# "The Vast Majority of Violent Protestors and Looters are Alt-Right Provocateurs"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vast-majority-of-violent-protestors-and-looters-are-alt-right-provocateurs/854802>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 31, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vast-majority-of-violent-protestors-and-looters-are-alt-right-provocateurs/854802 "2020-05-31T18:46:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vast-majority-of-violent-protestors-and-looters-are-alt-right-provocateurs/854802/61 "2020-06-02T22:18:10Z")

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[These people don’t seem to be looting or vandalizing, but they aren’t helping matters at all](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12336736)

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**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vast-majority-of-violent-protestors-and-looters-are-alt-right-provocateurs/854802/62 "2020-06-03T11:06:11Z")

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My neighbor from the Philippines says he cannot believe the rioting and looting. He said in the Philippines people are allowed to protest (with a permit) but as soon as they get out of hand the police stop things - with real bullets.

Makes American police look alot better.

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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vast-majority-of-violent-protestors-and-looters-are-alt-right-provocateurs/854802/63 "2020-06-03T13:01:37Z")

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> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#):
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> The concept of “Innocent until proven guilty” is being largely abandoned.
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> Cops continue to do their extrajudicial executions with increasing boldness; and many of those who are outraged by that turn around and ‘just know’ the riots and property damage are started & instigated by undercover cops, or others with an intent to smear those engaging in an otherwise peaceable assembly. No evidence, no arrests, no identification of the alleged instigators, just what past events have suggested…

Methinks you conflate suspicion with judicial conviction.

If your thinking were valid, when a prosecutor rises to say “We accuse defendant of robbery,” the defense attorney could rise and say “Your honor, prosecutor is out of order. Defendant is innocent until proven guilty.”

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**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vast-majority-of-violent-protestors-and-looters-are-alt-right-provocateurs/854802/64 "2020-06-03T14:50:21Z")

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> [@Chessic\_Sense](#):
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> Anyone else notice that every state is saying these agitators are from out of state? So I guess the Californians are driving to burn down Portland and the Oregonians are headed south to start shit in LA?

As part of my graduate studies I did some research on lynchings here in Arkansas and I noticed the same thing. Whenever there was racial unrest, a politician would typically blame agitators from out of state.

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**Author:** ![JoePockets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8dc957/32.png) [@JoePockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoePockets)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-vast-majority-of-violent-protestors-and-looters-are-alt-right-provocateurs/854802/65 "2021-11-28T18:42:34Z")

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Well then you won’t care for my opinion…If someone attempts to burns my home or business you will not be walking away! And I will gladly be judged by my neighbors. But someone will not be there for the verdict!

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