Baltimore 2015 protests vs Hong Kong 2019 protests for me.

Police were driving in tanks to Baltimore for a peaceful protest
and commenters were all on this “what about public property rights?
What about the rights of store owners?” tinge.

Hong Kong 2019 came around and rioters were tearing down train stations left and right
trashing stores breaking anything and everything until there was nothing left of it,
tearing up roads to block traffic, setting up bombs, attempts to derail a train,
biting police officers, stabbing police officers, driving into police officers with a vehicle,
attempts to steal guns from police officer holsters, beating up civilians,
setting one on fire for saying “Can’t we get along?” and killing another.

And then they demanded to be fully free of any charges for that and a apology for being called rioters.
All because Hong Kong wanted to arrest a murderer and extradite him to Taiwan.
Not one that the protesters believed he was innocent,
as he was the only suspect of choking a recently graduated high school girl to death
and then chopped her up into little pieces with an axe, throwing her remains in the river.

And the reaction? “What a beautiful sight. Such brave resistance fighters. Such brutal police.”