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What that cop did to that poor mans neck by kneeling on it was inexcusable, but it seems that now the protests are turning into pure anarchy.

Here in Birmingham, the protests weren't that ugly...at first. Things got stirred up when the protest turned from justice for a wrong deed, to tearing down monuments(a fight that was started a few years ago). THOSE agitators, (i might add accompanied by our MAYOR) when finished with the fine job of defacing public property, then moved on to destroy nearby private property. They even broke into the Alabama Power Company Museum and destroyed artifacts from the early days of electricity. As is the MO of most of these criminals, they stole from hard-working business owners and cost them thousands of dollars in repairs. These low-life thugs then threatened MY small town's police department with fire-bombing because the Chief there has really cracked down on crime-which of course is racist don't ya know. State wide curfew issued(first since 1955) and road blocks at all entry points to town with well-armed officers at each. And, in the 5 minutes I was talking to one of the officers, I saw 3 people volunteer to assist in protecting our town.

Legal protest is fine. When you spit, throw objects, assault, or damage property you are no longer protesting you are a criminal. And if you will allow these people to hide in your group, then you will have to deal with some pushback.