Mostly peaceful riots return as media downplay chaos again

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“It’s just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn,” reporter Marc Brown of ABC7 said on Sunday. 

Having fun watching cars burn. And that sums up what has become a dominant narrative once again: alleged reporters in Los Angeles declaring with straight faces that despite the images of burning cars and buildings and law enforcement officials being attacked, the riots are “mostly peaceful.”

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