[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

He didn't say he wanted to use it against protesters, he said he wanted to protect the area from rioting. Maybe race doesn't come into it at all If the protesters had simply protested, at least three lives wouldn't have been lost, and people's buildings and business wouldn't have been destroyed. And also, the wannabe vigilantes would be standing around with nothing to do.

Usually the most simple explanation is the correct one, you have to jump through a lot of logical hoops for your version to work.

Again, you blame murdered victims for being murdered while minimalising the obvious racism and crimes of the murderer in question. Instead of looking for ways to victim blame, how about you hold murderers and vigilantes accountable for their own actions? It's certainly easier than the regular mental gymnastics you do to justify and minimalise the actions of murderers.