The post I replied to was saying that 2020's riots were different than LA or Orlando because this time "protestors aren't the ones engaging in violence, the cops are". Which seems pretty inaccurate from where I'm standing - earlier riots also included police brutality, and these riots include violence from the side of the rioters.
Are you trying to say that the LA riots didn't include police brutality? Or just that the violence from the rioters was more extreme than this year's?
I'm saying you have not a damn clue how terrifying and violent the LA and Miami riots were.
18 people died during the Miami riots and 63 people were killed during the LA riots. Friend of mine spent four days being sheltered in a black families house during the Miami riots. In the LA riots looters were driving up into the LA hills to loot wealthy houses.
Meanwhile 2020 'riots' you have people taking their children to protests. And a few Walmarts and other shops got looted.
No comparison at all.
Yeah, sure. So most of the violence comes at the hands of the police, and somehow decades of abuse is comparable to a week's worth of rioting.