“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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“I want to be clear on how I characterize this,” MSNBC’s Ali Velshi said in front of a burning building with bright orange flames engulfing the screen behind him on May 29, 2020, while “reporting” from Minneapolis. “This is mostly a protest. It is not, generally speaking, unruly, but fires have been started, and this crowd is relishing that.”

Over on CNN in August 2020, after riots broke out in Wisconsin, the lower-third chyron that serves as a headline was just as comical:

“FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING”

The numbers tell the story: More than $2 billion in property damage was done across the United States that summer. A police station and several city blocks were taken over in Seattle by hard-left rioters. Portland law enforcement was under siege for months while mayors of those cities rejected President Donald Trump’s offer to send in the National Guard. 

Scores of law enforcement officers were injured, while retired Police Captain David Dorn, a black man, was murdered by a rioter in Missouri. The media barely covered it because there was a narrative to protect: rioters good, cops bad. And in the process, Black Lives Matter raked in nearly $100 million in donations in 2020, only to use much of that money to purchase several multimillion-dollar mansions across the country and one in Canada. 

Democrats see the riots of Los Angeles today as an opportunity to attack Trump over his decision to send in the National Guard without Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) approval. Newsom said he had the situation under control (he didn’t) and got an assist from CNN’s Dana Bash, who lectured Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) about the images and reports we’re seeing from Los Angeles not being of “real riots.” 

Newsom even went so far as to call Trump a “dictator” while daring border czar Tom Homan to arrest him because he is “standing up for California.” Other prominent Democrats, almost as if a memo had gone out, are singing from the same hymn sheet, calling the LA riots “peaceful.” Meanwhile, former Vice President Kamala Harris went even further. 

“Protest is a powerful tool — essential in the fight for justice. And as the LAPD, Mayor, and Governor have noted, demonstrations in defense of our immigrant neighbors have been overwhelmingly peaceful,” she said without noting that “our immigrant neighbors” targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement are the worst of the worst who illegally came to America. 

Thankfully, law enforcement is pushing back on Harris, who is a Los Angeles resident in the ritzy section of Brentwood. 

“President Trump didn’t start these riots. He’s not out there lighting cars on fire, hurling projectiles at law enforcement, or blocking freeways,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco wrote on X in response to Harris’s comments. 

“This statement is an embarrassment and does nothing to [defuse] the violent riots taking place across the city. The Democrats and their ‘leaders’ own this,” he added.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), a possible 2028 presidential contender, went on national television on Monday morning (MSNBC, of course) to urge unrest across the country. 

“This is the most corrupt administration in the history of the country, and we are going to rise to this moment by being out there on the streets,” he told a nodding Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe. “I think the country sees what Donald Trump is trying to do here. He’s looking for a fight. There’s nothing in what he is doing that is about peace or about restoring order.”  

“He’s trying to turn a protest that is pretty small into something that involves an even bigger confrontation,” he said.

Yup. A “pretty small” riot. Murphy didn’t bother to mention what the objective of Trump and ICE is here, which is delivering on a campaign promise to deport any and all criminals in the country who are here illegally. Murphy is also calling for a repeat of the summer of 2020 by taking it to the streets, hoping the chaos can bring down Trump’s rising poll numbers, with several pollsters now showing him above 50% approval again. 

Those arrested by ICE include 49-year-old Cuong Chanh Phan, who entered the country illegally from Vietnam and has been convicted of second-degree murder after shooting and killing an 18-year-old and a 15-year-old at a graduation party in Los Angeles. Others arrested over the weekend include more murderers and sex offenders. Yet Democrats and their allies in the media are calling for protests of the very ICE agents tasked with arresting and deporting these monsters. 

This has been a theme since Trump took office: The Blue Team going to bat for the worst kind of people while screaming about the due process they say they deserve despite those people breaking into the country and avoiding all process. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) is the poster boy of this effort. He flew to El Salvador to demand that illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia be sent back to the U.S. after the Trump administration sent him to a prison there. 

Abrego Garcia, whom the media portrayed as a “Maryland man” and doting father and husband, is accused of being an MS-13 gang member. In court documents, his wife has accused him of beating her on multiple occasions. And now, the Justice Department is charging him with human trafficking, with the evidence appearing to be overwhelming. 

“Over the past nine years, Abrego Garcia has played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring,” Attorney General Pam Bondi announced during a press conference last week. “They found this was his full-time job, not a contractor. He was a smuggler of humans and children and women.”

Despite all of this, during a recent interview on CNN, Van Hollen had the audacity to call on Trump to apologize to Abrego Garcia for what he and his family were put through. 

The public, of course, feels quite differently about this. According to an AP-NORC poll, 83% of those surveyed support deporting illegal immigrants who have been convicted of major or violent crimes, including 60% of independents and a majority, 53%, of Democrats. And in a CBS poll taken before the weekend, when asked if those here illegally should be deported regardless of whether they’ve committed a crime or not, 54% approve of Trump’s program. 

So why are Democrats so hell-bent on downplaying and dismissing riots, calling for more protests that will surely get out of control, and trying to protect illegal immigrants who have committed heinous crimes? 

This is a primary reason why the party is polling so low. CNN released a survey recently that shows just 16% of Americans believe the party has strong leaders, while 40% say Republicans have strong leaders. 

Voters, by and large, want illegal immigrants out of the country, especially those here to commit crimes and hurt or kill legal citizens. They want ICE to be able to complete its missions. And they definitely don’t want to see Molotov cocktails and improvised devices being used against law enforcement. 

Democrats are tacitly supporting all of this. For their part, the legacy media are trying to help Democrats in this effort, but they’re just as unpopular as the party they exist to serve, thereby having little to no impact on the national conversation. 

Mostly peaceful riots are back again. You may be watching at home and being told that what you’re seeing on your screen isn’t a big deal.

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It is. And the only people trying to end this are Trump, the National Guard, and the Los Angeles Police Department. 

So, whose side would you rather be on right now?