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No violence except for the Dallas shootings in 2016:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_poli...

Funny thing, BLM basically disappeared after this and just reappeared in 2020

It pops up during presidential election years. The donations are what is funding the DNC and the Biden campaign. It's an odd thing when you consider that Harris was a prosecutor who was unusually aggressive about putting black people in prison for minor offenses like pot, and that Biden was a senator who pushed to pass the strict sentencing.

I think the deal is that getting a person to donate to an uninspiring political campaign is difficult, but it is easy to add a more-palatable organization in the middle to pass along the funding. It's almost money laundering.

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