05
Jun
2020
The current protests are driven by police brutality and lack of consequences, whereas stay-at-home protesters were motivated by minor inconveniences like shopping.
Both of these protests are built on a foundation of a cause. In the case of the current protests, it's police murdering people and police not facing consequences when they do so. As the protests have been going on, there's been a rash of police brutality directed towards the protesters, which has led to a bit of a broadening of the scope of complaints, which makes sense. For the stay-at-home protesters, their cause was their ability to shop and go get haircuts. They weren't rallying for the right to go back to work. They were rallying to send others back to work so they wouldn't be as inconvenienced so slightly as they had been and felt they were at that moment.