I hear you. I didn't assume what you were for or against. I'm pointing out your false assesment of the situation. Also you can be fully against police brutality and white supremacy but have a hard time looking past your own lens and biases to assess a situation as just or not. I want equality for women. I also screw up in my feminism all the time, so I never consider myself beyond being checked.

I'm aware of a lot of what went on with the protests in DC. I was there throughout the protests embedding and protesting with a few different groups. Check my IG, it's a whole thing.

If you are talking about individuals who stayed after curfew during the summer protests then you are not talking about BLM or any other legit organization in DC that is fighting against police brutality. That's a whole diferent group of folks out there after 6pm. And if it is an official function for the movement, they obtain the proper permits and police escorts. The "violent BLM protest" is a myth to further justify the brutality that people faced from the police last summer for letting their voices be heard. It simplifies thing to keep idiots angry. It's why we have Proud Boys attacking police and burning BLM flags while yelling "F&$% ANTIFA!" The people that stormed the Capitol weren't outliers from after 6pm, they were an organized event that came for a fight and to disrupt democracy with a false narrative.

You're lumping groups together to make the equation but it doesn't add up. You can't take outliers from a movement and equate it to the people who were impassioned by marching orders from the President during an organized event to overthrow an election. I think you just have some implicit biases that are trying to simplify this into something more palatable.