re: What are acceptable protests in your opinion?

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violence by the police and citizens helped bring about that change.

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So like I said you need violence

In my opinion, the vast majority of the cases where black people claim they were mistreated by the police is pure crap. I'm not saying every case is this way because I've seen a few situations where I agree that the cop is 100% at fault, but they're rare.

One idea that needs to be cleared up is that the only reason the police approached black citizen Z is due to racial profiling. There is no such thing as racial profiling.There is only profiling. Do liberals ever wonder why people like Dr. Ben Carson or Condoleezza Rice never have these problems? What about any of the many, many successful black business people, doctors, lawyers, professors etc.? Why is it usually only people that are uneducated, unemployed, and living ghetto fabulous that find themselves in these situations?

In several of these situations where a black man ends up dead the suspect started the encounter in a confrontational manner that continually escalated, leading to the suspect aggressively resisting arrest. In one of these controversies the suspect not only aggressively resisted but after breaking free, then tried to fight the officer. "You bleeding heart types tried to make the point that because the suspect was unarmed that the cop shouldn't have shot him. Although y'all wouldn't just come right out and say it, it was alluded to that cops should only be allowed to use equal force to whatever the suspect has, as if it's supposed to be a fair fight.

It would be best if the only protest were to just post about it on Facebook, but that probably isn't happening.

Any protest that further illustrates your own ignorance and willful denial of any personal responsibility for your own problems is not acceptable.

Protest at the ballot box. Vote in politicians that have similar ideals as you. Nobody listens to the child throwing a temper tantrum.

These "protestors" also don't have a unified voice. I don't even know what they're protesting at this point. In some of the videos I was watching, they were alternatingly chanting "No justice, no peace. Hands up, don't shoot" which are pretty conflicting statements. Some say they want the officers charged with murder, others are saying they protesting racism across America, and others are saying "burn this mother fricker down". Until you have clear (reasonable) demands, this protests have no direction and will not amount to any change.

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Yes, the riots are extreme, disgraceful, etc. But a large majority of people try to ignore the core issue and reason behind the protests by feigning outrage over the avenue of the protest. Like with kneeling.

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You completely dismiss the looting and burning. However, the people looting and burning are not the same group as the people protesting in the streets. The only connection is that it's at the same time and used as an excuse to loot. The looters don't give a frick about the man that was killed. I would throw them into the large majority ignoring the core issue.
Destroying property and stealing doesn't have shite to do with the police, which is the claimed problem. Rioting over excessive use of force from police in a fashion that effects innocent people and businesses that have nothing to do with the police force is unacceptable. Actually it will eventually lead to the need for excessive force from the police.
Also, the officer isn't and was never going to just continue on business as usual after this. Do people think that if they didn't protest, nothing would have been done to him?
Also, what did the man killed do to be arrested in the first place? I haven't followed this one closely because it's just the same shite over and over with these claims of police violence towards black men. I'm not saying this wasn't violent and excessive, it without a doubt was. That officer is not representative of all police, probably not even representative of .001% of all officers out there.

Not destroy your community. Not to commit more crimes against your fellow citizen.

I had no problem with Kaepernik protesting. My issue is he focused on Black people being killed while unarmed. Which is a very very very very very small percent of deaths. And that's it. If he would stand up against police brutality and make a cry to have all citizens stop committing crimes. then I would listen to him.

The flag had nothing to do with this. This is a both sides issue. You need changed behavior from officers and civilians. Civilians kill people and commit crimes at a much higher rate than the fricking police. Maybe if they werent scared for their lives and hiring from the bottom of the barrel, this shite would happen less.

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Why is violently protesting a violent government wrong?

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Burning down someones business is not protesting the government.

There was almost universal condemnation of the police actions and calls for justice. When the violence started, all positive thoughts left the room. You solved nothing with senseless violence and destruction of private property.