Lol everything about this.



Don't think he's black tho.

I would say that, given the number of protests where nothing of the sort happened, shooting into a moving car at a protest is absolutely "fringe," but I would also probably refrain from taking a stance on what's happening here until the shooter is arrested, given what happened with the last big protest-related shooting in Oakland.

Maybe people aren't shooting into cars yet but the whole douchebags block intersection thing is pretty much universal at this point. Why would anyone even slow down now after seeing this video?

This happened just across the river:

https://www.fredericksburg.com/watch-now-911-call-during-protest-reverberates-in-fredericksburg/article_f3b9488f-e726-56ff-95ea-cb1373c1cc4e.html


Protestors attacking uninvolved civilian cars is not an isolated incident.

Ryan Vera, a representative of the multiple groups that have been protesting police brutality in downtown streets since May 31, said during the event described in the 911 call, a 13-year-old boy who was not part of the protesting group did jump on her car. Vera said the group immediately pulled the boy away.

The speed with which you've moved these goalposts is truly impressive. As the article you posted claims:

The plural of anecdote is not evidence in a country where there have been easily a few thousand different protests (conservative estimate) since Floyd was murdered, and I would certainly say that "someone got on my car" is of a different kind than "someone shot into my car," so to lump them into the same group is spurious and moving the goalposts from your original (implied) claim--that the Provo video contradicts claims that violence at these protests is a fringe phenomenon. What happened in Provo is obviously despicable (though, again, until he's arrested it's anyone's guess as to whether he was a left-wing protestor or a right-wing boogaloo-style agitator). What looks to have happened in Fredericksburg is bad! Violence against civilians at this heterogeneous set of nationwide protests which have been going on for almost a month now is still a rare occurrence.

Ironically this argument is framed almost exactly like someone dismissing claims about the frequency of police killing unarmed black men.

Shootings by protestors are rare (if you dont count the four at CHAZ, the one BBQ guy in Louisville, the one this past weekend in Louisville, Indy, the two in Vegas, etc., etc.) but attacking innocent bystanders is not. Twitter is awash in videos that are a bit too graphic to post here but can easily be located if that's your thing.

somehow the logic that a minority of poorly behaved police officers means all police officers are terrible doesn’t hold when applied to the minority of poorly behaved protestors

(hint: because the logic is wrong)