MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime did a shoddy job of reporting the facts about the Los Angeles riots Sunday. Hoping to push the narrative that the events were nothing more than a peaceful protest, MSNBC national correspondent David Noriega outright denied the violence already known to have occurred over the weekend. Of course, that meant jumping through hoops to make sure not to misspeak and acknowledge the reality of the situation.
Noriega described the events around him as such:
Look, I think this ranges from everything from a sort of spontaneous, angry reaction to these large scale immigration enforcement operations in L.A. in a not necessarily fully or clearly articulated way to much clearer demands being made by some of the more organized elements in these protests.
This wasn't a riot, according to Noriega, it was just people acting spontaneously and angrily without an expressed purpose or any sort of organization. Usually a protest requires something being protested, but for MSNBC’s purposes, that can just be ignored for the sake of their story.
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