Completely agree that a narrative is seldom based in truth, hence the meaning of the term in recent times that a narrative is typically politically or socially driven and most often an agendized concept. Also feel that the term is basically synonymous with propaganda since typically a narrative is an untruth told over and over in hopes it will then be perceived as the truth.

Joseph Goerbels would be oh so proud to see how well his tenets of propaganda have been so wholeheartedly embraced and if that in itself isn't a scary proposition I'm not sure what could be to anyone with a logical mind.

The reality of the chaos that began in Minneapolis is that, yes it was an act of police violence against a man which ended his life unnecessarily and as such those culpable for that crime should be punished.

The injection of race into that conversation is what makes it a narrative as acts of police violence are not limited to any single race, nor do statistics even prove out that blacks are more prone to be on the receiving end of such violent acts. Hell, acts of police violence aren't even always driven by the victim having been a criminal or having even committed a crime.

It's easy for any caring human to sympathize with people banding together and peacefully protesting how another act of police violence has lead to another persons death unnecessarily.

What's not so palpable is how such protests have then been co-opted to also incorporate acts of vandalism, looting and other acts of violence, with the upshot of which being that it all then spirals out of control as more violence then begets , well, more violence by all parties involved