So if you find that the ratio R of protestor violence PV over police brutality PB is over 1 or some other arbitrary constant you think we should just allow poli

So if you find that the ratio R of protestor violence PV over police brutality PB is over 1 or some other arbitrary constant you think we should just allow police brutality? This is the most insidious justification of police brutality I’ve ever seen, here or elsewhere, even if it’s unintentional. It takes a position that police brutality and rioting/looting are two sides of the same coin and that we can (or should) only address whichever one is worse by some numeric calculation. Who cares what the RATIO of cop violence vs protestor violence? Do you know why we don’t need the “other side “of this? It’s because the police already do this on the other side. They are free to make arrests using their own evidence, including their own eyewitness, their own body cameras, their own dash cameras, and any CCTV they get access to. Some even use these videos! Police are arresting protestors like crazy, thousands in the last month alone. You know who else is documenting all the violence and looting caused by protesters? Every news outlet, it’s the only protest related content they bother to show because it’s the only part of the protest that’s interesting to watch for most people. The purpose of this database is to collect and display evidence so that violent police can be arrested and charged. Violent protestors are usually arrested immediately, many are picked up later at home and a small handful of organizers are assassinated in the years following (see Ferguson) We don’t need any help stopping protestor violence, we need help stopping police violence.