Right wing BLM blues

Once again facts put the kibosh on the right wing media hyperbol regarding Black Lives Matter. It seems the foreign press gets it. This does NOT change the fact of the 10% of charges that stood up in court, but it does not fit the right wing media's contention that nearly all civil unrests in America can be laid at the feet of BLM :


Cities Drop Most Charges Against BLM Protesters as Cops Fail to Provide Evidence (truthout.org)

At least 90 percent of charges against Black Lives Matter protesters in a dozen jurisdictions have been dropped, dismissed or not filed, according to an analysis by The Guardian. Such a high percentage suggests that the police may have been arresting people simply to suppress dissent.

In Houston and Los Angeles, The Guardian found, 93 percent of charges were either dropped or never filed; in some cities like Dallas and Philadelphia, that number rose to 95 percent of charges dropped or never prosecuted. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, 100 percent of 127 cases related to peaceful protesting were dropped.

 

So, all those black people that were plain as day, on video, looting Walgreens, Wal-Mart and other businesses was just a figment of everyone's imagination?

 

So you don't understand the difference between PROTESTERS and RIOTERS. Got it.

 

Nope, they were part of the 10% of cases that weren't dismissed.

 

But we were told it was "mostly peaceful protests" while everything was on fire in the background....

 

Why should we believe what we all saw with our own eyes, when the OP has an article telling us what happened?

 

And this confirms it.

 

10% of any decent size group could and did cause considerable damage. If anything this reinforces the danger of the group.

 

That’s what they want us to believe.

 

Nope.

 

even if what you saw was not stock footage or fox news crisis actors, were any of those looters actually blm protesters?

 

Crisis actors? Stock footage? if this is the “logic” of the left that defends the riots that’s ravaged and terrorized many democratic cities last summer, your game is lost.

 

It was. But "peaceful" doesn't get as much media coverage as violence.

 

That would be your problem. The charges weren't dropped because they were invalid but because the mayors and prosecutors in those cities aren't going to do anything to control their useful idiots just yet...

 

One estimate said last summer's "peaceful protests" caused $2.1 billion in damages, lol.

 

Well, I know why you didn't post a link to the article.... truthout.org. Really?

Secondly, you want to pawn it off as protestors, not rioters. Yeah, no.

Protestors don't get arrested. Per your own article.

The charges analyzed by The Guardian bolster the idea that protester suppression was the end goal. Though police sometimes used curfews as excuses to cruelly tear gas protesters and disperse crowds in 2020, officers rarely filed charges for low-level transgressions like curfew violations, the publication found. Instead, officers filed felony charges like assault and looting with no evidence, ultimately forcing the charges to be dropped or dismissed.


yeah, yeah... just a bunch of peaceful protestors.

 

LOL @ the left STILL trying to pass off the rioting and rioters as "protests"

 

And let's not forget a sizeable chunk of that was black owned small businesses.

 

When you watch a video of 200 people emptying the shelves of a closed business, and the prosecutors refuse to press charges, we have an issue, lol.

I have the perfect solution. Stop policing black areas. They clearly don't want it. And when the stores in those areas close, and murder rates skyrocket, don't then whine about it.

 

Wow, that's a lot.

How about we compare that to the dollar value of the damage done in our Capitol on Jan 6, added to the cost of the many lives lost to right wing ideological racist shooting sprees? The cost to clean up the schools and concert venues and movie theaters and churches and sunagogues and mosques and other public places where mass shootings by right wing white men have takrn place? The costs of funerals of those randomly or deliberately killed?

Be careful when and where you "throw down."

 

What's a right wing ideological racist shooting spree?

 

You don't believe that the two can co exist? You don't think that there were people determined to riot and loot while others were there to protest peacefully? I haven't read a single post from a 'lefty' here who tried to defend or excuse the riots and damage. Or say that it didn't happen. It was evident, again, in Brooklyn Center the last couple of weeks. The peaceful protests were held away from the police station. Most of the BLM signs and banners and flag holders left when the rioting against police began.

 

No question BLM is being protected in the cities by left wing district attorneys. But I think the right puts more blame on antifa than BLM for the 2020 riots. The information you posted isn't untrue. But it misses the point. The cases were dismissed not because of innocence but because of politics.

 

Property damage at the Capitol was probably far less. But then again, it’s the Capitol, replacing a broken window might cost a few hundred million dollars.

Far less than $2.1 billion, if you compare apples to apples.

Not sure what this means.

 

So there were no protests that happened?