Posted on 07/01/2020 9:39:50 PM PDT by MNDude
These could very well have been the most widespread simultaneous riots EVER in US history ... but the media coverage has simply not conveyed the scale of what occurred."
ependent journalist Michael Tracey has been traveling the country over the past few weeks to try and capture the wholesale destruction caused by the Black Lives Matter riots which he suspects the media is refusing to cover because they don't want to be perceived as "discrediting the movement."
"[Chicago Police] officer mentioned to me being shocked at how little media coverage the riots in these neighborhoods received -- an opinion locals tend to agree with," Tracey said while touring Chicago the other day. "The scale of it is crazy. But journalists apparently don't want to be perceived as 'discrediting the movement' or whatever."
"These could very well have been the most widespread simultaneous riots EVER in US history, at least within an extremely contained period of time (weekend of May 29 to June 1, scattered incidents afterwards) but the media coverage has simply not conveyed the scale of what occurred."
Fox News reported Monday that experts say the BLM riots are likely to be "the most expensive civil disturbance in US history" and are expected to "far exceed" the $1.4 billion in damages (in 2020 dollars) from the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
As Fox News reported: "In Minneapolis, where some 400 businesses were damaged, owners and insurance experts estimate costs of the damage to exceed $500 million, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune."
(Excerpt) Read more at informationliberation.com ...
“These protestors are peacefully burning, looting, beating, and stealing!” - the media when forced to even talk about the violence.
“Show me where they have to be polite!” - Fredo Cuomo when cornered on the violence.
After that, they doubled down on how peaceful the looting, burning, and beating was.
Well, Vendome can tell you all about the damage
You see, my territory encompasses the Bay Area
I drive through war zone after war zone in every city
Milpitas Fremont Union City, Hayward San Leandro Oakland Emeryvile Richmond San Francisco Walnut Creek
Devastated
Businesses destroyed and yet, they are expected to pay their rents after being brought to their knees and the rioters have cost them untold thousands and millions of dollars in losses to inventory and now have rebuild the physical infrastructure of their businesses which where destroyed by vandalism fires and more
One Walmart was torched not once but twice
Several dealerships had 30, 40 and over 70 vehicles stolen and many left on the lots were damaged or destroyed
Black Lives Matter?
Where are they going to shop?
How will these businesses “absorb “ the costs?
KuhRayZee...
Not covered because ‘the press’ is the butt boy of the democrat party.
Nothing happened in Marin. Nothing. Try anything here youll get shot dead
Are you serious?
I thought youd get tickled with a peacock feather while sipping Chardonnay in your hot tub.
Mostly peaceful protests, riots and burnings.
Another word redefined by the left is the word peaceful.
Tracey has a point. Media do avoid showing how much damage was done. Heres a citizen video of looted and boarded-up businesses in midtown Manhattan. The danage is far more extensive than shown in media reports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=325&v=xY7lxIjz48c&feature=emb_logo
Milpitas Fremont Union City, Hayward San Leandro Oakland Emeryvile Richmond San Francisco Walnut Creek
Not a bad start.
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Build reeducation camps for them. Have the Army turn them into potential Stepford wives and husbands, free from drugs. Those who refuse to graduate can go to concentration camps. ;)
One would think the Rev. MLK Jr. riots were more widespread & destructive. 110 cities IIRC.
One photo showed a boarded up store that said, “Minority Owned”.
So what? The rioters ignore that kind of sign, but if the owner had added “Minority Owned, Smith & Wesson Protected”, they might have to worry so much.
My house would say, “Protected by ADT (big deal), and my boys, Smith, Wesson, Ruger, Colt, and Remington”.
I think even the stupidest leftist would get that message, in spades, and if not, in lead.
When I asked my son if he had any .22 cal tincan plunking ammo, he didn’t say, how many rounds do you want. He said, how many hundreds of pounds do you want. I raised him right.
Dude, it is Fugly.
Go to Union Square in San Francisco and see everything boarded up
Walk to O’Farrell and see more
Go to Japan Town and observe destruction
Ditto on O’Farrell
Hayes Valley
No
Marina District
Financial District
2.4 miles down Geary
It’s awful
I wish I were not
It’s Mogadishu out here...
San Rafael was destroyed so, there’s that
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