As protests continue throughout the United States and beyond over a week after the May 25 death of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, it seems difficult to predict how any given demonstration will unfold.
Protests in Minneapolis, Washington D.C. and Long Beach, California have seen police arrest and fire upon journalists with rubber bullets, while others in Nashville, Indianapolis and Reno, Nevada to name a few have seen fires claim local buildings.
In Pittsburgh, however, WTAE has reported that hundreds of people have gathered to protest police brutality and systemic racism and remained peaceful in their demonstrations as police looked on. A small group broke off and damaged windows at Penn Avenue, but police acknowledged that these consisted of a small minority of "outsiders."
And one gesture of good will in the full video from a Pittsburgh protest organizer shows both the character of the protest at large and of an ideal society after some real solutions are reached.
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