Heaven forbid that people protest getting killed randomly by the police. And don't act like there aren't instigators on the right pushing the violence because it suits their ends.
Caring more about statues than human rights says a lot about you.
Caring more about statues than human rights says a lot about you.
So, are you against using police force unnecessarily or for it? Because you seem to be saying that people should be visited by the FBI for their comments online, like it happened with this kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgqeJi_Z6aM. Or are you only for it if it's against your political opponents?
But I believe there is a responsibility on the side of organizers to be more vocal about peace than they are about the change they are trying to implement as other more righteous and respectable figures have done in the past.
If you allow your movement to become one of violence and all you have to say is to point the finger at others, whether you are correct or not, you are grossly inferior of the civil rights movements of the past.
But I believe, as many others do, that this movement was not born to achieve any measure of civil rights, though that may be the intent of many.
Making an enemy of an clear necessity of any society ( a police force ) and only being satisfied when injustice is performed on the offender is madness. There are corrupt police, do something productive about. Burning your own house down solves nothing, unless perhaps your goal is a new house.
If your gripe is with the police, go and burn down a police station, not the Portland elk statue or a corner shop owned and run by your neighbour.
Did anyone in power make any proposals on how to fix what was being protested about? In contrast, I saw a lot of politicians talking about how awful the protesters were as if they were protesting just for the sake of it.