In my limited knowledge on this it seems to me that this brutal murder has lit a fire that only needed a spark to set alight. From the brutality against minorities (particularly black people) to the rampant inequality, the failure of virus response and the unsupported financial and healthcare problems that come with it it seemed inevitable that America was reaching a boiling point. It's no surprise that this has come under an openly facist and uncaring government. May of these issues have existed under endless governance of both parties but perhaps this is the first time that the government has dropped all facades of caring and a wider public has woken up to reality.
I remember a speech by an Iraq veteran where he said that he realised he had more in common with the Iraqis he was sent to kill than the suits that sent him to Iraq. Now is the time for Americans of all races that have been ignored and disenfranchised by their government to unite and demand a seat at the table. I don't hope for any harm to the innocent but, as has been pointed out multiple times in this very thread, all their peaceful protests have been ignored and when a ruling class does this then history tells us that the general public will eventually choose to fight back.
No single ordinary person should be condemning these protests. Protests like this don't happen when the system works, it happens when the majority of people within a system have had enough of being ignored and treated like shit. Now is the time for people of all races to realise that they have more in common with each other than they do with the people in power and do what is needed to demand change. I can't think of one moment in history where real change didn't come from mass protest.
The real facade that is bring highlighted here is the idea of 'democracy' when the governing class represent a minority of 'important' people over the majority.