[loramin]

I don't get it: are you suggesting that millions of people who came together to fight systemic police abuse magically all got hoodwinked into hateful violence by politicians saying what people wanted to hear? It seems to me that what those millions of people wanted to hear (well, really more "see") is an end to police abuse, not a call to violence. Sure violence advocates might convert (and in fact did convert) some BLM members to radical violence, but where's the Trump of the BLM? Where's the politician converting all those peaceful BLM rights advocates into violent radicals? Heck, where's even something close to the Black Panther movement from the 60s?

Not to mention, where is all this violence? Even if you say there were only a few hundred thousand real/active people in BLM (not the millions that joined demonstrations and such), there's been so few acts of BLM violence they can't even amount to 0.1% of the movement. Similarly there isn't even 1% of the BLM movement advocating for violence (or if I'm wrong, point me to the articles/blogs/whatever).