The protests changed me in a lot of ways. One way was, I was by no means a class reductionist before. But the protests really woke me up to the real struggles of oppressed communities in the US and importantly, the revolutionary potential in those communities. I remember listening to Rev Left in my car and had to pull over for a minute to absorb it when Breht said something to the effect of "what did white socialists in America ever give us?! Bernie Sanders!? Fuck that! The real revolutionary potential is with oppressed communities."
Every other murder has had some kind of shaky excuse, some imbalance of information. We either had no video, or if we did, the cops got to say they were "scared" and while many people don't accept that, others do, and those others have a dampening effect on the actions that can be taken, and on the size of the movement. But Chauvin just fucking slowly strangled him to death for no reason. It was shocking to a lot of people, and an opportunity for people who weren't so shocked.
It was clear cut, more clear cut than EVER. That's unfortunately the bar.
But the bar is going up- people lost faith in the pigs.