Only a tiny, miniscule percentage of police are criminals. They are by far amazing people who protect us.
The protesters are largely the violent ones, burning cars and destroying property, empowered by paid professionals and criminals like ANTIFA (which coincidentally are fascists themselves).
Let a court and jury judge based on a complete set of evidence, rather than the edited video clips being collected. From what I've seen, the entire videos of what these protesters do oaint a different picture.
And why is news like this even allowed on HN? Its what gets fights and trolling started.
And the justice system has also been very visibly complicit with police brutality, almost universally excusing the actions of murderers when those murderers were policemen and women 'doing their duty'. In basically all of the high profile police murders that have rocked the nation, the murderers got away with it so far. So trust in the system is justifiably at an all time low.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests#Deaths
Mind you this is not a pepper spray or flashangs which are relatively harmless.
1. 3 Shop owner killed alleged looter / passerby
2. 4 Killed by police
3. 8 Killed by protesters/rioters/looters
4. 5 Other deaths
And that is assuming all of the looters are part of the protests, when in fact at least 2-3 of the deaths in category 3 could also be black protesters targeted by radicals, or simply robberies happening around the actual protests.
In the meantime, there are 25 separate police violence incidents on the same wiki page, with another 50 against journalists collected by a journalist. The same page reports 7 incidents of violence against the police and 4 against non-police.
So I believe my point stands. Not to mention that the police should always be held at a higher standard of conduct and respect for the law than random people.