The same media who told you in 2020 that the violent Black Lives Matter riots were “fiery, but mostly peaceful” are at it again, pretending that your eyes are lying to you: No, they claim, there are no rampaging throngs or marauders waving foreign flags and attacking the forces of order.

And the peaceful protests in Los Angeles are spontaneous.

Nobody is organizing them.

Or so pretends the media.

“The Trump administration’s immigration raids in the California city prompted mostly peaceful protests,” blared the leftwing British paper The Guardian.

Of course, these supposedly perfectly serene public gatherings then “escalated when the president sent in the National Guard — and then the US Marines,” added the Guardian.

So, no, the scenes of mayhem and invasion that played on TV for days before the first National Guard unit arrived in the City of Angels didn’t prompt Trump to act — don’t believe your lying eyes.

It’s like Guardian writer Chris Michael has no idea of the mockery that CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez has succumbed to since August 2020, when he went on air in front of a building engulfed in flames and complete chaos behind him, and a chyron with the “mostly peaceful” claim.

One other key thing that the left-wing media is not telling you is who is organizing the disorder, and who is funding it.

Ignoring this aspect leads the public to believe two things that aren’t true: that the violence is spontaneous, and that it reflects true national discontent with the deportation raids.

In fact, the opposite is true.

A Polling Insights newsletter that the pollster Scott Rasmussen sends out reports that, “In the current stand-off, 57% approve of efforts by immigration officials to find and arrest illegal immigrants in Los Angeles. Fifty-two percent approve of President Trump’s decision to send in the National Guard.”

Other opinon surveys support this trend.

So, if the American people largely support the deportation raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), who is organizing the riots against them?

We can see, from the placards and signs captured in photographs, that one key group organizing the protests comes from what one can call the list of usual suspects: the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL).

The PSL, a communist party, has been involved with BLM and pro-Hamas terrorism violence.

The PSL has organizational ties with the ANSWER Coalition, which the Network Contagion Research Institute says has ties with the Chinese Communist Party.

ANSWER was involved with organizing a rally in sympathy with the Los Angeles rioters on June 10 in Columbus, Ohio.

The PSL is an old-style communist party that will seize on any crises to try to dismantle the United States. 

It says that “the United States today is a dictatorship of the capitalist class. This reality will not change without a socialist revolution.”

It is funded indirectly by donations from Neville Roy Singham, an American millionaire with close ties to the CCP who lives in Shanghai.

Elias Rodriguez, the terrorist who shot and killed the couple at the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, in late May, was a member of both the PSL and ANSWER.

Another group involved in organizing the LA riots is the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a radical leftist American union with extensive overseas ties.

It is a regular attendee at the conferences and workshops held by the Foro de Sao Paulo, a hemispheric network of Marxist parties founded by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Brazilian President Inazio Lula da Silva.

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights LA (CHIRLA), also an organizer, received $33 million in government grants in FY2023.

Then there are the “charities” helping the rioters, such as Mutual Aid Los Angeles Network, Operation Healthy Hearts, LA Poverty Department, and Mutual Aid/Social Therapy.

These riots are sure to expand in the days to come, which means that it is a good thing that some congressmen are looking to investigate who these groups are, and why they are seeking to destabilize our streets.

Mike Gonzalez is a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation and co-author of “NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It.”