It's a f'n riot. What do people expect, a bunch of free hugs t-shirts? They get violent. Property is destroyed and set on fire. Things get stolen.
This is the racist systems fault. This is the police's fault. This is white supremacy's fault. This is America's fault.
If you don't like the riots themselves then your anger is misplaced. They are a symptom of the problem. This is suppressed anger from centuries of abuse being released. Direct your anger elsewhere where it is needed.
And these riots do cause change. Probably more change than non violent protests do. Sometimes these big negative events have to happen for people to wake up and get on board and get things changed for the better.
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