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The looting and violence was not instigated by right wingers as you claim.It's easy to forget all of the adults who aided and abetted this kid in going to Wisconsin with a gun too. Like the guy who bought the weapon for him.
This the the reality: American police forces are still killing civilians at the rate of nearly 3 a day in the USA. 830 people as at November 29th this year. 1021 in 2020. No other first world country has more than 20 of its citizens killed by police in a year. Only the police in Brazil and the Phillipines are more deadly, and they just go into poor areas and gun people down.
Conservatives have been laser focused on the property damage and violence during the protests than they have been with the problems that lead to the demonstrations - none of which have been addressed, and all of which are ongoing. It's a deflection. They don't want to deal with police brutality or anything to do with race and social justice at all. Instead they point to the looting and violence - almost all of which was instigated by right wing thugs, and police attacking the demonstrators.
But now the discussion has been deflected away from the American slide into right wing authoritarism and how police forces have been terrorizing the people. These are topics conservatives REFUSE to address, even as cities are paying out billions in excessive force settlements.
The problem isn't violence on the left. The problem is the unaddressed violence of the police against the American people. The stuff you don't want to talk about.