That the presumption is that the unarmed people who are protesting are more likely to cause property destruction than the paramilitary cops who are showing up because tear gas canisters are really hot, flash bombs can start a fire, tear gas leads people to run and break through windows to hide and get help. I'm not saying the police are intending to cause damage. However, if you are randomly shooting out tear gas, it's gonna end up in the back alley, with a pile of newspapers and some garbage. Does that mean that there aren't protestors who engage in destruction? Of course, there are. To say that all this is turning into looters is basically saying everybody at the party is a drunk driver, No, some people will leave and cause problems. But you can't know everybody at the party is the worst behaving person. I think one thing that we actually don't do too well and don't quite understand is anti-blackness, and how it works in our society. How it is in our language, and how it is used by mainstream media. We have spent the last month watching protests who want the country to open up, and we saw images of these people screaming and yelling and spitting on plainclothes police officers. They were not in riot gear, they were not in masks. Now we see protests based on violence and death. We see now peaceful protests come out, but suddenly the cops come out in riot gears, and everything looks like some sort of violent take over in some 80s post-apocalyptic film. What i'm reminded of photos in New Orleans of white people leaving stores with food and the headline being: how people are surviving and black folk going the store with food and calling them looters. This is about a community that is treated differently by the police in our country just consuming the news right now in the next five days is not going to give you a good understanding of why this is happening.