“We tore s–t up, son!
“I remember after that s–t, nothing happened.
The officers got off, and the city was f—ed up.
I remember driving through like, ‘what did we do?
We f—ed up our city.’
It took a long time for L.A. to come back from that.
I say that to say this: I love that you guys are protesting.
And to change the system, we have to f—ing vote!
Because that’s what they don’t want you to do.
“There’s nothing you could have said to me.
I was ready to burn it down.
We really thought we were doing something…
The saddest part is all those black businesses that got tore up, didn’t get to come back.
So I feel like, we’re burning down our own house.”
The good news for Jones is thatprotests have gotten more peacefulin the days since she posted her original video.
The other piece of good news is that people are not forgetting to vote during the protests.
“But there are more local elections on the way this year.
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