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In reply to the discussion: Sorry, but if you did your job as a parent, your kid would NOT be rioting in the streets!!! [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)essential problems of racism and poverty. That is why when people decide to demonstrate, even if the demonstration is quite spontaneous, they need to be trained in nonviolent resistance. As Bravenak pointed out, the police instigate the violence on the part of the demonstrators. Add to that the fact that many of the demonstrators are undisciplined and have not been taught self-control and on top of that the knowledge of the police about how to anger demonstrators, and you have an explosive situation.
Demonstrators need to be reminded that they are there to achieve change and to focus the public attention on police violence, not to make the police look like the victims. When they make the police and the business owners look like victims, they distract from the real criminals -- certain of the police themselves.