> He was murdered by armed "anti-fascist" protestors.
It appears that that link has not been confirmed, as of an August 2020 WaPo article[0], which points out that many of the deaths at the protests can not be conclusively linked to the demonstrators.
Here is the scene right after the CHOP shooting, with several BLM/antifa protestors again confessing to their involvement. One says, “We drew down and gave him service.” Another, “I ran out of bullets!” and then laughter. The reporter asks twice, “So the defense people shot this person?” and multiple protestors answer yes. They brag about “ex-military” security, and avoid saying whether the victims were armed (they were not). They repeat false rumors about an earlier drive-by, which turned out to be gunfire from other “defense people.”
If you can stomach it, watch the whole video. It is graphic:
Unsurprisingly,
Seattle police have made no arrests in the case. Per official statement, the crime scene was destroyed and witnesses aren’t cooperating.
This happened in a residential neighborhood. An unarmed black kid died at the hands of political vigilantes. Rifle bullets entered people’s homes. It barely made national news. Joe Biden felt no need to tweet. Compare that to later coverage of Kyle Rittenhouse. To some, this disparity represents a double standard.
That double standard is the essence of my comparison between this summer’s violence and the storming of the capitol. Both are reckless, deadly, and reprehensible.
Both must be condemned. Perpetuating the double standard just perpetuates one group’s grievance, fueling more violence.
The video you posted from June 2020 does not seem to contradict WaPo's August 2020 article that says there's no definitive link between this murder and the BLM protests. A comparison: armed vigilantes overran the capitol and bludgeoned a police officer to death as part of their riot. These two events do not appear similar in that way.
You say you're concerned about the violence on both sides and there being a double standard which you find distasteful, and yet all of your posts are attempting to paint the BLM protests with the same violent core as the folks who overran the capitol, which given any kind of context or detail isn't true at all.
To my original point: the context around these events make it clear that they are different and should be judged differently -- context which you've continually ignored to push this narrative.
If there exists a double standard, it isn't that "violence on the left" is suppressed, it's that if the capitol were stormed by BLM protestors who've finally had enough of police violence and systematic racism, they wouldn't have gotten into the building, and they for damn sure wouldn't have walked out under their own power.
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/26/almost-no...