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adjl posted...

If somebody with dark hair and wearing a grey shirt commits a robbery, would you count every dark-haired person wearing a grey shirt in the vicinity to be an accomplice?

If a bunch of similarly dressed people arrived as a group, and left as a group, and drew attention away from the one member of their party that did the robbing then I would find that very suspicious.

adjl posted...

You can't consider people guilty of arson for merely existing around enough other people that the arsonist feels he can hide near them.

I didn't. I said none of them should be arrested. But I thought you might because of the position you took.

adjl posted...

Outside of election time, society doesn't decide who gets arrested.

Society influences enforcement of the law on a local level. That was the very goal of the protests. The laws them self get changed when it becomes clear that one is unpopular and is no longer enforced.

adjl posted...

The focus was on the non-violent majority purely because there was so much antagonistic focus placed on the violent minority

What about the people who said looting was reparations? They focused on the violent aspects and link the crimes to an act of protest. Were they also antagonistic toward it.