‘A riot is the language of the unheard,’ said Martin Luther King in an entirely different context. Purloined by the American mainstream media, it was used it to justify looting and burning by the far-Left Black Lives Matter movement and Antifa, effectively the paramilitary wing of Democratic Party, for eight long months in 2020, with reporters on multiple channels announcing that the protests were ‘mainly peaceful’, against a backdrop of burning buildings.
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