As an anti-war protester (peaceful, legal) for 30 years + Rodney King protest in LA (1992):
(1): In 1992, protest/riots occurred after the trial, not before.
(2): From strategy perspective- a police station is the last thing protesters would want to attack unless you are crazy. You could get arrested or shot. It would basically be suicide. Someone with credibility had to inform protesters that they would be safe during their attack at police station. I suspect that “someone” was city hall perhaps via a 3rd party.
(3): Why were protesters so angry? On 2020 June 01 Monday when I went to work; all 7,750 employees in my department of public health received a DEI email saying that Floyd was “murdered” - (before the trial had even begun.)That would make a normal person angry.
As an anti-war protester (peaceful, legal) for 30 years + Rodney King protest in LA (1992):
(1): In 1992, protest/riots occurred after the trial, not before.
(2): From strategy perspective- a police station is the last thing protesters would want to attack unless you are crazy. You could get arrested or shot. It would basically be suicide. Someone with credibility had to inform protesters that they would be safe during their attack at police station. I suspect that “someone” was city hall perhaps via a 3rd party.
(3): Why were protesters so angry? On 2020 June 01 Monday when I went to work; all 7,750 employees in my department of public health received a DEI email saying that Floyd was “murdered” - (before the trial had even begun.)That would make a normal person angry.