• spacegoat@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    It’s because it (typically) isn’t the political activists who are the ones looting. It is groups of criminals who just take advantage of the situation and the protestors are blamed.

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      3 hours ago

      And agent provocateurs sent to stir shit to discredit the movement and give the police an excuse to crack skulls.