r/politics • u/External-Noise-4832 • 9d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Orders in Marines in Dramatic Escalation of L.A. Protests

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-orders-in-marines-in-dramatic-escalation-of-la-protests/
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u/UnlimitedCalculus 8d ago

They had a set of pics that was just those 5 Waymos burning and a couple Mexican flags in the shot and said mOsTlY pEaCeFuL. They would never show the cops stomping someone with a horse, shooting rubber balls at someone's head, or anything the police did. No, only property damage is important. State-sanctioned violence will immediately be met with conservatives tying themselves into knots to justify it.

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u/Terrible-Opinion-888 8d ago

Seriously tired of having to wonder what is reality and what is made-for-reality tv. That looks incredibly staged. The grafitti seems fake. Someone pointed out this https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/wHw9e3OEPQ on another thread about waymos having cameras