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Re:To defund the police, activists rewrote city budgets by kyleee on Thursday June 04, 2020 @04:53PM (#23421620)
No doubt there were a lot of good faith / peaceful protests that were shut down and hindered, but there has also been a lot of looting. Here are couple good long form videos showing some of the looting in and around Santa Monica on a couple of the days:

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=vr3LrRUfJsY

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=PbxTqyW8yI0

Re:To defund the police, activists rewrote city budgets by basch on Thursday June 04, 2020 @04:59PM (#23421713)
You don't just get to ban good behavior to stop bad behavior. The presence of illegal looting does not take away constitutional rights. If it did, the government would have incentive to incite riots and looting to force the breakup of peaceful protest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny

Re:To defund the police, activists rewrote city budgets by kyleee on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:20PM (#23421959)
I agree to a point, but I do think depending on the scale of the lawlessness that temporary measures such as a curfew can be reasonable in order to avoid large scale destruction and violence