• geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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    5 days ago

    The problem is that the protests are already extremely peaceful… Until the police show up and start blasting.

    The media instead will take the 3 pictures of the Waymo on fire and plaster it on the front page everywhere to pretend the protests are extremely violent riots and give a pretense to send in the police which starts blasting.

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      5 days ago

      Not to mention cop cars and other images from the past. Pure yellow journalism.

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      5 days ago

      They’ll do that if there is trash on the ground and claim it’s looting. They’ll do that if anything catches on fire and call it a riot.

      Dropping rocks, lime scooters, and molotovs on police cars parked under an overpass doesn’t need any sensationalism to amplify AND it gives the police a great reason to start blasting.