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0 pointsstjohnswarts4y ago0 comments

But they didn't tho. The people that did that were criminals taking advantage of the situation and lack of police. BLM protestors where nonviolent except when police tried to push them back and silence them. Sure they took over areas, but that's what happens during social movements. The damage was greatly exaggerated unrealistically by right wing news media.

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philliphaydon4y ago

When I watched the live streams on twitch, I remember one video where the police were just standing there doing nothing, the protesters were yelling abuse. The police just stood there. It wasn’t until the protesters started throwing bottles and setting a car on fire that the police got involved.

There were videos live streamed by people in the groups who were smashing the windows of the power company, going inside and destroying everything.

I don’t believe anything was greatly exaggerated or unrealistic when this was live streamed by people doing it.

Most of the protests were peaceful. But there was a lot of damage and a lot of violence not started by the police.

(I’m not American and don’t live in America, but I watched too many hours of the live streams while it happened)

Edit: twitch had streams of people streaming multiple streams. So 1 twitch stream was showing about 15 live streams happening at the time.

refurb4y ago

So the same as this protest? The violence is by criminals taking advantage of the situation. They are nonviolent except when the police try and push them back.

I’m going to guess you don’t think that because you don’t like the goals behind this protest?

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