1 shot during uptown protests over officer-involved shooting

1: There is a big difference between rioting and civil disobedience.

2: The majority of the cases where these riots happen involve incidents in which it was proven that the suspect had a weapon.

3: These riots occur BEFORE the facts of any case comes out, meaning they make the automatic assumption that the suspect is innocent. Most times, this is proven untrue.

4: For any civil rights movement to succeed, you need public support. Riots are not beneficial in any way because you alienate the very support you need to succeed.

5: This is a police issue, yet these terrorists have turned it into a black vs white issue. The Charlotte incident was a black cop shooting an armed black man who refused to drop his weapon. Yet the BLM terrorists are blaming whites and attacking innocent whites (look up the parking garage video).

6: MLK specifically stated that civil disobedience is a good tool for change, but riots are not. He would not have approved despite the number of people who take his words out of context to further their selfish and hateful motives.

7: Breaking into stores and stealing liquor, cigarettes, televisions, and weaves will not elicit any sympathy, support, or change.

8: We live in a different world now. Back in the day, riots may have worked. Our society is much different now. The majority of the public frowns on violence. Additionally, there was no internet during the civil rights movements of the past. If a group of black men beat an innocent white man, chances are most people across the country wouldn't know about it. Now the entire nation not only knows about it, they get to see it happen live. When we see this kind of stuff happening right in front of our faces, we cannot and will not support your agenda no matter what.

In short, these people are not civil rights leaders. They are terrorists. And I hope and pray that our government will expend the same resources rooting out and eliminating them as they have for terrorists in other countries.

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