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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
It makes one wonder why the demonstrators are bothering given that the trigger was typical US police brutality.
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Unfortunately, it seems sizeable number of people are using the guise of 'demonstation' or 'protest' to riot, vandalise, bully, disrupt and generally cause nuisance (in the US and the UK). There are plenty of videos surfacing on the internet to support this viewpoint.
A lot of people are certainly not 'peaceful protesters'. It's a shame, because it takes away from the true cause of the upset and substantially undermines what the vast majority are trying to bring attention to. I think the bigger picture in all of this is really just 'police brutality (in the US) - period. A little bit of power can go to people's heads and it is abused.
Of course, we mustn't forget the 90's classic 'Killing in the name of' - poignant right now, perhaps?