This kind of speculation is based on emotional frustration & ignorance of these proceedings.  

I feel like this is ignoring how many have already died through police brutality and had their lives ruined through racial profiling, false imprisonment or unfair sentencing.

The difference between focus is really just highlighting what outcome people are looking for. It feels completely vapid to focus energy on looters and criminals who the justice system is keen on cracking down on anyway. What are you achieving? If the police got their hands on those people they would be thrown in jail without a second thought. The focus should be the attention that will bring about change.

Focus on the institution which is proving itself beyond the law, where officers routinely falsify accounts which are then debunked by footage and they still get let free.

And as of yet I don't believe anyone has died through the action of protestors. Only a drive by shooting (targeting protestors) and another shooting which hasn't been connected with the protest itself. 

I think the right to protest is important. And I also think it's important that everyone's safe during protests. I don't think protests will always collapse, but surely you can see there's riots escalating in many places atm. It's unfortunately not an ideal time for peaceful protest anymore and police will see gunpowder kegs everywhere. It would be ideal if people undetstood this.

Here's an article on that video. 

https://www.live5news.com/2020/05/31/charleston-police-begin-making-arrests-marion-square/

Protesters were told to leave but they didn't. I like the stuff that guy is saying but even he should understand that's not the time and place for discussion. He was most likely identified as a leader or agitator and thus arrested. 

You really shouldn't blindly buy the narrative some twitter posters are painting. Imagine if the police used short clips with no context to paint a picture of certain events or groups of people..

I think the right to protest is important. And I also think it's important that everyone's safe during protests. I don't think protests will always collapse, but surely you can see there's riots escalating in many places atm. It's unfortunately not an ideal time for peaceful protest anymore and police will see gunpowder kegs everywhere. It would be ideal if people undetstood this.

Here's an article on that video. 

https://www.live5news.com/2020/05/31/charleston-police-begin-making-arrests-marion-square/

Protesters were told to leave but they didn't. I like the stuff that guy is saying but even he should understand that's not the time and place for discussion. He was most likely identified as a leader or agitator and thus arrested. 

You really shouldn't blindly buy the narrative some twitter posters are painting. Imagine if the police used short clips with no context to paint a picture of certain events or groups of people..

But this just represents a moving of the goalposts. The grand implication behind many of the comments I've been seeing is "just protest peacefully and everybody will support you". That clearly doesn't represent reality. These people were protesting peacefully, but no, it isn't just "protest peacefully", it is "protest peacefully where and when we allow you to". That stops being protest at that point and becomes something more akin to controlled opposition.

Because that is the true goal of many of those who are telling the victims of systematic injustice how to protest. The goalposts will continue to move until they can stay comfortable in their ignorance, with the protests suitably constrained and out of view.

A valid concern but things are escalating in many places already. And according to the article I posted there was already unrest in the area. And there are peaceful protests everywhere and we've seem examples of police marching along protestors. So I'm pretty sure without these riots police wouldn't be controlling protests like this. I could be wrong though. 

It is hard for me to not see this mindset as another tool of oppression. You may be correct in that if nobody had done anything violent, this wouldn't have happened. On the other hand, you may be incorrect. This certainly wouldn't be the first time that peaceful protesters were arrested, or worse.

But I do not believe that we can excuse this injustice by pointing the finger elsewhere. "Well someone else was violent, so we had to arrest this person who wasn't" isn't a very convincing argument. In circumstances such as this, there will always be a place to point the finger. If we allow this and sit idly by, we are placing all of the power in the hands of the very system that is at the heart of this injustice.

Then that popular sentiment (as you claim) is based on emotional frustration & ignorance of these proceedings.  Now while the Floyd video footage does speed up the amount of information needed for a charge, previous high-profile cases ought to have taught us that this process can be more precarious.  Another example: George Zimmerman didn't walk free b/c the state thought he was totally in the right but b/c he was overcharged.  

As for Philando Castile, there's a bit more to it.  For one, the latino officer Jeronimo Yanez and his partner pulled over Castile's car based on a BOLO (Be On Look Out) for a robbery that occurred a few days prior.  So, already we're dealing with a more precarious situation where an armed robbery suspect admits to having a gun in the car, claims he has a permit (though I don't believe it was filed under that county) that's not in his hands, and he's digging around for something to show proof.  Even in the video Yanez is yelling something like "I told you not to go for it!"  This speaks to a more complex issue: expecting a manslaughter charge against an officer who's been trained to escalate force to avoid potential bodily harm.  

With that out of the way, I was speaking more to the procedural aspect of charging an officer versus the result of a conviction.  An even closer example that comes to mind from Minneapolis: a POC police officer shot & killed white Justine Damond (who actually called 911 b/c of a potential sexual assault happening).  It took roughly 8 months after the incident to arrest/charge officer Noor despite having the testimony of his partner.  Granted, both body cams were turned off so there's no direct video footage.  So, why did it take that long?  Being thorough in the investigation and diving into state law seems to suggest a greater likelihood of conviction.  Which I believe is why the other 3 officers haven't been charged yet.

A bunch of people taking to the streets, a few burning businesses along the way, wasn't the sole inspiration for charging this guy.  The claim simply doesn't conform to reality.

Not exactly. Those are not my words taken within it's intended context.

And the counter protests CHOSE to pillage, rape, destroy in retaliation. They CHOSE to do that as well.

I am criticizing BOTH sides for their childish bullshit, don't paint me out to be someone Pro-Police or Pro-African American, I am neither.
I don't have a side in this. At. All.

Not exactly. At the end of my shift, I take off my firefighter uniform, I take off my badge.
But I am still a firefighter with certain community expectations and obligations.

There was a big issue here recently in Australia when a Police officer stoned a wombat to death, that police officer was out of uniform, didn't have his badge on... Yet was ridiculed heavily for being a "police officer" that brutally murdered an animal.

Just because you take your uniform off, doesn't mean the expectations stop for certain codes of conducts.

Yes you do. And is EXACTLY what I am proposing if you had bothered to read before jumping the gun.

With all due respect to you, your nation and it's peoples... I couldn't give two shits about the US constitution, it is irrelevant to me as an individual, what a piece of paper says or doesn't say, doesn't mean it is ethically correct or right.

There is historical precedence for certain demographics to be treated unfairly across the planet, but again... There is a right and wrong way to go about things, delving into violence where people are loosing their livelihoods, people are being beaten and raped... Is not okay, was never okay and should not be condoned just because it's a "protest".

Protest the right way, not the violent way.

Demonstrations are generally seen as a democratic right in all free nations and should be defended and protected, but there is simply a line you don't cross... And that line is when it starts to impact on innocent individuals that have nothing to do with it.

Wrong. That is exactly the point.

People need to be "punished" for doing the wrong thing, not punish entire demographic for the actions of a few.

Not all police officers hate, beat, murder African Americans.
And not all African Americans are out on the streets destroying life, property and the environment.

We need to stop painting entire groups with the same colour of brush, regardless of what we call them, that is my point, that is my position.

And you are arguing against that? Common.