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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8017143" data-attributes="member: 7023887">I don't have anything against rioting in support of these protests because it is justified. If you take away a group of people's rights, kill them, and abuse them, you cannot blame them if they loot a Macy's. This was in response to horrific deaths, and they need to get awareness of their cause. Sure, they can peaceful protest, until police slash their tires, destroy their protestor-support stations, and tear-gas and pepperspray them. Police are doing this, and would even if they weren't rioting. The Civil Rights movement proves this. It doesn't matter how they protest, the police will try to stop it if it's protesting their brutality. I, as a white man, cannot criticize their way of protesting, because there is no "right way to protest". That just doesn't exist. Protest, by definition, means that something wrong is going on. Protesting is a way of trying to get attention to something that is happening that should not happen. In an event as big as police brutality, where the very people that are supposed to protect us are murdering our own people, and it is difficult to hold them accountable for doing so, I have absolutely nothing against people taking a stand and demonstrating how much they want this to change by destroying a few buildings and cars. People > Objects.</blockquote>