'It's not just people taking advantage. It's not just anger and frustration at the immediate or proximate cause. It's always some underlying issues,' one expert said.
, are bringing to boil tensions that have in recent years simmered, but rarely rolling into anything resembling divisive changes to policing in America. Protestors and riots have now reached from New York to Los Angeles, with the aftermath of protests leading to more than 1,300 arrests and more killings since Floyd died on Monday.
And so Atlanta, Oakland, St. Louis and Phoenix were just some of the cities where protesters and police faced off—handcuffs, battens and tear gas versus picket signs and face masks—as the nation emerged from lockdown restrictions after the coronavirus outbreak. But protests in this vein are a mode of expression for the voiceless, one which recalls the Dr. King's speech from 1953 and the race riots following the Rodney King verdict in 1993. Riots are born not of violence, but persistent dismissal.
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