[minikites]

>There are a lot of people breaking the law, and we need to reduce that with as little harm as possible.

Cops are the ones breaking the law. The way to "reduce that with as little harm as possible" is to abolish the police and replace them with a public safety department that isn't systematically power hungry, racist, and violent.

[downerending]

You should start looking at the videos. I've seen a couple of unconscious people being kicked in the head this week by "protesters". These people are nothing like law-abiding.

[alistairSH]

If a few bad apples discredits an entire protest movement, why don't a few bad apples discredit the entire law enforcement apparatus?

[lm28469]

There are people being there to break bones and fuck things up, on both sides. If we focus on them instead of the underlying issues we all lose.

[bluntfang]

comparing civilians to police officers is a false equivalency.