RichieLion - you are both right and wrong in your posting. You are right about mob violence and the looting that goes along with rioting. However, you are wrong about "true violence always coming from the left". Take a look back in history to the mob violence of the up and coming Nazi party in Germany in the 1930s.

Anyhow, some good has come from some mass protests. Communism was taken down in Eastern Europe; the US got out of Vietnam; civil rights were brought about in America.

Of course, I do not go along with mob violence, though. I am sure the NYPD will see that any protests are handled properly.