Get ready for the 2025 version of “mostly peaceful protest.” 

It’s “a small part of the city.”

Even the liberal media recognizes the negative perception created when individuals donning skull masks wave Mexican flags and set cars ablaze. It becomes challenging to cast President Trump as a fascist when protesters hailing from another country are the ones stirring violence and committing acts of looting. They are eager to downplay these events, implying instead that it is Trump who is exacerbating the situation, rather than the rioters.

During the George Floyd riots, as chaos unfolded, CNN repeatedly characterized the events as “mostly peaceful protests.” While a small group was responsible for the police station’s destruction, that wasn’t the entire narrative. 

This time around, they’re going geographic.

“Federal agents clashed with protesters in Los Angeles for a third consecutive day, and hundreds of National Guard troops were deployed,” reported The New York Times. “Yet, a significant part of the vast city continued its usual operations.”

The Times even wrote a story, “Life goes on in the city,”  remarking on all the parades and events happening in the 18 million person Los Angeles area at the same time as the clashes, as if that was even relevant. 

The framing is spreading, as these things usually do. Monday morning’s Axios report said, “The clashes between police and protesters were centered in several blocks of downtown — a small slice of the city.”

Ah, a small slice. Guess shutting down the 101 Freeway and burning Waymo cars isn’t that big a deal — everything’s fine in Santa Monica! 

Imagine if all news was treated this way. Murder in Queens, but in Brooklyn, life goes on. Hurricanes in Florida, but that’s just a small slice of the United States.

The motives are so transparent they are laughable. The media wants to diminish and distract, but for the rest of us, reality goes on.