It was crazy what happened this past weekend.
I went to a protesting event to protest something that was very meaningful to me. Well, things were going alright for a long period of time and we were just out there holding up our signs as different news crews came through and what not. Well, eventually things got entirely out of hand. There were a bunch of people who started rioting and people started lighting fires everywhere and breaking into stores. I didn’t get it, this was all supposed to be entirely peaceful but people were truly losing their minds. I think most of the people didn’t want to get involved in looting or committing crimes, but I saw a lot of people causing destruction and stealing things. There was this HVAC supplier there and it’s a place that I would go to all the time. I even bought a couple of UV air purifiers from that place. I saw a bunch of people running off with window AC units, air purifiers, and boxes of HEPA filters. It was a shame to see all that happening. I remember calling the police, but apparently the line was busy because I wasn’t able to get through to anybody. I was so happy when I finally got home where I actually felt safe. It’s really messed up when I process everything too because we should be able to have peaceful protests without everybody freaking out. I wouldn’t even say it was everybody though, just a few bad eggs that started a wave of crime in the community and we don’t need to see things like that happening.