There are three different things at stake here, Cali.
1) The fact itself -- which demands protest;
No it doesn't. There are laws on the books and procedures in place for punishing police misconduct. There was consensus about the Floyd video that the police officer used excessive force. The president of the United States immediately called the Floyd family and asked for the DOJ to investigate the incident. The DOJ immediately announced an investigation into it. The 4 police officers involved were fired, and the one who knelt on Floyd's neck was ultimately arrested. So.....there was nothing to protest about this incident.
And people were not protesting over this incident alone. It was simply a trigger. People are protesting on the basis of the absurd, fact-free notion that black people are treated worse by police than whites. Study after study has shown that is not the case. But no one cares. They just continue believing that blacks are uniquely mistreated by police and that whites never get mistreated by police.
In other words, all of the people "protesting" and of course looting are doing so on the basis of a false premise.
2) An overall analysis, to understand how representative is this fact of the day to day reality of the whole population (which is basically your point, and I fully agree this must be addressed), because people are protesting on the premise that this is representative;
Yes, addressed above.
3) That some can turn a protest into a violent display - with or without political use of the mess.
At this point, it is not a matter of if but when. Left-wing "protests" are not a mere political statement, let alone a sophisticated one. They are an emotional, bigoted temper tantrum against certain enemies, real and imagined. I just saw people in NYC holding signs such as "NYPD suck my dick" and "Fuck the police." Does that sound like civil protest to you? Does that sound like people in a peaceful mindset? Is this photo from Chicago right here "peaceful"?
These "protests" are ipso facto violent. They are vulgar, obscene, and vicious.
We cannot expect that the general population will be able to make a sober social analysis and look in deep perspective after any flagrant case like this one -- be it representative or not.
But that is exactly what they claim to be doing. The problem is that they are dead wrong and acting on a false premise.
It is a valid form of political pressure to protest a murder.
But murders happen all the time, so it's a matter of which ones you choose and why you choose them and the narrative you choose to run with. In this case, the brainwashed, low-information left-wing masses are running with a completely false narrative.
It is up to the political players to frame facts in the perspective is more favorable to them -- as long as they do not feed the public with lies (which is your point). If that is the case, expose the lies.
Most of these people don't care. If you show them the actual statistics on police brutality or race and crime, they simply shrug their shoulders and pretend they never heard it. They are impervious to rational thought.
A (peacefull) protest is never the problem, worst case scenario it is the symptom.
But the left is not capable of "peaceful protests".....how many times do they have to show you they are not before you give up on that idea? They just set fire to over 15 American cities using "protests" as a pretext to loot, burn, and destroy everything in their path. If they are holding signs, they say things like "NYPD suck my dick." If you think this is "peaceful," then you simply need to open your dictionary and remind yourself of what the term means.
As for Kaepernick, I am not discussing if his protest is justified or not (I am ignorant enough to pretend to have an answer to that). My point is that his form of protest is a good one. What do you prefer? People kneeling or burning houses?
I prefer starting a blog or a website or writing a letter to the editor. There are far more choices than kneeling like a dumbass or burning buildings down. Thankfully we humans were endowed with more creativity than simply having to choose a 10-year-old style of defiance or behaving like a barbaric civilization-destroyer. The left in the USA has as little appreciation for culture or civilization as ISIS. They are utterly vile.
