Ok, just to summarise for my own understanding, this is what is happening in the US right now.

1. Black folks and allies are demonstrating the latest in a long line of gratuitous murders of black people by US police officers and a system that supports those actions.

2. Well organised and armed white supremacist militia are infiltrating the demonstrations and unleash violence against people and property.

3. Local and military police turn violent against anyone within reach, save the instigators…

…driving SUVs into people, riding horses into individuals, shooting people with non-lethal ammunition, including members of the press (live on TV, no less).

4. The white supremacist instigators and police officers are found to frequent the same online and offline white supremacist organisations.

5. Gratuitous arrests and overcrowding of holding facilities during the Corona pandemic put protestors at extra risk.

They have been waiting for something like this, and they prepared for the violence and they setup a system for their protection, and they are now hitting with full force.

This is what the white supremacist utopia looks like.

What did I miss?

UPDATE: h/t @EmilyGorcenski: I appear to have fallen for the white supremacist narrative on #2 here.

https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1267011953857302533 https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1267012420796592129

They are rigging this system every way they can to justify the most brutal police violence. The US has a long history of this. Until recently, for example, I knew nothing about the Philadelphia bombing of an entire neighbourhood: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/8/20747198/philadelphia-bombing-1985-move

Update 2: the replies in this thread are well worth your read as well.