He said he wanted to help the police and brought weapons.

This man was walking around with a knife and then pulled out a bow and arrow, aiming it at people.

He said he got jumped by two black men but it was 12 white kids that beat his ass.

Then his car was overturned and set on fire

Oh salt lake how I didn’t miss you.

This post doesn't even mention him shooting an arrow at a Downed black man execution style before the crowd rushed him

He yells "All lives matter" as he's preparing to potentially kill someone.

There's no level of self-awareness here at all.

I remember when the London riots happened and someone pointed out that the media's emphasis on looting is always funny because not paying for something is such an oh so unforgivable crime while giving people money so they can pay for things is unthinkable.

it always comes down to context and framing, doesn’t it.

if you see someone setting fire to cars and smashing windows then without further context that’s pretty fucked up, but if you broaden the frame a little bit and see it as a response to someone getting choked to death or shot without any recourse suddenly the property damage looks like a moderate and reasonable method of raising the cost of brutality, as well as an unmissable signal that the local government has lost its monopoly on violence due to being perceived as illegitimate.

“if these protests continue they will damage the fabric of society / someone might get hurt” rings false when the protests only started due to someone getting hurt in a way that damages the fabric of society.

that's the first positive framing of riotprotests I've seen that's actually compelling, thanks

I mean to be honest I’m not a fan of burning buildings, but I’m really not a fan of getting murdered, and it would be misleading in the extreme not to see that interest in burning down police stations sure seems to spike right after those same police just murdered somebody.

reactions to riots will aim to sever them from their context, presenting a world in which people are just itching to set fire to shit on any day of the week but sadly don’t have a valid excuse, then they see an itty bitty mistake by an innocent policeman and boom it’s off to the races, they don’t really care about any of the stuff they put on signs and chant in the streets, they’re just troublemakers!

every riot is a genuine failure of governance and law enforcement, not a failure to control or suppress or disperse the riot, but a failure to give people a better option than rioting.

think it is a good time to bring up the fact that the police in the united states of america are not legally required to protect people. that is straight up not part of their job.

furthermore, the united states police system was created largely out of runaway slave roundup patrols, they never existed to protect people, they were created to protect “property rights.”

They do not and have not ever existed to help keep folks safe. That is quite literally not even in their constitutional job description.

yknow, this is what these entities are protecting ...

“when the looting starts the shooting starts” he says during the highest unemployment rate in the country he himself has done little to mitigate outside of send folks to their deaths.

these people care about property, these systems care about property. it was never about protecting life.

Capitalized “thugs” is a huge signal to his racist buddies too. That cannot be accidental. 

Notable that “When the looting starts, the shooting starts” is a quote from Walter Headley, the police chief of Miami in the 1960s.

"In declaring war on 'young hoodlums, from 15 to 21, who have taken advantage of the civil rights campaign,' Headley said, 'we don’t mind being accused of police brutality.'

'They haven’t seen anything, yet.'

Headley said Miami hasn't been troubled with racial disturbances and looting because he let the word filter down, 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts.'"

So that’s who Trump is invoking here.