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CMV: BLM is holding the USA hostage

Thank God Chauvin was considered guilty. Both because he is a murderer who deserves to be punished, and also because if he wasn't found guilty, you can bet dozens of people would die in the following days.

I'm talking about this as an outsider, who has never been in the USA, so pardon if I get any detail wrong. But what I'm seeing right now in the USA is plain awful and I have to talk about it.

The USA has been suffered the effects of systematic racism for quite a long time now, that's for sure. That's why black americans have an accent, while in my country (Brazil) they speak exactly the same way as white people do. There's segregation and separation. People from each race feel like they are more secure and welcome when they are far from people from other races, which is awful.

In the past couple years, a series of cases happened where police officers killed black people. Some of them, let's be honest, were justified and reasonable if you actually look at the footages. Others, like Floyd's case, where plain murder and shouldn't be excused. That being said, let's get to the facts.

One person was killed by a cop. One person. And it wasn't proven as being because of Floyd's race. That cop might be simply a really awful and violent person who happened to go too far and kill someone by accident, and that person happened to be black. We don't know how many people he almost killed before. You might say it's obvious the cop is simply racist, but that's not proven.

What happens after that? Chaos. Pure chaos. For starters, millions of damages in private property, stores stolen and so on. People say "oh, but it's just money, not lives" (we will get to that). But is it really that inconsequential? That was during one of the worst parts of the pandemic, when unemployment was really high. The stores still open, some owned by black people, were barely surviving the economic hit. And what these people do? Rob them. And no, not everyone has insurance for looting.

Not to mention the deaths, direct and indirect. Directly, we had dozens of people dying during the violent protests. Indirectly, we had covid. During a global pandemic, when everyone should be at home and wearing masks, we have major groups of millions running across the streets. No wonder republicans call them hypocrites. The worst was the media saying that "those thousands of people close together won't have an effect on covid", which is obviously false and spits in the face of those who were previously claiming that Trump's rallies were a bad thing. 

I can't measure how many people got affected by this, and any study regarding this will probably be dismissed as racist. But I think a thousand is not nearly the right amount.

Now, we have the whole country in suspence again. Schools, stores... The whole country prepared to close itself in case Chauvin was found innocent. Because the schools had to protect their students. Because the stores had to protect their bread.

Can this country possibly find a way of protesting and getting things done that doesn't involve such death and tragedy?
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>Now, we have the whole country in suspence again. Schools, stores... The whole country prepared to close itself in case Chauvin was found innocent. Because the schools had to protect their students. Because the stores had to protect their bread.

Just need to point out that this isn't really true. Some cities took precautions, but the idea that the "whole country was prepared to close" pending the Chauvin verdict is evidence that you're getting your news solely from the media and not in touch with what's going on (as you admitted you're looking at this from the outside). The vast majority of the country is  business as usual.