I did some quick fact checking, just for my own peace of mind. I view the George Floyd protests as overall peaceful, but it's good to question one's understanding. So for what it's worth Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Portl...) lists one casualty. I'm guessing that was the August 29th event, which wasn't a police officer.
So yeah, seems you're right, and that's an important fact to keep in mind. 7 months of protests with only one dead, in an area people keep arguing is the worst of the BLM protests.
That's why there are 20,000 national guard troops ringing the nation's capital right now, quartered in the Capitol Building for the first time since the Civil War. That's why corporations with trillions of dollars in market cap shut down communications. We are only at the beginning of an FBI investigation that may last years.
Maybe you won't believe any of it until you see some famous figures perp walked for sedition. I guess we'll find out.
A tweet versus a statement from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that said, "The violent riot in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, was a direct assault on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process."[2]
The whataboutism continues to be unreal.
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-and-fbi-lead...
[2] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/12/unprecedented...
I didn't realize merely posting affidavits from the DoJ was considered political flamewars by anyone. It's a dry read, but it's unadulterated first party sourcing of fact.
I mean, how violent could they have been.
My personal experience (not as a participant, but rather someone who observed a few protests from a distance) was that they were peaceful until the cops would engage with the protestors to impose the curfews that many cities had established.
And then the violence was largely 1 sided.