Let's leave police reform out of it and look at the other issues included in the current protests.
It appears to me that there are legitimate arguments for removal of civil war and Jim Crowe memorials. Many here have already argued those points and there probably is no need to re-iterate them.
The remainder appears to be an admission that the black community has an inability to mainstream....and the thread, although unspoken, is obvious to most: the black community needs protection under law because it is unable to compete on merit.
There. I've said it. Blacks are not equal to the task of competing against other races....
Now...let's think about that. I know black people in most professions that are quite capable of holding their own against all comers. Politics. Medicine. Science. Language Arts. Music. etc etc.
So, if that is true, then the premise must be wrong. Blacks ARE equal to the task of competing against other races in any meaningful way you choose to measure it.
So, why these demands for quotas and forced inclusion? They aren't warranted and should be shouted down with rigor.
Probably most of the monuments of civil war era that were erected in the early 20th century were done to support the Jim Crowe memorials. I don't have any problem with removing those if that's the primary purpose, but it has to be a community decision. Rioters taking it on themselves to take them down through violence is the wrong way to handle that. Sure. Protest them. Persuade your communities that they should come down. That's as far as you get to go with that.
The quota thing is just critical race theory nonsense. It's well thought out in terms of how to exploit human nature and deconstruct the US, but as a competent epistemology, it's bull****.