You are exactly right. The criminals feed their agenda. It’s you that are the problem. You want to hold on to family values and common sense and rule of law. You will not be a good new global citizen. That’s essentially the larger picture and one we have to keep in the back of our heads.
They care not for crime because they will be their foot soldiers when they need them to be.
His fighting back against the four felons who attacked him put a pause on the riots. I was a bit confused for a while because they did not fit in with any of the supposed reasons that were given for the riots. And then I realized it is not about race or color or sex or anything but about criminals against the law abiding. And the legal system is in favor of the criminals.
Make things really violent and normal people will beg for a crack down. And when normal people get cracked by "accident" they will argue that it was really all their fault for not doing what the nice government told them to.
This is going to lead to some where very bad.