111-how-small-bus...

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