There have been no civil rights advances without riot and violence typically, if every time a black guy was shot 2 or 3 hundred cops died as a consequence shooting black guys would stop pretty quick regardless of the morality of it.
The real problem with these riots are they are not organised and destructive enough, what you need for change is a real threat to over throw, even if temporarily, law and order in a city for a few weeks, that happens and the establishment will change policing pretty damn quick. There may be other better more democratic non violent ways of making change happen as well but at this point the US police are no more than an army of occupation in most of the poorer parts of the US and really do deserve a response like any other army of occupation gets, bullets and bombs.
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