Earlier today there was a peaceful protest in my hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan as a result of George Floyd’s death. Apparently everything was going well until it got close to the evening. Random unknown people not associated with the protest started fires, destroying public property and vandalizing buildings.

I’m so sick of this..why do people feel like they have the need to ruin something for everyone?! I hate it..I truly do, it just breaks my heart that average citizens in my city now have to pay extra money to fix their buildings when they are financially strapped from the Coronavirus. When will this madness and chaos stop? Violence just causes more violence...shit like this makes me want to drown my misery in liquor. I love my city, and it’s so fucking depressing seeing how far it’s grown in the past ten years getting ransacked and destroyed in one night. How can we fix this? How can we get people to stop being such petty thugs?

The worst thing is I have friends, family and relatives who live in the city and their safety could have been at risk, which makes me scared and worried for them. It would just further demoralize me if anything bad happened to them as a result of tonight’s riot

Earlier today there was a peaceful protest in my hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan as a result of George Floyd’s death. Apparently everything was going well until it got close to the evening. Random unknown people not associated with the protest started fires, destroying public property and vandalizing buildings.

I’m so sick of this..why do people feel like they have the need to ruin something for everyone?! I hate it..I truly do, it just breaks my heart that average citizens in my city now have to pay extra money to fix their buildings when they are financially strapped from the Coronavirus. When will this madness and chaos stop? Violence just causes more violence...shit like this makes me want to drown my misery in liquor. I love my city, and it’s so fucking depressing seeing how far it’s grown in the past ten years getting ransacked and destroyed in one night. How can we fix this? How can we get people to stop being such petty thugs?