I am not saying they burned down cities, but rather that the protests in Minnesota definitely turned violent and that parts definitely were burned down. To say they didn't, is pure idiotic and absent any sense of reality. Given that most of the protests started peacefully but ended up violently, how could anyone not justify preparing for violence. Now that the riots happened in D.C, Jay Inslee is stating that he will be deploying the National Guard on the opening day of the state congress. Is this racist or prejudicial, or just smart considering what happened? If the same groups planned additional protests and fragments were talking about killing congressman, storming the white house, or other violent acts, does anyone truly believe that the police would meet them with the same force they did the black lives movement? I can not say exactly why the potential for violence was under estimated, but would first point to the history of such protests. Has this ever happened before? Was there wide spread belief that this would happen? Was the media predicting violence? Was the crowd or aspects of it proclaiming violence? Was there violence of significance leading up to the planned protests. For all of these, I believe the answer was no? Look at the first post in this thread. Was it about predicting violence? No, simply that the proceedings were going to happen.

There recently was a protest that took place down the street from my house, where a black man was shot by the police. I was warned second hand from a state trooper who was going to be assigned to the protest that they expected violence and were preparing. Why, because so many of the protests in the past had turned violent. The crowd was peacefully, the police stayed back, and nothing happened. Its all about intelligence and past history.

Now that the capital building riots took place, what will the future bring? If perpetrators are not prosecuted, if future protests are not met with police presences, or other signs of disparity are seen, then we can point to race. Other wise, lets look to facts. We have enough problems with America as it is.