Yes, how dare they protest police brutality. We should all just tolerate the police shooting people in the back, and hope it isn't us.
Preliminary analysis of key trends from May to August.
acleddata.com
The vast majority of demonstration events associated with the BLM movement are non-violent (
see map below). In more than 93% of all demonstrations connected to the movement, demonstrators have not engaged in violence or destructive activity. Peaceful protests are reported in over 2,400 distinct locations around the country. Violent demonstrations,
6 meanwhile, have been limited to fewer than 220 locations — under 10% of the areas that experienced peaceful protests. In many urban areas like Portland, Oregon, for example, which has seen sustained unrest since Floyd’s killing, violent demonstrations are largely confined to specific blocks, rather than dispersed throughout the city (
CNN, 1 September 2020).