@lualuau5 @__prissyy You have to back up.
COVID protesters: Mad about no haircuts.
LEO: Stand around, no riot gear, from day one.
Result: no violence
BLM protesters: Mad about murderers in blue.
LEO: Show up in riot gear on, beat, teargass, flash-bangs on day one.
Result: Violence.
If you come out of this without the understanding that the system is designed to be intentionally malicious and police abuse their power to the fullest extent, knowing there won't be meaning repurcussions, I don't know what to tell you.