The alleged white supremacists who injured five people at a Black Lives Matter protest intended to terrorize more than just the people they hurtWhen gun-toting alleged white supremacists shot up a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest outside a police station in Minneapolis on Monday night,leaving five people wounded and terrorizing Black Lives Matter activists locally and nationally, I was sad, or but not surprised. This is how America rolls: we are a nation founded and still peopled by white people enacting violence against people of color.
In the older lynching era,it wasnt unusual for civilians to consume matters into their hands whenever black Americans gained a shrimp political or economic ground. But under the KKK hoods were fairly often members of local law enforcement.
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Source: theguardian.com