> When the protests are peaceful, you don't need to send in military. When the city is burning, it could be a solution. What about the many reports that the pr

> When the protests are peaceful, you don't need to send in military. When the city is burning, it could be a solution. What about the many reports that the protests started peaceful until the police started shooting? You may disagree about whether it's racist to decide in that circumstance to send the military against the group that isn't the police, but it does seem to be willfully blind to the relationship between cause and effect in a way that to some is highly suggestive. Racism isn't always saying "death to black people". Sometimes it's saying "stop resisting" with a baton and a gun when you instigated conflict in the first place.