Subj : Re: Peaceful Protesting
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Fri Jan 08 2021 04:35 pm

 DS>  AT> then today the pro-Trump protesters are being called rioters?
 DS> 
 DS> Your statement is akin to "when did you stop beating your wife".  The
 DS> people who attacked police officers or burned building are not peaceful
 DS> protesters -- they are and were called looters and rioters.

We definitely get our news from different sources. ABC News' David Muir was
calling them "peaceful protestors" (could have just said "protestors") when
NYC was under seige.

I agree with you - there were not many "peaceful protests" in NYC, Minneapolis,
Seattle, Portland, or DC. If there were any, then they had to have been
cherry-picked.

But the only time I heard them referred to as "rioters" or "looters" was when
I read Fox News, NY Post, or OANN. There were dozens of times when I tuned to
CNN, NBC, and ABC, in the same day that I read the conservative news, and
they were just saying "peaceful protestors."

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