Wait... Kick are you suggesting that a politician is a hypocrite?!  How dare you?!  LOL
I don’t think you needed to quote the Bible or be religious to believe that politicians do things for the publicity.

The other problem is that there are protesters and there are rioters. The rioters are injuring others and setting things on fire... fires that can kill (remember Greece a few years ago?).  Rioters are using the peaceful protests as cover for theft and vandalism.  Police aren’t being brutal in most cases when the protesters are not already out of control, and even then, police are not killing people. Police are generally doing their jobs trying to maintain order and prevent a bigger tragedy. If it was my job to protect the city, I would probably show less restraint than most of the police have. It takes a lot of patience to be a police officer in normal times. They have to be superhuman to not become the thing they’re being accused of when a mob is throwing insults, rocks, and Molotov cocktails at them.

    White cop strangles a handcuffed, helpless Black man to death in broad daylight while three other cops watch.  Is it racially motivated?  If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's a duck.
    I don't condone the rioting and looting but it's certainly understandable.

My favorite is being called “literally Hitler” for having a balanced centrist view on this event. I do wish they would occasionally mix it up and call people figuratively Hitler, or perhaps hypothetically Hitler.

The whole thing is a mess. I don't think either 'side' comes out looking clean at all... and frankly the whole thing is incredibly depressing to see unfold.

The worst of the protester/rioters are far left ideologues who are driven by a religion of identity and class based hatred. This ideology bleeds into the mainstream and poisons the movement. I want to throw my full support behind the protests, but I can't because of this.

Meanwhile vast strains of underground white nationalism clearly still remain in America, combined with widespread ignorance or apathy to black people still having to deal with unequal/racist outcomes. The fact is that as an innocent black person you simply have a lot more to fear from police. This isn't necessarily due to racism (as black people are over-represented in crime too) but it's an unfair outcome and people don't seem too interested in tackling the problem. Add that to the tinderbox of potentially anybody on the street having a gun, and all cops having guns and it's a recipe for innocents being shot for their skin colour.

Now violence and vandalising innocent individuals properties is a lose-lose, but at the same time it doesn't surprise me that it is happening for the reason given above and many others. These people are angry and have no recourse for these injustices.

One problem with this is that protests and the expression of anger has been where the progress has been made. Suffragettes threw an axe at the British Prime Minister and threw themselves under the King's horse. They were loud and violent and women won the vote. The Poll Tax riots are the reason no-one pays Poll Tax. I've never understood (I'm not saying you are saying this NOOC) those people that complain about a protest being disruptive. That's the point! A protest that's quiet and can be ignored might as well not happen. There can be peaceful protests that are disruptive of course, but, and I'm sorry I don't make the rules on this and I wish it wasn't like this, violence works. If it didn't, armies wouldn't exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsthNTJI9Zk

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=phPXTWJhnYM