How to Take Off a Bezel without Ripping Bottom Cover?

[Appletax]

The area at the bottom of the laptop's LCD was ripped up a bit when I removed the bezel, which is adhered to the perimeter of the display using two-sided tape.

To my understanding, this area shouldn't even be touched.

How do I prevent this? Hopefully I don't need to apply heat to soften the tape.

Is this bad? :

 

[britechguy]

It's not "bad" unless the display panel is malfunctioning. This is nothing more than protective tape for the bits that are running along the base of the display under it. A lift at a small part of the edge such as that one should just be pushed back into place, gently.

 

[phaZed]

Ya, as @britechguy says, it's not bad. It more of a protection from "pressing in" and handling, and flexing the control board strips too much - the "Do Not Touch" strip.

With most of the adhesives and double-sided strips they use... it's almost inevitable it gets pulled away from the screen.
Trying to use a tool or spudger to run across the adhesive only serves to increase your chances of actual scratches or damage, IMO. Not saying you did that, speaking from experience

 

[nlinecomputers]

If it has pulled away badly you can use an iFixit iOpener microwave pad https://www.ifixit.com/Device/iOpener to heat up that area and press it back down onto the glass. Of course, the heat from that may just spread and pull up more of it too. Judgement call.