The pro-demonstration, anti-law enforcement analysis itself should raise serious red flags. They simply claim the violence is a result of "a multitude of concurrent, overlapping risks-from police abuse and racial injustice, to pandemic-related unrest and beyond-all exacerbated by increasing polarization." After all, ACLED claims, "police killings continue unabated," as they call out the "heavy-handed approach" by "militarized" law enforcement.
But ACLED strongly implies the violence might have been justified. Not only is the data spotty, ignoring violent acts and their repercussions, but the use of it as propaganda is both hypocritical and, in some cases, rather nefarious.Īccording to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), about 93 percent of summer demonstrations tied to Black Lives Matter (BLM) were peaceful.
This proves, as The Guardian notes, "protests are peaceful despite Trump narrative." Like moths to a flame (or parasites to a partisan host), national media outlets and leftist activists seized on a recent left-wing report claiming racial justice demonstrations during the "summer of love" were, indeed, mostly peaceful.
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