i will not allow angry mobs to dominate. won't happen. there wasn't actually a lot of violent protests. but you would not have known that from, at times, watching the news. i think it became clear later on that there were agents of chaos that had nothing to do with the people who wanted to peacefully be heard. the country has a history of enslaving, beating, brutalizing, and killing black people for centuries. people came out to join a movement that had now been in place since at least 2012, black lives matter. and in cities across the country-- not just big cities, smaller towns-- it was one of the biggest mobilizations that we had seen in a long time, if not ever, in support of criminal justice reform. [van] you had rallies that were all white in states that were almost all white saying black lives matter. this was a massive breakthrough. i want us to treat black lives as our own on a daily basis.