Why is it so important for Trump supporters and other self-proclaimed conservatives to brand the protests as un-American?
They've heard it said a thousand times, even from the originator of the protests, in this case Colin Kaepernick, that the protest is about the abuse of black people by the police and the unfair treatment that stems directly from systemic racism and bigotry, yet they pretend like don't know what the protest is about, and/or simply ignore it and provide their own version of what the protest is about.
Yet, when White Supremacists took to protesting they took them for their word, believed them and even DEFENDED them, both in Charlottesville and in the Cliven Bundy fiasco back in Nevada in 2014.
To these people blacks are simply liars and/or intrinsically unpatriotic.
Why is this?
Your post is why we refer to you on the left as Uninformed Voters.
Nobody is against protests, what people find offensive is when people protest in front of the US flag while our national anthem is being played.
These are big dumb jocks most of whom don't know what they are even protesting. A good example is our team the Cleveland Browns. They are too stupid to realize that the objection was their disrespect for our anthem. So instead of kneeling today, they raised their fists while the anthem was being played...........geniuses, every last one of them.
All they are really demonstrating is that they don't understand our laws and judicial system. All police shootings are investigated. The results are made public. Many times it's a Grand Jury that decides no laws were broken by police officers.