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Full tweets with context: https://xcancel.com/hasanthehun/status/1932168427470516520
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Both people are right in a way here.
It's the masses joining non-violent protests that gets shit done. They can't ignore it when it gets big enough. Violence makes it that much harder to hold those safely.
The mainstream media and the right wing propaganda machine will amplify any small amount of violence to try to tarnish the whole movement.
The problem is that the protests are already extremely peaceful... Until the police show up and start blasting.
The media instead will take the 3 pictures of the Waymo on fire and plaster it on the front page everywhere to pretend the protests are extremely violent riots and give a pretense to send in the police which starts blasting.
Not to mention cop cars and other images from the past. Pure yellow journalism.
They'll do that if there is trash on the ground and claim it's looting. They'll do that if anything catches on fire and call it a riot.
Dropping rocks, lime scooters, and molotovs on police cars parked under an overpass doesn't need any sensationalism to amplify AND it gives the police a great reason to start blasting.
That was a photo from the Floyd protests.