What NBC (5/31/20) described as “more aggressive tactics” included firing paint ball rounds at residents as they stood on their porches.
“After Curfew, Detroit Police Act Aggressively to Disperse Protesters Who Refused to Leave” (Detroit Free Press, 5/31/20)
“Minneapolis Officers Use More Aggressive Tactics Against Protesters as Rallies Flare Around US” (NBC News, 5/31/20)
“An Agitated Trump Encourages Governors to Use Aggressive Tactics on Protesters” (CNN, 6/1/20)
“Police Turn More Aggressive Against Protesters and Bystanders Alike, Adding to Disorder” (Washington Post, 5/31/20)
“After Curfew, Protesters Are Again Met With Strong Police Response in New York City” (New York Times, 6/4/20)
“Six Atlanta Police Officers Charged in Forceful Arrests of College Students in Car” (ABC News, 6/2/20)
“Despite Curfews and Heavy Police Presence, Protests Persist Across the Country” (NPR, 6/2/20)
“Low-Flying Helicopters, Heavy Police Presence Used to Disperse Protesters After DC Goes Under Curfew” (Washington Business Journal, 6/2/20)
“While Tensions Between Police and Protesters Boiled Over in Some Cities, Other Officers Joined the Movement” (CNN, 6/1/20)
“’Rush the Crowd’: Protesters Clash With Officers at End of Peaceful Rally” (WDJT, 6/4/20)
“Fiery Clashes Erupt Between Police and Protesters Over George Floyd Death” (New York Times, 5/30/20)
“Clash Between Police and Protesters in Brockton Brings Out Fireworks and Tear Gas” (WBTS, 6/2/20)
“De Blasio Denounced After Police Forcefully Clash With Protesters” (New York Times, 6/4/20)
“Mayor Downplays Rough Police Treatment of NYC Protesters” (AP, 6/5/20)
“Floyd Protests Suppressed in NYC as Police Enforce Curfew” (KIRO, 6/3/20)
“Retreat or Deploy? Nation’s Police Try to Balance Protest Response” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5/30/20)
Thank you..
Unbelievable. They’re coordinated to use the same terms (“aggressive tactics” etc). Who coordinates them?
Excellent report.
It may be that some of this comes from a type of style-book which provides suggested adjectives, but it certainly is telling, the way the police violence is downplayed in the US and up-sold when it happens in Hong Kong, e.g.
Equally telling is the fact that we have yet to see any of the supposed “civil libertarians” of the right come out to denounce the apparent emergence of a police state in the form of cops marching through neighborhoods shooting chemical weapons at people on their porches.
Corporate media always use the same language, the one their rich owners accept…!
Got it. Police – bad, protesters – good, looters – no such thing/they are just misguided, they deserve to be treated with love and respect.
Translated from foo’s comment:
I love producing red herrings from my butt, and eating boot.
nah it’s much simpler than that:
police – bad, protestors – good, looters – good
easy to remember
Thanks. Useful to see protection of police aggression.
On other hand, a hazard if media further inflames current climate of revenge a/g police by simplistic headlines, . . . . but in text of article should document (as best possible)
the police motive and excessive brutality of action.
This is a weak piece of work by the usually complete writers at FAIR. It’s a list of headlines, with no commentary on what the content was, or why they thing various words are ‘weak”
Aggressive, clashed, boiled over, deploy, rough, enforce? FAIR considers these weak words for headlines in mainstream press?
This is FAIR playing the click bait game and then not even offering to comment on their quoted headlines for content.
Is this ‘weak’ reporting of the events in one of the headlines they complain of? I’d say there is a whole lot of fairness and accuracy in this reporting.
“As the group proceeded down the street, a row of armored officers on bicycles blocked its path. The officers shouted at the protesters to move back. When 8 p.m. arrived, a second group of officers came in from behind. They played a recorded message over loudspeakers advising the group that the curfew was in effect, and that the protesters needed to leave the streets.
But the protesters were pinned in.
Officers charged into the crowd and began to arrest people who had been protesting peacefully moments earlier. With no apparent provocation, officers shoved protesters onto sidewalks. Many people tried to leave, shouting that they would willingly go home. But with officers on all sides, they had no way out.
Around 8:30, officers charged in again, swinging their batons and striking protesters. Dozens of people were arrested, and then forced to sit on the street with their hands cuffed. One person was taken away on a stretcher.”
WTF were the police doing “patrolling” OUR STREETS in the first place, hmmm?
Answer: They are a destabilizing occupying force.
In almost every case where the police were not out in force with their riot gear and military-style weaponry engaged in provocation, brutalization and chemical warfare against the civilian population, the protests were predominantly peaceful.
Did you just search for a list of keywords “aggressive”, etc. in recent headlines?
All the state capitalist news networks are complicit in this-merely different outlets for the same Big Brother franchise. Still, the internet and what we can dig up here, there and everywhere with just a bit of effort will save us for the meantime, that is, until they get to control the Internet. At that point, it will be xeroxed copies of info left nailed to trees and under the windshield wipers of parked cars, all the best, Mike Liston.
Sorry, but I don’t view the word “clash” as the least bit mild. It very clearly implies violence, and doesn’t make any implication (either way) about whether or not it’s justified, or caused by the protesters, etc.
Also “rough police treatment” is what it sounds like; it’s also not flattering to cops, in any way.