| Is the violence associated with Black Lives Matter and other protests against police brutality justified? |
| Is the violence associated with Black Lives Matter and other protests against police brutality is a message to the leadership of cities and towns across the country. Those leaders include mayors, city council members and others. It also includes business owners, particularly in downtown areas, who wield influence over elected leaders.
The message is that you'd better take your local police chief into a room, shut the door, grab him/her by the shoulders, shake him until his teeth rattle and make him understand that he'd better purge his police department of rogue police that will shoot poor, unarmed black men in the streets. Because if you don't, and that happens in your city or town, people will take to those same streets and burn down police headquarters, local businesses, and anything in their path until the brutality is shut down. (It should be noted that these protests don't consist solely of "angry black people." If you look at the phone footage that is widely disseminated, most of the people in these protests are white. EVERYBODY has had enough of this.) One other thing to note: During the Republican national convention of 2020, here were several references to a St. Louis police captain who was killed during a Black Lives Matter protest, including a speech by his widow, Ann Dorn. It should be noted that the police officer was killed NOT by a BLM protester. He was killed by a right-wing affiliated gun enthusiast who showed up at the protest with a weapon. |
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