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Re:Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters by greedo on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:18PM (#29298369)
Thirty years ago. And this wasn't on a "high speed highway" it was on Florence Ave.

And equating largely peaceful protests with the LA riots is really a mistake. The LA riots turned violent very quickly, while the BLM marches stayed peaceful by and large with the exception of right-wing agitators who started looting and fires under false flag operations.

Re:Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters by solarhoma on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:58PM (#29298723)
There are plenty of videos from the summer of 2020 showing BLM rioters attacking vehicles and their occupants.
Re:Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters by fredophile on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:20PM (#29298888)
I searched for "BLM rioters attacking vehicle". The first result was an article about a driver being attacked and pulled from their vehicle. The protestors accused the driver of assaulting them before entering the vehicle. The second article was about protestors attacking a driver who attempted to drive through the crowd. All of the rest of the links in the rest of the page were about drivers running over protestors. Perhaps you could provide a link or two to back up your assertion.
Re:Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters by solarhoma on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @08:57AM (#29403626)
Here is a video of a recent attack. Sounds like this is from last night. I saved the headline of the post for context.

https://streamable.com/svs5ps

Re:Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters by superflit2 on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:43PM (#29299044)
Re:Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters by fredophile on Sunday November 21, 2021 @04:04PM (#29299699)
Here's a TL;DR of the links: [0] Guy gets into an argument with protestors, then crashes his truck. Protestors fight guy. [1] Guy exits vehicle and argues with protestors. Cop breaks it up before things get out of hand. [2] Guy (accidentally) runs over a cyclist at a protest. Protestors get angry and trash car. [3] Youtube takes down a video, puts it back up with age restrictions.

In the two cases where protestors attacked a vehicle or its occupants either the driver already had an altercation with protestors or the vehicle struck a protestor. The original comment I was replying to implied that there was lots of footage of protestors attacking people in cars. This doesn't show any evidence of that. I still haven't seen any evidence that there is a problem of protestors attacking random cars and their occupants.

Re:Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters by pessimizer on Sunday November 21, 2021 @03:16PM (#29299314)
This is the internet, if you found one you can just share it.
Re:Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters by tessierashpool on Monday November 22, 2021 @12:04AM (#29302960)
> There are plenty of videos from the summer of 2020 showing BLM rioters attacking vehicles and their occupants.

false.

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Re:Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters by Nursie on Sunday November 21, 2021 @10:04PM (#29302271)
> far more violent than the Capitol riot

But weren't actually aimed at destroying american democracy, so there's that...

Re:Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters by pasabagi on Sunday November 21, 2021 @04:44PM (#29300054)
>they were certainly far more violent than the Capitol riot since they very literally included orders of magnitude more violence, destruction, and death.

... And orders of magnitude more people. Per-capita, the capitol riot is obviously more violent, and that's the only way it makes sense to measure violence. Otherwise I could say that ISIS members are less violent than catholics.

Re:Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters by NoImmatureAdHom on Sunday November 21, 2021 @09:27PM (#29302054)
Your perspective is correct (looking at it per capita), but as I recall only one person was murdered in the capitol riot, and that person was shot by police. One police officer was beaten. It's not clear to me off-the-cuff that BLM was more or less violent than the capitol riot.