Below are a variety of videos I've seen that help describe what's happening on the ground.

DISCLAIMER: Although I assume everyone here is an adult and can handle these types of images, there are a few that I found extremely disturbing.

It should also be noted that the Trump has been claiming that "Anitfa" (an anti-fascist group) is responsible for the chaos, and today he declared them a terrorist organization.

just setting the mood before we begin..

...and a testimonial from John Cusack:

a city in chaos

mashup of disturbing incidents

police submerge on John Cusack

“this was a 100% peaceful march until police opened fire”

Man with bow and arrow is attacked by crowd:

amish protestors

outside the white house

crowd chaos

cnn headquarters - cops endure fireworks explosion

cops arrest a protester

protesters protect store from being looted

cop on horse runs over a protester

protester maced

kids armed?

black man telling white man to stop agitating

beautiful white woman in red dress comes to the rescue (title adjusted for the Khmer reader)

don’t forget about the pandemic

woman gets thrown to the ground

cop follows man to continue shoving him

police destroying protest supplies

police running over protesters with SUV

police running over crowd with SUV’s, 2nd angle

old man with cane thrown to the ground

nike store looted

citizens standing at their door step shot with rubber bullets while cop yells “light em up”

department store in ruins

protester steals cop horse?

all hell breaks loose

this is america

"anonymous" joins in

total chaos

cop pulls mask off protester so he can mace him

cops advancing on crowd

John Cusack films beauty store being looted

cop decides he’s fed up

man with sword beaten by crowd

protesters fight back

protester’s message to America

historical context explaining how many black people feel about America

white sheriff joins protest

a morning after

mayhem

disturbing video of young person pepper sprayed

cop kicks woman sitting on the ground

black cop’s perspective on event that started it all

woman slaps cop, cop decks woman

white man (wearing MAGA hat?) beaten by crowd

police pepper spray crowd

“eat the rich”

“this is an unlawful assembly”

cop reads names of black victims (with British accent?)

beverly hills

view from above

major traffic jam

protesters flip cop car

cop disarms protester

cop disarms protester, 2nd view

Looks like walking away from a fight and calling yourself winner is not in fashion these days.

I've been an agitated Leftist for over a decade. But if you look what happened to "man with sword beaten by crowd" guy, and many, many similar others, I don't think you can find police doing anything 1% as bad as that.

These people have weapons because they're trying to defend themselves, and/or their life's work (small business) from obviously sick and murderously violent crowds. Just the fact that the little guy thought he could take on multiple opponents with a sword shows he doesn't have much experience with violence and doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. i.e. normal, non-violent people.

Most of the those videos are from the minority of May 30th violence that was committed by police. There are so many not included that are infinitely worse. But we don't need those. What you posted does the job with that one video.

Furthermore bow and arrow guy had been having mobs of people threatening him. He also was not schooled in the ways of violent mobs because of his stupid decision(and yes I don't think he's a great guy obviously. just because he's ignorant doesn't mean he's highly moral). But I wouldn't expect all decent people to respond rationally to 70 people advancing on you threateningly. And look what happened to him! He got his head stomped in! That's two people that got their heads stomped in. There are no words for how devastating it is for a person to have their head stomped in. That's *two examples*. Two. Out of a heck of a lot more.

Anyone can title a video, 'Police did -X- nasty thing'. That doesn't make the violence equal to the rioters. Without a shadow of a doubt nobody outdid the violence of these mobs on this particular day.

I hope we can agree to disagree in a civil way. If it must be so.

A man in Dallas was severely beaten while defending a store.

Driving on that road was a bad idea.
Stopping was a really bad idea.

(I'm old enough to remember Reginald Denny.)