Crime 3 from far-right group planned to carry out attacks during BLM protests.

[MicroBrew]

Oh, only a few neighborhoods burned...well then, it's all good. By all means, carry on. On a serious note though, you do realize how many "average" people are becoming increasingly disenchanted and angry over the vandalism and cancel culture shit that continues. They aren't laying that at the feet of just a few misguided and overly enthusiastic rowdies, they're starting to look at the whole "movement" through that lens and starting to question how any of this benefits African Americans and why is municipal, state and federal leadership allowing it to continue. Says something when the "average" citizen see or hears about a protest and the first thoughts that now come to mind revolve around riots, burning, looting, assaults and general mayhem.

When the media has to go out of their way to assure their audience that everything is "peaceful" that shows you a little more clearly how the average viewer is looking at your movement and march.

The rioting and damage is way overblown, most of the protesters have been peacefull. The critics try to smear the protests by cherry picking the rioters and looters as representative. You are always going to find opportunists takig advantage of protests and civil unrest and with any decentralized movement, there is going to be some who engage in activity that does not dovetail with the aims of the wider movement.

 

[Teppodama]

The rioting and damage is way overblown, most of the protesters have been peacefull. The critics try to smear the protests by cherry picking the rioters and looters as representative. You are always going to find opportunists takig advantage of protests and civil unrest and with any decentralized movement, there is going to be some who engage in activity that does not dovetail with the aims of the wider movement.

Be that as it may, the optics of the situation point to governmental leadership continuing to allow it to happen and the "voices" of the protest not loudly denouncing these actions and doing more to distance themselves from them. All of it points to the appearance of at least a tacit agreement with the actions. Of course, it might help if rather than continuing to point out that "it's only a few" more was said or done to ensure it doesn't happen at all. Maybe by self-policing the marches and shutting that shit down when it flairs up. That is if you care enough about the optics, or the destruction, or the violence or any of the negativity that such shit generates.