The person who smashed the windows of the Autozone, starting its destruction, was decidedly not a protestor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-evjkVfJ7HY . There is some speculation regarding his identity, but even without a full investigation, his actions and attire out him as not part of the crowd.

Wow. That does not look good. Is this being reported on anywhere?

Don't kill innocent black people then? The looting is a consequence. It's not as if looting happens everyday for no reason. People are angry and do certain things to express their anger. It's not fair for one side to protest peacefully when the other side resorts to violence for non-threats.

Don't kill innocent people of any color. Punish police who do. Everyone can agree on that.

"Looting is a consequence" is a poor excuse, looting/arson is not the correct way to express anger, you harm people who have nothing do with the problem or solution. Stop excusing their behavior.

Right that's exactly what police have been doing for a long time. Killing people unjustly. The people who started this need to stop first.

Bullets don’t have names on them and tear gas doesn’t discriminate between peaceful protestors and looters. The use of force should be a final response, not an initial one. It can and does hurt innocent people, inciting even more violence.

Peaceful protesters should not be anywhere near commercial zones being looted and burned. Why would a peaceful protestor choose to protest at Target and not the local Sheriff/Police headquarters?

Should I share examples of reporters being shot at and arrested without cause? Also, the majority of those arrested were from out of state.

Because everyone knows there's no such thing as a stray bullet.

To be clear, you are saying "don't try to prevent looting/arson because there is a tiny risk of collateral damage to peaceful civilians"

Nope. I'm refuting your implication that the only people hurt or maimed by rubber bullets are the guilty:

>So... don't go looting? [...] You'll be perfectly fine as long as you don't reach for your molotov cocktail and baseball bat to go join in the "fun"

Why are there "peaceful protestors" in burning commercial zones, again? A smoldering Target seems like the wrong venue to protest at.

> Why are there "peaceful protestors" in burning commercial zones, again?

There'd be little point in provocateurs burning commercial zones if there weren't peaceful protestors there.

You know bullets can travel up to about two and half miles right? And that they can also ricochet?

This is not a video game we're talking about.

Rubber bullets? Or real bullets?

Hell, why not use real bullets then? After all it's supposed to be a deterrent. Don't go looting and you'll be fine.

/s