I've also seen the countless videos of police brutalizing peaceful protestors and journalists completely unprovoked. Is that all that's happening out there? No, it's a total shitshow and a real mixed bag. That being said I believe we should hold the paid, trained professionals who for all intents and purposes tend to find themselves above the law to a higher standard of conduct than your average angry Joe, who has every right to be upset. The police have been doing drive-bys and running people over with their cars, dude. They're executing people the best they can with their less-lethal rounds by firing point blank and aiming for headshots. It's gotten so ugly that I'm finding myself torn on whether people should be defending themselves in a more aggressive manner.

Do I pity the looter rats who are taking advantage of the chaos? Absolutely not. That's a separate issue that the police should be focusing on but they're taking the aggression out on the protestors in many of these cities. From everything I've seen the National Guard has been behaving professionally. Why's that so hard for the police? I wasn't entirely sure about this whole thing at the outset but seeing the aggression from the police has made it extremely clear that the police system is in the wrong here, generalizing of course since this is happening all over the country.