Nikole Hannah-Jones: ‘Destroying Property, Which Can Be Replaced, Is Not Violence’

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JONES: “Destroying property which can be replaced is not violence. And to put those things -- to use the exact same language to describe those two things, I think really is not moral to do that. So, yes, I think any reasonable person would say we shouldn’t be destroying other people’s property. But these are not reasonable times. These are people who have testified against police violence again and again and again, year after year, and still we can have videos of law enforcement and witnesses nonchalantly taking the life of -- of man for the alleged crime of passing a fake $20 bill. So when we have people who say that people should respect the law, they're not respecting the law because the law is not respecting them. You can’t say that -- that regular citizens should play by the rules when agents of the state are clearly are not.”