@smeg I agree with the first part, that everything he did was spun to look violent.

Not sure how today is a repeat of that. Unless you mean George Floyd was spun to look violent (in which case I would agree)..

But the fact is I'm in the middle of a riot zone, the riots are real, the protests have a huge violent element. On the first night the skys were black with fires. I saw with my own eyes protesters en mass decided to loot, and burn innocent peoples homes and businesses. My friend is sitting in a hospital nearly beaten to death by a random group of protestors who had turned violent.

The violence is very real.

@freemo I'm going only by what I see on news/online.

News networks have a helicopter circle a single shop being looted and zoom in and out for an hour, with only a few people mulling around. Streamers on the ground show large crowds marching and behaving peacefully (for the most part), while cops shoot tear gas and bash people.

There are 2 narratives, and both are true. But the first has the media's megaphone while the latter does not. And there are far more people in the latter.

@smeg Its very hard to get an accurate picture from the perspective, that is the problem.

It also varies a lot from area to area. Some places are far more violent than others.

Philadelphia is pretty bad right now for sure though.

@freemo At the protest near me, Proud Boys and neo-Confederates showed up with guns. Things stayed civil during daylight, bit after sunset there may have been some damage/violence (from who, it's unclear), then police targeted everyone with tear gas and rubber bullets.

@smeg We havent had anyone I personally saw with guns thankfully. I myself had my AR-15 near by bed the first night of the riots in case someone tried to break into my home, but thankfully I did not need it.

I wouldnt be that idiot that goes to a protest with a gun though thats for damn sure.