Nobody in power cared about George Floyd's death until the violent protests. As Noam Chomksy once said - See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

The looters and rioters don't care about his death either - they just want to exploit the tragedy to steal and cause harm to their own communities.

I'm willing to entertain this possibility, but how can you be so certain that they weren't persuaded by the persistence of the nonviolent elements? baltimore's protests have been remarkably peaceful, and the city leadership has already made some (albeit minor) concessions.

Another analysis would be they're seeing the violence in other cities and want to get out ahead of it.

> Nobody in power cared about George Floyd's deaths until the violent protest

That is untrue. Well before the executions, arsons, and burglaries, there was essentially no ambiguity in the public perception of the case. Most people who watched the video believed they witnessed a murder, and that charge was already planned for Chauvin, well before the public was aware of riots.

And of course, even if it did work, it would still be wrong, and the people executing people and shooting senior citizens to death to steal televisions should be prosecuted.

Executions? Wtf are you talking about?

Several people have been executed, including a Federal Protective Services officer.

Anderson was killed a a 2A boogaloo nut, not a BLM protester: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_boogaloo_killings

Nobody is less dead when killed by a person of a different ideology from the nominal ideology of a gathering.

When you push out the police, it's no wonder that people who would like to get away with heinous crimes show up.

I feel like you are attacking me with a straw man, a very unfair one at that. Not everyone who sees things a bit differently from you is a baby-murdering psychopath who watches (gasp!) the most popular news broadcaster in America.

I never thought theft, assault, arson, or lynching was okay, and I hope most people don't need to watch TV to learn that.

FOX is despicable, bad faith programming and anyone forming opinions based off watching The Five, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson are worse off for having been exposed to their lies and intentionally bad logic.

But you're correct on one front: I attacked your use of FOX and gave you an opening to avoid the real accusation: That you are using the (limited number of) riots and looting as a way to get out of focusing on systemic police dysfunction and the need to radically reform policing and public safety.

The police departments need to be disbanded and law enforcement needs to be returned to elected county sheriffs the way the constitution intended.

Make law enforcement accountable to the people and the people accountable to the law.

Who are you talking about? Floyd? Was he being arrested at that moment for beating someone? Is beating someone a capital crime? Are the police allowed to execute prisoners? Did the police know he was a "bad guy" when they were killing him slowly?

Nothing about your point makes any sense, at all. It isn't about George Floyd the man, the personality. It's about yet another human, yet another black person, being murdered by law enforcement.

Being murdered by a multi-racial group of law enforcement.

I really wish Trump would've sent the FBI into Minneapolis to investigate before the violent protests started.

Who said the FBI wasn't watching?

It was a trick, because Trump DID send the FBI in on the 2nd day, before the violent protests started. So people in power did pay attention and did care before the violence started.

> extreme criminal acts that have destroyed whole neighborhoods recently

Where do "facts" like this come from? I mean, a police station was burned. A bunch of windows have been broken in a bunch of places. But there's literally nothing to support anything like a statement like that.

Seriously: who told you "neighborhoods" had been "destroyed". Which neighborhoods? How many residents were displaced or whatever? Did you think to maybe question your sources when they arrived with no data at all? Didn't the fact that Fox (who normally are pretty good about journalistic micro-rigor, believe it or not) got caught faking image evidence about the unrest maybe cue you that you might be being misled?

But you're still going with that rhetoric? Why? Where are you getting your facts?

It is illegal to use military equipment like drones on US soil.

With that logic would it not also be illegal for military jets and helicopters to fly on "US soil"

Depends on what you mean. If they fired missiles at civilians you'd have a point, but merely flying a drone in the U.S. is routine, civilians do it. Some cities and states have restrictions on the routine use of drones by police, but using aerial surveillance is not generally illegal in the U.S. far as I'm aware (nor do I think it should be).