Over 90 percent of protests this summer were peaceful, report shows
Source: MSN/The Hill
Despite several incidents of protests against racism and police brutality turning violent, more than 90 percent of the summer's protests were peaceful, according to an analysis released Thursday.
The report, produced by the nonprofit Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, identified 7,750 protests between May 26 and Aug. 22 in 2,400 locations, according to The Washington Post.
The report found that about 220 became "violent" - a term defined as demonstrators fighting with police or with counterprotesters. The term also applies to demonstrations that resulted in property damage. In 93 percent of cases analyzed, there was no violence.
In the violent cases, the report said, violence was "largely confined to specific blocks, rather than dispersed throughout the city."
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/over-90-percent-of-protests-this-summer-were-peaceful-report-shows/ar-BB18H2sZ
Of course, if you watch Fox News or a Republican briefing, you would see the case made for rolling federal troops into American cities as Tom Cotton has suggested.
BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)and is what they continue to do right now with respect to reporting on Portland.
TomCADem
(17,378 posts)Yet, the media tries to push a false equivalency between armed right wing militias and BLM protesters.
BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)And if they didn't push the "both sides" nonsense, they believe that it wouldn't "sell papers" or "gain eyeballs" because there is "no drama".