Does looting tarnish the message of protesting?
In an article posted by the Inquiry in 2014 , the writer discusses a lot of the issues we are seeing today with protesting. The article was published in August of 2014. The focus was on the protestors for Black Lives Matter and the unjust murder of Michael Brown Jr. While reading the article there are so many parallels discussed that people are currently discussing now. Mass protests are occurring, along with groups of people looting and starting riots. In 2014 what started as conversation of justice, moved to people discussing looting and whether that is the right thing to do. There have been debates time and time again in defense of the looting, and others who strongly oppose it. There is also the issue of when the media begins to focus solely on the looting, and steers away from the bigger picture. These discussions are what I am seeing a lot of today through social media and the news. I myself saw myself only thinking of the looting because that was all I was seeing through my fee