Comment Re:And they were right to (Score 4, Insightful) 151
What if Harvard University says otherwise? https://carrcenter.hks.harvard...
["Black Lives Matter protesters were overwhelmingly peaceful"]
This is such a ludicrous point, and really only gets made by those who don't understand the full scope of 2020. These "protestors" were active from the end of May until election day. That's five solid months of events. In my specific neighborhood (I live in a downtown tourism/entertainment district a few blocks from our Federal building, fire station, and central police HQ) we had "protests" happen an average of about every other day.
That's every other day police helicopters are there, the streets are tense and unsafe, and if tiny little towns in the middle of nowhere can erupt into flames because some event happened somewhere in the country earlier that day then it could certainly happen on my block.
The fact that 93% of protests were non-violent means nothing when the events are happening in dozens of cities, every other day, for five months. How would you like it if there was "only a 1-in-12 chance" that you'd get punched in the face if you walked out your front door that day over the course of five months. THAT is what that stat is saying.