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Originally Posted by whell

Not so much. For example, the MSM is still reporting that the 2020 riots were "mostly peaceful." When the news business is more interested in advancing a narrative than reporting facts, that's what you get.

Sorry to bust your (news) bubble, but the myth that the BLM protests were exceedingly violent simply isn't true. It was concocted by conservative media to discredit the message of police brutality directed against Blacks (and later to draw an equivalency to Jan. 6). Indeed, a study of the 2020 BLM demonstrations revealed that "based on the 7,305 events we’ve collected, the overall levels of violence and property destruction were low, and most of the violence that did take place was, in fact, directed against the BLM protesters."

The worst violence in the 2 cities I'm most familiar with regard to BLM protests (Minneapolis (where it all started and where my daughter and her family live) and DC (my hometown)) was attributable to the Right. The rioting and looting in Minneapolis was triggered by a White Supremacist torching an auto parts store and the worst violence in DC resulted from Trump administration clearing Lafayette Square just prior to his Bible-in-hand photo op in front of St. John's Church.

The myth of the excessively violent BLM protests was itself a contrivance of Right Wing media and failed to account for the fact that the preponderance of the violence that did occur was directed at BLM protestors by police and Right Wing provocateurs, not caused by them. Hell, the Right Wing celebrates the perpetrator of the most violent event of the entire summer (Kyle Rittenhouse).