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Protesting is a waste of time. It gets nothing done. People or minorities need to start fighting back. I'm sure the police will get the point after that. If it was a white guy who got murdered this way, you'll be saying something different.
Except that is historically untrue. If you look at the civil rights movement, it was the large protests, the peaceful marches that were met with police violence that was the catalyst for change. The actions of militant groups did nothing but harm the movement. The major problem is the media has stopped paying attention to large, peaceful protests. There is only coverage when violence breaks out. Since the mainstream media essentially sets the narrative for these kinds of events, when we are shown only the violence that takes place and not the peaceful protests and marches, even by so called liberal media sources, that's what the rest of the nation sees because most don't take the time and fact-check or dig a bit deeper.
So instead of the peaceful protest, we see the violent riots and people think to themselves, "Well if that's what's going on, then the police response must be justified." When, in reality, the rioting is just the build-up of frustration from not being heard. I forget who said it but there is a quote, "Rioting and violence is the voice of the unheard and the unnoticed." Or something like that, and it's true. I can almost guarantee that if the peaceful protests were shown in the media, if they were given attention and debates were sparked among the national and state leadership, these things would degenerate into violence MUCH less often than they do now.