"Exactly, and if you were in constant danger of being killed for no good reason, you would protest too"
I assume you're referring to the Black community when you say "you", is that correct?
I think we all can, or all should, agree that whenever a police officer shoots an innocent civilian, it's a tragedy. I personally get why it's even a greater tragedy when that happens to a member of the Black community. And if it can be proven that it wasn't justified, or if it can be proven that the shooting was racially motivated, that cop needs to suffer the full penalty of hate crime laws that our system allows.
But to claim that police are hunting black males (as LeBron James claimed) or that Black deaths at the hands of the police represent anything more than the tiniest percentage in the various causes of Black deaths overall, is nothing more than the grossest form of hyperbole used by disingenuous hack politicians.
Protests are fine. As long as they don't degenerate into the types of violent protests we saw for months at a time last summer in Portland and Seattle, and other cities, or the violent protest we saw at the Capitol on 1/6/21, then they can be as loud, angry, etc., as they want to be.
But destroying others' property in the name of social justice? Destroying Black owned small businesses in the name of social justice? No.
