There are loads of conspiracy theories going around.

About the riots in America. Ive heard that its been created by Russian bots, white supremecists agent provocateurs, 'Antifa' etc.

Noboby really knows wtf is going on and every media source is pushing an agenda.

The intersting question is why is this thing hapoening?

What caused the circumstances that led to this man's death and why did it cause riots throughout America.

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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

The white supremacist provocateur thing actually is pretty likely. For one about 50 years of US history shows in riots the vast majority of the time the worst has been provoked by undercovers or people paid by the local police. It was part of CoIntelPro and there have been cases of this as recently as 2014 as reported by The Guardian. Furthermore the FBI has been investigating multiple police departments for ties to far right white supremacist groups and the police there have also had a long history with the KKK.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I saw videos of bricks left outside a store. It could be legit or not. For me, this misses the point.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I don’t really buy the white supremacist angle tbh.

Cops though? They do this shit all the time.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@QuixoticSoul How can you not? The cops have been almost the entire leadership of the KKK since it's founding? Why is something that is a long standing tradition suddenly surprising?

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Cops being in the KKK is far different than the KKK running the police - and it’s 2020.

Provoking riots with undercover personnel is a tried and true tactic, used all over the world. You don’t need white supremacists to use it.

Clearly backfired though.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@QuixoticSoul That is a distinction without a difference. And so what? It is 2020 and literally nothing has changed as far as anyone can tell except now the cops carry military kit and weapons. The NWA was right in 89 and nothing has changed. And I think the FBI has better things to do then make shit up about police departments all across the country.

True but the white supremacist thing is very unique to certain countries with a racist history. Not surprisingly both the UK and Germany have similar problems (if on a smaller scale).

The US is somewhat unique in that many of the police departments started out as slave patrols. And this is the same nation that still obsesses about the civil war like it happened yesterday.