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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Scaring people, burning houses and businesses and general threatening violence as a means to protests doesn't scare people to your side, it turns them against you.
They might say that sure absolutely the cops are bad and at fault in this place, but then the protesters destroyed my neighbourhood and killed my business or beat up my friend so they're just as bad as the thing they're protesting against.
If you hold a gun to a person and threaten them, they'll agree with you long enough for you to put that gun away, but they'll resent you and hate you for the threat, and do everything they can to see you caught and punished.
Protests that take place without violence or threat of violence, where you convince a person or group or organization to change without burning down their neighbourhood or harming that person is probably going to create longer lasting change.
Just my 2 cents. It might be naive.
What was the result of the LA Riots, outside of the devestation of Korean American and Latino businesses and homes, and casualties among those communities? They got the Webster Report, Gates resigned but how much really changed there?
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I hear what you are saying, but the violence is what is keeping this in the news right now. If there was a quiet protest on the street the day after this occurred, this thread would have ended pages ago.
Easy example - there is a police controversy in Toronto right now where police were called out to a mental health call, they ask the womans family to leave and then the girl died after either falling, jumping or being pushed off her balcony. There was a big peaceful protest today -
https://twitter.com/minahatesyou/sta...459463680?s=21 and I'm sure a lot of people have no idea any of this occurred.