Rarely is this much effort put into covering up a public event to keep people in the dark.

News outlets are still downplaying street violence in Portland, Oakland, and elsewhere. They insist even now, against the backdrop of anarchy and destruction and the deployment of federal agents, that the unrest that has left multiple officers and demonstrators injured has been mostly “peaceful.”

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