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You are naive to think police can’t turn a peaceful protest into a TV photo op for Fox News.

And, it’s also naive to think that all the protesters are on the same side. Instigators are from either no side and the other side.

During the George Floyd protests I was walking home and witnessed agitators turn a peaceful protest violent within minutes. There were at most 10 of them out of a crowd of 500. When I got home, the news described the protest as being a violent one.

You and a lot of people here need to look more critically at what you are seeing online and in the news.



It’s a major vulnerability, but I think a valid solution would be for there to be an organization that wears uniforms and has a strict no-violence policy to perform peaceful protests.

That way when agitators show up they can be seen as visually different and distinct.


If 500 people can't stop 10 from causing violence, then those 500 never believed in peace to begin with.




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