People peacefully protested for 10 years. Not only didn't the police departments reform, white people elected an openly racist president who encouraged police brutality to a point even Police Chiefs had to say, "whoa".
National organizations criticized President Trump Friday for a speech on Long Island in which he seemed to endorse police violence.
www.usatoday.com
So what is it about white people we ONLY address issues of racial injustice when people of color threaten to break our stuff? We saw that in the 1960's, when Dr. King marched for a decade, but white folks only started to pay attention when the Black Panthers and Malcolm X did the violence.
Same thing here. BLM PEACEFULLY Protested for nearly a decade. Remember this guy?
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"Gee, Colin, what a thoughtful young man you are... Naw, **** that. FIre that disrespectful bastard!!! He kneeled during a song!!!"
Now, the intersection of TRUMP PLAGUE, TRUMP RECESSION and TRUMP RACISM did cause TRUMP RIOTS. It was kind of a perfect storm of bad where the kinds of incidents that would have normally just triggered small local protests (LaQuan McDonald, Tamir Rice) turned into national riots (Geo. Floyd, Jacob Blake). Higher levels of anxiety due to the pandemic, an openly racist president refusing to push reforms, and you got violence.
How about next time, we address the issues before people get so fed up they want to break things?