So maybe look up videos of cops shooting journalists, smashing windows, bashing people in the face when they weren't doing anything, and running people over with their cars. There are literally hundreds of such videos from the past few days.
Then you'd be able to say you've seen videos of things other than white kids throwing bricks.
https://twitter.com/whitney_hu/status/1266540710188195843
Does casually hitting a man w/ a car door just to be a jerk count? https://twitter.com/DriveWendys/status/1266555286678048770
Can you tell me what the state senator did do warrant pepper spray? https://twitter.com/zellnor4ny/status/1266802303807500288
Woman sitting on ground is pepper sprayed THEN KICKED in the head.
https://twitter.com/ItsKadynC/status/1266967646345613317
what about a man that just was talking to police, got pepper sprayed and blasted in face w/ a flare? That was definitely not excessive either...
https://old.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/gub8fx/po...
not "bashing in the face" but I'm sure you can tell me why this old man was rightfully knocked over while standing around.
Many of my black friends don't like the idea that the protests are about COVID tensions (even if income inequality and unemployment obviously contribute). It's felt like an erasure of their struggle. I'm Hispanic and have been profiled a few times in my life. While I cannot pretend to know the full spectrum of the black experience in the US, I'm inclined to agree that I feel similar, too.
Edit: no clue why this keeps getting downvoted. The protests are (1) not only about COVID and (2) implying that they're only about COVID feels like erasure to Black (and Brown) people. Unless I'm missing something, here. Perhaps I need to be more detailed?
The entire point of this protest is to be heard. There is a population, long silenced, that has a message to convey. Today that message is BLM - and it is incredibly taxing to convey that message. To then look that movement in the eye and completely miss the message, returns us to square one: the problem of being unheard. That is what I mean by "a feeling of erasure."