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> People have been recorded on video handing out cash to "protesters" from a thick wad of bills.

It would be trivial to contrive that exact scenario.

I’m not say that it was contrived, just that it would be trivial to do so.

>>TheSpi+(OP)
That I do agree with. A lot of other things would be trivial to contrive as well. I would not be surprised if the scenes of devastation we see in the media are far smaller in scale IRL, and we're just being shown the same smashed storefront from different angles to drive clicks.

But at the same time I think peaceful protesters would not burn police cars or loot, seeing how looting does absolutely nothing good whatsoever for their cause. They would especially not burn or loot minority businesses, churches, or low income housing complexes. Someone is very deliberately and efficiently pouring gasoline into this fire IMO, that much is pretty obvious by now.