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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I honestly can't recall a single Black Lives Matter event where anyone on the BLM side got seriously violent, much less one where they killed anybody. All of the "fundie" BLM antics that spring to mind now are just pants-on-head stupid. That's not the same thing as violent.
Only a fool blames the Tangerine Caligula for the direct actions of white nationalists... what they take issue with is that he clearly supports those actions and rather than condemning a clear cut murderer he minimized it and tried to deflect blame for the murderer's actions which could potentially incite even more incidents.
Not only are your attempts at counter-examples of tenuous relation to the situation or else outright finagling of facts there are some rather glaring issues with these events which I'm sure you believe were "Blacks Behaving Badly" and want equated to the premeditated violence and systemic hypocrisy levelled against black Americans on a regular basis.
If by "Charlotte" you mean the White Nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia for which Trump is being metaphorically roasted slowly over hellfire with a spit stuck through him where rather than buy into their own bullshit about free speech and the right to protest the mere existence of a group of people they hate within their country a man who openly espouses his love of Nazism got into a car and rammed it into the crowd with the intention of killing as many people as possible I should like to point out the man who was killing people.
And in Ferguson before things ever spiralled into a riot police reacted to criticism over the general mistreatment of minorities and habitual shooting of unarmed black suspects - Michael Brown who allegedly held up a store being only the latest in an incredibly long string and held up as the definitive trigger rather than the response to that incident - first with flippant contempt all around, then deflection, then finally by shoving assault rifles in people's faces during random stops on the street with ten man teams and absolutely no regard for gun safety, provocation, or conflict escalation and generally referring to the population as animals rather than the people they were sworn to serve and protect.
So, first, white nationalists got Trump elected, while BLM did not even exist last time Obama got elected and second, which officers? Names, places of the deaths?
For the moment, let's assume that BLM violence is real, and not a racist like as lots of the claims are:
* Charlottesville violence: Done because Nazis don't like that POC exist.
* BLM violence: Done to stop systematic murder.
You really gonna try to draw an equivalence?
During the early days of BLM, the only violence by protesters was them throwing tear gas canisters back at the police. That only happened a few times. The police had gas masks, so it was more symbolic than anything else. It stopped because the police fired at anyone hurling a "molotov cocktail" at them (the canisters in question).
During the later days, there were a some attacks on police officers, including at least two assassinations, but did not happen during protests. BLM condemned those actions.
Confused?
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