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[quote=Anonymous]Here's my overall guess having been part of many protests over the years:

First of all, the makeup of the crowd, actions of the crowd and political affiliations of the young and middle aged white dudes breaking windows is different depending on what city you're in.

The people formerly known as Black Box Anarchists are and have been the main ones breaking windows in DC.  They are usually vegan, skinny and 20-35, but some are older.

They believe in the destruction of property, of the government and the creation of a new totally non-hierarchical future.

They do not believe in injuring people.

Mostly they are (in my humble, DC moderate opinion) misguided, have too much energy, glorify stupid radical thinking, and unstrategic.

The people who come in and loot once the plate glass windows are broken is going to be a whole different demographic.

They are mad as hell about George Floyd and also want free sh#t.

In Minneapolis and Raleigh, NC it seems most of the people breaking windows and setting fires are white nationalist and white supremacist a##holes who are boogaloo boys or Proud Boys (google them if you haven't heard the terms) and what they want is white supremacy.  Some of them also hate the police and want a second civil war against the police.

I'm sure many other cities have totally peaceful protests.
Some other cities have police forces shooting teargas into crowds totally unprovoked (we have that too, btw if you look at Lafayette Square last night).
Some others have mostly white supremacists smashing things and setting things on fire.

We've got to keep in our toes here in DC.  We will likely have a continually evolving situation.

In my opinion, it would help if the BLM leaders would say, externally or internally, that young white dudes need to follow their lead and not break windows.  In my opinion that would work better if they also said that to young AA dudes.

But when your ethic is all about not being hierarchical, it's hard to have a unified message.  It's also hard to actually achieve things.

So we'll see what happens.  I feel pretty hopeless right now.  With a lawless President a highly unemployed president, justified rage without an effective ask, I don't see how things get better in the near future.

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