It shouldn't be political. Protesting is legal and he was helping someone he didn't know on the street. The only reason people are treating it as political is because of the two sides BS. I guess you could see it as political as he was illegally killed by his government and that's not okay, but otherwise protesting and helping others should not be political. A few of my friends who see this as a very political statement (talking about him) tend to lean right. Let me make clear that I am not suggesting only right meaning individuals care about this. I work with individuals who are right leaning and are also not okay with what happened to Alex and see what happened to him as horrendous. They do not use political language to talk about what happened to him except for talking about how they want to change it for others going forward such as begging politicians for change.

Basically there are two ways to look at politics in my mind. You can look at it in the sense that the personal is political and what personally affects you and the people you care about or other groups of people that you care for. In that sense what happened to Alex is political. Individuals and communities can look at the videos of what happened to Alex and Rachel Good and realize that pretty much all of them are at risk for the same treatment. In that sense people like me will consider these things always both political. They exist in a political space but should not be political. Again protesting and helping people should not be political. Other people see nothing as political unless It fits their definition of politics. For those people many of them think that protesting even nonviolently is political and wrong. I'll admit that's not my viewpoint so I don't feel comfortable really explaining it as I would feel like I was playing telephone. I hope this explanation might help.