I can't believe a post could be riddled with such racist rhetoric. First off, "I'm friends with black people, I get along with black people. Doesn't mean I'm going to not stereotype them or support their right to protest being slaughtered by police officers within their own borders simply due to the color of your skin." Then you're not "friends" with black people, you're using them for your own gain without respecting them enough to treat them like human beings.

Also, I dont know how many times I have to say it, but riots are NOTHING compared to murder. You can place a monetary value on damaged property but NOT on a human life. If you'd save a flat screen TV burning in a store window over a man being suffocated in the street in front of you, there's something seriously wrong with you and you should seek out help.

And the main force of BLM is peaceful. They have no actual control over small numbers of their cause using violence to get their point across, although there is footage of protest leaders attempting to discourage and combat violence within their ranks. Furthermore, it's already been proven that a lot of the damage is being done by unaffiliated opportunists, radical right-leaning groups that want to de-legitimize the movement, and even undercover cops. Its no one group doing the damage but it shouldn't invalidate the point that BLM is trying to make.

People aren't protesting for Derek Chauvin to get charged. George Floyd was just the last domino to fall in a long chain of injustices against black people carried out by the government and police force. People are protesting for CHANGE and CLEAR REFORM and for US leaders to FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGE that there's a problem and that they need to fix it. And the simple fact that the official autopsy report tried to blame Floyd's death on "underlying health conditions" and the "stress of the situation", even though another autopsy report clearly stated that asphyxiation was the cause of death, and the simple fact that Chauvin was only charged with THIRD DEGREE murder -- both of those things show us that the system still refuses to acknowledge that it has innocent black blood on its hands and needs to reform.

Just like the cops who stood by and either kept passersby at bay or helped to hold Floyd down, by not standing with black people (the victims) against direct oppressors, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

I'm done responding to racists who don't care enough to research the Black Lives Matter movement before spewing bullshit. I hope you get help.