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Recently the US city of New York, decided that BLM protestors that felt victimized by the police preventing from running amok, deserve 21500 USD (28267877.5 KRW) each.
Such a payout somewhat changes the calculus of participating in protests, peaceful or otherwise. Previously by joining a protest one showed willingness to sacrifice time and risk being temporarily detained.
But now the what the Hot Coffee Incident was in common perception notable for, harm suffered being greatly outweighed by compensation, has come true. Thus making protesting a net-gain, unless one views publicly supporting BLM to be so immoral, as there existing no sum high enough for which one would do it.
In related olds, DisruptJ6 protestors, despite alleging molestation going on for a longer period of time, and interfering with bodily autonomy in much more invasive ways, have yet to be given money.
The police in NYC were pointedly less interested in stopping rioting and looting than in attacking anti-police protestors. Their handling of Floyd protests was textbook anarcho-tyranny, deliberately allowing the spread of lawlessness while concentrating their efforts on the law abiding in order to deter criticism.
The failing here is that the systems of accountability are so anemic that police can continue to routinely violate civil and human rights while obliging taxpayers to foot the bill.
As I noted the last time this was brought up, these are normal conditions. If you have a problem with how Jan 6 rioters have been treated in detention, you have a general problem with how the detention of accused criminals is handled in the US.
This presumes that the Jan 6 protesters are in fact criminals. If they are not, and are being treated like criminals anyway, that is objectionable.
No, it presumes that they have been accused of being criminals. The current process is the process (according to Skibboleth) by which we treat those whose guilt we are still in technical doubt about.
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