It's always the same. Every fucking time. An issue arises, one that needs proper public debate, and "protests" are organised and they always end in criminal damage, paint on the cenotaph and behaviour that shocks ordinary people.
It's like a script. It's entirely predictable.
And because of that outcome, the issue is ignored and never properly discussed or resolved - - and it continues to simmer under the surface until it eventually explodes and the outcome is extremely culturally, socially and politically damaging.
I've seen it time and time again over the last twenty five years. I saw it with concern over the impact of globalisation on regional and national economies and cultures back in the late 90s (that one exploded in our faces with brexit); I saw it with concern over the quality of the urban lived experience in the noughties; I saw it with concern over Blair's wars (an utterly disastrous decision that persuaded some young Muslims the only way to respond was to bomb us) ; and now we see it with BLM.
These protests will achieve precisely zero in Britain because the terms of the reason for the protests don't fit British parameters. Floyd was not killed in Britain by a serving British police officer under a British government. There is basically fuck all we Brits can realistically do about American policing standards; it's another sovereign state and we don't have a vote there.
There is however a debate to be had about structural inequalities in Britain and insidious perceptions about class and race.
But that's not going to happen now because the issue has been overwhelmed by destruction and damage to the cenotaph.