A CNN guest suggested that the Atlanta riots, pursued by Antifa, in which protestors set cars on fire, smashed windows, and shot fireworks at buildings, were everything but “violent.”
David Peisner told CNN’s Pamela Brown that the only acts of violence he saw were when police officers were apprehending rioters as they set the city on fire.
“You keep using these words ‘violent, violent, violent, violent’… The only acts of violence against people that I saw were police tackling protesters,” Peisner said.
The liberal guest went on to add that destruction of physical property is not the same as violence against humans, so therefore it is acceptable.
“I think that there’s a real blurring of the lines in the use of the word violence. Is property destruction violence? To some people it certainly is. Read more…