There are loads of conspiracy theories going around.

It wasn't the media, it was the MN authorities that said that because there was a large amount of vehicles with no license plates and social media posts of groups trying to lure people to certain places to specifically target them. Police intercepted these posts.

At any rate, I actually want to believe they are extremists starting the rioting or otherwise I'll have a severe distrust again and I don't want that.

I HAVE to, do you understand?

Let's review the actions that the peaceful religion of rioting have done so far:

-There was a guy with a machete defending a business who got beat to the ground. Now, I actually don't blame people because the guy had a machete and shouldn't have been there. However, his actions were well intentioned, people don't want their homes destroyed. When people feel threatened like the guy with the machete, they probably feel like protecting themselves with machetes which is, I dare say, understandable.

However, unprovoked actions include:

-Rioters beat a man to the ground severely for just getting out his phone. People say he was about to call police but who really knows. That does not warrant them beating him to critical injury in the street.

-It's unclear what happened but in a video, a couple was seen getting attacked. Towards the end of the video the guy screams "Leave my wife alone," as 8 rioters surrounded them and beat them with boards. One rioter punched the person in the face (assuming the wife) while they were already on the ground and continued to do so.

-An entire town had long lines to a gun shop because they were having their homes burglarized. A man said that he had a daughter to watch over.

-A man was standing with the American flag, it's unclear of what was said but regardless, doesn't matter. He was ONLY standing there and they dragged him in the street. He actually refused to let go of the flag and to this day did not give up the fight as they surrounded and beat him.

-Numerous rioters are trying to drag people from their cars who are not even part of the protest. They are stuck in traffic and people want to surround them and beat them. They were seen getting on top of cars to damage them.

-A security guard wrestled a stolen rifle off of a rioter who was trying to purposely shoot at cars with people in them.

-Firefighters are being kept from their jobs, they are being blocked from putting out fires. Rioters are beating them, rioters attempted to throw rocks at firefighters trying to rescue a PROTESTER stuck in a grate.

Etc. etc. etc.

I couldn't imagine that it's mainly protesters doing this.