The fact that people were cooped up for three months with a sense of hopelessness and dread absolutely made it worse. To dismiss this as correlation is foolish.
Your examples are valid, but this happened at this particular time in history for a reason
Not sure why you are rejecting the anti-cop thesis.
These kids are just doing the push back the rest of us are afraid to do.
For every surfer minding his own business while being swarmed by jack boot thugs, there were moms getting ticketed for letting their kids out to play.
The right can claim unconstitutional civil rights violations being illegally enforced, but where are they (and their guns) when real activism hits?
The kids had no risk, yet bore the brunt of the shutdown while govt workers still got paid. So their student debt goes up, but they didnt have the real classes, nor social life or jobs.
No wonder they are either pissed off or just ready to blow off some steam. My guess is 10% hard left, maybe 40% blm, but with 50% white college in for the excitement and party.
The over reaction shutdown is one of the all time great public policy mistakes. We are now reaping the warnings smart balanced people were pointing out all along.