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FILE PHOTO; People take part in an All Black Lives Matter march in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 14, 2020. \u00a9 REUTERS\/Ringo Chiu REUTERS\/Ringo Chiu<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
By\u00a0<\/em>Tony Cox<\/em><\/strong>, a US journalist who has written or edited for Bloomberg and several major daily newspapers.<\/em><\/p>\n RT.com<\/p>\n Black Lives Matter may finally have found its bridge too far \u2013 the point of absurdity and overreaching vileness that finally destroys support for the \u201cMarxist\u201d political movement in all but the most extreme reaches of the left.<\/p>\n BLM has offered up many self-fails in recent weeks, the sort of anecdotes that stick in the minds of observers and turn the tide of public opinion against a cause that millions of Americans were eager to support initially. Even more than the group\u2019s nonsensical demands — such as defunding police departments and\u00a0\u201cremaking\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the US political system \u2013 its tactics are making it impossible for politically independent Americans to support.<\/p>\n Those tactics have included spreading false rumors about an Aug. 10 police shooting in Chicago, then racing downtown to loot the city\u2019s most posh retailers, then defending the theft as\u00a0\u201creparations.\u201d<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Then there was the mob attack on a white motorist in Portland, who was pulled from his truck and\u00a0brutally beaten<\/a>\u00a0before being left motionless in the street, and the torching of black-owned businesses around the nation.<\/p>\n