On Monday, ABC’s Good Morning America highlighted soaring living costs resulting in protests spreading across Europe, but failed to detail the scale of the demonstrations. They described it as “largely peaceful protests,” despite the vandalism, looting, and “violent minority” clashes with police that led to 1,300 arrests.
Cohost George Stephanopoulos began the report with “hundreds of thousands” having taken to the streets in Paris, Barcelona, and Portugal. Foreign correspondent Tom Soufi Burridge described the clash between police and protestors in Paris and Lyon as “a major security operation,” ultimately raising questions on what ABC considers a peaceful protest.
Burridge went on to describe the unrest that had spread across Europe:
Protests and social unrest on the rise in cities across Europe this weekend, from the streets of Paris to the Colosseum in Rome, police pepper-spraying students in Brussels amid growing dissent against European governments over the cost of living, [and] public services.
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