VickyIsAwesome
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Stay safe!!@GrabPOPCORNnotPretzels We’ve had a mix of peaceful and violent protests throughout our city since Thursday (mostly violent the first three days). We’ve had a curfew in place since Saturday, but a lot of the violent protestors obviously do not respect that. My BF and I live downtown right by the State Capitol where thousands of protesters convene and organize in the afternoon and then as soon as the sun starts to set, police start throwing tear gas canisters, shooting pepper bullets and basically start pushing the protesters towards the neighborhoods in order to save the government buildings and other landmarks. We’ve seen so many dumpster fires, cars set on fire, other destruction and heard so many bangs and shots fired since Thursday... on top of which our main streets have been closed every day so we had to take our bikes out in this mess just to get things we need... which is fine but we’re literally in the middle of it all so it feels like we always run into a standoff no matter what street we ride - thanks to the flawed outlook of our police and their approach to just pushing them to our neighborhoods. I respect the right to protest, but like you said, this is about to get uglier than it has been so far... especially with covid in the mix.