CNN building getting graffitied and windows smashed:(watch)

[IcyPeas]

Link to tweet

[Walleye]

1. Why CNN?

[Niagara]

4. My only guess.

Is because Fat Nixon makes false accusations that they're fake news.

[Boomerproud]

6. If it's magats on the street...hmmm.

Doesn't ring true.

[bobbieinok]

18. Another DU discussion says they want CNN to report fully about cops as provateurs

That media paints protestors as vandals.

Doesn't report how cops are doing the destruction in Minneapolis

[Hav]

19. Because that hasn't been verified yet

The MSM has higher standards than Twitter detectives.

[bobbieinok]

24. Could be argued MSM selectively/arbitrarily applies their standards

[LeftInTX]

26. The protesters at CNN are black

I can't see what color the vandals are because they up front.

[Tipperary]

9. They want to be on the news.

Good way to do it.

[Walleye]

25. I think that's the answer

[Steelrolled]

14. Why not?

Not a lot of thinking going on out there.

[rockfordfile]

21. This has Russia/ right-wing type shit written all over it.

Why CNN and not Fox News?

[snort]

2. They're going after the wrong bad guys.

[USALiberal]

3. Why CNN? nt

[Tipperary]

10. I think they want to be on the news.

All these protestors walking with their phones...selfies galore.

[herding cats]

5. 😑

Sure. This makes sense.

[scarletwoman]

7. How do we know these are really George Floyd protesters or actually trumpers? (nt)

[LastDemocratInSC]

8. 33 seconds of video. Not much to work with.

The crowd appears to be diverse. Are they attacking just because CNN Is a major news source?

[scarletwoman]

15. I can't watch Twitter video on my ancient laptop & I don't have cable, so I can't judge.

I don't understand the motivation - but as someone said above, it gets them on the news.

[Corgigal]

11. I almost feel bad for CNN,

then I remember all the free press they gave to Trump almost 4 years ago.

Soooooo.

[handmade34]

13. all media

gave trump excessive free press 4 years ago...

[Jamaal510]

27. Plus the "Butter Emails" non-troversy, too.

[donkeypoofed]

12. What I find weird is that CNN isn't reporting on it

[IcyPeas]

16. here's anderson cooper reporting on it:

JUST IN: Multiple police vehicles have had their windows broken in front of the CNN Center in Atlanta. Protests are taking place in multiple cities over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Link to tweet

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. People trash what they don't value. If they're trashing CNN, well....

[demmiblue]

22. Oh, fuck off.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

23. Not sure what drew that response?

[Tipperary]

28. Then obviously they do not value their own city.

Perhaps you should listen to what Mayor Bottoms had to say about it. Smh.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

29. No one person is out there trashing every single thing in a city.

"Protestors" or "rioters" are not a homogeneous group. If someone smashes the glass at CNN with a hammer, there is a lot to be learned about who is doing it and why they might be doing so -- but if they're doing it, one thing is clear: They don't value either the building or the institution. Same for when someone starts a fire in a residential neighborhood, or in a precinct building. Unrest makes it possible for people with all sorts of motives to act. But no matter who is acting, it's very, very rare for people to personally trash something they love or value. There's a disconnect between the instigator and the object, or the instigator has to create one, before they destroy it.

[Tipperary]

30. Again, many of these violent rioters seem to value nothing.

And they sure as hell do not give a good goddamn about what others might value.

[ecstatic]

20. I see a white guy hitting the glass with a skateboard. Now someone

just threw a brick through.

[Politicub]

31. There was a large number of white skateboarders destroying property

all across Atlanta last night. And a lot of skinny shirtless white men. It was bizarre.

It was hard to watch my city being smashed by people who were not part of the massive peaceful protest march.

There is no excuse for the looting. It became a theater of the absurd when rioters left downtown to go uptown to Buckhead to loot shopping malls and destroy mom and pop places along the way.

The police in Atlanta were remarkably restrained. I watched the protest footage from when it began to about 2 am, and I was surprised that more people who clearly were there just to destroy property were not arrested.

There were many people righteously angry. And then there were the provocateurs who took advantage of the situation to destroy and steal.

[KentuckyWoman]

32. Everything near Centennial Park is getting trashed?

Football hall of fame was trashed too... that is also along Centennial Park

I am surprised they have not shut down that Marta station yet.