I agree. LOUD protests are needed. I don't like the looting but you get bad eggs in all situations, and it is a small number of people amongst the thousands of people protesting. I am DISGUSTED at seeing the footage of police running people over with their vehicles, knocking them to the ground, pulling their masks down and gassing/pepper-spraying them, pulling a car over and smashing the windows of it and hurting the people. HOW DARE THEY. They are doing it so openly because they feel they can get away with it and this HAS TO STOP. There needs to be change!!
Not ideal with the Covid situation but George Floyd was just MURDERED in public by the police even though members of the public were begging them to stop. If black people are being killed so freely by the police, WHO are they meant to call for help??? We ALL need to be loud about this and have conversations with people we know about how change has to happen!!
Don't quote me on this but I'm actually pretty sure the point of looting in a protest is to prove the police have 0 power and their violent approach doesn't work because they're doing what they want. I saw that somewhere and apparently it's been a thing for years. Like i said don't quote me on that cause I'm not 100%.
Might be unpopular (and not directed at your post bubbletea at all. I agree with you!) but I'm sick to death of hearing people say "they need to protest peacefully". If I see it one more time I'm going to scream.
First thing where is the peace from the police in all of this??
Second thing, they've tried. MLK was peaceful and he was shot. Colin Kaepernick was peacefully kneeling and they didn't like that.
Final thing, nothing that's ever been done to black people has been peaceful. There hasn't been peace since america walked their asses into Africa and literally stole them. There wasn't peace when they were being publically lynched. There wasn't peace when they kept them as slaves. There wasn't peace when black people didn't have civil rights until 1964! Dying at the hands of the police is not peaceful.
Black America has never known peace.
And don't get me started on the UK cause we love to argue how not racist we are when we are in fact just as bad as america, we just don't have guns.