In fact, I saw the arsonist that set the police department on fire and it was a Caucasian male. This is not a group of African Americans rioting in protest. It's a diverse bunch of a bad actors ruining a community.
The protesters themselves seem rather peaceful.
Post-9/11, especially in the early to mid '00s, there was this fetishization of the military and military aesthetic in American culture that had changed the public's appetite towards militarized police.
It is important to consider that a significant portion of the public thinks "the troops" aren't going far enough to end the protests in Minneapolis.
It should be noted that most mainland Chinese shared that same opinion, with respect to Hong Kong.
For political parties it's a real stretch to blame the Democrats. There's a reason the black vote is heavily Democratic, because their programs actually do help minority communities. But it's difficult to do with a majority Republican Congress for most of two decades and a majority "conservative" SCOTUS.
Now Democrats are far from perfect. But they are at least better than the alternatives.
"Please use this system of peaceful protest that hasn't worked for you since forever." LA was 92, we're almost 30 years to the year. Has anything changed?
Do you tell HK protestors to write a letter to the CCP instead? It's such a double-standard.