Also, "stay home if you don't want to be murdered by the government" is not something said by people who value freedom.
A few years ago, my work friend’s best friend, who had moved from Australia to the US, called the police because she thought a woman was being raped near her house. When the police arrived she, small, unarmed and in her pyjamas, ran outside to direct them to where she had heard what she thought were screams. The police shot and killed her.
Surprisingly, that policeman was actually charged. For shooting an unarmed woman who had called the police for help, he was ultimately sentenced to 4.75 years. A woman’s life wasn’t even worth five years. But hey, compared to the no penalty whatsoever that most police killings attract, it was something. BLM activists were absolutely instrumental in getting that little bit of justice by supporting her family and not letting her killing be swept under the carpet despite the Minneapolis Police trying to reframe the events as being all her fault. The police did not care about her, only about themselves.
