Violent protest sounds fine, in some circumstances.

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/police-precinct-minneapolis/

I more or less agree with that; I think that especially given the history of widespread peaceful protest against police brutality which clearly didn’t do a damn thing to keep George Floyd alive, and given the clear mandate of millions of people in the streets, burning down the 3rd precinct sent a message which had quite a bit to do with changing the culture of policing and the conversation in the years that followed. “A little revolution every now and then is a healthy thing.”

This wasn’t that. This is just one guy deciding to kill some random person who wasn’t from the same department, after some other cop from a different department had a perfectly reasonable reaction to being put in a life-threatening violent situation. It sucks for all concerned, I understand his reaction as a human thing, but a cop who breaks a suspect’s nose because he wouldn’t stop mouthing off and trying to kick him or something, that’s a human reaction too. We all need to keep our reactions in check sometimes.