I'm not claiming protests were or should be necessarily peaceful. Those protests started because of murder and disempowerment, and a context of decades of it.

Making it hard to sympathize with protestors is an important role of the news, and a significant part of why those protests failed.

I've seen astounding violence from police, before during and after those protests. Look at the thread we're in! Look at the one yesterday about them smuggling fentanyl! Look at the one from last week about the LA county sheriff gangs! Protesters don't carry a responsibility to uphold the law, they are a reaction to the police refusing to do so.

look at your passionate use of italics. he was on fentanyl and meth and he had covid. this is objectively true. i’m sorry you wish he was murdered.

same with michael brown etc. a lot of ppl wish he had his hands up but he just didn’t. sorry.

Floyd had traces of fentanyl and meth in his blood and had used them in the last several days. He did not have enough to be "on" them at the time of death.

The police aren't supposed to execute drug users either I don't think we have a different system for that. Or people with covid (??).

And it's actually ok to be upset by people being killed. Good even. If it doesn't bother you your soul is weak and cowardly, as much as you might try to frame it as some inevitable result of objective facts or whatever.

I would say it's equally hard to sympathize with the cops that pushed down an elderly man, then left him bleeding from the head on the street, marching over his unmoving body towards protestors, in broad daylight.

It's important to remember that it's the cops with the deadly weapons, its the cops with the chemical weapons, and its the cops depriving access to medicine when they hurt protestors.