Black Lives Matter: Why do the George Floyd protests resonate so strongly in the UK?

I love how they were saying "Hands up! Don't Shoot!" in a country where most of the police force don't carry weapons.

Violence erupted at a largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protest outside of Downing St today. One man was seen to throw a punch, narrowly missing the nearest American police officer by 3,247 miles.

"hands up don't shoot" bruh cops in the UK don't even carry guns, calm down

Could anyone tell me when there is going to be a demonstration for David Dorn.He was a 77yr old retired police officer who got shot by another black man may I add protecting his friends shop during rioting

The protesters resonate so strongly because of the way the media has chosen to cover the story

I feel like a lot of people don’t actually care about the movement and their just using it was a excuse to get out the house during lockdown because nothings open.

Equal opportunities and positive discrimination. They just wanna feel like victims.

While millions of innocent people and children’s were KILLED because of WAR in the Middle East, Iraq, Syria, while people around the world are dying because of poverty and lack of access to food, water and health care who’s standing for them ? I understand black lives matters, and racism is a problem but it seems to me that the problem is bigger then that, we don’t value each other’s as a human race, human life doesn’t matter to us as long as we don’t feel concerned, maybe we will eradicate racism but we didn’t address that we need to transcend the mind that create this concept of racism, and also the concept of inflicting emotional and physical harms on our brothers and sisters based on hate, ignorance and egoism or on any cause and to transcend also the system that causes people to suffer because they’re not from a certain social class or because they’re not privileged with POWER. we are oppressed by the power, the crowd is now a tool and rules are imposed and if we disagree we face OPRESSION and VIOLENCE, we are influenced by the media, chained by religion and social conditioning, and the problem is not just black lives it’s HUMANS, it’s MORAL and it’s the SYSTEM.

Is no one gonna talk about the fact he's got 'BML' written on his sign? 🤣 Does he even BLM?

"Why do the George Floyd resonate so strongly in the UK" ..well this is about 50% anger at being on house arrest for 3 months about 49% because they enjoy it and about 1% because of what happened 6000 miles away.

Lefty White Girl: "I know I'm not black so I can never feel racism" racism: *prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. *the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. In short, simply saying white people are racist is in fact racist by definition.

Gotta love it. "I'm going to protest about something that happened in another country where the country I live in has zero jurisdiction over what happened. Then start to attack police officers because hey, I'm totally oppressed."... They say while freely walking about during a global pandemic and beating police up with scarce consequences in return for their actions. People, love'em.

I understand how angry these people must be, but looting and destroying property and hurting police offers is very low

Just wait until two weeks time when the incubation period has happened.

“I don’t want my daughter to feel like anywhere she goes in the world is going to be a problem for her” - I’m sorry lady but that’s just how the world works, next week protest Sharia Law in the middle east because as a women she ain’t safe there. Absolutely naive and farcical opinion...

fine them all for breaking social distancing rules!

Bad thing is there not social distancing

Racism is not only towards black people tho....

Skin colour is Irrelevant and to talk about skin color is missing the point. Focusing on skin color is divisive and is being used to create conflict and division.

I have never heard so much Bollocks in all my life.