They are absolutely correct. A civil war and 155 years since that civil war ended, the violence against African Americans by the police hasn't stopped no matter how peaceful protesters have carried out their messages.
The scapegoating of the media hasn't worked for three years, so now it is "The Democrats" as the scapegoat for Trump's faux presidency.
Last week it was Dr. Fauci. This week it is democrats, but, the difference is that Trump has entered a far higher sense of danger to the victims of his "strategy" by calling gunmen into the cities.
Putting gunmen in the cities doesn't end the fact the president is a bigot and racist.
The only reason protesters NEED to leave the street for a while is to end the spread of COVID-19. They will be saving the lives of the minorities they support.
July 15, 2020
By Phillip Bump
There’s clearly a self-serving element (click here) to White House trade adviser Peter Navarro’s opinion piece for USA Today, published late on Tuesday. Not that this is new for him.
Navarro came to the administration by virtue of his fervent anti-China worldview (and thanks to some fortuitous Googling by Jared Kushner), positioning him well to be a skeptic of the threat posed by the novel coronavirus that emerged from that country. A pair of memos Navarro wrote earlier this year argued that the virus posed a significant risk and demanded an urgent response — arguments that were largely borne out but that have been hard to evaluate outside the context of his sinophobia. Was he prescient about the pandemic? Or did his worldview simply position him well and allow him to take victory laps where he saw them?
The aforementioned memos are central to the lap he takes in the USA Today essay. In it, he contrasts his self-professed foresight with the pronouncements offered by the nation’s leading infectious-disease doctor, Anthony S. Fauci, saying that Fauci “has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on.”...
The people turning out to protest are citizens of this country and live in Portland, Oregon. If a citizen is in danger from policies of the country and/or city, it is their obligation to demand change. After all, their lives rely on it. That is democracy. That is the First Amendment.
Independent journalists are taking on the dangerous shift. Why? They must strongly believe in what they are doing, no different than the patriotic Americans they focus on for their reporting.
July 22, 2020
Portlanders have turned (click here) out to protest systemic racism and police brutality for more than 50 consecutive nights on downtown Portland streets.
While some journalism organizations, including OPB, haven’t been able to send reporters out on a nightly basis, independent freelance journalists are on the ground covering the chaos nearly every night.
Tuck Woodstock and Sergio Olmos are two Portland-based journalists who have been covering protests since late May.
They joined OPB’s “Think Out Loud®” to reflect on nearly two months of ongoing protest coverage.
Covering these protests is inherently dangerous: law enforcement’s use of tear gas, impact munitions, pepper balls and other sanctioned violence against protesters and the press are well-documented....
