This is organized. The politicians are encouraging the blacks to be violent and break the law. The politicians and bureaucrats are threatening the police if they do their jobs.
The criminals now know they can get away with it. It is that simple.
The politicians and the MSM make up all kinds of stupid excuses but that is just to confuse the public.
This whole scene played out in NJ years ago, when one of our governors posed with a perp spread up against a police cruiser. Since then, cops have “stood down” in terms of black crime (unless they are raiding off the welfare reservations); the murder rate in our cities has increased ever since. The guns and drugs our police had intercepted in the past coming up 95 from Florida now enter uninterrupted.
They should be careful what they wish for; I have no problem with the policy because they don’t foot the bill for police protection anyway (or fire, or education, or public works, or even their own groceries & rent).