White people at protests: IT IS NOT YOUR PLACE TO BE AGITATORS.
If you are white and attending a protest you need to use your privilege to protect and support the BIPOC present.
Destroying things, taunting police, etc.; those actions will be blamed on the non-white protesters, Black people most of all. THEY will bear the brunt of the consequences because you want to live out some sort of idealized rebel fantasy. The cops will use your actions as an excuse to harm non-white protesters.
Destroying property is not “sending a message” it’s putting Black people in danger and the fact that white people were at fault will be erased by the media and the masses.
It will be “misremembered” and BIPOC will be blamed and harmed as a result.
