A Tale of Two Protests: Minnesota Rioters Vs. Anti-Lockdown Protesters
By Geoffrey Dickens | May 29, 2020 5:08 PM EDT
A Tale of Two Protests: Minnesota Rioters Vs. Anti-Lockdown Protesters

When the protests against the senseless killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis started to turn violent, CNN's Don Lemon insisted on still labelling the rioters and looters as mere "protesters." MSNBC's Ali Velshi — with a burning building behind him — told viewers "This is mostly a protest. It is not generally speaking unruly."

This is in stark contrast to the coverage given to the largely peaceful rallies by anti-lockdown protesters who just wanted to go back to work and had rebelled against extremely restrictive policies in states like Michigan. These protestors were smeared as "racist" "threatening" and compared to Neo-Nazis.

The following are just a few of the worst examples of network and cable journalists deriding the lockdown protesters: ...