Demonstrations and Violence - What's Really Going On...

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6. So much of this saddens me.

Only 7% of the protesting is violent. 10,000 protests in the US. And yet, because of the repeated media coverage of the violence, the BlackLivesMatter movement has lost national sympathy. All of that energy and power from June is gone. All of that drive for change. Gone. All of those allies. Gone.

I've seen pictures of the violence, and it is horrific. And yet, the efforts to quell it are in the wrong direction. The data shows that police and government presence makes it worse. Presence of counter-protesters makes it worse. The ability of community leaders to motivate the rioters to stop is gone.