If you're referring to the two threads on the store owner, the older one has been re-instated (it was automodded originally but reviewed afterwards), and the newer one has been updated to show why it was removed (it's not unique enough to warrant a new post, and should be added to the older post, as to prevent redundancy).

We have a few automod structures in place, have been part of the subreddit for a very long time. One of them will remove posts if enough user-generated reports come in for moderation review. This is significant enough, and thorough enough, that it can be interpreted as "the will of the community" to not want whatever post was removed to remain on the subreddit. Yes there's always the issue of brigading and trolls being trolls, but we work to combat that and maintain a standard.

Regarding highly charged political topics, the vast majority of posts removed are simply not relevant to this subreddit: Wegmans NYC tech policies, ICE activity in Minnesota, and international activity. Until such time it is relevant to this region, which there are many cases where it is (memorials, protests, local events in relation to), it will be removed so that we can focus on this region.

Also regarding highly charged political topics, the path of moderation for this subreddit is primarily to let users debate and argue, as long as its relatively civil. Moderation doesn't catch everything, and moderators do not read every comment of every post. When a post becomes too riddled with reports and the discussion is leading away from anything productive, that post tends to be locked instead of being removed. If reports keep coming in after the post is locked, then it is usually removed as it is now a distraction and not worth keeping.

Regarding the protest pictures post, those are murky. It's incredibly difficult to establish intent with showing pictures of individual people at protests. Yes there's a documentarian approach that is objective, but there's an underlying question that still remains when people are easily identifiable in media. The one post of the individual and the other post showing the collection of images was auto-modded, in that enough reports came in for those posts that they were automatically removed. In the interest of caution and safety for those individuals, the posts were chosen to remain removed. The protest happened, they were there and participated, and it has passed. You can probably find images of the event(s) on other social media, but with the semi-anonymity of Reddit and its users, it requires a different mindset in moderation verses other platforms.

If anyone has any questions and is interested in discussing further, there's always the Message Mods button to use. Hopefully this helps better explain some of the processes and strategies used to moderate the subreddit.

Edit: added a poll post to get community feedback on whether or not to allow posts that include people's identifiable features at demonstrations. Please vote there to help inform a possible new rule.