(06-04-2020, 03:31 PM)Jagwired Wrote:

(06-04-2020, 11:19 AM)JagJohn Wrote: There are hundreds of thousands of people peacefully protesting across America and the rest of the world. Compared to that number, the amount of people who are looting is absolutely miniscule. Way less than 1%. Unfortunately, media organizations know that footage of looting gets people watching, and peaceful protests not so much.

To say that the protests are not about George Floyd and the ongoing police brutality in America, is an outright lie that is deliberately designed to make people ignore the undeniably real and passionate grievances that millions of people have.

If the actual numbers you ascribe count and percentages are applied they are very similar to the numbers of innocent blacks killed by cops compared to not 100's of thousands but millions of interactions and the media reaction is the exact same. Push the anomaly. Certain people are holding the entire nations LEO's and law enforcement system to blame for the actions of a very minuscule number of stupid cops. The same is happening to the peaceful protestors. They are being blamed for the minuscule amount of looters and rioters actions. 

Unfortunately these protest are based of perceptions rather than actual numbers. The looting and the riots? Well that is just criminals wanting free [BLEEP] and to cause mayhem because that is their nature.