In the two months since the death of George Floyd, the nation has been beset by often-violent protests and riots. Yet the mainstream media and Democratic politicians have tended to describe the demonstrations as “mostly peaceful,†and to rationalize and minimize them. For many on the left, the real story has not been the violence directed at law-enforcement personnel, the assaults on federal courthouses and police precincts, the toppling of statues, or the destruction of private property; it’s been the use of federal personnel in response.
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It is only in that context that we can hope to understand the sympathy being generated for Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/molotov-cocktail-throwing-lawyers-are-the-lefts-new-civil-rights-heroes/amp/
